Adapted from Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep by Dr. Jodi Mindell and JOHNSON'S® Your Baby and Toddler, From Birth to 3 Years
By six months of age, your baby will have reached a most wonderful milestone-the ability to sleep though the night. What a relief! If you follow the same routine every night before bed, your baby will soon understand that when it's nighttime, it's time to sleep, not play. A good way to begin the before-bed routine is with a warm, relaxing bath followed by a final feed, teeth-brushing, a massage, a nighttime story, then into bed. The key is to help your baby unwind, so avoid any stimulating activities.
Here are some other ways you can help your baby get the sleep that she needs:
- Set a regular sleep schedule for your baby: Settle on regular naptimes and a bedtime that allow your baby to get all the sleep she needs.*
- Give your baby soothing surroundings: Keep the bedroom dark, cool, and quiet.*
- Avoid making nighttime feedings a permanent fixture: They rarely help your baby sleep very long or very well. And after six months of age, nighttime feedings are rarely necessary. Move a bottle or nursing time earlier in the evening.* * Sleeping Through the Night ? How Infants, Toddlers and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep, by Dr. Jodi Mindell. (HarperCollins Publishers, 2005)
- Bath time is a happy way to say "it ' s sleeptime": You may also wish to use JOHNSON'S® BEDTIME BATH® or null. Enriched with NATURALCALM™ essences - a special blend that releases soothing aromas when added to a warm bath ? they can help relax your baby before bed.
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