How To Get Your Newborn To Sleep Better Tonight: Pediatrician Tips!
Continuing through their newborn care series, The Doctors Bjorkman, a board-certified pediatrician and board-certified OB/GYN, are sharing their top tips for newborn sleep. In this episode, they share some of the evidence-based ways to focus on learning the difference between day and night, setting up an optimized environment for baby sleep, and key parts of your routine to help promote healthy sleep. Stay tuned to the end for special tips and tricks that also help get baby ready to learn to fall asleep and stay asleep on their own!
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Special resources for this weeks video:
-- Newborn Sleep: Patterns, Interventions, and Outcomes. Pediatric AnnalsVol. 49, No. 2
Published Online:January 22, 2020 https://doi.org/10.3928/19382359-20200122-01
-- takingcarababies.com
-- The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp
-- Twelve hours' sleep by 12 weeks old by Lisa Abidin and Suzy Giordano
Also check out our video to learn about What a Pediatrician Wants You to Know about Caring for a Newborn Baby: https://youtu.be/WQuX_Yw3yIg
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0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Baby Sleep Basics
2:47 - Before You Start
3:53 - Learn Day & Night
5:53 - Environment for Sleep
8:47 - Schedule and Routine
9:28 - Wake Windows
10:42 - Sleep Duration
12:19 - Sleep Cues
13:04 - Daytime Feeds
14:24 - Bedtime Wind-down
15:20 - Prepare for What's to Come
17:38 - Other Resources
Intro Music: A WAY FOR ME - Nicolai Heidlas by Chem Ocampo
Keywords: pregnancy update, the doctors bjorkman, fourth trimester pregnancy, pregnancy vlog, new parents, newborn sleep, parenting tips, safe sleep
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