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SIDS

(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)

By:Jean Burns

It’s the most frightening, bewildering and heartbreaking thing that can happen with a newborn. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS),, also commonly known to some as crib death. It’s defined as when as when a baby dies in the first year of life from no apparent cause. The causes still aren’t fully known, but in SIDS deaths, the baby’s recovery mechanisms if deprived of oxygen aren’t developed and he’s not able to rouse himself if his breathing becomes obstructed, such as when he’s sleeping face down.

There’s no way to predict whether a baby is at risk for SIDS, although the occurrence of SIDS deaths has decreased in the last 10 years. Creating a safe sleep environment for the baby is one way to help prevent SIDS associated infant deaths.

For the first year of life, babies should be put to sleep on their backs . If put to sleep on their sides, they should be positioned with one arm forward to keep them from rolling over on their stomachs which is largely thought to prevent . Soft foam wedges can be purchased for just this purpose.

Avoid loose, fluffy bedding and make sure your baby’s face isn’t obstructed. Be careful not to overheat your baby by over-wrapping him or dressing him in too many layers. An overheated baby is thought to increase the sids risk during sleep.
Don’t smoke and don’t allow anyone else to smoke around the baby. Make sure your baby has a firm mattress in a safety-approved crib.

There are monitoring systems that can alert you if the baby stops breathing. There are some indications when you might want to consider this:

–If the baby has had any life-threatening episodes, such as turning blue, or an episode requiring mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
–If the baby had older siblings who died of SIDS.
–If the baby was premature

Make sure to keep all well-baby appointments to make sure his lungs are fully developed and to maintain all immunizations.

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Co-Sleeping Baby

By:Jean Burns

While western culture discourages it, studies have shown that co-sleeping with a breastfeeding infant promotes bonding, regulates the mother and baby’s sleep patterns, plays a role in helping the mother to become more responsive to her baby’s cues, and gives both the mother and baby needed rest. Creating a co-sleeping environment also assists mothers in the continuation of breastfeeding on demand, which is an important step in maintaining the mother’s milk supply.

There are many methods of co-sleeping. Some mothers choose for their babies to sleep in bed with them all the time. Other mothers set up the crib or bassinet in the mother’s room; their babies are brought to the parents bed when they wake. Other mothers sleep with their babies on a mattress in the baby’s room.

This is a personal decision for every mother when choosing how babies should sleep. If you decide to co-sleep with your infant, there are some guidelines for doing it effectively and safely.
Parents should not sleep with their babies if they are smokers or have ingested alcohol or drugs. Do not co-sleep if you drink alcohol or medications that make you sleepy, take drugs, or smoke. Co-sleep only on beds, not on couches or recliners. Bedding should be tight fitting to the mattress and the mattress should be tight fitting to the headboard of the bed. There should not be any loose pillows or soft blankets near the baby’s face. There should not be any space between the bed and adjoining wall where the baby could roll and become trapped. And of course, the baby should not be placed on its stomach.
There are as many options as there are parents and babies. As babies grow and changes their sleep patterns, families often respond by changing sleeping spaces, such as transitioning to a crib. The only right choice is what works to give the whole family as much rest as possible.

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Babies Sleeping through the Night

BY Jean Burns

For the past year, I have constantly been asked how I’ve been able to have my one year old sleep so well. Many of my friends and family members have had struggles getting their babies to sleep and often ask me for good baby sleep tips to help them out.

Like most new moms, I was not very educated on how the supermoms out there got their babies to sleep, so I used the only method I knew how. Night after night, I rocked and hummed and cuddled my son until he was asleep…at least until his first of multiple night time feedings. It is to be expected that newborn sleep patterns leave most parents exhausted but after a while this can become a real struggle. Around the fifth month, I was determined to find anything via baby forums, books, even old home remedies that would teach me how to get a baby to sleep.
I used to think that babies sleeping through the night were somehow mythical creatures. Typically, if you ask a new mom the words baby and sleep don’t usually go together. It’s almost like an unwritten rule that you have to be sleep deprived for months…maybe even a year or more before your child is sleeping through the night. How could it be possible that someone, somewhere had figured out a way to make a baby sleep through the night and I did not know about it?

After trying everything from using calming temple balms, baby massages, forming night time routines, I was at my wits end to find the promise land… night time relief. I began my endless search through baby sleep techniques, though my eyes were blurry from sleep deprivation.  Through trial and error, I began to notice small changes in my babies sleep patterns. Eventually, I learned that consistency of his night time routine and creating the right sleep environment added to the mix were priceless tools and I was well on my way to finding the perfect slumber solution. I was so surprised how well my baby responded to very small and simple changes. As if magically, one day all of my prayers had been answered I awakened to find that at last my baby sleeping through the night!!
If you are struggling, walking tiredly into walls, pulling out your hair, simply at your wits end over your baby sleeping through the night, do not give up. Finding the right information is all it takes to literally put your nocturnal nightmares to rest.

Baby forums are great for finding what other moms have tried and failed with and who has found neat little tricks that actually work. Just because one thing worked quickly for someone else’s sleeping baby, does not mean that it will be the same road for you. Try not to become discouraged but hang in there. The process of your baby sleeping through the night is short lived compared to the months of sleepless suffering you could endure if you cut your time too short, too soon. Remember that this is not only a learning process for you, but is a learning process for your baby.
Today, I am lucky enough to have a one year old sleep through the night, take naps, and even bedtime with the babysitter is a breeze. I used techniques that were simple to execute and sustain night after night.  Fortunately my achievements…and I do mean achievement with my babies sleep habits have been a great source of inspiration and information for many of my family and friends who found themselves in my sleepy shoes. Luckily for them, I decided to hang in there and got through the process of learning how to get a baby to sleep. Lucky for me, I was well informed and could help their baby sleep and the parents finally had uninterrupted sweet dreams.

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Baby Sleeping Tips Get Your Baby Sleeping Through the Night

By Jean Burns

Becoming a parent is full of more challenges and lessons that you could ever imagine. After your nine months of pregnancy are over the real work of parenting begins. As your child begins to grow, he is learning and developing all sorts of new skills that are challenging for him as well as you the parent. Finding  baby sleeping tips, is an awesome way to stay one step ahead of you’re learning curve. Sure you think about the trials of learning to walk, learning to talk, learning to crawl, but how often does one consider your child learning to sleep? Many parents suffer night after night for months, sometimes years because their child is not a good sleeper, not realizing that this is a skill that must be learned and can in fact be taught. If getting your baby to sleep is an issue there is a great chance that you are overwhelmed and exhausted. This is not only unhealthy for you the parent, but can also be a danger for your baby if you are trying to cope under frustrating conditions. With the use of baby sleeping tips you the parent will inevitably prevent the effects of sleep deprivation such as extreme exhaustion, impaired coordination, blurred vision, and can ultimately lead to more serious health issues due to the weakening of your immune system over time.
In my opinion, there are three main baby sleeping tips that will put you on the road to success when coping with both a tired baby not sleeping and a tired parent. A baby waking at night or one who puts up a little fight when its time to fall asleep is not sending a signal that he is not tired. In most cases of a baby who consistently wakes up through their normal sleep pattern, is more times than none overly tired and is crying out of frustration because he wants relief. Most parents believe it to be the opposite.

Following these three baby sleeping tips are a great first step towards finding peace at bedtime.
The first good baby sleeping tip would definitely be to develop a good sleep routine. Following a sleep routine every night gives your baby something to look forward to and lets them know that it’s time for bed. For example, if you give your baby a bath and read a story every night before bed, after a while your child will learn to expect going to sleep soon after, simply because it is part of the routine. This falls right in line with my second good  baby sleeping tip.
Secondly, consistency is perhaps the most important element of developing good baby sleeping habits. Once you have started a nightly routine, or starting developing an appropriate time for bed, etc, it is so important that you stick to the plan. When your baby is doing something on a consistent basis, this teaches him the habits that you would like for him to learn. It can be a difficult task teaching a baby new skills if you repeatedly stop and start. It is understandable that juggling life with a new baby is tiring and sometimes daunting but you cannot allow this to break the consistency of using your new found baby sleeping tips.
My third and final baby sleeping tip is creating a great sleeping environment. Think about your bedroom when you are ready for bed. The room is at the right temperature, you dress in your most comfortable pajamas, dim the lights, and turn off anything that may distract you from falling into a deep sleep such as loud music, laptops you were working on, the television, and such. Just as you create a comfortable and serene sleep environment for yourself, your baby requires the same atmosphere.  In addition, any stuffed animals, pillows, loose blankets, and small toys should be removed from the crib to prevent choking or suffocation.
Now it is time to put your new baby sleeping tips to use. Use what you have learned tonight and every night and watch as you will see new changes in how your baby responds at bedtime. Not only can you use your new baby sleep tips at night, but also during the day at naptime. Good luck and sweet dreams!