Yoga and Ayurvedic Solutions for Troubled Baby Sleep
by Nancy B. Loughlin
Published in YogaUOnline In August, 2015
Many babies are natural born sleepers. It’s the first thing they do well. But, environmental and sunlight cues can sometimes make it difficult to get newborns into a sleeping routine. Ayurveda and baby yoga can help.
According to Dr. Jose Colon, sleep medicine specialist and author of three books about sleep, including one for infant sleep, newborns begin to consolidate their sleeping habits into nighttime hours by three months of age. By six months, they should be sleeping through the night. But sometimes it takes little ones a while longer to develop a routine.
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