http://dagmarbleasdale.com/2009/01/how-to-get-baby-to-sleep-easily/ making sense of motherhood * breastfeeding * attachment parenting * green and frugal living * decorating * social media Thu, 17 May 2012 03:56:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dagmarbleasdale.com/2009/01/how-to-get-baby-to-sleep-easily/comment-page-1/#comment-4422 Monique Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:55:40 +0000 http://dagmarbleasdale.com/?p=149#comment-4422 Love the single earplug suggestion... Wish I'd known this when I had my firstborn (who was a noisy sleeper - so I was totally sleep deprived in no time!) We co-slept and I might have been a much happier co-sleeping mom this way... Didn't have this problem with baby #2 - perhaps because I was a more relaxed mom the second time around! ;-) Love the single earplug suggestion… Wish I’d known this when I had my firstborn (who was a noisy sleeper – so I was totally sleep deprived in no time!) We co-slept and I might have been a much happier co-sleeping mom this way… Didn’t have this problem with baby #2 – perhaps because I was a more relaxed mom the second time around! ;-)

]]> http://dagmarbleasdale.com/2009/01/how-to-get-baby-to-sleep-easily/comment-page-1/#comment-4259 Jen Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:40:06 +0000 http://dagmarbleasdale.com/?p=149#comment-4259 These are nice tips! Slow, rhythmical movement in any plane (up, down, or side to side) will produce a calming effect, although a baby's threshold to the up/down tends to get higher and higher thus requiring more input to produce the calming effect. Rapid, irregular movement is an arousing stimulus to the central nervous system. Bouncing on the ball stimulates the calming effects through the stimulation of the gelatin-filled semi-circular canals of the inner ear. For maximum effect, side-to-side, slow rotation or swaying has a longer calming effect but does take a few more minutes to work initially! The baby also doesn't seem to have the adaptive response to this motion (his threshold stays steady or actual lowers as the infants regulatory system begins to produce the calming effect internally). I hope that is of interest! These are nice tips! Slow, rhythmical movement in any plane (up, down, or side to side) will produce a calming effect, although a baby’s threshold to the up/down tends to get higher and higher thus requiring more input to produce the calming effect. Rapid, irregular movement is an arousing stimulus to the central nervous system. Bouncing on the ball stimulates the calming effects through the stimulation of the gelatin-filled semi-circular canals of the inner ear. For maximum effect, side-to-side, slow rotation or swaying has a longer calming effect but does take a few more minutes to work initially! The baby also doesn’t seem to have the adaptive response to this motion (his threshold stays steady or actual lowers as the infants regulatory system begins to produce the calming effect internally).
I hope that is of interest!

]]> http://dagmarbleasdale.com/2009/01/how-to-get-baby-to-sleep-easily/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Enith Sun, 31 May 2009 05:28:32 +0000 http://dagmarbleasdale.com/?p=149#comment-308 I like the exercise ball tip! Great idea!!! :-) I like the exercise ball tip! Great idea!!! :-)

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