Today, I received a call from a good friend of mine. She was with her cousin who had a little girl (4 1/2 months old) who doesn’t like to sleep. She was calling me to get my thoughts on how to help her become a better sleeper.
I asked her a few questions about “what” she was doing with her daughter at bed time — to get a better understanding of what was going on.
After a listening to her answers, I was able to see what she might be able to make a few simple changes to help her daughter become a much better sleeper at night.
Here are just a few of the suggestion I made to her:
1. Set up a bed time routine – by setting up a night time routine, her daughter will come to
2. Get her a sleep sack – since her daughter fights being swaddled and is nearing the add where you should start to wean your baby out of being swaddled,I suggested she purchase a sleep sack for her. This will provide her with the same comfort a swaddle would but will allow her arms to be out.
3. Get a sound machine – babies spend 9 months listen to a sound similar to white noise. Offering them that same comforting sounds can also help them to relax. Adding a sound machine to her sleep training arsenal would help her greatly.
4. Be consistent and patient – this is the one thing I think is the hardest to do for parents. We all (even me sometimes) want things to change overnight and it just doesn’t work that way. Being consistent with your sleep time routine is essential to your baby creating healthy sleep habits. They didn’t learn bad sleeping habits in one day, so it may take them a few days or weeks to adjust to the new routine. That’s where the patiences comes it 
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