Newborn Map
Sleep training is not a first-90-days job
AAP’s gate for sleep training talk is around 4 months, not week 3. No Ferber or CIO how-to on this page.
We are not pediatricians. This is not medical advice. Your pediatrician knows this baby.
The gate
AAP / HealthyChildren treats formal sleep-training conversations as something that starts around 4 months, when more regular cycles show up — not in week 2, not at day 11. The first 90 days are biology: about 16–17 hours in short stretches, feeds at night, safe sleep.
We will not publish a Ferber schedule, a cry-it-out timer, or an extinction how-to. Not here. Not as a PDF.
What you can do before 4 months
- Empty, flat, back, room-share
- Bright days, boring nights — day-night
- Feed on cues — feeding
- Put them down when you can, without a stopwatch — naps
That is not training. That is the floor.
What this page will not become
- A ranking of methods
- A “gentle” protocol that is still a clock
- Permission to leave a newborn to cry through a feed
If a class sold you a 2-week-old “independent sleep” plan, close it. If you want help with your baby after the gate, that is a clinician or a qualified educator conversation — not a comment section.
When to call
100.4°F under 3 months; will not wake; breathing that scares you; you are not safe — 988, 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262).