Happy Days » Routines

  At the start of each new year, many of us make resolutions; promises or intentions to do something better or to stop something that we feel holds us back. Being a parent adds a new slant to our annual resolutions and for many of us our resolutions are intentions for the year ahead to be a better parent. This year Meg Faure took the Top 10 Resolutions on our Facebook site and wrote a simple ‘how to’ for each one. 1. Establish a routine for my baby. Routines are something many of us long for, to create a little order and predictability in our days. You can start a sleep routine based...

It’s that time of year again! Noddy’s Christmas party,  Panto, family functions and of course a trip away on holiday - For my family that means later nights, many nights out and parties. For our babies, it means excitement and new experiences but it also means disruption. Many Baby Sense mums ask me how much they should disrupt their baby’s schedule and how to cope with new sleep spaces and all the overstimulation so here are 5 points to bear in mind: 1.  Changes to routine – Babies do better with flexible routines and for many mums having some structure to the day is a life-line, which is...

Q: My baby is now almost 5 and a half months old, and still there is no pattern to his day.  I am doing everything it says in the Baby Sense and Sleep Sense books and according to these books if I am consistent a pattern will start to emerge.  This is not happening, everyday is different.  I keep his feeding times the same and try to do everything the same everyday but it doesn’t seem to help.  He is still sleeping through at night, but has now started to wake after I’ve put him down for the night.  It is usually about 20-30 mins after I’ve put him down and he wakes 1-3 times.  He goes back...

Q:Corien from a Moms and Babes in Secunda called in with the following questions that came up in her class. 1. Will the baby become addicted / dependant to the Lala CD? 2. Will the mom have to carry the CD around with her all the time? 3. Will the baby start to associate music with sleep and then want to fall asleep whenever they hear music?   A:Dear Corien Thanks for your questions:1. No the baby will not become addicted to Lala CD or the Womb to World CD but since it is a positive sleep trigger, it can be used to help the baby shift into drowsy state and sleep. Parents can...

Q: I am a first time mom and was recommended to buy your book by my Doctor.......and I must say it helped me a lot. My question however is that my seven week old boy just wont get in to a day time routine. I started by feed/wake/sleep a week ago and all seemed to be going well or so I thought, but for some reason he wants to fall asleep with bottle after the first week of training? My nights are great it is just that I am battling to get him in a daytime routine. Is it wise for me to break the feed/wake/sleep routine into wake/feed/sleep routine? On the other hand if I let him cry he goes hoarse and I...