A few things to understand about your baby and sleep.
Day Time Routine will mirror night time routine
- You can begin creating the foundations of a bed time routine at roughly 6 weeks.
- Sleep Training is best between 2 – 6 months. I recommend starting a bedtime routine when your baby is 2 months old.
- Your baby is born with natural body rhythms that cause them to cat nap, wake up, make noise, and fall back asleep for an hour or 2. This is NATURAL
So what’s the appeal of self soothing?
Self-soothing pertains to the baby’s ability to fall asleep on her own, without the need for an adult to rock, cuddle, pat, carry or shush her to sleep. Some babies are natural self soothers but most need to be taught.
Self- soothing has benefits such as: parental relief. Parent’s can sleep throughout the night instead of calming the baby in the middle of the night. This creates a more normal sleeping schedule for the entire household. Self-soothing teaches babies how to learn to fall asleep and trains their bodies to relax when it is time to sleep. Babies who can self-soothe develop healthier mood management as toddlers and…
