How To Get Your Baby To Sleep Thru The Night | Baby Sleep Magic

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There is no definitive time or stage of development for this to happen to your child, it just depends on your individual baby and situation.

It is possible for your child to sleep through the night from around six months of age provided that your baby is on track (growth-wise) and is capable of self-settling.

Your child waking up during the night is a normal process for all parents, especially for babies who have much shorter sleep cycles than adults. It is how you settle your baby to sleep through the day that will impact how they sleep overnight.

Here Are Some Tips That May Help!

🍼 Try to ensure that your baby is getting enough food (calories) during the day. If your baby is feeding ALL night long, it is time to swap it around. Offer regular feeds more often during the day and try to stretch out those night feeds to at least 4 hours apart, using your settling techniques in the meantime.

🔊 Optimise your child’s room environment by ensuring the room is DARK and white noise is on.

⏱ Follow an age-appropriate routine, this includes watching your baby's wake windows, an over-tired baby will not sleep well overnight. It is important to understand that sleep equals sleep, the better your child naps throughout the day, the better your nights will be.

🤒 Is your child warm enough? Ensure your baby is dressed for the coldest part of the night (usually around 2-5 am). Remember that babies and toddlers cannot use blankets, during the winter months in particular, they will need to be well layered.

😴 Self-Settling: Aim to put your baby to sleep drowsy (but awake) to encourage self-settling (avoid feeding, rocking, patting & holding to sleep). If your baby is being fed, rocked or patted to sleep, when they reach light sleep at the end of each sleep cycle, instead of your child just drifting through onto the next cycle independently, they wake looking for that same prop that got them off to sleep initially.

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