Comforting your baby to sleep

Kathy Sinclair, baby sleep expert, shares advice for parents on the best methods for comforting your baby back to sleep when they wake in the middle of the night
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Comforting your baby to sleep

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There are many different methods of comforting a baby to sleep and I highly recommend using whatever works for you for the first four months because a baby is not able to self soothe because he is not developmentally able to do that before four months. And some of them are rocking, cuddling, holding, bouncing on a jumpy ball. Some conventional ways are driving them around in the car, taking them for a walk in the stroller, which I don´t highly recommend because nobody really wants to be doing those at midnight or two am when your baby wakes up in the middle of the night. Just when you are choosing the way that you are going to soothe your baby, just make sure you are comfortable doing that all throughout the night time because they won´t be able the way they go to sleep in the beginning of the night, so you will have to recreate it for them.

Kathy Sinclair, baby sleep expert, shares advice for parents on the best methods for comforting your baby back to sleep when they wake in the middle of the night

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Kathy Sinclair

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Kathy Sinclair is a committed and dedicated baby sleep expert that has spent 2,856 nights without sleep so that parents of newborns could get theirs. During this time she has studied closely the secrets, nuances, and ins-and-outs of baby sleeping patterns. This study, along with her skill and knowledge, has enabled her to be known as the “Baby Whisperer of Los Angeles” by some of her clients, who know that she can get babies sleeping peacefully and easily within a very short space of time.

Kathy is a graduate of Australia's prestigious Charlton Brown Nanny College, a certified postpartum doula, lactation educator, and a certified Happiest Baby on the Block Educator. As the head of Baby Sleep Solutions, a sleep consultation service, Kathy does online, telephone and in person consulting to families who need to get more sleep quickly and without fuss.

Kathy currently spends her time between Los Angeles and Brisbane Australia, enjoying an endless summer and the best of both worlds.

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There are many different methods of comforting a baby to sleep and I highly recommend using whatever works for you for the first four months because a baby is not able to self soothe because he is not developmentally able to do that before four months. And some of them are rocking, cuddling, holding, bouncing on a jumpy ball. Some conventional ways are driving them around in the car, taking them for a walk in the stroller, which I don´t highly recommend because nobody really wants to be doing those at midnight or two am when your baby wakes up in the middle of the night. Just when you are choosing the way that you are going to soothe your baby, just make sure you are comfortable doing that all throughout the night time because they won´t be able the way they go to sleep in the beginning of the night, so you will have to recreate it for them.