Make Baby Sleep All Night

For the first three or four weeks after birth, the infant sleeps more or less all the time, day and night, only waking to satisfy the needs of his or her appetite. At the close of this stage, however, each period of wakefulness becomes longer, so that the baby slumbers less frequently, but for longer periods at a time.

This disposition to rest constantly in the early weeks of the infant's life must not be interfered with; but once this period is over, enormous care must be taken to induce consistency in the hours of baby's sleep, otherwise too much will be taken in the day-time, and an agitated and disturbed night-sleeps will be the result. The little one should be trained into the pattern of sleeping in the middle of the day, before supper, and for around two hours, more or less. If put to rest at a later time of the day, this will invariably result in a bad evening.

Contrary to common opinion, an infant should slumber with his or her parent. The low temperature of baby's body, and its low capacity for gemeratomg heat, make this necessary. If the infant has disturbed and sleepless night-times, the baby must straight away be moved to the bed and care of another adult, to be returned to its mother at an early hour in the morning, for the purpose of being nursed. This is designed to preserve the mother's well-being, which through sleepless nights would of course be quickly damaged, and the infant would also ail from the impact which such poor health would have upon the milk.

When a calendar month or six weeks has gone by, the baby, if hale and hearty, may sleep by himself in a cradle or cot, care being taken that he or she has sufficient pyjamas, that the room in which it is positioned is sufficiently warm and that the position of the cot itself is not exposed to currents of cold air. It is essential to attend to these locational issues properly, since the ability of the infant's body to produce heat, and accordingly the baby's ability to retain a healthy temperature, is less during periods of sleep than at any other time.

It is but too frequently the case that a weakening of some internal tissue will occur under such circumstances, without the true source of the virus ever being suspected. Conversely though, a common error here must also be guarded against - that of loading too many blankets on the infant in its cot, and pulling the covers of the bed closely together. The aim must be to keep the infant sufficiently warm, and with a pure flow of air available at all times.

The toddler up to two years old, at minimum, should ideally sleep upon a feather bed, for the reasons listed above. The pillow, though, after the sixth month, should ideally be made of horsehair; for at this time teething commences, and it is highly critical that the head should be kept cool.

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