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Cara Dumaplin explains a simple sleep hack for infants: cap daytime naps at two hours during the first year. Waking a baby if they sleep longer helps them learn that nighttime is for long stretches and daytime is for shorter rest.
Cara Dumaplin explains a simple sleep hack for infants: cap daytime naps at two hours during the first year. Waking a baby if they sleep longer helps them learn that nighttime is for long stretches and daytime is for shorter rest.
Welcome to Please just go to sleep where I give you one practical way to make nights and naps easier. As always, this is rooted in research. Effective and emotionally connected. Here's today's tip. In that first year, try not to let any nap go longer than two hours. That might mean you need to wake a sleeping baby. Here's why we want to cue that little brain that short sleep is for daytime. Long consolidated sleep. Well, that's for nighttime. I get it. It's hard to wake a sleeping baby. But if the nap has lasted two hours, wake up. It really is a key to better nights.
