Baby self-soothing at 3 months

As a new parent, almost nothing feels more important than getting a good night's rest again – and helping your baby learn to fall asleep on their own is a huge part of that.

The term "self-soothe" means that your baby can soothe themself to sleep without help from you.

Self-soothing is an important life skill that babies learn – eventually, they can fall asleep on their own and go back to sleep when they wake up during the night.

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You may not realize it, but you also use this skill multiple times every night!

When can babies self-soothe?

Your baby may be able to learn how to self-soothe around 4 months old.

A newborn sleeps up to 16 or 17 hours a day, but only for an hour or two at a time.

Newborns and young babies can't self-soothe yet, so it's perfectly normal for them to need you to rock or nurse them to sleep.

Babies don't have regular sleep cycles until they're 3 to 6 months old, when they transition from short to longer sleep cycles and more non-REM sleep.

But as your

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