Solving a Baby Sleep Solving a Baby Sleep ProblemProblem

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As any parent will be aware, good quality baby sleep is anessential basis for a child's future health and development.

The pleasure in seeing a baby sleep is hardly measurable buthaving to see (and hear) your baby when they just won't or

can't go to sleep can be torture for a parent.

To help in solving a baby sleep problem and to teach your baby to sleep through the night, gettingyour baby into a regular, fuss-free, sleep routine is

so important.

If you haven't already, you should seriously consider establishing some sort of bedtime

routine for your baby.

Routine helps to establish baby's sleep pattern and

once it is established your baby will be happier,

more content, and more likely to sleep through the

night.

Here are several things you can do to Here are several things you can do to establish a bedtime routine for your establish a bedtime routine for your

baby… baby…

Most of us have some kind of winding down routine before we go to sleep and this should be no different for your baby.

Perhaps the sleep routine could begin with a bath,followed by a slow dimming of the lights (so they

realise it is getting near to sleep time), then achange of nappy or diaper, putting them in the cribor cot and finishing with a bedtime story or lullaby.

You don't need to follow the previous routine to theletter, you may wish to do it in a different order, orhave a different routine entirely, but the importantthing is that you create a baby sleep routine that

you follow night after night after night until itbecomes a habit for your child.

Whenever you begin this routine, your baby will know that sleep is expected to follow.

Babies are creatures of habit, they enjoy the predictability of a sleep ritual and so a regular

routine like this can help settle your baby quickly and also increase the chances of him or her

sleeping through the night.

Providing a routine and the same sleepenvironment each time is crucial to providing

the ideal scenario for restful baby sleep.

You should begin a bedtimeroutine in the early weeks of yourbaby's life if at all possible but ifyour baby is already older than

this, just get a routineestablished as soon as you can.

You should also create a daily naptime routine toowhen it is feasible to do so as this helps night time

sleep very much.

If you already have some sort of sleep routine foryour child but they still have a baby sleep problem,take a close look at the bedtime routine you havecreated for your baby to see if can be improved.

By Chris Towland

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