Aid Baby Sleep

The first night
you attempt the Ferber method, put your child to bed as you normally
do. Your baby should be tired but still awake when you put him to
bed, so that he is left to fall asleep on his own. After you leave
the room, the baby will inevitably start crying. Allow him to cry
for about 5 minutes, then re-enter the room to console him. It’s important
that you stay in the room for only a short time - even if he is still
crying - and that you don’t pick him up or rock him. This second time
you leave the room, wait 10 minutes before returning in the same manner.
The third time wait 15 minutes, and set this as a maximum wait time
for the rest of the night.

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Baby
Sleep Tips - The Ferber Method

One of the most
important things in getting you baby to sleep properly is for your
baby to learn to sleep on his or her own. The reason it is so difficult
for many parents - why parents of a newborn suffer from so many sleepless
nights - is because your baby, at first, isn’t used to sleeping on
his own, and when he wakes up in the night he cries for his mother:
being in the presence of his mother is only way he knows how to get
to sleep. It is natural that this transition from sleeping with the
mother, to sleeping on his own, will take some time for your baby.
Many baby sleep tips involve setting up a strict nighttime routine,
and introducing objects - such as stuffed animals - into the bed that
your baby can associate with sleep. If you find after some months
that your baby is still not able to sleep on his own, you can try
what is known as the Ferber method.

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Getting your child
to sleep on his own in a timely fashion involves speeding up a natural
transition: the one from sleeping with his mother to sleeping on his
own. At first, when your baby wakes up in the middle of the night,
he will cry for his mother, as this is the only way he knows how to
fall asleep. One of the things you must do as a parent is help create
the best environment for your baby to fall asleep on his own.

Many people naturally
assume that the best environment for sleep is one of total silence:
most of us are familiar with having to tiptoe around a sleeping baby’s
room. Although a quiet environment is the best one for most adults,
you’d be well advised to remember where your newborn baby has been
sleeping for the past nine months: in his mother’s womb. In the womb,
of course, your newborn slept in many situations that were far from
quiet - when the mother was out in public, or socializing with other
people. For this reason a newborn baby will often sleep better by
being exposed to some quiet background noise.

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