In order to help our babies to consistently sleep through the night (and I mean an age-appropriate length of time, see my blog here for what sleeping through the night means at different ages) our children's needs must be in sync with their natural sleep rhythms. TAKING CARA BABIES WAKE UP TIME HOW TOJust because a child knows how to sleep, doesn't mean they will sleep through the night. Sleep coaching helps teach baby how to fall asleep independently. Below, I hope to help you figure out what your baby's ideal bedtime is and whether a too-late bedtime is the cause of your sleep problems. What time would you put an 8 year old to bed? Likely not at 10:00pm, right? Then why should a little baby, only months old, have a bedtime that late? It should be the exact opposite - babies should be going to bed much earlier than older children as their sleep needs are exponentially more than a school-aged child. Therefore, it is vital that we are really 'nailing' bedtime and that we aren't keeping baby up too late. What I mean by this is that if we are putting baby down too late, stretching baby out too long, it is a recipe for nightwakings, a restless sleep, and an early morning wake-up. The awake time between the last nap of the day and bedtime is the most sensitive. A vast number of the sleep issues I encounter are products of a bedtime that is too late.
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