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How to Recognize Illness in a Newborn
Newborns can deteriorate fast and they can't tell you what's wrong, so the question parents really need answered isn't 'what's the diagnosis?' but 'do...
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Health
How to Protect a Newborn from Colds
A cold in a fortnight-old baby is genuinely a different situation from a cold in a five-year-old — small airways, immature immunity, and the obligate...
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Health
A Pediatrician's Guide to the First Month with a Newborn
The first month is the steepest learning curve most parents will ever face — and most of it is learnt by doing, not by reading. From the clinical side...
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Health
How to Know if a Newborn Is Healthy
The first month with a newborn is usually spent counting things — breaths, nappies, feeds, the rise and fall of a tiny chest at 2 a.m. Most of what yo...
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Health
First Vaccinations for Newborns
The first vaccinations are a milestone that many parents approach with a mixture of relief and anxiety. Understanding what vaccines are given, why, an...
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Sleep
Why Newborn Sleep Is Fragmented
At 4am with a 3-week-old, "your baby's sleep is fragmented for sound biological reasons" is not the comforting line it might be in daylight. But knowi...
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Sleep
Swaddling as a Calming Sleep Tool
Swaddling works, has worked for centuries across many cultures, and is endorsed by the NHS, the AAP, and the Lullaby Trust as a safe practice for newb...
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Sleep
When Swaddling Helps with Falling Asleep
There is a particular kind of newborn frustration that every parent eventually meets: the baby has finally relaxed, eyelids heavy, breath slowing — an...
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Sleep
Sleep Schedule for Babies Aged 0–3 Months
Most parents looking for a 0–3 month "schedule" are looking for the wrong thing. A newborn doesn't yet have the biology to run on a schedule — the cir...
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Sleep
Night Feedings in Newborns: Physiological Basis
Night feedings are among the most discussed aspects of newborn care — and among the most misunderstood. The expectation that a newborn should sleep th...
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Sleep
Weekly Sleep Norms for Newborns
Parents often worry about whether their newborn is sleeping too much or too little. Sleep charts and norms can be reassuring, but it is worth understa...
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Sleep
How a Baby's Sleep Changes During the First Four Weeks
The first four weeks of a baby's life are often described as the 'fourth trimester' — a period of adjustment for the baby outside the womb that shares...
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Sleep
Sleep in the First Days of a Newborn's Life: What to Expect
The first days at home with a newborn are often a disorienting experience of almost no continuous sleep. Understanding that this is entirely biologica...
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Sleep
How to Gently Help a Newborn Learn the Difference Between Day and Night
Parents cannot teach a newborn to sleep longer at night by force of will or clever technique before the circadian rhythm is ready. But they can ensure...
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Sleep
Differences Between Daytime and Nighttime Sleep in Newborns
"How do I get her to sleep more at night and less during the day?" is a question most newborn parents ask in the first month, and the answer is the on...
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Sleep
Why Newborns Confuse Day and Night
"My baby thinks night is daytime" is one of the most common — and most demoralising — observations of the newborn weeks. The good news is that nothing...
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Sleep
Baby and Toddler Sleep: The Complete Parent's Guide
Sleep is the topic that dominates new parent conversations and quietly drives most of the decisions you make in a day. "Are they sleeping enough?" "Wh...
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Sleep
Co-Sleeping with a Newborn: Risks and Conditions
The conversation about bed-sharing with a newborn has, for years, swung between blanket prohibition and uncritical advocacy. Neither helps a sleep-dep...
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Sleep
How to Create a Bedtime Routine for a Newborn
A newborn who sleeps every 2 hours around the clock does not, on the face of it, need a bedtime routine. But the brain at 4 weeks is laying down assoc...
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Sleep
Sleep and Adaptation to the Outside World in Infants
A newborn enters the world physiologically equipped for life in the womb, not for life in a cot. The womb was warm (consistently 37°C), dark, always m...
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