Your friends are worried because their newborn sleeps 16 or 17 hours a day. What would you tell them?

a. That their newborn probably has a sleeping disorder.
b. They should try to wake up their neonate every 8 hours.
c. The average neonates sleep about this amount of time.
d. Sleeping this long is highly associated with laziness during adolescence.

C. There is great variation among newborns, but 16 to 17 hours per day is normal.

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