Raising Children Network: the Australian parenting website
Newborn baby sleeping

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  • Newborns sleep anywhere from 9-18 hours a day, but 16 hours is about the 'average'.  When awake, they're only truly alert for about 3 minutes every 60 minutes.
  • By putting your newborn to bed drowsy, but awake, she can learn how to fall asleep happily on her own without needing your help to rock her to sleep - and that prevents lots of heartache and lost sleep later.