10 newborn night time tips
Adjust your expectations
There’s always one smug new mum whose baby sleeps through the night from 4 weeks, but for the rest of us it’s likely to take a bit longer. A tiny baby can sleep from anything between 12-20 hours per day, however most of that will be in short three to four hour naps.
And in newborn-speak, ‘sleeping through’ doesn’t mean a straight eight hours.
A good night’s sleep is actually around five or six hours, which may not sound like much, but is enough to keep you just-about-sane until they get a little bit older.
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