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Article: Nothing to lose sleep over - Structure baby's bedtime habits.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- March 8, 1998
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If there's one area in which new parents eagerly seek advice from those with more experience, it's sleep. They ask: How do you get her to sleep in the nighttime instead of the daytime? How many times does he really need to be fed at night? And, in a near whine: When will I ever again get a good night's sleep?
The time to learn about infants' sleep patterns and how to help children develop good habits is before they are born, not in the middle of the night when you're about to tear your hair out, said Jodi Mindell, author of "Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep."
"Parents spend so much time ...