As a new parent, you want your baby to feel as comfy as possible – but let's be real, you also want them to sleep through the night. That's why it can be tough to think about transitioning them from their cozy bassinet to a big-kid bed, aka a crib.
Newborns have a very different sleep pattern than adults. In the first few weeks of life, newborns spend most of their time sleeping, but their sleep is fragmented and irregular, and their sleep cycles are much shorter than those of older infants and adults.
Parents lose an average of 350 hours of night-time sleep the first year of their baby's life. They also suffer from back pain from coaxing their babies to sleep. How to save new parents from this situation? Sleep training might help. This article will introduce three mainstream sleep training methods, and the other three will be introduced separately.
