10 Best Sleeping Tips for New Parents

Irregular sleep patterns, frequent feeding intervals, and near-constant soothing of newborns can all spell sleep deprivation for new parents.

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In addition to being exhausted as a general matter of course, new parents are also tasked with navigating the best way to do things.

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Advice comes from every direction, and these disparate pieces of wisdom can make it difficult to discern truly helpful parenting tools from background noise.

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Making finding a course of action for, say, maximizing sleep, hard to do.

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Here are the Best Sleeping Tips for New Parents

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Create a Strong Sleep Environment and Relaxing Bedtime Routine

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A study shows fewer than half of their young children and infants had regular bedtime routines. Children with regular bedtime routines slept better and for longer.

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Predictable, repeated behaviors, such as brushing teeth, bath time, and a bedtime story, correlated with more time spent asleep.

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Get the Right Sleeping Swaddle

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Swaddling—a secure blanket-wrapping method leaving only a baby's head exposed—has myriad benefits.

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