3. Aids Brain Development

Brain development, which is responsible for your baby’s ability to understand and respond to stimulus, occurs during sleep. Researchers may even have found a link between irregular sleeping patterns and babies with physical or neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Brain plasticity is the ability of the brain to respond to the outside environment by changing its structure and function. Animal studies have found that infants who were deprived of sleep experienced a loss in brain plasticity. This could result in disabilities in learning and behavior.