Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Putting your Baby to Sleep

One or if not the purpose of marriage is to have baby. Babies are just too lovable and parents can?t resist cuddling. Most of the activities during the day are bearable. Babies often do things that make parents happy and even proud at times. A smile from the baby is more than an embrace to parents. Problem comes during bed time. It is always a problem especially for parents having a baby in the first time in putting their babies into sleep. Most parents get crazy about this. How to solve this? This article will give you seven easy steps in helping your child to sleep.

1. Safety First!

Make sure that you have a safe place where you can put your baby before putting him to sleep. He must have a safe place that he will not be prone to falling or suffer any injuries while sleeping. This must be a firm surface and assure that he is protected in both sides.

2. A conducive place for sleep.

Comfort is always one of the things needed to be taken in consideration. You might be able to put your child to sleep but as soon as you lay her to bed she wakes up just because maybe its hot, environment is noisy or the bed sheet is not clean. Having a place that is conducive for sleeping will help in putting your baby into a deep sleep.

3. Learn sleep signs.

There are signs that babies makes when they are ready to fall asleep. Does she pull her ears? Does she rub her eyes? Does she twirl her hair? One baby I knew makes tantrums. His mom thought she just want some milk or that he is bored, but really, that?s a sign that he wants to rest. These are just moments that you can take opportunity and put your baby asleep.

4. A sleeping routine will be helpful.

A routine will make your work easy. As most adult do, when it?s not yet time for bedtime though they want to sleep, they can?t. It?s an everyday routine and this can also be called body clock. Same principle can be applied into babies. You can make a sleeping routine for your baby too and this makes your future work easy.

5. Try to let your baby fall asleep on their own.

To avoid further confrontation with your baby and also for a better sleeping result just let your baby fall asleep. We can observe most of this while traveling, watching TV, etc. they generally fall asleep on their own and you can observe that babies sleep longer.

6. Spend the whole night sleeping.

Hearing your baby cry at night or waking up middle of the night to change diapers is really uncomfortable and this is entirely unlikely both for you and the child. To get over with this makes all necessary arrangements before putting your baby asleep and make sure that she is safe and comfortable.

These are just easy steps that parents can follow. As a mom says, ?you can?t ask for more after having your baby sleep peacefully.? John Armand, a new parent, has followed these easy steps and after a week said, ?having a baby is worth a million joy specially when you don?t have to wake up at night to change diapers. All is quite and comforting for all of us in the household.? These steps are just practical and which anybody can follow. Well there is nothing to lose try it and let others know the results.

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