The trip from womb to world is the longest, most traumatic, journey a person will ever make. As a result, newborns emerge from this perilous passage and live their first months in a state much like severe jet lag. Their sleeping patterns are nearly random. They need to learn night from day and how to adjust their sleeping patterns to fit this big new world. This dance of adjustment -- of children to the world and parents to children -- is what Go To Bed! is about.

Learn all about the following weird and wonderful topics:

• How do babies spend months learning to adjust their biological clocks?
• Why do babies sleep most of the time and why they sleep anytime, anywhere?
• How much sleep do we need to stay healthy?
• Did you know that our one word "sleep" describes multiple phases that are about as similar to one another as baseball is to ping-pong? And just why do we need all these different sorts of sleep anyway?
• What is REM sleep, and why is it so important?
• Why “going to sleep” is never really being “out like a light.”
• How do eating patterns and solid food change sleep habits for infants?
• Why does a lack of sleep cause problems, and what sort of problems can it cause?
• What's to be done about a baby who stays awake and cries at night?
• How do naps facilitate child development?
• Why does a regular routine help to establish sound sleep habits? what composes a good bedtime routine, and how can parents set one up?
• How can teachers and parents help young children who fear the dark and "things that go bump in the night"?
• What are the proper sleeping positions, bedding, and cribs necessary to create a safe environment for a little one?

21 minutes.
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