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Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate

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Re: Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate

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I have two kids. After the first 3 months they were sleeping 7-8 hours through the night.

I hope not, three-month-olds are supposed to sleep 14-17 hours a day. Also, what happened when they dropped naps? Night sleep typically worsens right beforehand, as the residual nap pushes their lengthening wake window into night sleep. How did you manage their congestion when they were sick? Many kids, especially those using a pacifier, lose the ability to link their short, 45-minute sleep cycles and need to be comf…

7-8 hours at a stretch, there are more hours of sleep that happen on either side of that stretch.

Congestion with those little pipe things that you can used to suck the snot out of the baby’s nose.

We never used a pacifier. The baby slept in the same room and my wife nursed her for three years.

Re: Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate

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We don't want to wait until we're in freefall to correct the decline.

There will never be a free fall. You guys are watching too many dystopic movies.

I wonder if people on Easter Island were telling each other this.
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