Helping Baby Sleep

There is nothing worse than walking the floor at night with your little one crying and just not sleeping. (We know, we have been there!).

The next day you feel drained and often have to front up to fellow workers, family members and friends and try and remain focused, friendly and calm. (Which isn't easy when you've only had a couple hours sleep yourself!).

We found that even our relationship with each other was strained and we would often snap at each other due to the extreme exhaustion and tiredness we faced.

It is an absolute miracle and wonder of life to be gifted with such a beautiful daughter, but at 3:30am in the morning and still not having a wink of sleep and the prospect of starting work in a few hours tends to try even the calmest of people!

As most parents will know, with a young baby, swaddling your baby can help.

For those that are not familiar with what swaddling is, it is wrapping your baby to constrict their arms from moving. This will help baby to sleep and not startle themselves awake by moving their arms too rapidly. This was definitely helpful, but getting our little one to sleep in the first place was the challenge!

Some music has been accredited to helping a baby sleep. We tried all sorts and styles. We tried commercial lullaby CDs, classical music (from the Baroque period as suggested). All sadly to no avail. We even tried the other extreme of hard rock, and to no real surprise, no change.

But we FINALLY found ...
the answer