6 Tips for Breaking Bad Sleeping Habits in Babies
In the first 12-16 weeks, your baby will have a very chaotic sleep pattern and will not have settled into a natural circadian sleep cycle. Instead of sleeping mostly at night, your baby will sleep in mini-cycles at seemingly random times. At somewhere between 2 and 8 weeks, your baby will usually fall into a pattern of 4 hours sleep followed by about half an hour of alertness.
When your baby is not sleeping as expected, you may panic. You may even find yourself frequently using the best pulse oximeter for nurses to check whether the baby has the right amount of oxygen when asleep.
You should not try and manipulate this natural sleep pattern as your interference at this early stage can actually delay the onset of a more stable sleep pattern. The only things that you should do are make sure that your baby is exposed to as much natural daylight as possible during the daytime and as little artificial light as possible at night.
At around 12 weeks maybe a little later, you should consider trying to teach your baby some healthy sleeping habits. The following are some of the things that you should consider implementing: