While raising a baby, the best advice is usually what your heart tells you. Even at times when your baby is set on staying awake, you know your baby’s needs to be happy and comfortable. As Molfix, we have listened to mothers and come up with the “happy hours asleep formula”, which has received the approval of mothers and experts alike. These suggestions will help you to establish a healthy sleep routine for your baby as he/she happily continues his/her development.
Your bedtime struggles and the number of times your baby wakes up at night will be reduced in proportion to your efforts to arrange his/her bedtime as appropriately as possible for his/her age. If you are a working parent, it’s natural to want to spend more time with your baby after you come home from work. Under these circumstances, you should determine the play time that is most suitable to your baby’s bedtime routine and stick to it to ensure that your baby gets the sufficient and uninterrupted sleep she needs for her development.
Rocking your baby to sleep in a stroller or by similar means, or singing him/her lullabies for long periods could calm him/her down but be ineffective in ensuring his/her transition to deep sleep. As soon as your baby falls asleep, you should stop any movements or sounds, and create a dark environment in which he/she can comfortably sleep.
Babies would like to bask in their parent's affection and warmth at all times; be it day or night. There is nothing wrong with having her beside you, sleeping in close contact, or hugging you when she is sick or scared of something. However, this should not turn into a habit and you must encourage her to fall asleep in her bed by herself. Until it becomes a routine for her to sleep by herself in her bed, you can accompany her (by sitting in a corner without lying down beside her).
Preparing a bedtime board together with your baby may prove useful. You can encourage your child to sleep on his/her own using a bedtime board that you prepare together with him/her. You can draw and color in and decorate with pictures on this board that you prepare in monthly calendar format. Mark the nights on the bedtime board on which he/she comfortably falls asleep on his/her own. At the end of the month, if he/she meets the number of nights targeted for him/her to fall asleep by himself/herself, you can reward him/her with an educational present that would motivate and encourage him/her.
You know your baby best. Regardless of whether you implement our suggestions or different tactics of your own to help your baby fall asleep on her own, you must without fail act consistently. If you stick to a fixed routine instead of confusing your baby by giving her inconsistent messages, you will notice issues of sleep being resolved in a shorter period than expected.
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