While getting a baby to sleep through the night can cause headaches for a lot parents, daytime naps can come with their own challenges. Before having a baby you were probably expecting restless nights ...

Sleep training is any approach you take to help your baby learn to settle themself to sleep and to sleep for longer. The idea ...

If you’re a parent, then this quiet adult cry for help into the abyss is all too familiar in those first few months of parenthood. "I just wish I knew what my baby wanted!" Though babies tend to cry ...

Struggling to soothe a crying baby can be debilitating, but new research suggests it might be more out of parents' control than they think. A new Swedish twin study has found that how much an infant ...

Mothers are three times more likely to wake up and look after their babies than fathers, according to a study from Aarhus University in Denmark. But why is this? Researchers at the university ...

This piece is part of Scientific American’s column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. It was 3 A.M., and my seven-month-old would not stay asleep. She didn’t want to nurse. She cried when I ...

New study debunks the myth of women's special ability to hear baby crying. Researchers found only minimal differences between men's and women's hearing, but mothers still handle nighttime childcare ...

In a post on the parenting subreddit, the original poster (OP) shared she's having a "hard time" explaining to her husband why he should help out with putting their daughter to bed.

A mom has sparked a viral debate after her toddler was seen "coaching" himself back to sleep in the middle of the night. Jasmine Clark (@hellomina333), mom to 2-year-old Teddy, shared footage from her ...