It is no secret to anyone that many parents prefer to sleep in the same bed with a newborn baby. You do not need to get up to the baby's crib at night when he starts to be capricious, while breastfeeding you can feed the baby without getting out of your bed.
But this is fraught with danger for the little man. For example, you can accidentally crush a helpless baby in a dream. There were cases when a child suffocated under the weight of his mother's breast, when she fell asleep tired while feeding.
But no matter how it was, sooner or later the moment comes when parents think that it is time for the child to learn how to sleep separately from his parents, in the crib intended for him. And here difficulties arise.
Temporary infant rest unit
The easiest thing to do is to separate the baby's sleeping place from the mother with a rolled up blanket roll after he falls asleep. With this, the parents, as it were, fence off the parental place of the baby, thereby making it clear that everyone is sleeping in the place intended for him.
Attachment arena
The kid, accustomed to sleeping next to his parents, begins to show dissatisfaction with his resettlement. The playpen, which is pushed close to the mother's bed, can help here. The partition separating it from the parents is removed from the arena, it is placed on the level of their berth, and it is fixed so that it does not move away.
Try not to wake up your baby while sleeping
At night, one should try not to use mobile phones, so as not to wake up the baby, not to make noise, not to turn on a bright light, not to talk to him. You can leave the night light on all night. The child must be made to understand in every possible way that everyone should sleep at night.
Try to calm the child down
If the newborn begins to behave restlessly at night, and the time for feeding has not yet come, you should, without taking him in your arms, massage his tummy, stroke his back, eyebrows. Such movements will help him calm down, unless of course he is sick.
The playpen should be a place to sleep
Many mothers leave their child in the arena to be able to do household chores, take a shower. The kid feels lonely, abandoned, not needed by anyone. The bed begins to associate him with bad moments in his little life.
He begins to be capricious at one kind of arena, in which they are trying to put him. Also, do not place toys in a sleeping place. The crib should only be used for sleeping.
Separate sleeping area
When the child was taught to first sleep with a roller fenced off from the mother, then with the side removed, you can gradually begin to move the arena away from the parents' bed, not forgetting to put the limiter in place, thereby making it clear that everyone has their own sleeping area.
We teach to wake up in the arena
If the baby stubbornly ignores sleep in his sleeping place, you can first try to teach him to wake up there, praising him for it. The sleeping child is transferred to his crib, where he will be when he wakes up. Then you can help him to calm down and fall asleep, turning gray next to him, until he is overwhelmed by sleep.
All efforts will gradually teach the baby to sleep in a small cozy bed, the main thing is not to be nervous and not to rush him. Everything has its time.
