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Hi skimmers! Thanks for tuning in to Kid Q&A, where we're digging into your biggest

questions about parenting and your kids' health. I'm Jana, a senior manager at the Scheme,

and also Mom to Loon, who is two years old. We saved the best for last.

Today, we're talking about sleep. Because in case you haven't heard, parents don't always get a lot of it.

Believe me when I say I speak from experience. We're joined by Dr. Judith Owens,

director of the Center for Pediatric Sleep Storders at Boston Children's Hospital,

who has much needed answers for us. Let's talk sleep.

So one of the first things expecting parents tend to hear is, you'll never sleep again.

I definitely was told this by many people when I was pregnant. But what is actually a normal range

for when parents can expect a new baby to start sleeping through the night?

Well, we start talking about that process at around the third month. That's when

sleep regulation and circadian rhythms have started to develop. And you can actually start to

assist babies into falling asleep on their own. And that's when we talk about the drowsy but awake

putting them to sleep. Every parent's least favorite words, I'm sure. At least I found that to be

really difficult when I was starting to try to do it. But in that vein, there's lots of talk about

about sleep training, especially on social media, lots of debates about sleep training. And

it did work for me. But wondering what you can tell us about your stance on it, if you recommend it

to parents? It basically involves teaching an infant to fall asleep independently. In other words,

without a caregiver's presence. And the reason that that's important is because of what we call

sleep onset associations, which means that whatever the infant becomes used to or dependent upon to

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