Lucky Baby Safety Gate
Teach Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night
Author: julie gardner
As a Mum, it’s pretty fair to say that your life will never be the same!
But night time doesn’t have to be a big upheaval. Once your baby can sleep through the night, and you can get uninterrupted sleep. You will be amazed at how much easier everything becomes.
If you are one of the lucky one’s whose partner takes it in turns with the night feeds… Well you should count your blessings now. My partner is a professional driver, and I didn’t want him tired while at work, dangerous driving wouldn’t keep his job!
Firstly you have to remember that all babies are different. If your neighbour is boasting that her baby slept through from the third week, unfortunately it doesn’t mean that your baby will be the same! My son slept through from 6 weeks, my daughter from 11 weeks. While you are getting up in the night to feed your baby, it may seem like an eternity that will never end, it will though!
Teach your baby the difference between day & night
It’s a good idea to get your baby into a routine as soon as possible. At first he doesn’t know the difference between day and night, so you need to teach him.
Establish a bedtime routine. Maybe a bath, put on pyjama’s, followed by a story and a last feed. Try putting your baby into his cot awake, and let him fall asleep by himself. This will help to stop problems in the future when baby wakes up in the night. He will then be able to settle himself instead of needing poor old tired mum to help him get back to sleep.
Baby’s night feed tips
Some babies will still need their night time feeds for longer than others. The idea is, that if your baby doesn’t need his nightly feed, to encourage him to sleep through instead.
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Keep the lighting as low as possible when feeding your baby in the night. If you turn the light on full, to your baby this will look just like daylight.
Keep the night feed as un-stimulating as possible for baby. If you spend time cooing over him, he will think it’s a great playtime. Make the feed quiet and as quick as possible.
Try to avoid direct eye contact with your baby (I know, I know, easier said than done) All you want to do is look into his eyes and smile lovingly at him, even if it is 3am! Try not too, your baby loves nothing more than gazing at Mum, but he needs to know that now isn’t the time. If he doesn’t get stimulation he wants he will be more willing to go back to sleep.
Only change your baby’s nappy if he really needs it doing. There’s no better way of fully waking your baby than changing his nappy.
By the time your baby is 6 to 9 months he will be a lot less dependant on these night feeds. It could be more of a habit than hunger at this age. To determine if your baby does still need this night time feed, try offering some cooled boiled water instead. You may find that he loses interest and goes back to sleep.
If you’re baby is waking in the night and doesn’t want a feed, but needs your help to get back to sleep. Or if your baby won’t go to sleep on his own without being rocked or falling asleep on mum, then visit me – Julie at: http://www.new-baby-and-beyond.com/baby-sleep-problems.html
Or to see lots more info on baby sleep, http://www.new-baby-and-beyond.com/babysleep.html
Frequently Asked Questions
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QUESTION:
Fisher Price recalls 7 million trikes & tough trikes toddler because 10 children hurt.Is this excessive ?
In the article I read, it stated that 10 children had been hurt, 6 of whom required hospital treatment.Apparently , there is a protruding ignition key that could cause injury if a child sat on it or were to somehow fall on it.I have raised 2 children and have grandchildren so I am aware kids may not always use a toy as it is intended.I also know that it was also up to me to diligently supervise them while at play to try ensure they didn’t get hurt.I just wondered why the toy companies do not have someone from the Consumer Product Safety Commission on staff to see if they could come up with a product design that is 100% child safe.I just think that 10 reports is not a very significant amount .Before anyone thinks I’m a child hater or something let me state that when my children were babies and toddlers the accepted walker at the time was a tubular steel folding frame with a plastic seat with snap in wheels , the high chair was raised on 4 legs with no supporting base braces and a small tray intended for eating in (not all day play area) and I regularly checked on my babies because we didn’t have baby monitors. We had an expanding door gate.My point is my children were never hurt by the lack of the current safety standards because I watched my kids. I’m not saying kids never got hurt in the past, maybe I was just lucky.I just don’t know if a product can be made that is 100% safe and nothing ,not even the Consumer Product Safety Commission can replace parental supervision. Anyone have any thoughts on this
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ANSWER:
With the amount of products that have been recalled, between poor design, and lead paint, it seems like the trikes got thrown in with the rest of it. It is a bit excessive, but lead poisoning concerns me most, since I have several of the items on the list(still waiting for the e-mail detailing how to tell if they’re toxic or not), and my kids did use them to teeth. I recall a hot news story a year or 2 back in time where a toddler actually died because she had eaten some lead paint chips while playing on her front porch, after tricking her immigrant(legal) parents into signing forms that they couldn’t even read about lead toxicity.
I agree that no product can be 100% safe, but in the world we live today, with everyone so lawsuit happy, that Fisher Price is taking a better safe than sorry approach. Those 10 sets of parents probably raised hue and cry and threatened them with lawsuits and bad press had they not recalled them. It’s the same reason that every single plastic bag you come across in the US has a “do not allow babies or infants to play with this, or use it in their cribs” warning printed on it(because, ya know how some bags are safer than others…./end sarcasm). Common sense is a thing of the past, unfortunately, and I know I sound like an anti feminism type person(I’m a woman myself) when I say it, but with so many woman leaving their child(ren) in other’s care so they can work, a lot of good parenting skills have gone out the window.
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QUESTION:
Long story, Crazy neighbors. Please help!!?
Last year their daughter would give us dirty looks because I was pregnant and play her music very loud at all hours of the day, she was doing drugs. I would call the cops and it would stop. Then their dogs kept getting in our yard and running away through the hole in my fence. They expected us to fix both holes in the fence. I wouldn’t as it was not my problem, they then would put things in front of my gate so the dogs would stay in my backyard and not run away. I would move them and they’d yell and get pissy. One day their dog ran into my house and I told them to keep the dog off my property or I would call animal control. She then starts yelling at me and tells me my unborn baby is going to run away and that the state was going to take him. As a pregnant woman I naturally got really pissed, I knew her daughter had been pregnant so I told her that I was glad the state took the baby away from a drug user and I hoped they would never see it again. She was using in plain site before hand. She yells to me that her kid has a “mental illness”. When her dog finally runs away and doesn’t come back she leaves a note on my door blaming me that it ran away and that “Carma a bitch”. (She can’t spell) She called the cops saying it was in my backyard. Of course it wasn’t. Since then they have been harassing us non stop. She asked my husband If his dad was gone as in dead. He has cancer and she knew this. She keeps parking in front of my house which I can’t do anything about, but when my guests park in front of her house she comes over and bangs on my door till I answer and tells me to move it. If I don’t then she keeps banging on my door. I have not been nice in any of these circumstances, I honestly don’t help the situation but the things she says..she’s lucky I don’t do worse. I do not start things when I see her, I ignore her until she starts threatening me or saying things that would make you want to jump her. I never go on to her property and verbally abuse or threaten her in any way, she has done this numerous times. Plus I think the daughter and her male friend are dealing drugs and I am scared for my sons safety. The HOA will not deal with them, they said they are getting a break because they are going through “hard times”. They are breaking so many of the rules that are enforced on everyone but them. What the hell can I do? The HOA president won’t do anything and I’m pretty sure I don’t have enough evidence for the police. Please help…
I have already and my son and I think it’s way to late to try and make peace. They want a war.-
ANSWER:
call the ops for each problem… everytime
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