Whew.

We wondered if our babies had Non-Sleeping Sickness (the opposite of Sleeping Sickness, right?). But they're normal, after all. Whew.

One bit of information might help here: from a biological perspective, it is appropriate for babies to awaken during the night during the first year of life. In fact, although infants can be conditioned to sleep long and hard alone, and without intervention and, hence, fulfill the cultural expectation that the should sleep through the night, the fact remains that they were not designed to do so, and it may not be either in their best biological or psychological interest. As always, parental goals and needs lead parents to interpret their infant's behavior, including night awakenings, very differently. For example, many parents do not worry about night awakenings because especially where the babies sleep next to them, the infants are content and less likely to awaken and remain distressed.

Source: Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory FAQ

And this one was nice, too: Cultural Influences on Infant and Childhood Sleep Biology, and The Science that Studies It: Toward a More Inclusive Paradigm

Happy naps for babies everywhere . . .