{"id":11384,"date":"2015-10-13T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=11384"},"modified":"2015-10-13T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:12:04","slug":"the-importance-of-bedtime-routines-by-jo-anna-inks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=11384","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Bedtime Routines ~ By Jo Anna Inks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murphys, CA…This month I wanted to talk a bit about the bedtime routine, and the number one mistake parents make when they are creating a bedtime routine. Now, if you go to any baby site on the Web, search \u201cmy baby won\u2019t sleep,\u201d or whatever you\u2019re looking for in regards to sleep, almost every single site will tell you about the importance of a bedtime routine. I will, too! I think a bedtime routine is a crucial first step in creating predictability for your baby and teaching your baby that it\u2019s time to make that transition from day into night.<\/p>\n

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Even adults have routines. We all do things in the same order before bed every night. Without them, we would feel a little anxious or out of sorts, and it would be harder to sleep. So it definitely is important, but there is one mistake that parents make. Most of the time people skip right over that. \u201cOh bedtime routine, right, next,\u201d because we\u2019ve heard it so much, but the biggest mistake that parents make in that is that somewhere in the routine, the baby sleeps!<\/p>\n

For example, you\u2019ve heard the baby should have a bath, so you\u2019re going to do a bath, you\u2019re going to get jammies on, you\u2019re going to read a book maybe, and then you\u2019re going to do a feeding. There, right there, that\u2019s the snag. You feed your baby to sleep, either on the breast or with the bottle. Most people turn off the lights when it’s feed time, get the environment nice and cozy and comfy, and then that\u2019s your child\u2019s cue that it\u2019s time to start the journey into sleep. That is where you need to make your changes.<\/p>\n

If you nurse or bottle feed your baby to sleep and then transfer them to the crib, well you\u2019re not going to have a baby that sleeps through the night, that\u2019s for sure. You\u2019re probably going to find half an hour later, 45 minutes later they are awake again, and you\u2019ve got to start the process all over again.<\/p>\n

Bath, great; PJs, great; feeding fine. It\u2019s totally acceptable to feed a baby before bed. In fact, I encourage it, but keep the lights on high enough that you can watch, and don\u2019t even let sleep start. Again if you think of sleep as a journey, I don\u2019t even want you to allow your baby to start the journey. Starting a journey looks like doziness, so heavy blinking, closing the eyes, opening them, anything like that is the beginning of a journey, so don\u2019t let that start! Keep that baby\u2019s eyes open so that they start to realize that food is a nice lovely step in the bedtime routine, but it is not for the purpose of sleep. That comes next.<\/p>\n

If your baby has a really strong association between eating and sleeping, I suggest you break it up with an extra step even after the feed. Feed, sit baby up on your lap, maybe read a story together after the fact, just to break that connection a little bit further and to start to teach that baby that there is no way or there is no reason to fall asleep while feeding.<\/p>\n

Then the baby should go into the crib awake. That is how you start The Sleep Sense Program. We\u2019ll teach you how to do that, but it\u2019s also the number one way your baby is going to learn the skills she or he needs in order to become a great sleeper and start sleeping through the night.<\/p>\n

So have a look at your bedtime routine. Even though you know you have one, you probably had one since the baby was born, but you probably need to make a fairly significant change to it. That is, to stop feeding your baby to sleep as part of the routine. Even rocking, you might have to say goodbye to any kind of rocking in the routine as well.<\/p>\n

Contact me today for a complementary evaluation. Together we can decide if I can help your baby or child sleep better.<\/p>\n

Sleep well,<\/p>\n

Jo Anna Inks
\nSleep Solutions
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\njoannainks@gmail.com
\nwww.joannainkssleepsolutions.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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