Welcome to parenthood! For many of us, parenthood is like being air-dropped into a foreign land, where protohumans rule and communication is performed through cryptic screams and colorful fluids. And ...

In the intense debate over sleep training, even parenting books offer conflicting advice, with about two-thirds advising parents to use sleep training and one-third advising against it. But what does ...

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Are you an exhausted parent seeking a solution to your infant's poor sleep? Or even just a parent hoping to set your infant ...

Sleep training is any approach you take to help your baby learn to settle themself to sleep and to sleep for longer. The idea is that once they can do this, they’re more likely to sleep through the ...

Sleep experts and others routinely say that parents have to start early to establish “good sleep habits” to prevent big, scary problems later. Feeding to sleep, rocking to sleep, and holding to sleep ...