Newborn Sleep: Laying the Foundations

Newborn Sleep: Laying the Foundations

A free guide for babies from birth to around 4 months

If you’re exhausted and wondering why your baby won’t sleep like the books say, this guide is for you. You haven’t done anything wrong. Newborn sleep is meant to look like this.

You can’t sleep train a newborn, and you shouldn’t try. But there are small, gentle things you can do from the very start to lay the foundations for better sleep later on.

Inside you’ll find:

• What newborn sleep is really like, and why they wake so often
• Why your baby wakes the second you put them down, and what helps
• How much sleep newborns need (and why the range is so wide)
• Safe sleep, based on the Lullaby Trust guidance
• How light and dark help your baby’s body clock develop
• What you can gently start at birth, 6 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks
• Feeds, night feeds and dream feeds
• Sensitive babies, colic, cluster feeding and growth spurts
• Looking after you
• A quick “at a glance” page for when you’re short on time

No schedules, no sleep training and no crying it out. Every suggestion is optional, so you can pick what works for you and your baby.

About me

I’m Louise, an OCN Level 6 sleep coach and twin mum. I know how hard the newborn fog is, and I wrote this guide to give you the calm, honest, evidence-based information I wish I’d had.

This guide is general information and doesn’t replace advice from your midwife, health visitor or GP.