Sleep is very important for your baby, but it's also highly
important for you and the rest of your family. Many parents of newborn babies
find it difficult and some time almost impossible to get there baby sleep readiness to sleep
through the night. This can be caused by a variety of reasons from health
issues, new surroundings just to name a couple.
The many problems that are associated with this will also
effect other household members who end up sleep deprived which will cause them
to be grumpy and have trouble concentrating etc and will effect their day to
day activities which is not good for the whole family unit.
There are a number of different types of techniques that can
help solve this problem like playing soft music in your baby's nursery, having
a dimmed bedside lamp in the corner and the list goes on.
Lack of sleep can lead to many problems like the losses in
concentration, lower productivity in your work or business, grumpiness it can
lead to illness and in some cases strain your relationship all because of a
crying baby. This is the potential cost of doing nothing.
Newborn babies will spend most of their time asleep and are
programmed to sleep in short bursts of about 2-3 hours between feeds, night and
day. Your baby will require the parent's attention during the night for feeding
and settling for the first few months and some babies even later.
Sleep routines or sleep patterns for newborns can be as
varied as they are for parents. The approach you take will depend on the sleep
choices you make, such as where your baby will sleep (in there own bed, in the
parents bed, in a bed in the parents room). Some parents decide for very little
or completely no routine at all, as they are content to follow their baby's own
sleep pattern.
Others find that a very simple but flexible routine seems to
help their baby sleep more peacefully, and helps them to feel more in control.
With a newborn it best to be flexible about when your baby sleeps and feeds.
When your baby
sleep newborn wakes up, give them a feed, change there nappy and then
make time for talk and play (at night-time you should choose not to play and
instead focus on re-settling).With babies, playtime might just be a quiet
cuddle or some time stretching out kicking and playing on a blanket.
Little babies get tired after about 10-20 minutes. You can
judge when your baby is starting to get tired by signs of there body language
to see when they have had enough. The key is to follow your baby's lead about
when to feed, play and sleep, and to begin doing these things in a similar
order through the day.
The best way to get your baby to sleep is to try these
techniques, what do you have to lose more sleep! you can implement these
techniques to solve your babies sleep problems, many of which you could start
using today and which have the potential to solve your baby's sleep problem
within days and in many cases the very same night.
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