The Baby Sleep Myth

The Baby Sleep Myth · 03 August 2024
The Baby Sleep Myth by Birgit Berndt, Bakk.
There are numerous myths about how babies sleep. To better understand the way babies sleep, it is essential to look back into the past. Even in the Stone Age, babies needed close physical contact with adults in order to survive. The loss of this contact exposed them to danger from dangerous animals, hypothermia or being forgotten. Babies therefore instinctively and constantly search for physical closeness. This tendency is deeply rooted in our genes. If we were to swap our babies with...