Mom’s Guide: Understanding Newborn Sleep Patterns And Helping Them Sleep Better

Some babies find difficulty in sleeping calmly at night. They tend to wake up multiple times, cry, get fussy, and have disturbed sleep. Such a situation of a disturbed night can be stressful for the baby as well as the mother and can also affect their health.

It can make babies super cranky in the mornings or can lead to babies sleeping a lot in the day missing out on their feeding and other activities. This can affect their healthy growth and development.

To avoid such situations, it’s very important to understand your baby’s sleep pattern and regularize it. A few things to keep in mind for the same.

Do not keep changing the sleeping pattern of the baby. Having a fixed bedtime is difficult in the early 6 weeks as the baby tends to sleep a lot. They tend to have multiple short naps around the clock. This pattern might start changing gradually around the 4th or 5th week, where the baby starts taking fewer long naps instead of multiple short ones. The baby’s nap time gradually starts having consistency at this point.

Once you start seeing consistency, now is a time to inculcate good sleeping habits and try to regularize their sleeping pattern. Following a good bedtime routine, can help the baby sleep calmly at night and have active mornings.

A warm water bath, changing into clean diapers, moisturizing, cuddling, swaddling, rocking, bedtime stories, a calm bedroom environment, singing or humming softly to them can make them sleep better.

It’s ok if the baby does not follow the week calendar exactly as mentioned. They might have some fussy nights and disturbed sleep patterns at times but do not give up on the consistency of maintaining good sleeping habits in them.

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