Most of the parents go through the difficulty of sleepless nights before that long-wished-for time come, when your baby manage to sleep through the whole night.
Getting a baby to adjust to a normal sleep schedule can be a challenge for new parents. If you want your baby to get into good sleep habits, you really need to do your bit, too.
There is an old joke: ‘Anyone who says they slept like a baby has obviously never had one.’ But, as I well recall, it is no joke when you are grappling with a baby who seems to think a decent sleep is 40 minutes long.
For the first 2-3 months your baby needs to wake up to eat but some babies jerk themselves & wake up before they’re ready to eat. Newborns alternate between sleep & wakefulness every three to four hours, in response to hunger. As the baby grows this should shift to a diurnal pattern with longer periods of sustained sleep at night ? up to eight hours.
You have to be sure that the feed has been an efficient feed, & if the baby is dozing off on the breast, take her off, start her again & make certain she’s feeding efficiently. Feeding can not actually be separated from sleeping, so the aim is to ensure the baby has a good, efficient feed before they go straight to bed for the night.
Creating a routine by doing the same things in the same order every night (bath, cuddling, feeding) will often help you to establish a pattern that your baby recognize as a pre-sleep routine. But as your baby grows, they will also understand that bedtime comes after bath time & may start to settle down comforted by this bedtime routine.
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