What’s going ON with my newborns SLEEP???

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=131iSBkFE4w&t=3s

Their circadian rhythms are so unforgiving under the age of three months.

So if you’re struggling to put your baby to sleep or they’re just not falling asleep, just stop, you know, give them a cuddle. They might be due for a feed. Just know that it’s about sleep pressure and sensory environment.

We can’t make our babies go to sleep. We can’t make them wee, we can’t make them poo. All we can do is provide the environments for them to be successful in that.

So their bedtimes often aren’t between 6pm and 8pm at night. Their bedtimes are often between 9 and 11pm at night.

Sometimes they’ll go to sleep, be asleep for a couple of hours, wake up at 830 or 9 o’clock, then give them a bath.

Don’t try and force anything earlier and just see if that helps. 😃 Would you like to learn more about your infants sleep, feeding and birthing?

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Does you baby have lip blisters?

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See my latest blog on Lip Blisters (Friction Blisters) and what they might mean!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk5sai7AYPE&t=5s

I just I just wanted to talk a little bit today about lip blisters.

Babies develop their suck swallow reflex or co-ordination from about 20 weeks in utero. Often in utero, they are sucking on their fingers and creating these little lip blisters, or what I call friction blisters.

And when they get out and they start to learn to breastfeed properly, if they do have a shallow latch or they’re compensating, they will be using their lips to suction on like that.

So they’re breastfeeding more like they’re trying to suck on the straw.

When you’re breastfeeding trying to suck on a shallow latch, then you’re going to compensate and use all these muscles around here so those lip blisters or friction blisters will be more pronounced.

The way that you can help your baby is by getting a deeper latch.

Keep watching in Part 2.wanted to talk a little bit today about lip blisters.

Babies develop their suck swallow reflex or co-ordination from about 20 weeks in utero. Often in utero, they are sucking on their fingers and creating these little lip blisters, or what I call friction blisters.

And when they get out and they start to learn to breastfeed properly, if they do have a shallow latch or they’re compensating, they will be using their lips to suction on like that.

So they’re breastfeeding more like they’re trying to suck on the straw.

When you’re breastfeeding trying to suck on a shallow latch, then you’re going to compensate and use all these muscles around here so those lip blisters or friction blisters will be more pronounced.

The way that you can help your baby is by getting a deeper latch.

 

How To Breastfeed and Get a Good Latch Each Time

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When to move your child from cot to a bed

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Is the Lulla Doll Suitable for my child?

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Point TV Interview, November 2016

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