How sweet sleep is…
Here we’ll discuss the important topic of “how to get my baby to sleep“, a topic that can be complex and frustrating especially for new parents.People will tell you that your life is going to change when you have a child. You probably understand some of the implications of this statement, but may not realize just how different your sleeping patterns will be. Babies are different than you are, meaning their wiring is not yet developed enough to sleep for long periods of time. Experts call their sleep patterns ‘disorganized’, or fragmented. This means that you’re going to have to get used to being up at all hours of the day and night for at least the first 6 months of your child’s life.
There is hope though. There are certain things you can do to figure out how to get your baby to sleep through the night. There are certain parents that get lucky at about 6 weeks, when their babies learn to sleep 6 hours a night, but for the most part babies need to eat 2 or 3 times a night, because their stomachs aren’t large enough to satisfy them for long periods. Most of the methods that let you figure out how to get your baby to sleep through the night involve training them to sleep by cutting down on activities near bedtime, or cutting down on the length of their naps.
There are other methods that can help you and your child get on a fairly normal sleeping schedule. Slowly changing the patterns and lengths of time they sleep can be very effective in getting your child to learn how to sleep longer. Methods vary, but there are loads of different ways you can work to get your life back and stop waking up 2 or 3 times a night at times when no adult wants to be awake.
Babies change your life in a lot of ways, most of them positive. Don’t let their sleeping habits frustrate and exhaust you to the point where you can’t enjoy them.