The metronome version of time disappears for a while, and stretched, flexible time plays out around you. The hours repeat themselves in spirals and circles, in slow ebbs and flows. It’s a version of time that is available to you when you spend time with the baby, so that the baby becomes an emissary from another world,

Normal healthy babies vomit frequently, with varying force, including some projectile vomits. In fact, research shows that two-thirds of babies vomit regularly, and that the vomiting peaks at 4 months of age.

everyone later on. But it’s just not true.’

Sleep training approaches have not been shown to decrease night-waking in the first year of life. Also, it’s not the number of times of waking that cause mothers to feel miserable: it’s being awake for a long time, or regularly taking a long time to get back to sleep (that is, poor sleep efficiency) that causes distress. (However, if the baby’s sle

day. If overtiredness does occur in the Western baby, it is because the basic biological cues of sleepiness are being repeatedly overridden.

You are the expert on your baby. You are uniquely positioned to experiment,

Despite the prevailing powerful social condemnations of bed-sharing, nearly half of Western parents bed-share at least some of the night in the baby’s first 3 months.

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environmental cues mature the circadian clock more rapidly from the very first days of life, and this is one reason why it’s best to have the baby sleeping in the same room as the caregiver, even during daytime naps. The other reason is that having the baby sleeping in the same room as the caregiver day or night, always on her back, protects agains