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Nighttime gas is one of the most common causes of broken newborn sleep, and yet so few parents are ever told why it happens. Babies have immature digestive systems: their gut muscles are still developing strength, their enzymes are still balancing, and their ability to release air efficiently is limited. Add in fast feeding, swallowing air, or laying flat too soon after a bottle, and nighttime becomes the perfect storm for discomfort. Gas doesn’t always look like crying. Babi

Newborns don’t fight sleep because they dislike it. They fight sleep because their nervous systems are still under construction. Everything in their world is new—light, sound, temperature, movement, touch. Their tiny bodies are constantly processing information, even in the background, and when that incoming input builds faster than their system can manage, it becomes overstimulation. And overstimulation is the true reason so many babies look “wired,” fussy, clingy, or imposs