START GOOD SLEEP HABITS EARLY: Those first few days of parenthood go by in a haze of feeds, nappy changes and naps, and the days and nights will be blurred into one for your baby – and for you. However, if you can establish even a simple routine at bedtime from those early days, you’ll both be thankful later on. “During this time, it can be almost as important for parent as baby to establish a routine before the ‘bedtime sleep’. This doesn’t have to be anything extravagant; a bath and change into clean PJs, having the pre-sleep feed in a dimly lit room, saying good night to the baby. All of these, if continued, will eventually be associated with going to sleep,” says Dr Kiren Sahota, family medicine doctor at King’s College Hospital.
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