Your little one yawns, rubs her eyes, fusses. She’s exhausted, but won’t go down for a nap. You’re frustrated, but far from alone. Research suggests up to 35% of babies have chronic sleep issues, but ...

Depending on your baby’s age, they need 2-4 hours of daytime sleep, on average. And, at naptime, a baby’s sleep cycle is around 30-45 minutes long. If your baby can’t go into another sleep cycle, this ...

New babies are famously inconsistent sleepers, waking up often — day and night — to eat. They might struggle to nap during the day or get back to sleep after a 3 a.m. diaper change. And of course, if ...

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 ...

Research fellow Emma Frey fits Miles Dumlao, 4, with an electrode cap to record his brain activity during a nap in the Somneurolab. A University of Massachusetts Amherst sleep scientist, funded with ...

A mother of two has gained widespread attention for her unconventional approach to getting a full night's sleep, opting to co-sleep with her baby. She explained to Newsweek that her first child faced ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Babies are so many things—cute and noisy and sweet. But most of all, they’re sleepy. I have a 12-week-old daughter and she’s still exhausted from ...

Naps have several health benefits, especially if you approach it right. (Quinn Lemmers/Yahoo News; Getty Images) Most people have a complicated relationship with naps throughout their life. As a kid, ...

When I get up in the morning, the first thing I think about is when I can go back to sleep. Sounds a bit depressing, but we do sleep for 1/3 of our lives. When we haven’t gotten enough sleep, we yearn ...

You've made it past a year with your sweet, cuddly baby! They should be sleeping through the night, allowing you to rest easy, right? Wrong. Toddlers still need a ton of sleep (more on that below), ...

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