SETTLING YOUR NEW BABY TO SLEEP One of my most important rules when it comes to babies and their sleep is to always put your baby down to sleep where you intend him to wake up, and to always put him to bed awake. Enabling a baby to settle himself is the key to successful sleep patterns. If you rock, cuddle, feed or give your baby a dummy to go to sleep, then this is what your baby will expect to have when he comes into the light stage of the sleep cycle. Instead of resettling, your baby will wake himself up looking for you or the sleep aid, and then cry out for you to put his dummy in or rock,
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