Daddy's Guide: How to get baby to sleep?

For a Daddy, the greatest fear is to take care of your little ones alone. Especially when it come to getting your infants to sleep.

Let's face it, we dad do not have the luxury of breast feeding the baby to sleep and we also do not possess the gentleness that can sooth baby to sleep. So putting an infant to sleep is challenging but it doesn't mean it cannot be done.

Here is a way I find useful which I used on my 2 kids during infancy and I hope it help you have a better night rest.

Step 1: Check if the baby have a wet diaper or is hungry

First step is to eliminate anything that will wake your child up unnecessarily, that means to say change your baby diaper and feed your baby if needed.

Step 2: Create a calm sleeping environment

You can achieve this by lowering the curtain, switching off bright light and turning on your side table lamp.

Step 3: Tired your baby out

This step might seem abit cruel but if used conservatively it can be quite effective. I will allow my baby to cry it out for about 5 minutes. This will tired the baby abit to make it slightly easier to put them to sleep.

Step 4: Switch on baby videos with lullaby

This can be done concurrently with step 3. You can on baby videos with some lullaby, the purpose of this is to fixate your baby attention to a single spot.

Step 5: Proceed to hug and sway your baby to sleep

At this point your baby should be crying heavily, proceed to sooth your baby by gently swaying your baby in your arm. After awhile you will realize your baby is attracted by the video playing and will slowly stop crying.

Step 6: Put your baby down slowly

Once your baby start to become dreamy, you can slowly put your baby down and gently pat the little one to sleep with the video and music still playing. You can switch off the video once your baby is fully asleep, but I prefer to leave it on to maintain the environment.

I find this method especially useful if you combine it with pacifier, but it works fine for me both with and without pacifier.

Please note that this method may not work on all babies, so you might want to tweak the method to better suit your little one. Good Luck!