Day 9 of 14 · Act
Night wakings
Why babies wake during the night · What to do and what to avoid in the middle of the night · When a waking calls for an appointment
This is the summary of day 9. The 3 full chapters, with the practical actions, are in the course inside the app. In the app: 9 min read across 3 chapters
Waking between cycles is part of sleep, as you saw on day 2. But when wakings genuinely increase, there is almost always a reason, and finding the reason changes the response: real hunger, a badly slept day, an environment that changed in the middle of the night, a developmental phase or health. Data before conclusions: one isolated bad night says nothing; three nights with a pattern say a lot.
Day 9 brings the catalog of usual suspects, a night plan to execute without thinking, and the line between what is course material and what is appointment material.
What you'll learn in the 3 chapters
- 1
Why babies wake during the night
You will meet the five usual suspects, from the most obvious to the most counterintuitive, and the habit of noting waking times to see the pattern in the morning.
- 2
What to do and what to avoid in the middle of the night
This chapter is the plan made at three in the afternoon to run at three in the morning, with the observation pause, night-mode handling, fixing only what is needed, consistency between caregivers, and the rule against inventing new solutions in the dark.
- 3
When a waking calls for an appointment
Here you learn which signs deserve the pediatrician without waiting for the routine visit, what to do about a sudden, sustained change in pattern, and how much your caregiver instinct counts.
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Text from Naplet's sleep course, checked against public guidelines from the WHO, SBP, AAP and NHS.