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Baby Sleep Tips - Developing Sleep Associations |
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Everyone who has had the experience of being a parent knows all
too well the difficulties of getting your baby to sleep soundly
throughout the night. The dark circles around the eyes of new
parents are usually familiar to all those that have been around
them. In terms of baby sleep tips, one of the most important
things you must try and establish as a parent is getting your
baby to learn to fall asleep on his own. The process by which
your child begins to fall asleep on his own is one that involves
a natural transition from falling asleep with the mother to
falling asleep in an independent fashion. One of the best ways
in which you can speed up this transition is to encourage your
child to develop sleep associations that he or she can recreate
independently.
Naturally, everyone - and babies in particular - will develop
sleep associations. These are the things that you associate with
bedtime, and allow you to create an environment in which it is
easy to fall asleep. When your baby is at an extremely young
age, he will naturally develop sleep |
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associations involving the
mother, as he will often fall asleep in her arms. As you attempt
to get your baby to sleep in his own, however, it is crucial
that you work to change these associations.
If you always put your child to sleep by holding him, or
allowing him to use a pacifier, you create a sleep association
with these things. Then, when your child wakes up in the middle
of then night, he can't go back to sleep on his own because he
is unable to recreate his sleeping environment without you: he
needs you to feed him or rock him in order to sleep.
As you begin to try and get your child to sleep on his own, you
should introduce items into his sleeping routine that he can
sleep with, such as a particular blanket or a stuffed animal.
What this will do is create associations for your child with
these items for sleep. Then, when he awakes in the middle of the
night, he will be able to recreate a sleeping environment
without your assistance by grabbing his stuffed animal, etc. It
can also be beneficial to introduce "transitional items"
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into
your baby's bedtime routine: Allow him to have his stuffed
animal or blanket with him during a final feeding and
before-bedtime activities, and allow him to take these things
with him to bed.
No matter what you do, your child is going to be creating his or
her own sleep associations. Your job is to try and create
associations with items that are under his or her control. By
giving your child as much control over his sleeping environment
as possible, you allow him to begin to achieve sleep
independently. The most difficult transition in early parenting
is the one towards independent sleep for your child, and if you
introduce new items into your child's sleeping place, you will
hasten this transition, which will soon allow both you and your
child to get a good night's rest.
About the author:
Brandon C. Hall maintains Free Info Blog which
contains many articles and resources on baby
sleep tips as well as many other topics.
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