Is it normal for my baby to have difficulty falling asleep in the evening? That it wakes up every half hour at night and can’t go back to sleep? Did I do something wrong? And how should this continue? If you have small children of your own, these thoughts may sound familiar. Because the sleep of their babies presents many parents with major challenges. You have read somewhere that children are supposed to be able to sleep through the night at just a few months old – and do. And so despair grows when one’s own child does not live up to this ideal.

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