A new father asks the nurse to describe what his baby will experience while sleeping and awake. What is the best response?
1. "Babies have several sleep and alert states. Keep watching and you'll notice them."
2. "You might have noticed that your child was in an alert awake state for an hour after birth."
3. "Newborns have two stages of sleep: deep or quiet sleep and rapid eye movement sleep."
4. "Birth is hard work for babies. It takes them a week or two to recover and become more awake."
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Explanation: 3. Teaching the parents how to recognize the two sleep stages helps them tune in to their infant's behavioral states.
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