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Sleep baby sleep

Most moms and dads dream of getting a full night’s sleep, yet for more than half of all parents, a full night’s sleep evades them until well into their baby’s third year of life. But recent research, published in the journal Pediatrics, shows that one of the key factors that determine whether a baby will sleep through the night is whether or not she learns to self-soothe within the first five months of her life.

On a sensory level, most self-soothing strategies use either the sense of touch, pressure, vibration or movement. Common strategies used by babies to soothe themse

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