If you have a newborn or toddler, you know how intense the steps that need to be taken are to get them to stick to their routine. In addition to crying and feeding, there is one more thing that the baby needs in her routine: sleep.
According to doctors, the process of putting a baby to sleep in a crib is much safer than putting it to sleep in bed. Sharing the same bed with a baby can create chances of SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Most people don’t know it, but cribs are made for a reason: they create a safe boundary wall for your children and provide them with the safest sleeping environment.
So even if your baby wants to continue to hold you while you sleep or when he wants to share the bed with you, it is your responsibility to separate him and put him in the crib. After all, safety is every parent’s top concern.
Baby can sleep in your arm, in your bed right next to you, even in the stroller, so why do parents sometimes have such a hard time sleeping in a crib?
Make the baby sleep in the crib
Well, when your baby was in the womb, he had a comfortable territory, was swaddled, and felt secure. Now, when they are sent to sleep in the crib alone and wide open, it’s no wonder they find it difficult. Here are some tips and tricks for parents to help baby sleep in the crib.
1. Establish a positive sleep environment. Keep the crib in your own room, at least for the first 6 months to a year.
2. Keep the room temperature cool. Babies have trouble sleeping when they are hot.
3. Your baby will never sleep in a crib if he is not properly dressed for the temperature of the room. To make your baby comfortable in a crib, dress him in the sleeper. The sleeper should not be very heavy or extremely fit. Remember, it’s not to make them look good, it’s to make them feel comfortable.
4. Wrapping them can add more comfort and safety. Although you should keep in mind that you should stop swaddling once your baby is able to roll over.
5. Noise of any kind should not reach the crib.
6. Keep the lighting as low as possible in the room around the crib.
7. The smell of a mother is what the baby likes. If a mother can sleep with the baby’s sheet and then give it to the baby in her crib, she will calm the baby and help the baby sleep in the crib.
Apart from these things, you have to keep in mind that there should be a sleep routine. Although babies never follow a routine, they sleep when they want. But if there is a routine, being in a crib will signal to them that it is time to sleep and eventually they will get used to it.