Your guide to the first six months of sleep
Parenting expert, Jen Hamilton, shares her top settling and sleeping techniques for newborns through to 6 months old.
Given parents are said to lose an average of 350 hours of sleep in their baby’s first year, it’s no surprise that ‘how to get my baby to sleep’ is the number one question raised by parents, according to parenting expert Jen Hamilton. Just when parents do work it out, they find their young ones change their tune to these methods. Each developmental stage of the baby requires modified techniques to support their quality of sleep.
Sleep problems in infancy is the biggest challenge for new parents and can result in negative consequences for both parents and bub. Baby’s sleep problems are frequently associated with parental depression and anxiety, as well as poor parental physical health and reduced quality of life. Infant sleep intervention and establishing the right rythym early on improves emotional wellbeing in parents and the child’s quality of sleep. Furthermore it enhances the relationship between child and parent and stimulates positive cognitive and emotional development of the child.
Jen says, “Babies are born with around 20% brain development, they are a blank canvas and it’s up to parents to provide them with the ongoing skills and support to learn to sleep as they grow.”
