The byword saying “never wake a sleeping child” is not always
right during the neonatal period, especially when it’s time to feed your little
angel. In the first few weeks of an infant, you should focus on raising her
well so that she can grow healthily. A typical infant should be fed once every
2-3 hours, which means about 8-12 times of feeding a day; some can happen while
the baby is sleeping. Check out the tips to wake an infant!
A typical infant
should be fed once every 2-3 hours.
Take off baby’s clothes and blanket
If your baby is warm and comfortable, she will wake up less
often. While swaddling is a good way to sooth babies into sleep, it can
interfere with the feeding when eating time comes. Take off the swaddle to wake
babies. If it doesn’t work, take off their clothes and take them from their
cribs to stimulate them. If your babies are still sleeping, you can even remove
the diapers to wake them up.
Create a comfortable environment
Dazzling light can
make it hard for babies to open their eyes.
Dazzling light can make it hard for babies to open their
eyes; by instinct, they’d like to close their eyes to avoid the light. Make the
light dim before you wake your children up so that would be comfortable to
them. Turn on gentle music which can drag babies from their sleeps and make
them stay awake long enough for you to breastfeed them.
Touch
Your touch can wake a sleeping baby up so that he could be
fed. Gentle touch his cheek or arm to stimulate him and make him move. Gently
pick them up. Gather your hands around the baby’s head and make the baby stay
at standing position. You can even rub the baby’s face softly with a wet towel
to wake him up for a fed.
Feeding babies while they’re awake
Once a baby starts
sucking and enjoy the breast milk, they will wake up and be ready to be fed.
If your traditional methods to wake babies don’t work, try
using your milk to wake up babies. Take your baby from her crib and lay her in
the most comfortable breastfeeding position to both of you. Then, try to
encourage the baby to naturally latch on something – this can be carried out
even when the baby is sleeping. Once a baby starts sucking and enjoy the breast
milk, they will wake up and be ready to be fed.
