Bedtime Routine
It is often said regarding
newborn babies that a parent can say goodbye to getting a good night's
sleep ever again. Although this is an exaggeration, it is true to say
that things change literally overnight when a baby is born. Babies do
not lie down to sleep for eight hours like adults are supposed to, but
wake at least every three hours in order to feed. As the keen-eyed among
us will have noticed, this means that a parent's sleeping pattern
will be disturbed at least twice, on average, by a new baby and, even
if parents take it in turns to get up and feed the baby there will still
be no little disruption.
The lack of sleep can get to parents. Frayed nerves are an almost inevitable effect of having a new baby in the house, and anyone living with a new parent will be well-advised to learn how to tread carefully so that they do not aggravate an already emotional person. Sleep is important, and there are ways that a sleeping pattern can be protected to an extent if not completely in the early days of having a new child. As anyone who has tried to wake someone else up will know, there are stages of awakeness. It is possible to feed a baby while still half-awake, although this is easier for the mother. With a baby bottle warmer it is, however, not impossible for a father or other family member to do the same -- it just requires collaboration.
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