How To Do Baby Sleep Training — Train Your Baby To Sleep
By: Kaido V
Tags: Baby Sleep Training, Baby Sleep Routine, How To, Newborn, Baby Sleep

It is certainly not mandatory to carry out baby sleep training. I recommend that you consider using gentle sleep training methods if your child has difficulty falling asleep (often does not fall asleep within 30 minutes) or wakes up frequently at night and therefore suffers from the well-being of the whole family. I recommend that you start developing your baby's sleep and sleep habits early on, based on sound principles. Every young mother dreams that her baby will sleep until morning, but how to train her baby to sleep?

Without a sleep training at night, parents practice bad habits on their children, just keep the baby calm and asleep. The children are then stroked, sung or cuddled and not allowed to fall asleep themselves. An hour later, again and again and again until the morning finally arrives and both the child and the parents are completely tired. In this way, learning to fall asleep alone is prolonged over and over.

In order to train your baby to sleep soundly, you must first exclude sleep disturbers - painful stomach, sore gums, too cold or warm room. Sometimes, however, the baby wakes up and is no longer able to fall asleep and may need to be close to you. Baby sleep training is definitely not about letting the baby panicked screaming in bed and ignoring her cry. It is important to distinguish between baby cries!

Before you begin a gentle sleep training, make sure:

Is my baby healthy? Is my child weighing enough to sleep peacefully throughout the night by reducing or giving up her meals at night? Has my child just acquired a new skill or is he or she in the process of moving into a new stage of development? Do all important family members agree on sleep training? Will our next week’s schedule allow you to focus on training your baby to sleep?

A restful sleep is a prerequisite for good development

The art of falling asleep and sleeping is one of the first lessons to be shared between a child and a parent. We do not expect a small child to be able to eat or pee on his own, in the same way, we can teach sleep skills. Many people around the child are also involved in the child’s sleep. Understanding and appreciating the importance of sleep in a child’s development is important not only for the child himself, but also for his parents! Ensuring a restful sleep for your child is one of the parent’s responsibilities.

Create a comfortable sleep environment for your baby - a well ventilated but warm enough room with dim light.

Create a daily routine. When you do pre sleep activities that you repeat on a daily basis, the baby learns to understand it and has enough time to understand what is going to happen. Hug the baby, sing a song or bathe him/her.

Customize the plans according to your baby. Try to set the child’s day so that it has active moments during the day, alternating with quiet moments. There should be a rest period before going to bed so that the baby is not too excited and energized when going to bed.

Set the night and day rhythm. Help your baby differentiate between night and day. It should be white during the day and dark at night. As you go to sleep, stop the various mind-stimulating games, talk quietly, and make the light at home darker.

The baby must learn to calm himself. If your baby wakes up crying at night, don’t immediately jump out of bed to cuddle or comfort her. If your baby is a big soother friend, you might want to try giving a soother. Baby may also make a few louder protests a few times, but then fall asleep again.

Don’t set too high goals, be realistic. Keeping a sleep diary in which you write down all the changes, even the smallest ones, because remembering them a week or two later, is quite difficult. If your baby is otherwise sleeping a lot, the change will take some time, it will not happen overnight, but do not lose patience, be consistent and believe in what you are doing.

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