The 30-Minute Nap Trap: Newborn Sleep Solutions

The midnight shuffle between crib and arms becomes life’s defining rhythm when your newborn refuses to sleep more than 30 minutes at a stretch.

Parents of one-month-olds everywhere share the same bleary-eyed question: “Is this normal?”

Those brief sleep cycles are actually perfectly natural for newborns. Did you know babies spend about 50% of their sleep in active REM sleep compared to an adult’s 20%? This biological difference explains much of their frequent waking.

The exhaustion is real, but ...