Not all moms are taught on how to be able to handle new babies, especially the first timers. One of the main problems is caring for their child and the proper way to lull them to sleep. While such is a responsibility tasked for budding parents of today, it remains that teaching them about this fact and reality of life is something that they can very well learn from in both ways.
There is no such way of putting babies to sleep professionally. It depends as well on how an infant react and responds to the attention being given to them. While most people are worried of doing the wrong thing, parents should at least observe and determine ways on how to care for their child better. They just have to start somewhere, sometime.
Teaching new mothers strategies to help their babies overcome sleep problems yields significant benefits for both of them, according to a study conducted in Australia.
Among 328 moms who reported that their 7-month-old was having sleep problems, those who were randomly assigned to participate in a brief behavioral intervention noticed an improvement in their child’s sleep problem, and in their own sleep, and felt less depressed compared with those randomly assigned not to participate in the program.
Source: Program helps moms get fussy infants to sleep
