Mother-of-four shares game-changing parenting tip for newborns’ sleeping habits

According to Newshub, one Chrissy Horton — who has over 3,00,000 followers on the app, where she frequently shares parenting advice — said in a recent video that garnered nearly 4 million views, “Please tell me I’m not the only parent who just discovered this about newborn sleep.”

“I am on my fourth kid, my fourth kid, and I just learnt this about sleeping and it would have saved me so much if I’d known about it earlier,” she continued.

According to the report, Horton explained that she discovered babies regularly alternate between active and quiet sleep. If your baby, therefore, appears restless while sleeping, there is no need to pick them up and try to soothe them — if anything, you may be waking them from sleep, she said.

The mother gave credit to influencer ‘Taking Cara Babies’ for the parenting tip. She went on to explain that “quiet sleeping” was the peaceful one, but “active sleep” saw her baby appear unsettled. “I would hear my babies do this and just assume that they were frustrated and wanted to be picked up, so I would pick them up, but in actuality, I was waking them up,” Horton shared.

She advised other parents to “give it a few seconds”.

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