How to coax your baby to sleep at night?

In the process of raising a baby, many things will give parents a headache, such as coaxing the baby to sleep. It is time to go to bed at night, but the baby is still very awake and can't fall asleep quietly. For this problem, the most important thing for parents is to adjust their mentality. Coaxing the baby to sleep is not something that can be rushed. On the basis of fully ensuring a stable mentality, you can take the following methods to slowly coax the baby to sleep.

How to coax your baby to sleep at night?

1. Suitable sleeping environment. Babies still need a relatively ideal sleeping environment, such as quiet, dim light, and appropriate temperature and humidity. Babies under 6 weeks old may have problems confusing day and night. Just open the curtains when she is not sleeping. When the daylight hours are long, it is still light when the baby sleeps at night, so I specially bought light-blocking curtains. I didn’t understand it before. I never drew the curtains during the day, and my eldest child felt uneasy when sleeping. He often woke up before completing a sleep cycle (<1 hour).

2. Establish a good sleeping routine and sleeping environment for your baby. Babies usually wake up early, around 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning, and get sleepy early, around 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening. Based on the basic principle of "no more than 2 hours", establish a schedule according to your baby's individual situation. Make sure your baby has a long nap (~2 hours) at noon so that he can sleep well at night. But every baby is special. The older baby must have a nap before 5 p.m., otherwise he will fall asleep after just a few bites of food before bed, causing him to wake up after a while and not be able to sleep for a long time. It can also be adjusted according to the family's schedule. Working parents want their babies to go to bed later so that they can play with their babies for a while, but try not to go to bed later than 9 o'clock. There are suggested timetables for different age groups, you can try them. During vaccinations and illnesses, the baby’s needs are the priority.

3. Give your baby something to rely on when sleeping. At first, my baby slept with milk, then in my arms, then on my back. Later, I thought about it and realized that my approach was wrong. I searched for a solution in the evening. It took me an hour and a half on the first night, ten minutes on the second night, and six minutes on the third night. Now Douding usually falls asleep on his own within ten minutes, and usually sleeps from around seven o'clock to two in the morning and needs to be fed at night. The prerequisites for this method are that the child is not feeling uncomfortable, secondly, the baby has a regular life, and thirdly, the parents have to be ruthless. It took a long time on the first night (they go to bed at about the same time every night, and Douding would make a fuss every night at seven o'clock). I hid aside and listened to her crying, and tried hard to tell myself to hold it in, as this is a necessary stage in growth.

4. Don’t treat a 4-month-old baby like a newborn. You can start to cultivate the habit of falling asleep on your own when the baby is 4-6 months old. If the child starts crying, let him cry for a while, at least 1 to 2 minutes. Babies who have bad habits such as being hugged, patted, or rocked before going to bed need help correcting them. When going to sleep on the first night, let the child sleep in his own crib. You can give him comfort, but do not pick him up until he calms down and the parents can leave. If the child cries again, wait longer (2 to 5 minutes) before comforting him.

Follow the same procedure on the second night when going to bed, but extend the waiting time if the child cries. The first time is 2 to 4 minutes, then comfort is given, the second time is 5 to 10 minutes, and the time can be extended further thereafter. In doing this, parents should not get angry or lack confidence, but should keep doing it. This can be repeated several times and the process can last for several hours. Parents are encouraged to persist in doing this. The results can be seen on the 3rd night. The child's loud crying turned into soft sobbing, and then stopped crying and fell asleep on his own. The time he wakes up at night becomes shorter, and he stops crying after waking up and goes back to sleep on his own.