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When will she sleep through the night?
You know that's the most common question
we get. Everybody wants to know when is
the baby going to sleep through the night.
Well babies actually sleep very
differently from adults.
The way it works is that you and I
we sleep in light sleep and deep sleep
sometimes, and so do the babies but
babies, especially the very young ones,
they when they first fall asleep as a
newborn they start dreaming, and dreaming
is really important for babies because
it's part of the way their brains
develop. But the problem with that is
while they're dreaming they actually are
easy to wake up and it's good because we
talked a minute ago about how they have
to wake up to be fed so it's important
that babies wake up to be fed and are in a
light state of sleep. As they get older
they have that dreaming periodlast a
little bit less time and so they fall
into that deeper sleep for longer
periods of time and as they get bigger
they're also able to stretch out that
sleep. So there really isn't one answer
to your question, when your baby will
sleep through the night, but what happens
is as babies change they all change kind
of the same way, first they wake up very
easily and they sleep for really short
periods of time and then later as they
get bigger they can go longer
stretches and they sleep more in that
deep sleep which makes it less likely
that they wake up