Newborns sleep 16 to 17 hours a day on average, but most newborns don’t stay asleep for more than two or three hours at a time. Why? Because newborn sleep cycles are short. They spend much more time in REM sleep (light sleep) than we do during the first few weeks of life. Whoever coined […]
Archive | September, 2012
Coping With The End of Daylight Saving Time
I know it’s over a month away, but who doesn’t look forward to that extra hour of sleep when it’s time to move back the clocks and “fall backwards”? I always love pushing the clock’s reset button and collecting my extra hour of snooze time. (By the way, this year the big day is November […]