If you’re not feeding your baby in a darkened room at night, you are missing a really easy way to encourage your baby to sleep.

 

There’s not much to this baby sleep tip, but I am always surprised at how many people tell me that they feed their baby with all of the lights on - even during the nighttime.  Think of it this way, what would happen to you if someone turned on all the lights in your bedroom in the middle of the night?  Do you think it would be easy to fall asleep again?  Not at all.  Well, babies are no different.  Our brains are wired so that when our eyes see light, we are programmed to think it is day and so our brain starts waking us up.  Same with babies.

 

So, if you’re feeding your baby at night in a bright room (or even a half-bright room), stop it!  I need you to run out as fast as you can to buy as dim of a nightlight as you can.  Just as long as you can still see well enough to feed your baby, you’ll be fine, but you don’t want it any brighter.  Even better than a nightlight, if you’re not on a budget, is a dimmer switch so you can use your existing lights, but a nightlight would also work just fine.

 

So, turn those lights down low, and watch how your baby sleeps better.

 

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.