This tip is focused on helping your baby get to sleep at night, and although it is an intuitive idea, it is often something that parents neglect, especially when busy schedules collide with what is often the only “family time” available in the day - evening.

 

You know how it goes.  Wake up early to get ready for work.  Perhaps your baby goes to daycare, or perhaps you’re home taking care of him or her.  Either way, your day is crammed full of responsibilities - meetings, errands, cleaning, driving from here to there… It often seems like from sunrise to dinnertime is a non-stop whirlwind of activity.

 

Then, once everyone is home, it seems like there aren’t enough hours left in the day to catch up on everything, not to mention eat and get your baby to sleep.  It is very easy for daytime busyness to carry over into evening, and your baby’s bedtime routine.  However, if the hours leading up to your baby’s bedtime are just as hectic and busy as the rest of the day, it is likely to be hard for your baby to go to sleep.

So, what’s the solution to all of this?  It’s easy for me to write this advice, and it’s easy to read it, but much more difficult to actually put it into practice.  (I know because I’m guilty of being busy during the evening myself!)

 

The solution that will do wonders for helping your baby get to sleep at night (and sleep longer during the night) is to slow down the pace of things in the evening.  So, next time you catch yourself slipping into that busy pace again, take a minute to take a deep breath, calm yourself, slow down, and remember that having a quiet and calm evening just might be the ticket you need to have a good night’s sleep.

 

Andrew Dolbin-MacNab

Pediasleep LLC

 

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     About the Author:

 

Andrew Dolbin-MacNab is a father, sound-engineer, and the founding member of Pediasleep LLC, a leader in the production of white noise and other soothing sounds to aid the healthy sleep of infants, cosleepers, and parents. Having successfully survived his daughter's early sleep problems with the help of white noise, he is also an expert on infant sleep problems and their solutions. Pediasleep can be found online at http://www.Pediasleep.com.