An extract from Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Suppose you have a new baby, and your obstetrician is telling you about the neonatal exam. He says that you have a beautiful healthy baby boy, but there are a few things you should be aware of, as new parents. “Frequently your baby is going to go unconscious… and be unresponsive to normal stimulation. The frequency of these … unconscious attacks … will gradually decrease to one a day by the time he goes to school, but they will last throughout life. Periodically throughout un