If your baby baby wakes up crying hysterically at night, it's probably for one of these reasons. Here's what you can do.

How much a baby torments its parents with its cries is determined by its genes and not just parenting techniques, new research has shown. After a study on hundreds of twins, a team of scientists in ...

Researchers only found slight hearing differences between the sexes, yet mothers still handle night-time childcare three times more often than fathers.

The baby has no concept of day and night and doesn't connect night with sleep. That means: Be prepared to feed, rock, dance, sing, or hum the little one to sleep.

Scientists tested whether moms are naturally better at hearing crying babies at night - turns out they're only slightly ...

Mother holding and kissing crying baby boy. Ben Bloom. Researchers from Uppsala University and the Karolinska Institutet studied more than 1,000 twins across Sweden, collecting data from parents ...

A new study has cast doubt on the idea that women are biologically wired to wake more to a crying baby than men. It suggests ...

Nearly every newborn parent has dealt with it: a crying baby that just won't go to sleep, or an infant who wakes up in the middle of the night and won't let anyone go back to bed.

It’s common for toddlers to wake up crying at night, leaving parents confused. Several developmental and physical factors may be behind the sudden nighttime distress in 2–to 3-year-old children.

“Cry it out” method: In this method, you leave your baby in their crib, and when they cry at night, go check on them, but wait longer and longer each time they wake up before checking on them.

The mother said, “He’ll usually go down for the night around 7.30/8 pm, might wake for a feed at 3/4 am if he didn’t have enough for dinner, and then wake up for the day around 6.30/7 am.” ...

March 1 is Baby Sleep Day, but for countless parents it will mean one more rough night of struggling with their child's sleep. There's no shortage of strong opinions about the best approach for ...