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Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights

Why Your Baby Is Crying and What You Can Do About It

By Sandy Jones

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Studies have also shown that the longer a parent takes to answer a baby's cries, the longer it takes to soothe the baby. The critical cutoff point for answering a baby's cries is a minute and a half. If a parent takes longer than a minute and a half to answer, the amount of time required to quiet the baby increases by three, four, or in some cases fifty times.

Your Baby Doesn't Learn to Sleep
Your baby's sleeping patterns change naturally as his body's systems mature. Newborns aren't equipped with day-night body cycles; they alternate between sleeping and waking throughout the day and night, regardless of what is happening around them. It's not until about the fourth month after birth Sleeping Babythat the typical baby spends most of the day awake and sleeps longer stretches during the night. By then, the baby's bodily cycles -- of high and low temperature, heart rate, and urine excretion, for instance -- have become more regulated. The start of sleeping through the night coincides with the appearance of day-night rhythms and the excretion in the baby's body of an important hormone, cortisol, that helps to regulate metabolism.

You can't teach your baby to sleep through the night; it isn't a skill that can be learned. But when the time is right, your baby's inborn master clock will set all of his internal operations in harmonious cycles, and his day and night rhythms will become more predictable.


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