How to get babies to sleep early at night: Some habits have developed in our society, which are not good for our health. One of them is staying up late at night. Growing up, children also stay up late at night and do not even take the name of sleep. As a result, the eyes open late in the morning or don't feel like getting up, while even half the day passes with difficulty.
Many parents struggle with getting their children ready for bed. They try to make the children sleep early but they stay awake for a long time even after lying down. There are many techniques around the world for baby sleeping, let's take a look at some of them.
Whichever method you choose, one solution is to make the baby feel your absence for a short time at bedtime and then gradually increase the time. Also, when you go back to their room after leaving them alone, you need to praise them, like they just won a prize.
Say things like "Look at yourself like a big baby in your bed! You look so cool! I'm so proud of you for being comfortable, just like we talked about." This praise and attention is the best way to reinforce their efforts.
Start with practice
Practicing a new daytime sleep schedule can help both parents and children, who are nervous about changing their sleep routines. Here are some essentials for a successful practice:
Follow a bedtime routine. It doesn't involve brushing your teeth and reading a story (although you can), but going through all the other bedtime steps and your new sleep training technique. This may include practicing meditation, talking about your day, changing the crotch in bed, and then the parent leaving the room. Get excited about your child's success like you really do at night. Practice the routine as often as needed so that your child feels more comfortable with it.
Make sleeping fun. In this, you can pretend to be a child yourself and ask your child to be the parent. If there is time, have the children dress up in pajamas or practice putting their teddy bears to bed. If you don't make it fun, kids will be as anxious about it as they are about their actual bedtime.
Exercise at least a few times a week. This can be difficult for parents, but the more they practice, the better, it's okay if you can only practice on the weekends.
Exercise alone
This is one of my favorite methods of sleep training. Before you begin, you need to take into account how long it usually takes your child to fall asleep after turning off the lights. For example, you turn off the lights at 10 pm and the children fall asleep in 20 minutes. In the middle of this period, you leave the child's room for a short break and then come back.
Practice the whole process once or twice a day so that your child knows that this is what will happen at night.
End your bedtime routine with the phrase, "I love you." It's time to sleep. Good night.” Then stay quietly in the room.
At 10:10 PM, tell your child that you are going out of the room for a while and will be back soon.
Go back to their room in a minute and praise your child profusely. "Look how big you are! You stay in bed and are very comfortable! Great job!” Feel free to hug and love.
Stay until the baby falls asleep.
Do the same the next night, but this time leave the room for two minutes. Then leave the baby alone for three minutes at night. Your baby will gradually get used to being alone at night and your goal is for him to fall asleep during a break. If he does, it's still very important that you follow through on your promise to return to his room.
Once your baby sleeps alone for a week (or you're taking a 30-minute break), you can stop this process.
Excuse-Me Drill
This is a different variation that involves taking more than one short break, and it works for babies who are used to crying, screaming, or getting up when you're gone for a while. However, this will require a high level of energy from you. As before, practice this once or twice a day so your child knows what to expect.
Follow your bedtime routine, and say goodnight.
Shortly after turning out the lights, tell your child that you only need to step outside for a moment to do something. (It's called the "Excuse-Me Drill" because you say something like, "Let me go for a second, I've got to check the cricket score.")
Stay out for 30 or 60 seconds, or as long as your child can normally tolerate without getting out of bed. Go back and praise your child profusely.
After a while, go out again for a very short break.
On the first night, you will do this process 20 to 30 times. Whenever you return, provide the love and attention that reinforces your child's bravery in being apart from you. On the second night, you will gradually increase the amount of time you spend out of the room.
Each night, the interval will get longer until the baby starts sleeping without you. Once he can do this for a week, your mission is complete.