The three first month of your baby you are in survivor mode, learning how to keep your baby alive and don’t die in the process. Then in a couple of months you start to feel more confident and expert with your baby. You master breastfeeding or how to feed him with the bottle and it seems that everything start to work properly, when a new worry comes to you. IS MY BABY SLEEPING ENOUGH ?.
I started asking this question myself when my baby was almost 5 months old and the 4-month sleep regression left some sequels. My baby woke up every night each 2 hours or in the worths cases each hour and a half. He did not sleep well and obviously neither did we. My baby started to be very restless during the day and somehow irritable. He cried more and during the day he didn’t sleep much. So our dynamic began to change around improving our baby’s sleep and incidentally ours.
So in order to improve my son’s sleep we did a great research (google again) and we took the advices that some friends and acquaintances gave us. And this is what my post it’s about, some tips that we discovered about the babies sleep.
Have a sleeping routing is very important, babies like the routing and knowing what is going to happen helps them feel safer. The sleeping routing has to be simple and constant. You can choose the order in which you execute the activities but it is important that these are always the same and at the same time.
Here I leave you how our routine is and why we chose that order.
This is a little help we use to isolate external auditory stimuli. We always have the belief that for the baby to sleep better everything must be silent. But in fact babies heard a lot of noises when they are in the belly, and white noise is a really great tool to help them in their sleep creating a continuous environment and protecting them from varying external sounds.
You can use any play list to reproduce white noise, but we recommend a white noise machine to make sure that the noise is continuous so the play list do not end, or that the cell phone or tablet runs out of battery or an unexpected call or alarm sounds.
Here I leave you the one we use and until the moment it has been excellent:
I think that I’m not the only one, but I kept awake trying to wrap my baby safely, but naturally they don’t stay wrapped for long, even less after they learn to sit and crawl. I was never a lover of wrapping them like a taquito, and for the safety of babies, blankets should not be put in their cribs. After much analysis, we saw these sleeping bags on an Instagram account, which keep them safely warm.
I leave you the different models he has used until now:
It is recommended that the room where the baby sleeps should be as dark as possible, this helps them secrete melatonin necessary for better sleep. But if you kid as mine begin to be afraid of the dark, the most advisable thing is to put some lights in yellow, orange or red tones.
The white noise machine has a yellow light or we use this small lanterns that give my child confidence in the dark:
I also want to share two links that really help me, you can take what works for you and ignore what you think is not ok for you:
If you wan to share your experiences and tips about this subjet, I will be glat to red it.
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