Don't Let These 4 Mistakes Ruin Your Baby's Sleep

If you're struggling with your baby's sleep - whether you're baby is waking early, waking constantly throughout the night, struggling with late bedtimes, or facing another sleep struggle, it could be because of one of these common mistakes. The mistakes in this video are really easy to make. Thankfully, they can be fixed with some fairly simple adjustments that quickly improve baby sleep. I'll show you what these sleep mistakes are, and more importantly, how to fix them. If you're struggling with baby sleep, I sincerely hope this helps.

00:00 - 03:19 : The Hidden Link Between Your Bedtime and Your Baby’s Sleep
03:20 - 05:07 : Why Cozy Might Be Ruining Your Baby’s Sleep
05:08 - 09:06 : What You May Be Overlooking Every Morning
09:07 - 12:12 : The Sleep Landing Approach

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Studies referenced in the video:

📖 Mindell JA, Li AM, Sadeh A, Kwon R, Goh DY. Bedtime routines for young children: a dose-dependent association with sleep outcomes. Sleep. 2015 May 1;38(5):717-22. doi: 10.5665/sleep.4662. PMID: 25325483; PMCID: PMC4402657.

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[alexismarie]

Dear Emma, we watched your videos during pregnancy and they helped us so much in the early weeks and months. Even now that baby is 10mos old, i still find myself „studying“ with your videos. You offer such a great resource for parents ❤

[davidepavesi]

For half a year we're taking your videos as university lessons and they're saving us. Thank you so much, we'll try these recommendations out. The subtitles are helpful too, as English isn't our native language, we are an italian-Czech family living in Czechia, so we miss some baby related vocabulary. Btw my wife is an OT too :)

[owpqieurty]

My baby slept 3h last night (during MY night. She slept well in the evening) and didn't sleep at all during the day unless she was being held or only 20min after she was put down. So I never got a nap to make up the sleep. I'm thinking it's hopeless and I don't know what I'm doing wrong, then I see your video and rejoiced!!

Thanks so much for this reminder of how to fix this!!😊

[TheTwinDadLife]

We're so lucky our twins are both great sleepers! 🙏🏼 During our pregnancy journey we've watched so many of your videos and since then we've put so many of your tips in practice! 🧡

[taylorcook]

Our baby is only 9 months but has always been a great sleeper thank the Lord! I had a C-section so our first 6 weeks were spent sleeping in the living room so I could be on the couch. The first 2 weeks you dont really sleep because of all the feedings, so I would leave the tv on ALL night while we "slept". But by 3 weeks, we were able to actually sleep for 3-4 hours at a time so I started turning the tv off between 10pm and 10:30pm when my husband would go to bed so I could sleep. Our baby and I would be in the dark from 10-10:30pm until morning when the sun came up. For the nightime feedings, I would leave us in the dark except for just the light trickling in the blinds from the streetlight outside is all I would use. I feel like getting him in those day/night periods helped a lot. When we finally moved back into our bedroom, our routine has been the same. We all sit in the living room watching tv or playing games until 9:30pm, I take him for a diaper change (and outfit change if needed), get his bottle ready while he listens to his lullaby machine in the crib, pick him up and take him to our bedroom that is already dark except for the blue and orange light from a faux fireplace we have in the room, feed him sitting on our bed, then burb him and lay him down in the bassinet. He gets wrapped in a light blanket around his tummy only because he likes his legs free, and gets his pacifier. I used to sit and rub his chest and gently hold his flailing arms down on his chest so he wouldnt hit his face and wake up, but now I can just let him do whatever in there. By 10pm or 10:30pm he is asleep and I can leave to get myself ready for bed. He is a lot like me, I fall asleep almost as soon as my head hits the pillow. I think if you treat your baby the way the mother or father are, it helps a lot. My husband hated naps as a baby, so when our baby needs a nap now and fights it, I just stay calm and keep rubbing his head and hair until he succumbs to sleep. Just wanted to share what we did since our son was born. We didn't and don't have a crazy bedrime routine (I'm sorry a bath EVERY night and a book reading?? You parents are saints 😂) but our baby sleeps 95% of the time from 10pm to 7am. Sometimes it's 10:30pm to 6:30am for some reason. He will do the light sleep movements so I wake up to make sure he's ok and still sleeping, but he doesn't actually wake up during the night. I hope it stays that way for a while lol.

[Regan-travels]

I'm amazed how well my 3month old sleeps. Since she was two weeks old she wakes to feed then falls back asleep. We go to bed around 9pm and sleep all the way till 8am. We bedshare and I don't sleep train. I'm super lucky.

[dianabaka]

Emma, what to do if the baby bedtime routine works faster on me than the baby?

[pinkbubble]

I'm so thankful and glad I discovered your videos ❤ my baby arrived six weeks early and your videos helped me so much during that difficult time, and they continue to help our little family as baby grows 😊

[KikiINA]

WOW thankyou ❤ my baby 4month.. I always pick up my baby when she frustrated in tummy or try to reach her toys😅

[theresamariascholz]

4:51 here in Germany the recommandation is between 16 to 18 degree Celsius 🥶😃

[camryncallison]

I time my bedtime with my baby's last nightime feeding (not including middle of the night feeds)

[fabianepiana]

You are amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing these baby info on your channel. You have no idea the difference it makes in our lives!
Hope you have a great week!! 💓

[Js.vortex]

You should cover baby bath milestones like going from there infant tub to bath seat

[kimberlymoriarity]

Regarding the wakeup time - my 9 month old was waking up around 7 every morning. As a result of both daylight savings time and teething her sleep schedule has been all over the map, and now around 6:30 she wakes for a feed and immediately falls back asleep. I would like the wakeup time to be that time. How do you recommend handling time shifts like this?

[peebegoodwin]

My mom was school teacher for 40 years she always said structure and and routine are key to being a parent

[mrsrogers]

Do you have any recommendations for what a babies every day routine should be for best development?(ex: playing with toys, watching cartoons, reading books, tummy time...)...thank you for all your help as always...my baby is 7mo. and I feel like we do the same thing every day and im hating the TV for him already.

[kateku]

All bedtime routines we offered our baby till maybe 5-6 month didn't work. He was crying in the middle or in the end every! It looked like he understood it's time to sleep but he was not happy with it at all. I hope with next baby it'll be much easier 😢

[sherly]

Hi Emma, what if baby wakes up at 5am... should I be starting their day then? Or not open the blinds until the desired wake up time?

[this_is_my_stop]

My daughter always slept beautifully. 10-12 hours of beautiful sleep per night from 9 weeks until 2 years. She'd make some little noises a few times per night, I'd nurse her, she wouldn't even wake up, and then I'd lay her back down. The number of times per night of doing that steadily declined.

Now, after turning 2 years old, her sleep is atrocious. The past 3 or 4 months have been soooo hard. I struggle to get her in bed before midnight. She wakes up several times at night, sometimes for a few hours from 3-5am. She gets up at 8am, sometimes later like 10 or 11am I just can't get up with her in the morning. She doesn't nap, and if she does try, it's way too late in the date (she often wants to go down sometime between 4-6pm).

I try to get her up by 8am in the morning. I try to tire her out in the morning and get an early afternoon nap if she's going to take one, or we skip it if it's too late. I try to get her a good dinner and get her in bed by 8 or 9pm. It's just not working. I work from home nights, so the later she goes down, the later I finish working and the later I go to sleep. Then I struggle to get her up in the morning and not let her sleep in. But I need to sleep sometime. I'm pregnant and it's wrecking me. I feel like "if I can just get her up, or just get her down, or just figure out the nap"... is just all I say now.

[PennyAfNorberg]

it's quite common that our daughter climbs up in my lap to sleep, then I wait 5 minutes before moving her. We have it quite warm and quite light. well as warm as the rest of of the flat. light because the sun set after bed time during summer ( and the wake up time before the sunrise in the winter. We want to learn her not needing really dark to sleep). We try to not need to wake her up, sometimes we need to. We wake her with a song. Sometimes she sleeps some hours longer, then don't day sleep and go to sleep early and wakes up a more normal time. Drink/food helps her sleep. drinking help her go back to sleep. Generally she sleeps better during day if she slept well during the night.