How Do you help your baby adjust days and nights?

Question

My baby is almost 2 weeks end of the week, and her days and nights are mixed up. Will this resolve on own or what can I do to help??

Answer

I made sure bedtime was super strict and the routine was all the same. Bath, lavender lotion, nurse, sleep...and nursing and laying down to sleep was always in a dim lighted or dark room and very quiet. During the day I would try to keep her up after our nursing sessions, even for a few minutes, and I never dimmed the lights or was quiet. She slept with the lights on or blinds open. I wasn't "loud" during her naps, but I didn't try to be quiet either....if I needed to vacuum or use the blender I did. I just tried to make sure there was a very clear line between daytime and napping and nighttime and sleeping.

Answer

Keep her up most of the day, let her nap here and there but for the most part entertain her and she will realize you play during the day sleep during the night. You might call me crazy, but I kept my LO up all day and let her take two 30 minute naps during the day and I’ve had her sleeping through the night since she was two weeks old, and the first 8 days she spent in the NICU, so within a week I had mine on a schedule.

Answer

I let my son adjust on his own. Babies need to sleep to grow. I wouldn't try to keep a newborn awake most of the day. My son began sleeping through the night right around 3 months. He's been a great sleeper ever since and he's almost 2. If you do want to try keeping baby awake I would say do so closer to bedtime. And then right before bed do bath and lotion and swaddle.

How Do you help your baby adjust days and nights?

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