If she does,1) check that you’re wrapping correctly or use our safe 5-second swaddle 2) make sure you’re playing strong, rumbly white noise-all night long. While your baby may try turning over at this age, it’s much less likely she’ll succeed while swaddled. That’s exactly why marital stress, child abuse, postpartum depression, unsafe sleeping practices, breastfeeding struggles, and car accidents increase around this time. Totally wrong! In fact, 2 months is the WORST time to stop swaddling.Swaddling reduces crying and night waking, which both peak at 2-4 months. It’s pretty amazing!) Baby Sleep Myth 4: Swaddling should be stopped at 2 months. (SNOO’s smart sleeper technology actually draws from the principles of the 5 S’s and has an automatic weaning feature that helps make for an easy transition to the crib by 6 months. The good news is that with the help of the wake-and-sleeptechnique, you can rock and nurse your baby to sleep AND still help her learn self-soothing skills. My “5 S’s” technique pulls together all of these concepts.īut, problems arise because rocking and nursing to sleep: 1) are very hard to wean -you can’t really do either a little less every day, and 2) they undermine your baby’s learning to self-soothe, or the ability to fall back asleep. And it’s a reason nursing puts a baby to sleep-sucking is another baby sleep cue. That’s why rocking babies to sleep works so well. Long before delivery, your baby got used to the sensations in the womb-jiggly motion, rumbly sound, and snug cuddling. Do you prefer a dark room? Special pillow? Favorite sheets? Reading? Let me explain: We all have sleep associations to help us relax into slumber. Well…yes, it will! But it’s a myth that that’s a bad thing! Baby Sleep Myth 3: Rocking or nursing your baby to sleep every night creates a dependency. Huh? Did you ever see a baby fall deep asleep at a noisy party or sporting event? Remember, the womb is loud, 24 hours a day! So, a quiet, still room is actually a sensory desert to your baby. Baby Sleep Myth 2: Sleeping babies need complete quiet. Try swaddling and rumbly white noise, or SNOO Smart Sleeper, which has advanced smart technology that gives your baby the right combo of the 2, to help her nod off easily. Actually, it can take only a few weeks-that is, if you use the right sleep cues. Here are 12 truly unhelpful sleep “myth-conceptions:” Baby Sleep Myth 1: It takes months for babies to learn to sleep well at night. Physicians even prescribed opium drops to babies to stop colicky crying! Yikes!įast forward to today: You may be surprised how many nutty ideas about infant sleep are still around.
In the 1960’s, doctors thought newborns felt no pain (even during a circumcision!) and that crying was good exercise for little lungs. But sometimes, we accept crazy things as fact. The last thing parents need is to get tripped up by baby sleep myths.
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