It’s suddenly clear to me that Alison, the marketing expert whose son fed every two hours for six months, wasn’t handed a baby with weird sleep needs. She unwittingly taught him to need a feed at the end of every two-hour sleep cycle. Alison wasn’t just catering to her son’s demands. Despite her best intentions, she was creating those demands.
Wow! Parents teach their babies to wake up several times throughout the night because they jump to pick them up right away instead of pausing and observing if the baby will fall back to sleep first.
