AMAZING BABY SLEEP SECRETS by Emmanuel Okello (book club recommendations TXT) 📕

If you are a new parent who is always struggling with his/her baby's sleeping
pattern, look no more. We have compiled a few easy pointers about how to
make a baby sleep on time. So, without wasting any time, let's get started.
Before starting, you must understand that every baby is different. Don't
compare your baby's sleeping or eating habits with another. With time and
proper techniques, your baby will also master the art of sleeping through the
night without a daily battle.
Avoid rocking or bouncing your baby to sleep and use these proven methods
on how you can get your baby or toddler to get the best nights sleep ever!
If you want a foolproof method of how to make a baby sleep, you need to start
at an early age. One major mistake that parents make with their newborns is
rocking, bouncing or soothing them to sleep.
Babies develop a dependency on these rocking and soothing motions and will
not sleep without them. It becomes a big hurdle when babies get older. They
will refuse to sleep unless they are rocked or bounced.
How do you overcome this? You put your baby down to sleep as soon as they
get drowsy. They will fall asleep on their own and this will help you in the
future. Babies who learn how to sleep by themselves continue to do so as
they get older and sleep throughout the night.
Early Bedtime
While trying to work out how to make the baby sleep at night without any
hassle, try putting your little one to bed early. Melatonin is a hormone that a
baby's body releases when he/she is around eight weeks old. It makes the
baby drowsy and ready for sleep according to the setting time of the sun.
If you ignore the timing and delay your baby's sleep time, the chances are that
your baby will get overstimulated and it will be harder for him/her to fall asleep.
So make sure you settle your little one down as soon as the sun goes down.
Naps Are Crucial
Day time naps are crucial for ensuring that your baby sleeps through the night
with ease. If you are coping with how to make baby sleep undisturbed, make
sure you set a day time napping schedule.
A baby that has had enough rest during the day automatically sleeps better at
night. When you skip your baby's naps in the hope of him/her sleeping
throughout the night is a wrong approach. This increases their stress hormone
and as a result, the baby will keep getting up and won't be able to fall asleep
again. Don't believe us? Try it out for yourself.
Relax Your Mind
Parenting is anything but easy. It takes an obvious toll on your physical and
mental health. So what if the baby isn't sleeping as much as you want him/her
to? Give everything some time. Eventually, everything will fall into place,
before you know it, your little one will be sleeping through the night without a
hassle. Relax and stay positive. After all, you can only look after the baby if
you are healthy yourself.
Parenting babies and toddlers can be very hard work. Especially if they are
struggling to sleep.

Many things have been proven to make babies feel relaxed, comfortable
and to make babies sleep easily. Many women are worried about a single
thing that is "how to get my baby to sleep all night"?
So here is a little guide for all the mothers out there who are facing
problems regarding making their babies sleep at night. Follow these
activities, make your babies sleep at the exact hour and in the right way so
that your baby can sleep more easily.
RELAXING BEDTIME ROUTINE:
Set a relaxing bedtime routine for your baby. Studies show that deciding a
bedtime routine for your baby before twelve months as your baby grows
taller, he or she will sleep in a better way.
If your baby falls asleep easier at night, he or she will sleep much longer at
night and will wake up a few hours later in the morning. This is one of the
best solutions to the problem, how to get my baby to sleep all night.
This thing will surely help you in making your baby feel relaxed and sleep
peacefully.
DISCOVER THE HIDDEN PATTERNS:
Many parents get excited when we talk about patterns when they start
recording or tracking baby's sleep patterns, but it does not have to be
complicated, there are many apps that you can download for free that can
easily track your baby's nap time.
The Reason for tracking your baby's sleep is that when you track your
baby's sleep for only a few days or a week, you will start seeing some
patterns out of this.
Here is an example of this procedure, so one mom that I worked with
discovered that when her toddler went to bed before 9:00 p.m. He slept
later in the morning, and if the baby went to sleep after 9:00 p.m., even ten
minutes later, he would wake up a whole hour earlier.
She observed all this through tracking. Most of the women are worried
about how to get my baby to sleep all night. Discovering patterns will help
you out.
INTRODUCE NEW SLEEP ASSOCIATIONS:
Sleep associations are sleep props. There must be something that your
baby associates while falling asleep, and he wants that thing at bedtime,
which is not a bad thing. Sometimes sleep associations get a bad rap, but
this is to tell you that they are not bad.
You have independent and dependent sleep associations. Dependent
associations are that require you to help your baby to sleep, such as
feeding or some other things of entertainment.
Independent sleep associations are the sleep props that help your baby to
fall asleep but independent associations do not require your efforts so it
can be a pacifier if a baby can replace it by himself in the night, it might be
a lovely animal, etc.
This is the good thing that I can do to make my baby sleep all night with
new sleeping association tricks.
CONTINUOUS SNACKING HOURS:
Babies need to feed one or two times at night, which is nine months old, or
years even, you don't need to feed a baby more than that. Because after
three months, most babies don't have any kind of need to get fed after
every 1-2 hours.
After the completion of nine months, most babies can sleep for about ten to
eleven hours easily. Many moms are worried because of a single thing,
which is how to get my baby to sleep all night. You can choose a good
feeding time like one to four am.
So that your baby will get habitual of waking up in these hours only, and the
baby will adopt this routine without having any food all night 

It is a universal fact that newborn babies sleep a lot. Mothers will
observe that their newborn will sleep for about 16-18 hours a day. It has
been found that newborn babies cannot live more than two hours.
Their sleep time will not last longer than this period. The newborn will
start developing good sleep habits from the fifth week. Newborns will
sleep less during the day and more at night.
Now at this point, he will develop natural circadian rhythms ( a process
that regulates sleep-wake cycle). How to get your newborn into a
routine? Many mothers ask the same question, here are a few things
that you can do:
Keep the Swaddle tight
All the newborns possess a startle reflex in which they feel they are
falling and wake during sleep. If you are wondering how to get your
newborn into a routine, try to make the newborn sleep in a tight swaddle.
Help your newborn to differentiate between day and night
Differentiate between day and night routine. During the day when she/he
wakes up, change her clothes, play with her, while feeding, talk to her,
switch on the lights, let her hear the noise in the house. At night take
newborns to the room, change him into a night suit, keep lights and
sound low, avoid talking while feeding him.
So this is one of many great ways for those women asking how to get
your newborn into a routine?
Keep the colour of the room low
Colours impact not only the layout of your room but also your body
hormones. If the room has sharp colours, it will be harder for your baby
to fall asleep.
Therefore while choosing the colour scheme to keep in mind, blue is
proven to be the best colour and yellow as the second-best colour to
induce sleep; these colours have a soothing effect on the brain and
hence impact sleeping and the sleep routine.
Dream Feed:
Dream feed means to feed your baby just before the mother goes to
sleep. If you feed the baby just before you go to sleep, it will make the
baby sleep longer and will help you also to have a sound sleep.
By feeding your baby at a certain time, you will increase the time of rest.
Your baby will sleep 3-4 hours. Make sure dream feeding does not
increase the time more than three hours because newborn tummies are
small, and they need to be fed after a few hours. Make a proper
schedule and follow it.
Conclusion:
If you follow these simple steps consistently, you will never have to ask
again how to get your newborn into a routine. If you don't support them
properly and consistently, your baby might not ever sleep and wake on
time.
Be patient and take care of the feeding time. Lastly, sing her or him a
relaxing lullaby since several researchers have proven that soothing
sounds induce peaceful sleep.
Parenting babies and toddlers can be very hard work. Especially if they
are struggling to sleep 

 We have already discussed in detail how to make a baby go to sleep but
previously we were talking about infants. As the baby grows up, they
show changes in their habits and behaviour. This change occurs at
different stages and ages.
Once your child is around 3 months old, he will surely show signs of
changed