NIGHT TIME SLEEP AND SETTLING

NIGHT TIME SLEEP AND SETTLING

We’ve talked about day sleep and evening routine for sleep as being important for good restorative sleep that occurs easily. What about over night or during the night when sleep doesn’t happen??

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What we talked about for day sleep and evening routine are still important for night time to go smoothly. Remember day sleep affects night sleep etc. It is a cycle.

 Usually by following the principles of sleep which are to catch early tired signs, give your little one a chance to self settle, then help if he or she needs it, combining that with evening routine on time, mostly night time falls into place easily.

 It is much easier to work on sleep during the day so we focus on that first and then if night is still a problem we address that. Repetition is one of the important keys to improving night time sleep. Sometimes we only tweak a few things and it falls into place. Other times it does take quite some effort. It is important not to give up.

Some insights for you.  If your little one is waking frequently in the night, it usually means that he or she is still over tired. The first we would do is look at what time he or she goes to bed.  This includes looking at his or her behaviours and cues to make sure we are getting the timing of tired signs better. We would also look at what is happening for day sleep. Remember they all go hand in hand.