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Parenting Babies–Communicating

When a baby cries, the parent may jump out of their skin. Actually the baby is just trying to get your attention and to tell you something. A new mother soon learns to interpret the baby’s cries.
A baby cries the most during his or her first three months. However, have you noticed that the crying time period may vary from an hour to most of the day? This is considered to be normal.
There are a number of observances about the crying of babies that people [...]

Importance of Sleep During Infancy

For three or four weeks after birth the infant sleeps more or less, day and night, only waking to satisfy the demands of hunger; at the expiration of this time, however, each interval of wakefulness grows longer, so that it sleeps less frequently, but for longer periods at a time.
This disposition to repose in the early weeks of the infant’s life must not be interfered with; but this period having expired, great care is necessary to induce regularity in its hours of sleep, otherwise too [...]

Importance of Sleep During Childhood

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Up to the third or fourth year the child should be permitted to sleep for an hour or so before its dinner. After this time it may gradually be discontinued; but it must be recollected, that during the whole period of childhood more sleep is required than in adult age. The child, therefore, should be put to rest every evening between seven and eight; and if it be in health it will sleep soundly until the following morning. No definite rule, however, can be laid down in reference to the number of hours of sleep to be allowed; for one will require more or less than another.Regularity as to the time of going to rest is the chief point to attend to; permit nothing to interfere with it, and then only let the child sleep without disturbance, until it awakes of its own accord on the following morning, and it will have had sufficient rest. Read the rest of this entry »