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New Born Baby Care – How Music Can Soothe Mom And Baby
There are many videos and CDs on the market for babies. You may have heard of theories that classical music can help your baby become smarter, and by exposing them to music we are introducing our baby to the world around us.
Music is good for calming your baby and can soothe them so that they become more restful at bedtimes, or for their nap time. There are many good choices out there for your baby.
If you find a piece of music relaxing and love listening to, you may find it is ideal for your baby too. Mozart or Bach are good collections to have for bedtime. For soothing music there is Enya, or another choice for something peaceful and relaxing is Georgia Kelly’s harp music.
Nursery rhymes and music from children’s films can stimulate your baby’s senses when he is awake. Philip Glass is a minimalist and a lot of children respond to his music; the music is simple with a good rhythm and when your baby gets older, he will dance to it. To help get your baby to sleep try the gospel and spiritual music.
You can buy sound machines which simulate the sound of dolphins, or water in the form of rain, the sea or ocean which can be soothing whilst blocking out any background noise in your home. You can also put on a fan, though not directly in your baby’s direction, or some other form of white noise. It isn’t necessary to create an alternate silent surrounding for your baby, as they also need to get used to the usual home rhythm and the activities that go on around the house.
Classical music is also a good genre of music that you can try, if you’re not used to listening to it. Listening to what helps your baby get to sleep, can also be relaxing for you, so while you are both going through that bonding process, you can both enjoy some restful periods together.
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/babies-articles/new-born-baby-care-how-music-can-soothe-mom-and-baby-739997.html
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March 30th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Help! My 8 month old baby is the worst sleeper!?
I’m on the verge of losing it with the lack of sleep I get. Since he’s been born, I can count twice that he slept for a 4 or 5 hour stretch. Ah, bliss! Otherwise, it is usually 2 hours or less at a time – and we’re talking almost 8 months now. Everyone said, oh, it will get better, but it’s not! I’m breastfeeding but he’s now on solids too. Very good healthy eater, 3 meals a day with a small snack in between. We eat primarily organic and I have no caffeine and very little sugar in my diet. He’s not a gassy baby and it is definately not teething or a growth spurt! Wondered if I am not a big milk producer, but even with a large dinner for him, and we tried supplementing with goat’s milk a few times before bed, it made no difference. He’s grown well with exclusively breastfeeding for the first 6 months.
He co-slept off and on with me for the first 6 months, and then we started using his crib exclusively for the last month or so. Makes no difference where he sleeps. It wasn’t a big deal as much when I could half asleep just roll over and feed him, but with the crib I obviously have to wake up. My hubby works nights so it’s just me doing the night care. Now hubby is starting parental leave and will be off with me, so he can help with some of the wakings. He’s of the mindset of ‘let him cry it out’, but he’s cried so hysterically that he’s given himself a nosebleed and coughed himself hoarse. Is is possible that he just needs to eat through the night with this frequency?
So as an example (this was last night, so I kept track), he goes down easily at 7:30 after a final breastfeed, then wakes at 8, 9, 10:30, 11:45, 1, 2:08, 3, 4:30, 6, and awake by 7:30. He definately wants more of a ‘nurturing’ breastfeed at 8 or 9pm since he cannot possibly be hungry, but how do you explain the rest? It seems as though he awakes just to check where I am but then needs to nurse to fall back asleep. When I don’t, such as last night at 8 and 9 (since there was no way he was hungry), I don’t pick him up but he screams and cries almost 45 minutes until he falls asleep from sheer exhaustion. I don’t know how much more I can take of this, but this seems to just be a pattern he is so accustomed to that he just automatically wakes up. Even during the day, he sleeps once at 9am for 1 or 1.5 hours, and again naps at 1pm, for 1 or 1.5 hours. Not much sleep for him, and he does look tired a lot. How does he do it and still look wide a wake at dawn, and I am barely functioning, even when I sleep those times???
I should mention, he does not like soothers. We’ve tried it all – music, rocking, homeopathy, reiki, chiropractic, we’ll try acupuncture next. Could it simply be that he is just an insecure little guy and wakes to see where I am? Did I make a mistake by always allowing him to nurse to fall asleep? It seems he just cannot ’self-soothe’ as many books describe. I had a great pregnancy, but he was born by c-section because he got stuck- could he still be affected by that?? Anyone else have a baby that slept such short intervals? Any suggestions?
March 31st, 2010 at 2:43 am
Wow that is quite the dilemma. You sound like you have tried everything you can possibly think of to help your son. I REALLY don’t think this will help much, but maybe try not letting him sleep after 2 or 3pm or keeping him up until 8 or 8:30 if possible. Maybe he’ll get so tired he’ll conk out for a few hours? I have no other advice except, I didn’t read if you were using a pacifier or not. If he wants to nurse to sleep maybe he still has that sucking instinct/need that little babies have and he just wants to suck on something..? I don’t know. I thought my 3 month old was bad, going to bed at 8:30, waking up twice per night, and up by 5 then only taking three 30 minute naps in the day. I’m tired now, I couldn’t imagine keeping your baby’s schedule. I feel for you, I really do and I hope for your own sanity you can figure something out. (Maybe call the supernanny or something..lol)
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March 31st, 2010 at 2:45 am
ok i have an 8month old baby and well i know every baby is different but i put her down to sleep late around 11pm or 12am but i have been doing this this ever since she was 1month old and she sleeps good through the night and if she gets up in the morning she goes right back to sleep and u know what the doctor or nurse say when your takes a nap u try to take a nap that’s what i do and now she pulling up on every thing crawling and siting by herself and as her bottom teeth but the teeth came at 5month and the sitting at 5months rolling over 6months dada mama 6months pulling up 7months siting her self when laying down want to sit up in the up right 7months also but your baby will do every thing that other babies do
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March 31st, 2010 at 2:47 am
Oh honey it sounds awful. I know this is not much but I hope it helps you like it helped me.
I introduced my daughter to a comfort teddy (or you can use a blanket or anything you want). We got her to associate comfort in the bear by putting it between me and her whenever I picked her up to comfort her and I put it in her cot every time she went to sleep. If she cried I made sure the bear was with her all the time. After about a week of carrying this bear everywhere with us she now loves it. I give it to her at night and she is now finally sleeping through and self-soothes with the bear.
Only other things I can think of is, does he get enough sleep during the day? He should be having about 3 sleeps of at least 45 minutes each during the course of the day.
If you can access it try get the book called: Sleep Sense.
It worked wonders for me (this is where I got the bear idea and it worked for me!)
Good luck and I hope your boy starts sleeping soon.
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March 31st, 2010 at 2:49 am
My fist baby was like that, she’s 10 yrs. old now. It took her ages until she finally started sleeping through the night, but eventually, she did. I am sure therefore, that by the time your little one is ready for pre-school he’ll be sleeping through the night, just as my daughter was, I forget exactly how old she was when she started sleeping through the night, but I doubt it was before she turned 18 months old.
If none of the other tips mentioned so far work, just take him back to bed with you. It certianly won’t help him learn to sleep through the night, but at least you’ll be getting some sleep, and one day, when his body matures enough, he will natrally sleep longer hours. (without anyone training him to do so.)
good luck .
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