10 Signs I Can Recognize When My Baby Is Sleepy

Identifying the signs of a sleepy baby sounds easy, but for many new parents it is something very distant and believe it many do not know how to identify when the baby is sleepy that is why putting the baby to naps or sleep at night seems impossible.

Liliana Amaro Child Sleep Coach shares this list that has been compiled during the years of work helping families sleep.

1.     Yawns: Very common just when they are ready to sleep this signal is presented if you could lie the baby right after the first yawn it would be ideal.

2.     Red eyes: When a baby is tired and ready to sleep, the eyes usually become watery and red, a sign that they are ready to close and rest.

3.     Constant blinking: Like the previous signal, blinking constantly means that the eyes are ready to close and almost involuntarily the blinks fall and fall, but the baby tries to open them, it is when they say that he resists sleeping, help him by placing him in a dark environment so that they do not open anymore.

4.     Crying for no reason: It is when the baby can no longer with fatigue, wants to sleep, but cannot do it, the nervous system is altered and over tiredness makes it cost more work for the baby to fall asleep. This is a strong signal and indication that you should try to put him to sleep before it is later.

5.     Touching the eyes: this signal is accompanied by the other signs related to the eyes and it is normal that when blinking and having red eyes the child touches them without stopping

6.     Lack of concentration: A sign that you cannot doubt when you try to entertain a baby and completely ignores you.

7.     Lack of appetite: When you want to feed him and the child does not even open his mouth, he goes back or refuses to eat, he can end up in tears. It's better to stop and try to put him to sleep

8.     It refuses to bathe: Nobody wants to be wet when they just want to sleep, normally the baby will cry and we think he does not like to bathe, but it is not so, most babies enjoy being bathed, but at the right time, bathing an extremely tired baby is a very bad idea. If you spend the time of your bath, it is better to skip it.

9.     They lie on your shoulder: A lovely sign, when the baby lies on your shoulders when carrying it or constantly puts the little head on its side anywhere it can, it is better to take it to bed. This sign occurs in still babies

10.  Hyperactivity!  The most common is and the most mentioned by parents "my child has a lot of energy before sleeping" is when the window of opportunity to put him to sleep is gone and the baby enters a new phase of energy. It is difficult to put a baby at this stage, it is usually recommended to let 30-45 mins pass before trying again and trying in a quiet environment.

Good Luck!

Disadvantage of using Sleep Drugs

Sleep is a vital and natural function that must happen every day by itself, there are many reasons why drugs or medications commonly called are introduced as an aid to fall asleep, we can say that if a medical staff has prescribed its use is because it is considered necessary and is usually done in adolescents and adults and some children, after many tests and with the correct diagnosis. It is well known that drugs can cause addiction and death if they are administered in excess and without control.

The drugs used to help with sleep are sleeping pills, these are usually effective on sleepless nights, as tolerance to these increases rapidly the effect usually decreases respectively. When drugs are obtained freely, they can have other effects and make the person feel bad the next day.

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Liliana Amaro Sleep Coach does not recommend the use of any drug to make a child with bad habits sleep better, to evaluate what a child needs to sleep better it is necessary to follow the following recommendation.

  1.                Medical review with diagnosis.

·If it is a health problem, follow the doctor's instructions completely.

·If the problem is behavioral, it is suggested to consult a Sleep Expert.

2.                Initial advice by a Sleep Coach

· Tips for changing habits

· Recommendation of an action plan and routine

General recommendations to improve sleep are:

•   Establishment of Routines

• Follow the established schedules

•   Have a healthy diet

• And having little interaction and stimulation with technology

The "New Trend" to Hire a Sleep Coach

If I could list the people who ask me where I was more than 15-20 years ago when they needed the help of a Sleep Coach I would, but what I can say is that 3 out of 5 families with children suffer from sleep problems and 1 out of 5 families will look for the solution and change, sadly the others will carry the night awakenings for a long time.

We find that suddenly the famous "Sleep Training" is fashionable or it will be that we made it fashionable, and I include myself now Liliana Amaro-International Children Sleep Coach that in my desperation to sleep look for experts in the field to get out the chronic sleep deprivation that was leading me to madness if I searched and searched for months for someone who could help me and I found it. If I was one of the first two Spanish speakers who was certified in Australia along with a small group of women who had the same intention of helping many families sleep well.

In 2012 and with the help of social networks and the internet this type of help has become more popular and it has been possible for us to reach many parts of the world. Personally, it is a pride to be able to help many families who are already in a desperate situation for not sleeping, but I also think it is important to educate those who do not know much about what can happen when we have a baby who does not sleep much.

But what is a Sleep Coach and how can he help you? A coach is that is an expert guide in the field and can help you sleep better, analyze, and review your family situation helping you solve the root problem by coupling with your lifestyle and customs. Formulate a plan with objectives to meet with a time limit. All Sleep Coaches are different and have different methodologies, it is advisable to look carefully and review the testimonials that exist to make the perfect decision.  The cost can also vary depending on the region, popularity, demand, and follow-up time. Before hiring a Sleep Coach, make sure of the formality of the person by reviewing social networks, web and even using Google.

When someone needs to sleep, you hear the famous phrase that "you could pay anything for a single night of complete sleep" so, if you are thinking that the investment is effective, yes, it is and we can assure you that it will be the best invested money because you will be recovering what you thought lost forever, Sleep!

Liliana Amaro _ Children Sleep Coach

Zzleep My Baby has different services that have been refined thanks to the experience and dedication to the families with whom we have worked worldwide, in addition to having bilingual services and presence as a registered consultancy in Mexico, Europe, USA, and Australia.

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More than a fashion it is a need that has been placed in society to make life east, with the advent of Sleep Coaching, families feel more confident and satisfied with their first months and years as parents. Knowing that someone can save you those sleepless nights is something magnificent that many grannies would have liked to have.

Night Terrors:

Most parents have ever had to comfort their children after a nightmare. But, if your child has ever had what is known as night terror, he experienced so much fear that, as much as you did, there was no way to comfort him.

A night terror is a sleep disorder that resembles a nightmare, except that it is much more spectacular. Although night terrors can scare parents enough to witness them, they are often not a cause for concern or the sign of an underlying medical problem.

What are night terrors?

During a typical night, sleep goes through a series of phases. Each is associated with a particular brain activity, and the rapid eye movement phase (MOR or REM) is when most dreams occur.

Night terrors occur during non-REM sleep. Unlike nightmares (which occur during REM sleep), a night terror is not a technical dream, but more likely a sudden reaction of fear that takes place during the transition from one sleep phase to another.

Night terrors usually occur two to three hours after the child reconciles sleep, when the transition takes place from the deeper non-REM sleep phase to the shallowest REM sleep, the stage at which dreams occur. This transition usually happens smoothly. But sometimes the child gets agitated and frightened—and that scary reaction is night terror.

During a night terror, a child can suddenly get in bed and start squealing or screaming as if he is extremely distressed. Breathing and heart rate can speed up, you can start sweating, shaking, and behaving like you are extremely upset and scared. After a few minutes or more, the child calms down and goes back to sleep peacefully.

Unlike nightmares, which are often remembered, the next day the children have no memory of night terror because they were asleep while it happened—and have no mental images to evoke.

What is the cause?

Night terrors are caused by overactivation of the central nervous system (CNS) during sleep. This can occur because the CNS (which regulates brain activity during sleep and wakefulness) is still maturing. Some children inherit a tendency to.

This overactivation; approximately 80% of children who have night terrors have.

a relative who also experienced them or suffered from sleepwalking (a similar type of sleep disorder) during childhood.

Night terrors have been described in children who:

• were very tired, sick, stressed or fatigued.

• Are taking a new drug.

• They slept in a new environment or away from home.

Night terrors are relatively rare — they only affect between 3 and 6% of children, while virtually every child has a nightmare from time to time. Night terrors usually occurs in children between the age of four and twelve but have been reported in children as young as 18 months old. They seem to be a little more common in boys than in girls.

A child may have an isolated night terror episode or several before these types of episodes disappear completely. Most of the time night terrors disappear on their own as the nervous system matures.

Cómo reaccionar ante un terror nocturno.

Night terrors can greatly alarm parents, who often feel powerless not being able to comfort their children. The best way to react to night terror is to wait patiently for it to pass and make sure the child doesn't hurt himself by stirring. Children usually calm down and return to sleep placidity within a few minutes.

It is better not to try to wake the child during a night terror. These attempts don't usually work, and if they work, the child will most likely feel disoriented and confused when he or she wakes up, so he or she will likely find it more difficult to calm down and fall asleep again.

Night terrors have no treatment, but you can help them not happen in the first place. Try the following:

Reduce the stress your child is under.

Set up and maintain a simple, relaxing bedtime routine for your child.

Make sure your child gets enough rest.

Do not let your child get too tired when he's up late.

Understanding night terrors can reduce parents' concerns and help them sleep well at night. But if your child has night terrors repeatedly, talk to your child's pediatrician in case a sleep specialist needs to be consulted.

Source of information:http://kidshealth.org/es/parents/terrors-esp.html

What are Quality naps?

There is a big difference between the 20-minute naps and Quality naps, 20 minutes of nap in the car seat when you go to do errands or visit someone is not a good nap, much less for a baby, they really do not know how long they have been asleep and perhaps they feel they have rested but in reality it is not so, fatigue will continue to accumulate and it is likely that you will suffer the consequences of having a baby with accumulated fatigue later.
Nowadays we see many babies with these patterns, in the afternoon we find crying babies, fuzzy, difficult and those who fail to fall asleep easily at bedtime or at night.
Try to get your baby to take 1 or 2 good quality naps for more than 1 hour depending on age, this will help your baby sleep better at night and be happier during the day.
Remember that we have our sleep calculator to check the number of naps your baby should take according to his age.https://www.zzleepmybaby.com/sleep-calculator

Dad at Bed Time👨

From experience, I know that most of the families that have children for the first time go through this (Of course there are exceptions and I know them well) anyway it never hurts to read these tips that are super valuable for the Man of the house to participate hands-on bedtime.
If you are an advocate of Attachment Parenting, you know that they recommend the Balance and with this it refers to EVERYTHING among some important points, caring for baby, caring for the partner, self-care. So in this, it is super important to achieve balance and share responsibilities and not because dad goes to work all day the care of the baby must be exclusive to the mother.Let me begin:

1. Breastfeeding is an exclusive activity of the mother but the father can participate in this, helping the mother by carrying the baby, changing the diaper before or after being breastfed and putting him to sleep.

2. When a mother is extremely exhausted, an essential recommendation is the use of a breast pump so the father can administer the milk during the night that way the mother can sleep more. It is notorious that the mother will have excess milk but an hour or two more of continuous sleep will make a difference! (If you don't know what to do but are interested, contact me l.amaro@zzleepmybaby.com ) . If the baby is formula-fed then there is not any excuses.

3. My GOLDEN tip is to take turns at night to put the little ones to bed, that means freedom to sleep early, take a bath, read, relax or why not watch a movie!

4. Do not criticize or point out what your partner is doing, this can result in a lack of security and disinterest since everything that Dad does is wrong. Be Careful this always happens when we are overtired and in a bad mood. Dad has another way of being and we must give him the opportunity.

5. Worry about the bonding between the father and the children, integrating them into activities and especially in the Bedtime Routine generate an incomparable bond, trust and security. (I remember that my dad told me stories every night and I loved it) It also serves as a relaxing time for everyone and "free" time for mom.

TIPS TO SETTLE ONE OF YOUR TWINS (BOY/GIRL) -11 MONTHS

1.     Revise her bed time routine, 7:30-8:00 could be a bit too late for her sleep cycle to be already pass, try moving it a bit earlier by 15-30 minutes earlier, and try this for a week.

2.     The strategy of sitting next to her is good, however you should try to avoid the contact o keep it to a minimum.

3.     Your Bed-time routine should be short max 30 minutes.

4.     Wait a few minutes (10mins ideal) before attending, sometimes we are so scared of letting them make some noise with the fear of waking up the siblings but by giving time we give them the chance to resettle again. If there is not chance there is not attempt.

And yes it is possible that in the beginning the brother will wake up but in not more than 3 nights both will be used to, one to keep sleeping through the noise and the other one to resettle.

If you don’t feel like testing your luck, then move the good sleeper baby to your bedroom in a portable cot for a short period of time and start the strategy! 3+ nights of hard work on the same method will be great to see changes.

5.     Do not bring her to your bed, children love the company of an adult and will develop the habit of crying every night to get moved into the parent’s bed. Do it one more night and once you are ready talk to her about that won’t be more visits to the bed and explain that she will need to resettle in her own cot.

6.     Once you’re are 100% convinced that is the time to start. Begin to apply the tips 1-5 and do not mover into your bed again. Hard Work? Yes but no more than what you do now and the good thing is that this will have positive results and more happy long nights. Give it a go for a least 1 full week (5-7days) and then decide if works or not.

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3 HOT TIPS TO SWAP THE COT FOR A BED!

The Following three tips are perfect to know if now is the right time to swap your baby’s cot for a little bed, you will find how and when is this change ideal, every week mother around the world ask me this question.

1. If you baby is younger than 3 years of age, it is recommendable to keep it in a cot, and you may wonder why, this is because him/her has not 100% perception of the space and place while sleeping. You can evaluate this by observing your child whether he/her still rolling all over or waking up in the opposite direction. I can warranty you that by the age of try a kid is more likely to enjoy a single bed.

2. If your child is sleeping all night without waking then is a good time to make this transition. If your kid is still waking through the night and you think this change will be the fix, you may be lucky and it is possible that happens but by my experience as sleep consultant the cases of this being a fix to sleeping problems are rare.

3. Take ownership of the new bed! Before you make the change of the cot to a bed, make sure your child fully recognizes and knows the new sleeping place like “hi/her bed”. Speak about the change and make it memorable for them.

Creating a Healthy Sleep Routine for Your Little One

Please find this very Interesting Blog in where we have contribute for My Deal.com.au

Manage the situation if they wake up:

“If a baby has been nursed or rocked to sleep at bedtime since birth, it's not surprising that they wouldn't know how to fall asleep independently. The good news is that many babies can figure out how to get back to sleep within just a few minutes of waking up in the night! If your child continues to fuss or cry for more than a few minutes, you'll want to go in and offer some comfort, but it's important to let your child do the work of falling back to sleep. You can speak softly to your child and do some gentle rubbing or patting, but you should avoid picking your child up and rocking or nursing back to sleep.”

By teaching your child to fall back to sleep on their own, you can better set them up for an ongoing, healthy sleep schedule”

Here the link to read the full blog:

https://www.mydeal.com.au/blog/post/creating-a-healthy-sleep-routine-for-your-little-one

Is your kid an early riser?

Is your kid an early riser?

It has been proven by any of us that here in Australia many Kids become an early riser as summer days hit this side of the hemisphere and you wonder why this happens. Some regions understand and have accepted and every summer they change the clock to summertime, this helps to make use the daylight more efficiently and if you think it is logic in sense of sleep.

Our bodies follow circadian rhythms and are just logical that when the body receives some sort of light since noise and change of temperature it feels like waking time. This especially for younger kids and babies.

So here are some tips to make easy those early waking times.

·         Move bedtime earlier 15-30 minutes

·         Make sure the windows or room remains dark as possible in the morning

·        Hot? make sure the room is ventilated

·         If you hear a call in the morning before a reasonable waking time, wait a few minutes before responding.

·         If you have a kid under 3-keep it in the cot-wait the longest possible, he/she may resettle without help (make sure room is dark) If there is a window and they can see daylight is more likely they don’t want to sleep back.

·         If you have a kid sleeping in a bed- reward to staying bed until the desired time

·         Place a digital clock and teach the number to recognize, so that means is time to get up.

·         If still dark and he is waking up, after waiting: go to room explain that is not the time to get up and try to resettle.

·         If none of the above work for you-then is time to reinstate a mid-day NAP

If you have any questions or need a hand for any of these situations, please call or email always happy to help.

Liliana Amaro

0409622424

l.amaro@zzleepmybaby.com