There are few things that occupy the brain of a new parent more than sleep – or, rather, the lack of it.
Neither you nor your newborn will be getting much shut eye in the early days, and pretty soon your life will revolve around a seemingly never-ending parade of sleep schedules: trying to get them to nap for more than 30 minutes at a time, helping them to sleep in their own cot rather than on you, navigating the tricky stage of dropping a nap and – the Holy Grail – getting them to sleep through the night.
