Newborn sleep · 0–3 months
Newborn sleep consultant —and support for thefirst few months.
Right now, sleep probably looks like this: your baby sleeps beautifully on you — and wakes the minute they touch the crib. Naps end at 32 minutes. Nights blur into feeds. Someone told you to put them down “drowsy but awake,” and you're still not sure what that's supposed to look like at three in the morning.
Okay. First — nothing about this means you've done something wrong. You're looking at a newborn. Newborn sleep is genuinely different from everything that comes after, which is exactly why most of the sleep advice out there doesn't fit these weeks.
What newborn sleep actually looks like
Newborns sleep in short cycles — often 45 to 60 minutes — and they spend much more of that time in light, active sleep than older babies do. That's why they startle, grunt, squirm and wake so easily. It isn't a flaw. It's wiring.
Day and night confusion is common in the early weeks: a long stretch at two in the afternoon, wide eyes at two in the morning. Their internal clock simply hasn't been built yet — it develops across these months, and there are gentle ways to help it along.
Frequent night feeding is normal and necessary. Short naps are normal. Wanting to sleep on you is normal. None of these are habits you're creating. They're where you start from.
What support means at this age
Support for a newborn is not infant sleep training. Nobody should be “training” a six-week-old — and I won't suggest it.
What we do instead is quieter. We look at what your baby's days and nights actually look like, and we build gentle early foundations: helping day feel like day and night feel like night, protecting the sleep that's already happening, and giving you a few settling options for the hard moments — nothing that doesn't feel right to you.
The goal in these months isn't perfect sleep. It's understanding what's normal, supporting what's developing, and making your nights a little more predictable — at your baby's pace.
What I'd want to know first
Those details matter more to me than any schedule I could hand you.
How does your baby fall asleep right now — and what happens when you put them down?
What do nights look like, feed by feed?
What did today look like before tonight?
What's the hardest moment of the day, for you?
What have you already tried — and did any of it work, even for a little while?
When it's worth a conversation
Some of this stage is simply waiting for development to do its work. Some of it genuinely responds to small, early adjustments. The hard part is knowing which is which when you're in the middle of it.
That's what I'm for. And if anything ever feels medically off — feeding struggles, weight gain, breathing that concerns you — your pediatrician comes first, always. I'll say that plainly.
A few things parents ask me
Is this sleep training for newborns?
No. Newborn support is gentle and developmental — understanding what's normal, building early rhythms, and finding settling approaches that feel right to you. Conventional sleep training comes much later, if and when it ever fits your family.
My baby only sleeps on me. Is that a problem?
It's one of the most normal things a newborn can do. Contact sleep is biology, not a bad habit. We work with it — and gently widen your options over time.
When will nights get longer?
There's a wide normal range, and it varies baby to baby. What I can tell you is what tends to help it along — and what your baby's current patterns are actually telling us.
Tell me what happened last night.
You don’t need to have any of this figured out before we talk. I’ll ask some questions, we’ll look at what you’ve already tried, and I’ll tell you what I notice. Then you decide.