Hello everyone, I'm Eleven Mom! Welcome to the Eleven Moms' Baby Sleep Book. Previous articleWe talked about how to arrange bedtime routines for your baby, how about it? Did you start experimenting? Today we will talk about four things to pay attention to when arranging bedtime programs, so that bedtime programs can play a more obvious role.
4 Considerations for Scheduling Bedtime Routines
1. The whole family cooperates to prepare for sleep
The first is that the whole family must agree that when it is time to sleep, it is necessary to create an atmosphere of sleeping.
For example, when it is time for the baby to sleep, the home should turn off the lights and turn off the TV, and stop chatting loudly. If the family is noisy, just start to put the baby to sleep, the effect is definitely not good.
2. Control the time of bedtime routine
The second is to control the timing of the bedtime routine. Bedtime routines at night should be controlled for about 20-45 minutes. For babies who don't bathe for 20-30 minutes, the bath is 45 minutes, and about ten minutes during the day.
The time is too long, the content is too rich, and the bedtime program becomes [play]. The baby will not feel that the bedtime program has anything to do with sleep, and he will not be able to fall asleep on time.
3, arrange the bedtime program is in order
Let's talk about the order of bedtime routines. The order mentioned here, one is the spatial order, the other is the chronological order of the content arrangement.
The spatial order is to say that bedtime programs can start in any room in the house, but end in the bedroom.
The last ten minutes or so before falling asleep, and the part your baby is most looking forward to, should be done in the bedroom.
The order of content is to say that attention should be paid to the choice of bedtime program content.
Although I talked about a lot of content that can be arranged in the bedtime program, the most important goal of the bedtime program is to help the baby adjust the bedtime state and let them calm down, so if there is something that will make the baby very excited, then pay attention to avoid.
For example, some babies especially do not like to take a bath, and cry when they wash it, so they should wash it early and do not arrange the bath in the bedtime program.
If the baby especially likes to take a bath and has a good time every time, then the bath is best arranged at the beginning of the bedtime program, and at the same time, the bath time should be controlled, not too long.
4. The daily bedtime routine should be consistent
Finally, when we determine the bedtime routine for the baby, we must maintain a high degree of consistency during the usual operation.
The so-called consistency, that is, Monday to Sunday is the same arrangement, today is to change washing, massage, drink milk, read picture books, say goodnight, tomorrow or so.
Changing your bedtime routine at will weaken your baby's soothing effect. For example, the content of each day is different, or the same content but the order of arrangement is different. Today is to change, read picture books, drink milk, say goodnight, tomorrow is to read picture books, wash and drink milk, and listen to lullabies.
In fact, you don't have to worry about repeating the same bedtime routine every day to make your baby bored. The more familiar your baby is with the whole process, the more relaxed they will be, and the more relaxed they are, the easier it will be to fall asleep.
Reading the same picture book and telling the same story repeatedly before going to bed will have a better soothing effect than changing a new bedtime story every day.
Finally, a stable, reasonable, and regular schedule can make bedtime routines more effective. If no matter how to optimize the baby's bedtime routine, the baby still does not sleep well, you need to consider whether the baby's overall schedule meets his current needs.
How did you do the little homework left yesterday? Today, you may wish to make adjustments to the baby's bedtime program according to the baby's reaction yesterday, share your adjustment ideas to the comment area, and let other mothers think with you.
Well, today's article is shared here, I hope that we can have the opportunity to become a better self because of the arrival of our children, be better parents, learn to think, learn to judge, learn to analyze, and accompany our children to grow up with him.
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