Is your newborn awake for 3 hours straight and not sleeping between feeds? Learn how to help your fussy baby and shorten the wake times. Whether during the day or at night, knowing that your newborn has been awake for 3 hours is never easy. Maybe she was asleep all day, only to be awake for a long stretch at night. As much as you appreciate the long breaks during the day, you dread the evenings when you know you'll be awake for most of it. She could be awake during the "witching hours" before bed, unable to be soothed for hours at a time, despite your best efforts. Or she does … [Read more...]

Worried about your newborn not sleeping enough during the day or at night (unless she’s held)? Learn 9 effective tips to try when your baby won’t sleep. I thought I knew it all. I read parenting books, browsed through websites, and attended CPR and childcare classes. I even knew I wouldn't know everything, but that didn't stop me from wanting to learn all I could. I was ready to have this baby! Except... I wasn't. Not in a way that anyone who has yet to have a child of her own will ever know until the day she becomes a mother. The biggest culprit? Sleep deprivation. As a … [Read more...]

It’s impossible to burp your baby when he’s asleep, right? Wrong! Learn exactly how to burp a sleeping baby using these effective techniques. We all know to burp a baby after feeding, but what do you do if the baby falls asleep? My newborn burped easily—and loudly!—when he was awake (in fact, I often fed him after he woke up, not before sleep). But for bedtime and middle-of-the-night feedings, he'd fall straight to sleep, just as I wanted him to. But as you can imagine, getting a burp out of him was often impossible. I knew some babies don't need to get burped all the time, but … [Read more...]