When I was a new mother, my mom helped to take care of Baby Moon and I could get very good sleep during the night. However, when I myself to take care of Baby Moon, I found that I hardly get good night’s sleep. I need to wake up in the middle of the night for nurse or bottle feed. I would also wake up to check on her temperature and breathing regularly. Sometimes my Baby Moon would have sleep noise and it would wake me up too.

I hereby get some tips and ideas so that new parents to get the sleep you need.
- Catch your rest when your baby sleep. Quickly get your sleep when your baby sleep and forget about your laundry, dishes in the kitchen sink and other house chores.
- Let your relatives or friends take care and play with your baby while you get some needed rest.
- Get your baby to sleep on her own bed after she is breastfeeding and sleep soundless. You may reclaim your bed and get some good sleep.
- Discuss and share the night time duties with your partner. Take turn to feed the baby if she is bottle feed.
- Wake up only when you know that your baby is hungry or uncomfortable. Sometimes your baby may make sleeping noise and it’s very tired for you to wake up every time she make the sleeping noise.
- If you really feel tired with not enough rest, don’t hesitate to seek for help. You could always seek help from your partner, friends or relatives to help you while you recharge your energy.

The following strategies are good to help your baby sleep better and you could have better sleep too.
- Avoid coffee or tea if you are breastfeeding, the caffeine may get your baby a boost of stimulant through your milk and becomes restless.
- Encourage his longer sleep by offer a feed before you go to bed. Don’t wake him up because he will suck in his sleep.
- Teach your baby the difference between day and night. Keep him in night time sleeping environment by keeping the lights low and attending to him quietly during night feeds.
- Introduce him bedtime routines. Your baby will wind down and become conditioned to fall asleep when the time is fixed for him to sleep every night.
- Some baby music has remarkable soothing effects for your baby to sleep well.

Importance of Baby’s Sleep
- Aid the development and function of growth, immune system, learning and memory, health of cardiovascular system and hormonal function such as insulin resistance.
- It also assists in brain development, proper learning and social adjustment.
- Lack of good night time sleep may be attributed to the “absence of consistent bedtime routine”.

Additional reading – Baby Sleep Solution

It’s also very common when you couldn’t fall asleep anytime and anywhere. Just try to think how you well you sleep before you have your newborn and get the sleeping environment as comfortable as you could. It’s very important you get your rest and good sleep to maintain your energy for your baby.

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We should also learn how to read our baby’s signal. Babies make many sleeping sounds, from grunts to whimpers to outright cries, and these noises don’t always signal of awakening. As a mother, we need to focus our instincts and intuition. When baby is making sleeping noises, they are easily fall back asleep and it’s a tip that you need to know.

After you have learned how to differentiate your baby’s sleeping noise and hungry sounds, you must react fast to her hungry noise. You need to feed her quickly if she is awake and hungry because if you are not react fast and let her cry escalate, she will wake herself up totally. On the other hand, she will most likely go back to sleep quickly if she wad fed fast enough. It’s often easier and take shorter for her to go back to sleep after fed.

There is a good idea to help your baby differentiate the day naps and night sleep so that they could sleep longer during night time. When it is her day time nap, you might put her in the environment with some noises and the room is not totally dark and quiet. But during night sleep, the environment should be more comfortable and need to be dark and quiet. You can also change her into sleeping pajamas at night to signal the difference between the two.

Develop a sleeping pattern is important. Put our baby down to sleep as soon as she seems tired. When she is tired and she couldn’t get to sleep environment, she will cry to show her tiredness. And also when we fix a sleeping time for the baby, she is easier to predict the sleeping pattern and sooner they will follow the pattern and tend to get more quality sleep throughout the night.

I would suggest you to take a look at the Baby Sleep Solution and I’m sure it can help your baby sleep through the night every night!

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