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• We all have our own ways of interacting with our children at sleep times and different means of shaping their sleep habits. These differences occur among families, ethnic groups, and cultures. The sleeping child may be swaddled, lightly clothed, or naked; he may sleep in his own room or share a room with brothers and sisters, or the entire family m...
• Considerable variation among routines exists, but not all routines work equally well.
• But by about three months of age most full-term healthy infants are able to sleep through most of the night. If your baby still has more than one or two nightly wakings at that age, or if he still hasn’t “settled” (started sleeping through the entire night) by five or six months, then you should take a close look at his bedtime routines. If your ch...