8 TIPS FOR YOUR BABY TO SLEEP SOUNDLY

 

Baby sleep tips for calmer, quieter, more restful nights

Having a baby can bring joy to the home but the contestant disturbance at night can be a pain. When they keep crying  at night. So here are a few things you can do help your baby to sleep soundly at night.

1. New baby? Help program your newborn’s “internal clock” by exposing your baby to strong cues about the external, 24-hour day.

Like us, babies have circadian rhythms, or biological processes that cycle about once every 24-hours.

You can think of these rhythms as an internal clock, but there’s a catch: The clock doesn’t arrive pre-programmed.

When babies are born, their internal clocks aren’t synchronized with the external, 24-hour cycle of daylight and darkness. It takes time for babies to get in sync.

Thankfully, we don’t have to wait passively for that to happen. In fact, we shouldn’t be passive. Babies depend on us for help. 

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2. When you need artificial lighting at night, use bulbs (or filters) that block blue wavelengths. 

If you eliminated all sources of electric and electronic light at night, you and your baby would probably find it easier to sleep. But for most of us, total blackouts aren’t a realistic option.

What can we do when we want to engage in evening activities, like reading? What can we do when we need to change a diaper?

Happily, all light wavelengths don’t have the same effect on the inner clock. Yes, white light (which is emitted by both fluorescent and incandescent bulbs) has a disruptive effect on sleep patterns, and young children are especially sensitive to the effect.

But it appears that one component of white light — the blue part of the spectrum — is responsible for much of the trouble. If we can block that part of the light spectrum, we might minimize the negative effects of light exposure at night.

3. Help your baby get settled:  Make the hour leading up to bedtime a time of security, happiness, and emotional reassurance

None of us sleep well when we’re anxious or irritated, and babies are no different.  So before bedtime, take steps to ensure that your baby feels safe, secure, happy, and loved.

Look after your own emotional state, because stress is contagious. Babies become more distressed when their caregivers are distressed.

And if you detect negative emotions in your baby, counter them with soothing and reassurance.

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4. If your baby doesn’t seem to be sleepy at bedtime, don’t try to force it.

Getting pushy doesn’t make babies any sleepier. If anything, it makes them more excitable. And you don’t want your baby to associate bedtime with conflict. That can be a difficult lesson to unlearn!

5. Watch out for those long, late afternoon naps, and try to lengthen the last waking bout before bedtime.

If your baby doesn’t get sleepy until late at night, the first order of business is to make sure your baby isn’t getting exposed to artificial lighting before bedtime (baby sleep tip #2).

The next step? Scrutinize the timing of your baby’s naps. Naps do good things for babies, but babies are like us: Late naps can postpone the drowsiness they would otherwise feel at bedtime.

Then see if you can stretch out the time that your baby spends awake during his or her last active period of the day. When researchers tracked parents who employed this advice, they found that babies began to need less help falling asleep at night.

6. Be mindful of television and other electronic media.

As already noted, nighttime use of electronic screens can cause trouble because they emit sleep-busting, artificial light.

And noise from these electrical items can cause irritation disturbing their sleep.

7. Think your baby is waking up? Be cautious about intervening too soon. Your baby might be asleep, or ready to resume sleeping on his or her own.

When parents report that their infants are “sleeping through the night,” it isn’t that their babies are never waking up. Rather, babies are falling back to sleep, quietly, without signaling their parents.

But young infants sleep very restlessly. They frequently vocalize, and sometimes even open their eyes.

So it’s easy for new parents to make the mistake of waking a sleeping infant — or intervene too fast with an infant experiencing momentary wakefulness. And that can interfere with the development of mature sleep patterns, hindering babies from learning to settle themselves.

8. During middle-of-the-night care, be calm and gentle. But avoid conversation and eye contact.

Nighttime feedings are unavoidable when babies are young. But there are things you can do to make these sessions less disruptive: Be gentle. Be reassuring. And be boring. Very boring.

 

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