Get Your Baby Sleeping Through the Night
I’m trying to get my baby sleeping through the night. So I did some research on solutions to a baby with sleeping problem. Read on to see what I’ve found.
Is it just my incompetence as a mother to get my 15 month old baby to sleep, or is my baby Ray having sleeping problems? It’s the most challenging thing to get a baby sleeping through the night when they don’t want to… and I do! I’m exhausted, cranky, and sleep-deprived (have been ever since his birth), running on low, and my son would be fighting for dear life trying to stay awake. Other mothers would tell me that he’s going through a phase and he’ll get over it. But I need a solution to my baby’s sleeping problem now.
So I did some research on how to get my baby sleeping through the night. I wanted to know what methods other moms were using and which methods were working well for them… and praying to dear heaven that I’d find one that works for my little guy.
After researching all over, here are 6 good tricks I’ve found:
Solution to Get Baby Sleeping Through the Night – Let Your Presence Linger
- Cover your baby with a shirt that still has your scent. Instead of a blanket (or underneath their blanket) cover your baby with a shirt or a sweater that you have not washed yet and that has your scent. This will make your baby relax and feel comforted, because they think mom is still holding them or near them. Even when they wake up in the middle of the night, when they can smell you, they will go back to sleep much easily.
Baby sleeping through the night
- Put your baby to bed awake. And soothe them to sleep in his/her bed
instead of rocking the baby to sleep. Conditioning your baby to sleep in your arms might lead them to be dependent to you to fall asleep and stay asleep. By soothing the babies to sleep while they are in their crib, you are teaching them how to fall asleep on their own once they awake during the night. - Let your baby hold your hand. Pat the little one’s belly and let him hold
your hand when he goes to sleep in his crib or his own bed. They can smell your scent and your warmth, so this reassures them that they are not alone in the world even though the night is dark. - Put on dim lights. Some moms suspected that their little guy or girl might be afraid of the dark. They tried using a night-light in the baby’s room, so even if their baby wakes up in the middle of the night, they won’t feel scared. And it worked! It showed that having a dim-lit lamp or night-light on at night might help him fall feel more safe and comfortable. Some moms put up Christmas lights in their baby’s bedrooms in order to save money on electricity.
- Drive around. Many parents say that driving their little one around in the car is the surest way to put them to sleep. For sensitive babies, once they fall asleep and you’re ready to move them inside, just leave them in their car seat and move the whole car seat into the bedroom.
- Comfort. Lay Down. Repeat. Some mothers swear by this self-soothing method: when the baby is crying, pick them up to comfort them. Once they are not
crying anymore but awake, lay them down on their crib. Repeat this until the babies fall asleep. This method is supposed to teach them how to fall asleep by themselves when they wake up during the night.
I’ve tried these tricks on my boy, and most of it worked (at least for a while). Hopefully you guys have luck in getting a good nights rest so we can be better mothers tomorrow 
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Great! thanks for the share!
Arron