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New baby keeping you up all night? Dr. Harvey Karp says you can start teaching your baby to sleep longer from his or her first week of life
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Sleep experts say adults need between seven and nine hours of child -- each night but as many as a third may not be getting enough.
-- -- your new -- well you're definitely not getting any sleep.
Doctor Harvey -- says sleep deprivation could lead to unhealthy parents.
It leads to.
Postpartum depression Merrill conflict breastfeeding failure and -- practices -- you bring the baby in bed with you -- -- so tired.
Obesity.
Report productivity.
Apps and he -- Increase health care costs for the employer.
To ensure the new moms and dads kids -- scenes.
Doctor Karp author of the how these big guide to great sleep says.
Parents can teach their baby to sleep better from the very first week of life.
To mean tips swan -- -- -- arms down.
Not overheating the baby always sleeping on the back -- -- -- -- -- the arms can't get out.
And the second part is blatantly.
-- and all night those two things have to turn on the calming reflex.
Which gets a baby to a very profound sense of three.
The goal is to get infants who have won four hours to mention sleep and not -- follow up by three hour stretch.
Doctor -- says after that -- five to seven hours at a time is right around the corner.
Studies have shown bad.
Do you have a bedtime routine you do about it.
Put on the PGA is a little miss is and then read them a story or sing a song in the country bad.
That allows him to win this pavement coming up and uses and to sleep.
And -- seventeen by turning the lights down the -- it's time for people don't realize that the -- from a dvd player or television or computer.
That turns off the melatonin in your brain which is your brain's natural sleep hormone.
And so -- be in bright lights and then sudden darkness is completely wrong and really interfere with sleep.
For more tips and techniques go to -- -- dot com I'm Dr.
Manny Fox News.
