Baby sleep guides for parents who share the care
Plainly written guides on baby sleep and on handing over between everyone who looks after your baby.
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Sleep by age
Wake windows by age: a chart, sample days, and how to use them
How long can your baby stay awake between sleeps? Wake windows by age from newborn to two years, with nap counts, sample days, and what to do when a nap goes wrong.
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Sharing the care
Baby sleep tracker for two parents: how to hand over without the group chat
Most couples track baby sleep with memory, a group chat, or one exhausted parent. Why that breaks when you hand over, what a shared baby sleep tracker should do, and the ten-second handoff.
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Sleep by age
The 4 month sleep regression: what's actually happening, and what helps
Around four months baby sleep reorganises into lighter and deeper stages. What the 4 month sleep regression is, when it starts, how long it lasts, and what we think actually helps.
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Sharing the care
How to split the night with a newborn so you both actually sleep
Split shifts, alternate nights, feed-and-resettle, weekdays-and-weekends: what each newborn night shift model costs, what breastfeeding changes, and how to hand over at 2am.
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Sharing the care
Setting up a baby tracker for grandparents and nannies (without handing over the keys)
Whoever takes your baby for the afternoon has less context than you. What a grandparent or nanny actually needs to know, why a shared log beats a fridge note, and how to stay in charge.
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Sleep by age
The 8 month sleep regression: crawling, clinginess and the nap that won't happen
Around 8 months crawling, separation anxiety and a nap schedule that no longer fits can all land at once. How to tell which one is breaking the night, and what we think helps.
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Sleep by age
4 month old short naps: why they stop at 30 minutes, and what helps
Many 4 month olds wake after 30 to 45 minutes, about one sleep cycle. Why naps are so short at this age, when they tend to get longer, and what we think is worth trying.
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Sharing the care
Your partner won't use the baby tracker. Here's what actually works.
Your partner won't log naps and you're tired of asking. The five real reasons people don't, what genuinely gets a reluctant co-parent tapping, and what makes it worse.
Written by the Tiny Sleeps team. These guides aren't medical advice: for any concern about your baby's sleep or health, talk to your doctor, health nurse or health visitor.