Toy and Baby ( Create a Familiar Environment for Sleep)

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Toy and Baby feature :- ( Create a Familiar Environment for Sleep)
One of the key factors in your baby's development is in creating associations with sleep. It is important, therefore, to instil a bedtime routine with your child that includes sleep associations he or she can replicate for him or herself. The idea is to get your child to a point where if he wakes in the middle of the night, he can go back to sleep on his own. One key element of association is the choice of baby toy such as a stuffed toy.

Try getting your child to associate with things like a stuffed toy or an item of baby bedding such as a blanket. The idea is that if your child makes sleep associations with these items, he or she can recreate the sleep situation on their own when they wake up in the middle of the night. Instead of waking up and crying for a feeding or to be rocked, the child will be able to grab his or her stuffed toy animal and re-create on their own a situation conducive to sleep.

In this same vein, parents should consider the use of what is called a "transitional object." This is something you allow your child access to only before bedtime, and which they can bring to bed. So as your child gets his final bedtime story, allow them to have their special stuffed toy animal, and allow them to keep the toy with them as they are put to bed.For more tips on getting your baby to sleep at the right time and the contribution that a baby toy has to make, just download our free eBook.
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