Does You Baby Sleep All The Time? Here are 5 Reasons Why You Should Let Them!

Congratulations on your brand new bundle of joy! You’re going through the euphoria of having a whole new tiny human to yourself and you want to spend as much time with them as possible, but they are always sleeping!

Relax, it’s completely normal for your little on to sleep from around 11 to 17 hours a day. They’ve just entered the world, and believe it or not, need more rest than you do. In fact, babies spend more than half their time sleeping in the first few years of their life. Sleeping helps them develop in areas like physical growth, neurosensory and brain development. It also helps them learn better and have a better temperament, which means they’ll be in a much better mood when they are awake.

Read on to find out just how your little one’s long hours of sleeping is good for them, and why you should definitely not try to control it