A bedtime routine helps to set the scene for sleep, show your baby what’s coming next (sleep), round up and end off the day beautifully. It should be one smooth flowing process made up of predictable steps which you repeat every single day. Often a bedtime routine starts with bath …
A baby’s ‘awake time’ is the amount of time a baby can comfortably stay awake for in between naps before becoming tired again — and then overtired if you miss this window. It becomes much harder to put a little one down for a nap when they are overtired. An …
Here are a few things you can try if your older baby 6-11 months is struggling to nap. Make the room dark: Use blackout blinds and make your little one’s room very dark. Light stimulates a baby’s eyes to say ‘It’s wake-up time’. You might find your baby falls asleep …
White noise replicates the sound of the womb helping not only to calm and soothe babies but also masks sounds by blocking out outside noise, keeping little ones asleep for longer. White noise is both helpful for naps and to use all the way through the night. An example of …
Often times, when babies drop their late afternoon nap – (that last little catnap of the day, that usually happens between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.), it can be a bit of a long stretch for them to get all the way through to bedtime. Sometimes, especially just as your baby …