![]() These methods are from a very old way of thinking, way back when we had no idea that leaving babies to cry themselves to sleep, flooded their little brains with the stress hormone, cortisol. In a previous article on baby sleep, I discussed how controlled crying and other cry it out methods actually originated from 1913 and earlier. Baby Sleep Training Methods Come From Old Thinking Parents often don’t have good support, a nurturing community or the confidence to trust their instincts. ![]() With medical reasons ruled out, it’s likely that our babies are normal. We may desperately seek out information, techniques and routines - anything to help ‘fix’ our baby’s sleeping and/or crying situation. Sometimes we feel like we just don’t know what to do at times. Many parents have wounds from how we were parented, which clouds the waters. It’s common these days for parents to lack of confidence and self-esteem when it comes to parenting their babies and children. However, every baby has a unique personality. Parents can learn about predictable developmental ‘leaps’ at certain weeks of age, which results in specific behavioural changes. The Wonder Weeks book is one of very few books that comes pretty close. No one could possibly write a book about YOUR baby. This article is based on my notes from that programme and my own insights.When I hear the word ‘experts’ being used in relation to babies, I cringe.īecause I think babies are the experts in what they need, and parents are the experts of their own unique baby. I found the programme ’10 Things You Did not Know About Sleep’, originally shown on BBC1 television, to be most useful in understanding how I can obtain better sleep. You will start to feel the positive effects of sleep, such as being happier and more cheerful. As the programme works you will sleep in more continuous blocks. The aim of the programme is that the person is SO tired that their existing disruptive sleep pattern is broken. Stay awake when not in the bedroom eg reading a suitable book pre-bedtime. Even if you are still asleep rise at the designated time. For instance: to bed at 2am and rise at 8am. Plan a 4 week programme where you spend only 6 hours in bed. Insomniacs need to implement Sleep Restriction, the amount of time they spend in bed trying to catch up on sleep. ![]() If I awake in the night being too hot I simply stand on a cool floor for a few moments, or go outside to cool down and observe the moon and stars, a #PauseMomentU To help regulate my temperature I stick my feet outside of the covers and that’s helped me stay cooler. During menopause I’ve found that if I’m too hot, especially my feet, then I won’t sleep well. After a warm bath our core body temperature drops, reduces and cools down, that’s what helps induce sleep. Dr Barbara Stone, a sleep expert, says that the core or deep body temperature is key to falling asleep. This will trick your body into falling asleep. Have a warm water bath NOT a HOT bath 1 hour or more before bed time. Here’s part 1 of series of articles on things you may not know for getting a good night’s sleep for health and happiness. All of those things have an impact sometimes positively and some negatively upon the quality of our sleep. Sleep is something we all do, along with eating, drinking and thinking.
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