Newborn Sleep Guide (birth to 14 weeks)
A week-by-week guide for the first 3 months. Everything you need to help set your little one up for great sleep. 💕
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Learn how to build great sleep foundations, avoid common challenges, and feel confident with sleep from the beginning.
✔️ Week-by-week routines
✔️ Gentle strategies for better sleep
✔️ Avoiding day/night confusion
✔️ Longer stretches of night sleep
✔️ Support for catnaps & bassinet refusal
✔️ Avoid the witching hours
✔️ Introducing a dream feed
✔️ Creating the ideal safe sleep setup
✔️ Moving from swaddle to sleeping bag
✔️ Clarity on what’s normal vs red flags
✔️ How to avoid the 4 month regression
✔️ And much more!
Join the thousands of well-rested families who have set great early sleep habits with our Newborn Sleep Guide – your key to surviving and thriving through the first 3 months!
The guide is designed to support you from birth, helping you feel confident about sleep right from the start, but it can be introduced at any point during the first three months.
Routines are introduced from around 3–6 weeks, with clear guidance on wake windows and nap timing as your baby grows.
No. The guide is routine-based so you’re not guessing your way through the day, but it’s not all-or-nothing. You’ll find both flexible routines and more detailed timing options, so you can choose what suits you.
We also love a nap on the go, and provide advice on how to handle days that don’t go quite to plan. The goal is to give you an age-appropriate framework to aim for, and the confidence to adapt as needed, so sleep supports your life, not the other way around.
Yes. The guide works whether you’re breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, or doing a mix of both. Many of our amazing reviews are from exclusively breastfeeding mothers.
Our routines provide guidelines on how to balance feeds throughout the day to better shape sleep, but you’re always encouraged to feed in response to hunger cues as well. Unlike some approaches, we don’t recommend stretching daytime feeds to rigid four-hourly intervals.
Yes. The Newborn Sleep Guide is very gentle and does not involve leaving your baby to cry. It focuses on helping you understand what biologically drives newborn sleep, so you can support and shape great sleep in a responsive, age-appropriate way from the beginning.
Yes. The Newborn Sleep Guide is commonly used by families whose babies have reflux. While it does not treat reflux, it focuses on sleep foundations, routines, and settling strategies that can support more comfortable, settled sleep. Many parents find this makes a noticeable difference, but it’s important to always seek advice from your medical team for appropriate treatment for your baby’s unique situation before embarking on a sleep program.
Online searches and AI tools rely on you already knowing the right questions to ask. They also pull from inaccurate, unqualified, or inconsistent sources, which can quickly feel conflicting and confusing, and can even make sleep worse.
This guide uses an evidence-based approach developed by a certified infant and toddler sleep consultant, refined over years through thousands of real family experiences and outcomes.
It’s a clear, step-by-step plan that shows you what actually matters for newborn sleep and how to apply it with confidence, so you’re not second-guessing yourself.