I get messages all the time saying I should just let my baby sleep whenever they feel like it. Here’s the thing: newborns and young babies don’t understand the feeling of “I’m tired” the way we do. As adults we notice the signs, check the time, and take ourselves to bed before we hit a wall. If we followed the same “let them fall asleep whenever” logic for ourselves, we’d probably stay awake on the couch until 3 or 4 a.m. before finally passing out from sheer exhaustion. But we don’t, we see it’