| In terms of baby sleep tips, one of the most important | | | | feed him or rock him in order to sleep. |
| things you must try and establish as a parent is getting | | | | As you begin to try and get your child to sleep on his |
| your baby to learn to fall asleep on his own. The | | | | own, you should introduce items into his sleeping routine |
| process by which your child begins to fall asleep on his | | | | that he can sleep with, such as a particular blanket or |
| own is one that involves a natural transition from falling | | | | a stuffed animal. By using these new items your child |
| asleep with the mother lying-down in the bed is an | | | | will create associations good sleep. |
| independent fashion. | | | | Suppose he got up in the middle of the night he will be |
| Naturally, all - and babies in particular - will develop | | | | able to recreate a sleeping environment without your |
| sleep associations. These are the things that you | | | | assistance by grabbing his stuffed animal, etc. It could |
| associate with bedtime, and allow you to create an | | | | be good idea to introduce "transitional items" into your |
| environment in which it is easy to fall asleep. | | | | baby's bedtime routine: Allow him to have his stuffed |
| One of the best ways in which you can speed up this | | | | animal or blanket with him during a final feeding and |
| transition is to encourage your child to develop sleep | | | | before-bedtime activities, and allow him to take these |
| associations that he or she can recreate | | | | things with him to bed. |
| independently. | | | | By all your efforts, your child is going to be creating his |
| When your baby is too small, he will naturally develop | | | | or her own sleep associations. Your job is to try and |
| sleep associations involving the mother, as he will often | | | | create associations with items that are under his or |
| fall asleep in her arms. As you attempt to get your | | | | her control. By giving your child as much control over |
| baby to sleep in his own, however, it is crucial that you | | | | his sleeping environment as possible, you allow him to |
| work to change these associations. | | | | begin to achieve sleep independently. |
| If you always put your child to sleep by holding him, or | | | | The most difficult transition in early parenting is the one |
| allowing him to use a bribe, you create a sleep | | | | towards independent sleep for your child, and if you |
| association with these things. Then, some times your | | | | introduce new items into your child's sleeping place, you |
| child wakes up in the middle of then night, he can't go | | | | will hasten this transition, which will soon allow both you |
| back to sleep on his own since he can't create | | | | and your child to get a good night's rest. |
| sleeping environment without you: he needs you to | | | | |