Through this blog, I will regularly provide new information on baby sleep training and sleep advice to help your child enjoy healthy sleep.
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| November 11, 2026
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Just a Few Minutes of More or Less Sleep Make a Big Difference: Move the Bedtime a Little Earlier
One of the most difficult ideas to convey to parents — and to anyone who has not studied the research closely — is that very small changes in sleep duration or timing produce measurable, and sometimes dramatic, effects on children's health, behavior, and brain development.
"When my son was about 4 weeks old and still waking every 1–2 hours throughout the night, out of desperation, we purchased a second-hand Snoo with the hopes that this smart bassinet would help him sleep better.
In China, napping is not merely tolerated — it is actively encouraged. Many schools and government agencies build extended lunch periods into the day specifically to allow for napping.
The earlier bedtime is not a single tool for a single situation. It appears at different moments in a child's development, for different reasons, and produces different results depending on the context.
"Sleeping Through the Five Watches": What China Has Always Known About Sleep
In Western medicine, the case for healthy sleep is built from randomized controlled trials, brain imaging studies, longitudinal cohorts, and epigenetic research.
This update comes from a Spanish sleep researcher and mother, now two and a half years into the experiment of applying what she knows professionally to the child sleeping in the next room.
Rúna Sif Stefánsdóttir is a sleep and health researcher in Iceland. She began her PhD studying how adolescents sleep and how sleep affects cognitive performance.
Even the Worst of Sleep Problems and Situations Can Be Fixed
This family did everything right in preparation. They read the book carefully before their son was born and worked hard to establish healthy sleep from the beginning.
Sometimes I have recommended to teenagers who are short on sleep that they take a five-day “sleep spa” treatment. No, that doesn’t mean having their parents book them into an expensive resort! It simply means dedicating five days to going to sleep earlier than usual.
Antonio was born two weeks early and without difficulty. I remember thinking several hours after his birth that he was going to be a very easy boy, since my pregnancy and delivery were both routine and relatively easy. Three days after we brought him home, however, I realized that my expectations might have been a little off.
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