Having an inconsistent sleep habit can affect your baby in two ways. First of all, a tired baby results in grumpiness and a reduced immune system. Secondly, it just gets increasingly harder for your baby to have a full nights sleep.

If you are getting up consistently every night in order to soothe your baby, then it’s time for you to consider resetting your child’s natural pattern.

How do you do this? Pay attention to signs that your baby wants to nap, and put your child to sleep as soon as you are able to.

You can easily tell by just looking to see if the child is fussy, annoyed, quiet and has no interest in its environment. Keep your eye on your infant as much as possible and don’t delay when you see those symptoms. Let these clues guide you in setting a normal nap schedule for your newborn baby.

If you prolong an infant’s tiredness, it might reach a stage where it gets a “second wind”. Once this occurs he will be wide awake again and it won’t be possible to get him to nap. The result would be you waking up several times a night to attend to a crying child.

It really doesn’t take long for an infant to get used to its new routine. Depending on the environment and your baby’s adaptability, it can take up to 14 days before you being noticing some improvements.

Sometimes a baby’s sleeping schedule can be interrupted, due to family activities and such situations that you did not plan for or that cannot be avoided - this is okay. As long as on the following day you resume where you left off.

Continue routinely with the same course of action even if you do get a few days of interruption to your little one’s nap times. Most infants will quickly get used to repetition, so you don’t have to worry about a family outing ruining all your hard work.

To get your baby to adapt faster to his or her new nap schedule, you might like to try using soft music to give your child the cues to go to sleep. Once your baby has grown accustomed to the signals, sending your baby to sleep will be as easy as snapping your fingers.

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