What techniques may you employ to put a baby to sleep?

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here are many effective strategies, but a good general rule is to “never utilize a method you aren’t willing to repeat every night for at least two years.” You will never get any sleep if your infant exclusively naps in a moving stroller or, worse, a moving automobile. That is detrimental to the development of both parents and their children.

Principles I have used successfully (Your results may vary.):

Early on, provide a sleeping space for the infant that is separate from the parent’s bed yet close by. I’m being too ethnocentric here. Youngsters often share beds with their mothers in many nations, and co-sleeping is not unheard even in cultures where children are typically kept in separate cots. However, a separate cot is a blessing that prevents you from getting wriggled on by a big, powerful child in a few years if your aim is to attain a decent night’s sleep for both parents and child in the medium to long term.
In order to lull a baby to sleep through movement, rocking cribs are better over prams, vehicles, bicycles, etc. because they allow a drowsy parent to sometimes push the cot while still partly awake. At around six months, moving the infant to a static crib can be “interesting,” but it is simpler to move them from a cradle to a cot than from just sleeping in a car to a cot.

Babies cannot kick off their sleeping bags and then scream in discomfort. Therefore, sleeping bags with the right size and tog grade typically provide parents and babies with better sleep than sheets and blankets.
When DD1 was a baby, I made the unintentional discovery that if you sing a baby just one lullaby before you put them to sleep, starting on the first day after birth, the baby may grow to associate that lullaby with falling asleep and closing eyes or getting into sleep position right away, for the next six months or longer. (Yes, I only remembered one lullaby after giving birth since my brain was so fogged up from the experience that I couldn’t think of any more.)

There is disagreement on pacifiers. Strongly mouth-oriented newborns may fall asleep far more easily when sucking a pacifier than they would otherwise, however I personally wouldn’t use one for a child during awake hours. When first offering a pacifier to a newborn, avoid dipping it in anything sweet, although formula or breast milk expressed straight onto it both work well.

When dealing with infants under three months old, I usually estimate that I need to spend twelve hours in bed (next to the baby) in order to receive eight hours of sleep. This has more to do with the parent’s sleep than the child’s sleep. That is entirely appropriate.

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