Sleep Consultant – Maternity Nurse – Night Nanny
It is holiday season and it feels like everyone is jetting off to sunny destinations! Taking a baby on holiday brings a whole new load of anxieties. Don’t rule out taking a holiday because it seems impossible with a young baby. Being prepared and organised can ensure your holiday is still a great time for your family.
Here are my top tips to help make the packing, flight and your holiday run smoothly:
Finally we have some nice weather and we are now all complaining it is too hot, plus worrying about what our babies should sleep in! Keeping your baby sleeping safely in hot weather is essential. You are probably quite experienced in getting the temperature right using a baby sleeping bag for our normal temperatures but here are a few tips to manage the summer heat.
Just as you thought you’d cracked this sleeping lark with your lovely baby, the four-month sleep regression hits! The long stretches of sleep at night become disturbed and naps tend to be both shorter and baby may be hard to settle for any sleeps.
It isn’t actually a regression as such; it is a permanent change in your baby’s sleeping habits. Your baby is maturing and developing at an incredible rate as their brain develops and as a result their sleep pattern changes.
Signs you may have hit the four-month sleep regression: