Getting a good night's sleep

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By now, you’ve probably heard a dozen different ways to put your baby to bed: Rock her, don’t rock her; let her cry, don’t let her cry; put her in your bed, don’t put her in your bed. Yet you’re still desperately seeking sleep. Congratulations — you’ve learned the first, most golden rule of parenting: There’s no one right way to do anything. (Of course, if you could get some sleep, that would be a lot easier to see.) Hitting upon the right bedtime style for you and your child is one part instinct, two parts personality (yours and your baby’s), and four parts practice. We’ve put together five options, all of which can be tweaked to suit your situation. If you discover that the two of you don’t fit neatly into any single category at the moment, go for a mix-and-match approach. Read on, and soon you’ll both be dreamin’ on.

The Drowsy Tuck-In approach

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My wife and I read a bunch of books on this and mostly gleaned that routine, especially a soothing pre-bedtime one, did the most to help our son sleep.

Some of it we let him direct … by observation we learned when he was naturally getting tired most days and evenings … and once we had a sense of what his natural cycle was we structured his bedtime routine around that, sticking to the same time each evening.

We got a baby massage book and started “bedtime” about 30 minutes before we put him down for the night. We’d do 15 minutes or so of massage, then we’d give him a quick warm bath. Then we’d swaddle him up and start his bottle in the living room, transitioning him to a rocking chair in his nursery when he was about 3/4 done with it. By the time he hit the bottom of the bottle, he was ready to go to sleep.

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Obviously you have read a lot about infants and infant care and you have many good strategies in place to facilitate your baby’s sleep. So I am going to talk about a few things you mention and try not to tell you what you already know.

There have been many studies on why some babies are fussy around eating and not others. Traditionally, doctors have suspected reflux in babies who back arch and cry after feeding, thinking that acid reflux is giving the baby heartburn or sensations of burning in their esophagus or food tube to the stomach. Research has shown, however, that only half of babies at best with these symptoms actually show acid reflux on even the best tests for this problem. Babies who do not spit up and do not back arch with feeding, have been shown to have acid reflux on testing. Researchers and practitioners remain mystified by baby feeding fussiness when acid control measures do not work and testing is negative for reflux.

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It sounds like night terror. I had it from age 10 through 27. At 10, my family went bankrupt and we moved into a housing project. It was a pretty scary place. That’s when it started. For some reason, it stopped when my mother died when I was 27. I think the decline in our resources affected her worse than anyone, and when she was no longer alive, I was no longer hearing about it.
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The following ten tips can help you achieve sleep and the benefits it provides. These tips are intended for “typical” adults, but not necessarily for children or persons experiencing medical problems.

Finally, if you have trouble falling asleep, maintaining sleep, awaken earlier than you wish, feel unrefreshed after sleep or suffer from excessive sleepiness during the day or when you wish to be alert, you should also consult your physician. Be sure to tell him/her if you have already tried these tips and for how long. To check for possible sleep problems, go to our checklist, “How’s Your Sleep?”

1. Maintain a regular bed and wake time schedule including weekends.
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Encouraging Sleep

You have probably already established a bedtime routine and are staying with it. If you haven’t established one, start now. Soothing activities that lead up to “night-night” time can help relax your baby. A warm bath followed by stories or singing will signal transition to sleep, and these same activities can be used at bedtime for years.

You’ll probably want your baby to start falling asleep on his or her own. This may mean performing your nighttime routine and putting the baby into the crib while he or she is still awake. If the baby cries, stay away for a few minutes. Your baby may settle down and go to sleep. If the crying continues, go back in and soothe the baby for a moment, without picking him or her up. This may go on a few times until your baby figures out that the crying is not getting anywhere. Expect that this may be a difficult exercise for you, simply because it’s distressing to hear your baby cry. Try to remember that if you know your baby is safe, a little crying now so that you can all sleep better later is ultimately the healthier choice.

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How to Get a Baby to Go to Sleep and Stay Asleep

May 26, 2010 Brie Lindeboom

When a baby develops within the mother, she is exposed to all the sounds of the mother’s life, muffled only by the fluid and abdomen layers around her. Upon birth, the baby is already used to handling a substantial amount of noise, and actually expects it. The ingrained dependence babies have for noise is the key to getting them to sleep deeply, and can be taken advantage of during any stage in development.

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Giving up Naps Berkeley Parents Network > Advice > Sleep > Naps > Giving up Naps Changing from two naps to one

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8 1/2 month old has stopped taking morning nap Oct 2008

I have an 8 1/2 month old boy who has always had a strange relationships w/naps. My husband and I have basically been slaves for his naps – we’ve taken it really seriously and work hard to make sure he gets them b/c he he has always had trouble w/them. For the first 6 months he seemed to only take them on the go mostly stroller, but sometimes in the car or being held (b/c if you put him down he’d wake up). Around six months we started to be able to get him to nap in the crib (which was a good thing, b/c everything started to wake him up outside)- the times were somewhat irregular, but at least he predictably slept (could be 1/2 hour, could be 2 hours). Lately, around the time he used to nap in the morning (10:30/11) – he might get really drowsy eating his bottle, but when I put him down he almost bounces awake! and then precedes to be busy crawling around in the crib for over half an hour before I give up and let him play on the floor. Today this happened and he didn’t go down till 1pm. He will probably sleep about 1.5 – 2.5 hours now. At night he generally sleeps from 7pm till 7:30am w/1-2 wake-ups for eating – so he gets a lot of sleep at night (at least 12 hours). So the question is: is this okay? should I be trying harder to get him to take that morning nap? is he just ahead of where he is supposed to be developmentally (he’s a big boy for his age and he started crawling pretty early (7.5 months) ? or, like many things w/babies, could this just be a stage and he’ll revert to 2 naps eventually? Thanks for your advice! just want my baby to get his sleep

Eight months seems awfully early to be down to one nap….Have you tried putting him down earlier for the first nap? My son always had a shorter period of time before morning waking and nap #1–around 1-2 hours. He was an early crawler, too (6 months!), and didn’t go down to one nap until almost 18 months. Good Luck I just wanted to share that my niece never really took two naps a day. Even when she was a baby she took one long nap at lunch time. My sister-in-law then gave up on trying to put her on a regular schedule (2 naps a day) and just let her go until lunch time, where she took a long long nap (usually 2 and a half hour). It really sounds like your daughter sleeps so much at night that she probably isn’t tired enough by 10:30am. My niece is still at 5 a very good sleeper, and still takes naps occasionnally. Madeleine Our pediatrician told us that as long as our children were getting 13 hours of sleep per 24 hours, that it was okay. When they slept didn’t matter, so long as our children were getting enough sleep, weren’t too cranky, and weren’t rubbing their eyes from sleepiness. They consolidated their nap times at about 11 mos. and moved to one nap after lunch. Both were rather small girls. Good advice the doctor gave us was to expect them to start waking at night around 10-11 months, due to teething. He urged us to soothe them, but not to feed them, since hunger would not be the problem. If we fed them, their stomachs would keep waking them up, even after teeth came in, and we would be stuck with a big problem. We knew other families who had not been given this hint, and whose babies had real problems sleeping after that. So while we are on the topic of sleep. I thought I’d pass this on, too. Judy Another mother My third had to adjust to only one nap around that age (once he was too big to sleep in the carrier while we were out and about). Just make sure he has as much time as he needs for the nap that comes a little later. Different schedules for different kids 11-month-old transitioning to one nap? June 2008

My son will turn 11 months in a few days. This past week, he’s had 4 out of 5 days where he will only take one nap (after complete exhaustion & possibly in car) or won’t nap at all! He used to go down twice/day with a bottle, but lately that’s not working. We’ve increased his naptime bottles to 8 oz. He seems very sleepy (almost asleep), but once he realizes that bottle is empty, he cries/screams & wakes up. (I’m also worried we’re feeding him too much since we’re giving him so much more formula to try and help him sleep …)

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Video: Yawning fetus

Bumpology is our weekly column on the science behind pregnancy, written by our reporter whose own bump is growing larger by the day

Days to go: 69

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How To Make My Baby Sleep The Whole Night?

By administrator | December 30, 2009

My baby is 16 months old and everybody says he should be sleeping the whole night by now… any suggestions?

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