Infant’s small stomach can only digest a little amount of
foods. Infants who are breastfed or fed on formula milk often require to be fed
continuingly during day and night. Ones who are breastfed often need feeding
about each 3 hours, despite the fact that there’re infants who want more. It’s
quite a challenge to moms who lack sleep. However, you can create good sleeping
habits and the comfort in bed although you’ve decided to feed your children on
their demands. Do not let the feeding become comfortable nursing. Once babies
are well fed and start showing signs of sleeping, encourage them to sleep while
not using any support from the breast or baby bottle. That will help babies to
learn to comfort themselves to sleep.
Ones who are
breastfed often need feeding about each 3 hours.
Instructions
When infants show first signs of hunger, feed them. The
signs may include fast eye movements, muscle tension, squiggling movements,
head movements, sounds of sucking, lip smacking and fist sucking. To infants,
crying out loud is often the last sign of hunger. Hungry infants who are
breastfed may have difficulties in feed as they can’t latch onto the breast
rightly, which results in babies will be hungry and difficult to get to sleep.
Stimulate infants after having fed them for a day by hugging
them, talk and sing to them. Entertaining babies when they are full, calm and
active helps you to get closer to your babies and support their early cognition
developments. The stimulations occurring in daytime will make babies tired and
ready for the important sleep in the later time of the day.
Entertaining
babies when they are full, calm and active helps you to get closer to your
babies.
Learn to recognize signs that show babies are ready for bed.
They may include rubbing eyes, yawns, turning their face away from you and discontinuous
cries. When babies seem to feel sleepy, do not rock them but let them fall into
sleep in your arms. The signs showing babies are ready for sleep give you the
chance to lay them in their cradles while they’re drowsy but still awake enough
to sooth themselves to sleep.
Advice and warnings
Music can help
babies feel sleepy.
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Turn on music to help babies feel sleepy when bed time comes.
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Babies should lie on their back when you put them in the cradles
as it’s the safest position for infants to sleep in.
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You can use a pacifier in case your babies are bottle fed, still
awake and uneasy, but not hungry. If your babies are sleepy, let them get into
sleep without the support of pacifiers to prevent the independence on pacifiers
which has a role in sooth babies into sleeps.
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Avoid offering infants who are breastfed pacifiers because the
tools can impede and slow the process of learning to suckle properly.
