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Are you worried about your baby sleep through out the night? Here are some tips that help your baby sleep well at night.

Tips for making your baby sleep:

The bed time ideas have worked for baby care centre parents. You can also find it better as you will find time to spend with your baby.

Your baby can relax well if he/she has good sleep. You can make a routine bed time for your baby sleep by reading stories, putting pajamas, playing quiet games, cuddling and bathing at regular timings.

Bath-time is one kind of idea for baby sleep. Your baby can have soothing experience by placing her in warm water. Cleaning and drying makes the baby to sleep.

Stop this routine idea if the baby gets excited at the time of bathing. You can read the story or quietly cuddle to make the baby sleep.

When your baby is ready for bed time routine, which includes brushing the teeth, washing hands and face, wiping her gums, putting the pajamas and changing the nappies, it can become a habit for your baby as the baby grows young.

Your baby needs rest and sleep when he/she is little enough because they will be tired and cry more often if they don’t get proper sleep and rest required for them.

According to the suggestion of experts, your newborn or infant must sleep at least 16 hours per day to be healthy and active.

The health of the baby is affected if they don’t get proper baby sleep required for them. The disturbance levels are also more with in them without proper sleep and they feel like irritated and cry for simple reasons.

Here are some of the tips which encourage good baby sleep for your little ones:

• Make your child to stay engaged in some activities during the day so that their day time sleep will be reduced and they don’t feel much difficult to attain sleep at night time.
• As a parent, monitor different tasks of your baby like at what time he sleeps, at what time he likes to play, at what time he feels hungry, etc. It’s ok if your baby sleeps for some time during the day. Make him awake if he sleeps for long period of time because he can feel difficulty in getting the sleep at night time if he sleeps for more hours during the day.

As your baby becomes a toddler, their sleep timings will change.

Toddler sleeps less during the day, but sleeps about 11 or more hours at night.

You’ll be transitioning your toddler to fewer naps and even a cranky tired baby can have difficulty getting to sleep.

Up to 20 percent of children may have sleep disorder. The most common problem is difficulty falling asleep.

Toddler sleep problems:

• Lack of routine and bed time rituals
• Childhood depression, anxiety or trauma
• Intestinal worms
• Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome symptoms include, snoring, difficulty in breathing or mouth breathing during sleep. It affects 1-3 percent of the children. The main causes of sleep apnea are obesity and neuromuscular disease.
• Narcolepsy - this toddler sleep disorder have a great difficulty in getting up in the mornings. When awaken the child may appear to be mystified or may be destructive or verbally abusive.
• Bed wetting is one of the most prevalent toddler sleep problem. It is a hereditary disorder.
• Night terrors- occur approximately 90 minutes into sleep. The child suddenly sits upright and screams and is devastated for up to 30 minutes and falling back to sleep.