Your Baby and Sleep in general

Sleep we all need it and as a new parent you need it more then ever. As I had gestational diabetes I was informed that when my son was born he would be on 3 hour feeds day and night. (Weather he wanted it or not as the midwife said) The first few weeks of my sons arrival I was either feeding him winding him or changing him and when he did go to bed I would try and get some shut eye but you have the constant panic in your mind 'is he breathing', is he to hot, to cold, blotchy to pale to pink so on and so on .... From day one my son was in a mosses basket ,right up against my bed , my mothers advice to me was swaddle!!! Some healthcare ...  Read the complete review

I don't know if I've just been lucky or if it was down to any of the following techniques which we used, but my little boy started to sleep through the night after he was 6 weeks old. If any of the following suggestions can help anyone from having more sleepless nights than necessary then I'll be a happy girl. 1: Get blackout blinds - as soon as the sun started to rise my little one would wake up - fool them into thinking it's night time 2: After two weeks we put my little boy into his own bedroom with a baby monitor. I know this goes against many recommendations, however I do feel this played a huge part in helping him to sleep. In his own room ...  Read the complete review

We have 2 children the older is 5 years and 6 months old, the younger is 15 months old. My sister had 2 babies before we had our eldest one and we got plenty of advice from her, as well as from cousins, friends, colleagues and so on, but the reality is that when you look at sleeping patterns of children, not only every child is different, but also, they have different patterns during the first years of their life. The second child of my sister, for example, could not sleep for more than 4 hours untils he was 2 years and a half, but then gradually he changed, and by the age of 4, was sleeping like a rock from 10pm till at least 7am. Anyway, in our ...  Read the complete review

Everyone knows how little babies actually sleep at night. Or at least they think they do until they have one. I've trained as a paediatric nurse so I was very smug when I was pregnant that I knew exactly what to expect when it came to looking after young babies...until my own came along. I ended up with an emergency c-section so was in hospital with my little one for 5 days. He was quite good there really, woke up, I'd stick him on the boob and he'd feed until he fell asleep and that was that. Until we got him home. I will never forget that first night at home for as long as I live. I didn't sleep AT ALL! No exaggeration, I was awake every single minute of that night, ...  Read the complete review

My Son is 15 months old and although he sleeps a lot better than he used to, he is still not sleeping through the night on a regular basis, therefore I feel that I have enough experience to contribute to the 'Babies and Sleep' category. My review is not going to help you to get your baby to sleep at night, but hopefully it will provide a 'virtual' hug to anyone who is going through sleepless nights with their little one(s). Sleep deprivation is hard to explain, once you have experienced it, only then can you begin to understand how it feels to be constantly tired. So when your little bundle of joy arrives after a long 9 month wait, sleep is the one thing ...  Read the complete review