💤Check out these fascinating baby sleep facts:



1. Babies sleep light so feeling hungry wakes them up.



2. Sleep is strongly related to baby's development. Healthy sleep means baby can thrive.



3. Sleep begets sleep. Never keep your baby awake during the day or up later to get them to sleep longer. This actually disrupts their sleep and you have more night wakings / early wake time.



4. Baby sleeps best when their room is cave dark. No nightlights, no light through the windows, no toys with lights, and not even little lights like on the sound machine. Complete darkness helps regulate the production of melatonin, the sleep inducing hormone naturally released by our bodies. Use darkening shades or black trashbags work great although they don't look too nice.



5. Babies must learn to self-soothe. When baby knows how, this means they can fall asleep on their own and not cry for you all night long. Babies have a 45-50 minute sleep cycle and once over they wake up briefly before the next cycle. You don't want your baby waking up crying for you every hour all night long because they need to be rocked or fed back to sleep. Babies need to learn how to go back to sleep on their own. The Woombie swaddle keeps baby's hands over heart so they can use their hands to self-soothe. We also have swaddles and sleep sacks that have built in pacifiers so baby always has one in reach.



6. Bedtime routines work! Dim the lights, wind down with some music, bath time, lotion and put swaddle or sleep bag on, read a book, put in crib, sing a song, then total darkness. Come up with a key phrase that indicates sleep time and shut the door. Our phrase was, "Na-night. Love you." Stick to the same routine each night and baby will know it's time to sleep.



I've been exhausted as a new mom so if this is you, it gets better!! You are doing great!



Grab a Woombie swaddle for your next baby shower gift or for your baby to help them self-soothe and sleep better, safer and longer.



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