How You and Baby Can Get A Good Night's Sleep
A Parent's Task Isn't Easy
It's just not possible to describe all the different skills you
need as a new parent and everything that you need to remember.
You should try to seek advice when necessary but, in most cases
the best solution for many problems is to follow your instincts.
Being a parent is, after all, one of the most natural things in
the world.
The Most Common Problem
Getting your child to sleep well and throughout the night is one
of the most common and difficult things you'll deal with as the
parent of a newborn. The process of achieving this seems to be a
mix of science, art, and just dumb luck. You will find many baby
sleep tips and some of them are useful, but before you begin the
process of trial and error, you should get yourself a healthy
attitude towards sleep. If you don't do this, you risk trying
ideas willy-nilly and that's not going to work.
No Instant Solutions
Understand that you should develop a long term goal, for your
baby's sleep habits. Understandably your short term goal will
simply be to get your child to go to sleep, so that you can get
some sleep yourself!! ...but you should be thinking of the long
term goal of creating healthy sleep habits in your child. An
important point in implementing this goal is to be realistic and
flexible. Your child will not sleep the same way every night. It
is so important, therefore, to create surroundings that are
conducive to sleep, so that your child will gradually learn to
fall asleep himself.
The successful way
is to help your child feel content and secure so that sleep
becomes enjoyable. Your child will think of sleep as comforting
and natural. One way you can help this is using your child's
natural sleeping patterns. It may be tempting to set rigid rules
for your child's sleep, but in many cases this could cause
problems later. If you put your child to bed at set hours, you
may achieve a short term goal of getting some well earned rest,
but you may also be changing your child's attitudes about sleep.
He won't think of sleep as enjoyable, but rather as something he
must do like eating his dinner!! By changing your child's
natural attitude towards sleep, you could risk problems
developing later.Resources for Baby's
Comfort
Creating Problems We Don't Need.
In older children and adults with sleep problems, doctors can
often trace the problem back to sleeping habits enforced in
babyhood. For example, as a baby he was put to bed at a set hour
regardless of whether he was tired or not. Try to stay more in
tune with how your baby is feeling and what he wants and you
will encourage a healthier attitude towards sleep, which will
benefit both you and your child in the future.
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