The first time with the baby - night shifts are announced
A few babies sleep well in a few weeks. If this is not the case with your family growth, you should develop strategies that relieve your partner. Even for you as a father night shifts are announced - and yes, this also works if your partner breastfeeds your baby.
Newborns do not have a day-night rhythm and therefore wake up around the clock. It takes different lengths of time until the child's organism has internalized the parents' waking and sleeping times. In addition, the tiny infant stomachs can barely contain enough food to sleep through eight or more hours. In some cases, it works anyway, then the parents are lucky, everyone else must organize their life rhythm accordingly in this time.
What do babies do at night?
The best case is that a baby wakes up every four hours even at night, drinks enough of Mama's breasts and sleeps peacefully again. If it is still in the parents' bedroom or even in the family bed, then usually the mother sleeps fast and the short nocturnal interruptions are only vaguely - if ever - in the memory. However, there are also babies who literally turn night into day after strengthening their mother's breasts. Then the paternal commitment is announced, so that your partner is at least reasonably fit the next day.
But I have to work ...
Yes, one can only say: Unfortunately that is bad luck for you. In the first time with a baby, both parents are often challenged beyond their own borders. Take comfort in the fact that this applies only for a limited period of time, at the latest with one year sleeps a majority of the babies through. Until then, you need to build the best team possible with your partner and ensure that each of you gets as many breaks as possible. It can also mean that one of you alternately pushes the baby through the streets at night, because that's the only way to silence it. To get this situation under control as well as possible, you should work with your partner to develop a tactic that suits you and that will provide you with the highest level of recovery possible.
Relief for the partner
Women are highly sensitive in the first months and still closely connected with the baby. They often wake up at the baby's smallest sound. Therefore, if you want to give your partner a peaceful night's sleep, she should sleep as far away from the baby as possible - and as a father you must be prepared to wake up as well. This is not always easy, because men generally respond less quickly to the roar of a baby than women - not because they do not want to, but because they do not hear it like mothers, as various studies have found.
Once you and your baby are awake, there are several ways to meet the needs of the child. If it just needs the pacifier, then the matter is quickly done and you can continue to sleep.
If it wants to be carried then wear it until it falls asleep again. If you are very tired yourself, many babies can be reassured by sitting on an exercise ball and rocking them up and down. That's a bit more comfortable for you.
If your baby is hungry, there are several options: you can bring it to your mother to breastfeed and then continue to take care of your needs while your partner continues to sleep.
Some women, once awake, find it difficult to fall asleep again. Then you should try the pumping option and feed the baby at night with the vial.
If you and your partner have little trouble falling asleep again, then the method "shift sleep" is the right one. They take turns taking care of the child at night while the other one can go to sleep. In between, however, every partner should always have the opportunity to sleep through a night and recover properly.
In addition to the tips for organizing the night still a good advice: Do not go crazy if your child does not sleep at night. The more relaxed you are about it, the less stress the situation will have for you and your child. Surely you can test all sorts of variants to make the child sleep late at night. However, it often turns out that none of this helps permanently. Then the motto for both you and your partner is: To hold on until your child has reached the point where it sleeps through at night.
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