The phrase “sleep like a baby”
often conjures up the blissful
image of a baby sleeping deeply
without a care in the world.
How many sleep-deprived adults
envy that image? Yet, if babies
sleep so well, why are there
so many books to train them to
sleep differently? In fact, most
healthy newborns do get plenty
of sleep; it is parents who need
help adjusting to the perfectly
normal, but irritatingly intermittent,
newborn sleep cycles