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How to Make Baby Sleep Well

How to Make Baby Sleep Well

For making your baby sleep well, you need to understand your baby’s sleeping habits. Knowledge about the activities which can make your baby sleep well is also a must. Read on to find about how to make your baby sleep well through the night.

Having a baby is extremely welcoming and exciting moment. But immediately after few days the new parents find that there are many things that have to be sacrificed and it is not an easy job to deal with infant and their day to day problems. Baby’s sleeping habits and pattern is one of them that disturbs the entire routine and sometimes gets life upside down too.

It is very important to understand baby’s sleep pattern as soon as possible. This helps you in many ways. Gone are the days when people used to say that a new mother can sleep whenever her baby sleeps. But today, women work outdoors and usually start their work only few days after the childbirth most often.

Understand Baby’s Sleeping Habits

It is important that you find out what makes your baby sleep. This means observe how, why and when your baby sleeps. This will help you change the sleep strategies of your family. It is true that a newborn sleeps for almost 20 hours but on the other hand they also get awakened from their sleep even with a small voice. Every child follows a particular cliche and that you need to find out about your infant.

Tips for Making Babies Sleep Well

Have a quick look at some tips for making your baby sleep well through the night.

Give a Good Body Massage

Normally when an infant is given a good body massage and fed properly, he sleeps well in a quiet environment. When the massage is continued with a warm water bath, the infant sleeps well and long in addition. But this could be done only once a day.

Establish a Routine

It might sound weird that how will you establish a routine of a newborn. But immediately after few days, you can start working on it so that the new child gets accustomed to your routine and both of you get proper rest of mind and body.

Make your Baby Comfortable

Some babies need complete silence from the very beginning and almost dark corner as well. Make sure you understand what makes your baby comfortable and also check the comforts of the bed and give a fresh cleaning before you make your baby sleep there.

Watch Out the Temperature

Make proper effort to keep the temperature of the room normal and comfortable so that the baby sleeps well. It is not necessary that you keep the room cozy and warm just because it is an infant. Nowadays newborn babies are taken into fresh air. Gone are the days when they were kept completely inside the house covered with extremely warm clothes.

You need to find out what makes your child relaxed and do accordingly to give him comfort and soothe. If you need to pre warm your baby’s bed, you can do it by keeping a hot water bag for sometime before keeping your baby in the crib. Make sure that it is soothingly warm and in no way warmer than your arms’ temperature.

Keep these tips in mind and at the same time keep an eye on what makes your child comfortable as well. Watch your baby’s sleep patterns and slowly bring changes if you want some. It is always good for the baby and the parents to train their babies sleep at the time they sleep. It is a wrong concept to make your baby sleep when you want to work. This will built in wrong sleeping habits and continue till late childhood and sometimes adulthood too.




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Tanima
Tanima.7 years ago
Give your baby the chance to fall asleep on her own. You can start this as early as six weeks as your baby’s natural circadian rhythms, or the ‘sleep-wake cycle’, which helps regulate her sleep, start to develop. Put her down on her back when she's sleepy, but still awake. If you rock or feed your baby to sleep she may start to depend on it, rather than be used to settling herself.
 
 
 
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Ovi
Ovi.11 years ago
the tips are great for all parents and also for expectant parents. Making a baby sleep is a challenge and these tips surely are a great help
 
 
 
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shinua
shinua.11 years ago
yes, every baby and his needs are different. The tips are useful in many cases. they provide a general guideline for helping the baby to sleep.
 
 
 
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Khyal Singh
Khyal Singh.11 years ago
there are so many articles on babies and sleep but I think one learns from experience. Every baby is different and so are his needs. The tips are for general and do not work for all.
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