Make Baby Sleep All Night

As your newborn baby grows, it is slowly acclimatizing itself to the practice of sleeping at night and being awake during the day. Also, as baby's stomach is growing and holding more breast milk or formula, it will be able to go for longer periods between feedings at night.

At approximately three months of age your baby will likely sleep about 15 hours or thereabouts out of each 24-hour period, and two thirds of that sleep time should take place during the night. Most babies will have settled into a daily sleep routine of two or three sleep periods during the day, followed by "sleeping through the night" for 6 to 7 hours after a late-night feeding.

You can help adjust your baby's body clock towards sleeping at night by avoiding stimulation during the night-time feed and diaper change. The act of breastfeeding itself provides frequent eye and voice contact, so try to keep the lights low and resist the urge to play or talk with your baby. This will reinforce the message that nighttime is for sleeping. Keeping the door closed to keep out well-meaning but vocal older children, spouses and pets will also help to reduce unnecessarily stimulation of your infant.

Avoid the use of musical mobiles or toys as a way to lull your infant back to sleep after night-time feedings. This will also help to reinforce that nighttime is for sleeping. And, keep in mind that, as with adults, overly tired infants often have more trouble sleeping than those who've had an appropriate amount of sleep during the day. So, keeping your baby up, thinking that he or she will sleep better at night-time is unlikely to work. You should indeed find that when your infant sleeps at regular intervals during the day, it will be easier to put them back down to sleep after the night-time feedings.

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