Daddy Magic: Keep your Baby Awake if You want to Sleep!
If you want your baby to sleep for 8-12 hours at night, you'll need to keep your baby awake during the day!!!
After that 12 hours (like from 8 PM to 8 AM), wake up your baby! Keep your baby awake. You'll want to do a short nap (10 AM to 11 AM) and a longer nap (1 PM, after lunch, for at least one hour, up at 4 PM for another feeding).
So keep your baby awake when she is not scheduled to be napping! Otherwise, the schedule isn't going to work.
How to keep your baby awake:
(1) Take him out of the swaddle.
(2) Hold him upright or Lay him on a blanket on the ground (it's harder than a bed or your arms)
(3) Talk to him
(4) Play with him - touch him, move him around, dance with him, etc.
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1 comment:
This advise is crap. You are asking for a cranky baby and frustrated husband. That's a dangerous mix. Let the baby sleep when she needs to. That's what babys do.
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