Geting your baby to sleep after a long day away

Watch Joshua Sparrow, MD's video on Geting your baby to sleep after a long day away...
Geting your baby to sleep after a long day away | Kids in the House
KidsInTheHouse the Ultimate Parenting Resource
Kids in the House Tour

Geting your baby to sleep after a long day away

Comment
76
Like
76
Transcription: 
These days, so many parents are worried about getting their babies to sleep. And I think one the reasons is that so many parents are away all day and don't get enough time with their babies. And so even though they are tired and they want their baby to sleep so they can go to sleep. Sometimes, they also want the baby to stay awake so that they can have more time with the baby. And when that happens, we end up stimulating the baby more. We end up engaging in more exciting kinds of play cause we are having so much fun, finally to get a little of time with the baby. So what helps our routines and rituals that the baby comes to expect that are quiet and calming in settling and soothing good night rituals, good night stories, with soft voices and dim lights that really sings to the baby this is the time when we relax and get ready to go to sleep.

Watch Joshua Sparrow, MD's video on Geting your baby to sleep after a long day away...

Transcript

Expert Bio

More from Expert

Joshua Sparrow, MD

Child Psychiatrist & Author brazeltontouchpoints.org

A child psychiatrist, Dr. Sparrow’s care in the 1990s for children hospitalized for severe psychiatric disturbances, often associated with physical and sexual abuse, and for developmental delays aggravated by social and economic deprivation, prompted his interest in community-based prevention and health promotion. At the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, his work focuses on cultural adaptations of family support programs, organizational professional development, and aligning systems of care with community strengths and priorities, and has included collaborative consultation with the Harlem Children's Zone and American Indian Early Head Start Programs, among many others. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on related topics and has consulted on media programming for children and parents, including PBS’s Frontlines and Discovery Kids. Co-author with Dr. T. Berry Brazelton of 8 books and the weekly New York Times Syndicated column, “Families Today,” Dr. Sparrow has also served as a contributing editor to Scholastic Services’ Parent and Child magazine. In 2006, he revised with Dr. Brazelton Touchpoints: Birth to Three, 2nd Edition and in 2010, co-edited Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. B. Brazelton, a textbook on the ongoing generativeness of Brazelton’s seminal research in a wide range of fields. Dr. Sparrow has authored numerous other scholarly works, teaches and lectures nationally and internationally, and is frequently called upon for his expertise by national and international media. Prior to attending medical school, Dr. Sparrow worked for several years as a preschool teacher and journalist in New York City.

More Parenting Videos from Joshua Sparrow, MD >
Enter your email to
download & subscribe
to our newsletter