Extend Your Newborn's Naps With This One Simple Change 

I baby is 1 year + but he wake up as I lay him down bed but he sleeps on hand what to do ?

Great idea!

Yes please. I would love that too!

Yes, please!! I have a premie baby and I have been trying for weeks to get him on a schedule. Do not know how to start.. :(

Yess pls!! My baby is 5 Months old and takes such short naps :(

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I think it is something we all naturally fall into doing as first time parents. It's so good you were able to make some really simple changes the second time round and notice changes straight away.

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they gave me papers (walls of text really) where it was explained among other things. I wasn't able to sleep for 36hours with the excitement of labor starting (but for two short naps) so I didn't have the mental energy to read that 😅 such videos are SO helpful!

Thanks for sharing!!

Glad you think so!

Glad it was helpful!

You are so welcome! That is awesome you saw it in action last night. Hopefully that means more sleep for you all!

Congratulations on pregnancy number 2! Hopefully you are not feeling too exhausted. Hopefully this video will help when your little one arrives!

Bst of luck dear ,,👍👍

Gods bless you in your journey!

That is awesome!

Wow, thank you!

Thanks Susan! I’m so glad you found it helpful

No problem!

Yay! Thank you!

My pleasure 😊

Glad you like them!

It's my pleasure! Hope you notice some changes soon!

@Antyweszka also just a heads up your little one would be experiencing the peak of the period of purple crying (AKA the witching hour) so this video might also be helpful: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EQs2JIHK45A.html

Thanks so much!

Thank you Liem!

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Hi @Dana it can be really hard to know how much to give a toddler. Generally the recommendation is 5 meals a day (which are spaced around 2 1/2 hours apart) and it's also good to remember that their stomach is only the size of their fist so they really don't need a lot. Also it's important to remember that your role is to decide when your little one will eat and what they will eat but it's your daughter's role to choose how much of the food she will eat. HOpe that helps a little bit!

@@EmmaHubbard thank you so much!!!!!! I will keep all of this in mind!!

@@Dana-mb1hd no worries at all

Same

Are you using a swaddle? It is also a good idea to not keep the room dark during daytime naps.

Yes, this is specifically about newborns!

Yep the pausing is applicable to 2 month olds. Really it should just become a habit which you continue. It's just not something new parents are aware of because we don't expect babies to be noisy sleepers and move around/open their eyes while they sleep.

I do wake them when they’re new born . That’s my personal preference. I wake every 3 hours but don’t panic if you go over the first couple of days is exhausting for you & baby . If any baby is experiencing jaundice then definitely be feeding every couple of hours xx

It's great that you were able to notice your arousal was waking him up and naturally started pausing to make sure he was truely awake.

The video says newborn, so probably 0-3 months?

I have a simular problem with my 7 month old.

Same with my 10 week old

same with my 7 week old and this is the case since about 2-3 weeks already so i think i fell into this trap of jumping in too quickly and disturbed her sleep cycle so now she actually wakes up

Mine is a noisy sleeper so I’ve learned not to go in right away, but she ends up crying and is awake. I read an article that the mother’s melatonin in the baby wears off around 8 weeks so some babies experience huge nap disruptions around this time as they start producing their own. Not sure if that’s what’s going on with my daughter but it’s been hard!

Hey, this is my personal experience in that stage of life, up until about 4 months. I'd often nurse to sleep, and if he was sleeping, I'd just lay him down, no burping. As you probably know, babies (especially smaller babies) usually go potty relatively soon after feeding (5-20 minutes). I personally felt that this was often the root of his arousal - either he'd need to pee, or has just peed*, or needed to be burped. Extra (not quite solutions, but attempts, or things to consider, research for yourself): Burping: - Even though SIDS guidelines don't recommend it, in my country the norm is to put babies to sleep on their side or tummy (tummy was the only norm still about 10 years ago) to prevent flathead (and as they get older, prefer their left side due to anatomy of stomach, to prevent reflux). This, especially tummy (they literally burp sleeping), but also side position, may help release gasses. (I didn't put my baby on his tummy, but I plan do so with my next one, I now think SIDS fear (by which I was crippled as a ftm) is overrated, and common sense plus some basic knowledge applied to your personal situation is more important than strict rules - like don't let your baby sleep on too soft surfaces such as your mattress on their tummy). - I would sometimes rather risk waking him up and burping him than just laying him down unburped. As a newborn I'd just hold him upright on my chest and when he was a bit bigger I'd have him across my shoulder. No huge patting on the back (sometimes more of some squishy hugging, or massage/petting from bottom to top, rarely some patting on the bum), mostly just rocking till sleep and sometimes he'd burp, sometimes not, but if he fell asleep that way, usually I had pretty good success of him not rewaking. Sometimes he'd decide he needed to pee during this process and sometimes this would completely wake him up, but sometimes we managed to do it all in a semi drowsy state and then he'd be rocked to sleep succesfully :) - our easiest burping cues was head shaking left to right, some back arching (but this later was used even if he just wanted to be laid down and left alone - bless those easy putting to sleeps :D, and if he'd grunt while arching his back, he'd want to pee) Pottying: - I strongly advise to look up Elimination Communication - even if you won't try actually catching any pees, but come on, the transition "catches" are hassle-free and worth the shot. Andrea Olson has a good amount of free content here on RU-vid about lots of info on pottying, and it's VERY useful to be in tune with their cues, even if you just let them loo in their diapers (I cannot understand how trying to be in tune with children in this aspect isn't an absolute norm and must-have). Once you, however, are in tune, you'll likely find that it's more environmentally friendly to try catching some of the bathroom breaks into the potty/toilet/sink/ whatever you choose. And if you use cloth, well, you save yourself some work :) PS: first year of life an average baby will use up 3000 diapers that end up in landfills... - potty cues are more subtle, especially for an almost sleeping baby, so I have no advice, however if he protests burping, often he wants the potty cause the arching of back was similar but he'd squirm more. - sometimes he'd fall asleep clearly needing to pee (but try this yourself, it's not pleasant) and then a small startle in REM would remind him of this need and there we go - doing this business slooowly, quietly and in the dark with as little stimuli as possible helped with the success of getting him back to sleep Lastly, I'd like to mention, I still had a good deal of issues with sleep, but this helped diminish the 20 minute catnaps :) * Dear parents, Crying before urinating is normal. As the urinary bladder get filled, stretching causes pain, the baby start Crying, this Crying causes pressure & baby passes the urine. At this time baby stop Crying & again start Crying as he get wet. (copy pasted)

Hi Chandni I would love to help butt his is a little outside of my scope.

It is still a good strategy to use with your 4 month old. Just pause before you enter the room and see if your little one goes back to sleep and make sure they are truely awake.

Pausing is a very helpful strategy for 6 - 12 month olds as well. At this age they do briefly wake between sleep cycles and if they are not disturbed they may go back to sleep. At this age it is also generally easier to identify if a baby needs comfort as their noises are different to resettling to sleep.

Thank you very much !

Just start trying to wait for a few minutes and see what happens. You will soon work out when your little one needs your comfort and when they are just resettling back to sleep.

Hi @mikel1425, I am not sure how old your little one is but I do have a baby sleep course for 0 - 6 month olds which would give you the strategies to help your little one nap in a crib/separate sleep space. Here is the link to the course in case you're interested: brightestbeginning.com/courses/peacefuldreams/

It really is up to you. I still use a white noise machine with my 3 year old (as he now sleeps with his door open). It is helpful to block out those early morning noises (like birds, trucks or general building noises) and stop your little one waking too early. If you do want to stop using it just gradually reduce the volume of the white noise machine over 1-2 weeks and eventually it will be so soft that you can turn it off. Hope that helps!

@@EmmaHubbard Hi, thanks for your replay. You've just helped me with one of my biggest concern. We live literary next to the school yard. And kids sometimes even knock into our window during my baby's nap. So white noise is my best friend. Now I'm happy that I've got professional permission to keep it as long as I need)))))

I still use a white noise machine for my 8 and 9 year olds, they ask me for it! And I like sleeping with it too =)

It depends! If you little one starts rolling onto his tummy and prefers to be in this position for sleep then he will just start to go back to sleep. But if your little one needs your help to fall asleep every time (so for all naps) and he finds it uncomfortable lying on his tummy for sleep and can't roll back over then he will continue to call out and need your help to settle back down. The good news is that generally between 5 - 6 months babies can start to link sleep cycles and so he may start extending his day time naps.

Are you wrapping the baby when put him to sleep very hard for them to move

Plz give me rly

Make her sit or crawl to her food?

What should I do? Anyone please

Hi @Keata you might find this video more helpful ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kapMBrWTvzU.html

Bottle or breastfeeding and do you burp him twice during feeding

Oh another thing you can try is latex glove and fill in finger with tissue and can be used to fake to comfort baby

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