what are some great tips on teaching a 2mth old the diff. between night and day?

Answer 1

The best place to start is to change your baby's daytime naps. Don't let him/her sleep more than three hours at a time during the day. When you wake the baby up, feed him/her; then do your best to keep the baby up for about an hour before allowing him/her to fall back to sleep. Keeping the baby up may be a challenge - try going for a walk in the fresh air, singing songs, counting fingers & toes and even cool wet washcloths applied to the face.

In about 3-5 days, your baby should become accustomed to his/her new daytime nap routine. At that time, you can start extending baby's waketime to about 1.5-2 hours and shortening baby's naptime to about 2 hours (if you're on a 4 hour feeding schedule). A natural byproduct of this is that your baby should start sleeping longer at night and go down more quickly after a nighttime feeding.

All in all, it shouldn't take your baby longer than two weeks to get the hang of "day" and "night." In fact, don't be surprised if he/she has it sorted out after just one week! Getting there may be a struggle, but just keep in mind that all babies have the capacity to sleep through the night (about 8 hours) by the age of 9 weeks.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Your baby will learn. You can help, but a baby is not programmable like a VCR. Or maybe it is, but I am still waiting for the manual. Give it time. You can play a bit with things like: - make sure there is lots of light during the day. It'll keep him awake and help him to notice the difference. - Attention, sounds - all help. Keep him awake a little bit. - See if you can postpone feeding till bedtime (at 17:00 or so). Then feed him a nice bellyfull. You can try to shift his rythm by, say, 15 or 30 minutes each day. Towards bedtime, make sure he's been awake for a while, then feed him and bed him. It might be painful to keep him awake when he's tired. But when you get him to quiet down after that, he'll sleep, well, like a baby.

Answer 3

Yep and it is fairly simple.
First of all when baby is up in the middle of the night. Don't turn on lights, Keep your talking minimal and soft. Don't turn on the radio or the TV. If you have to change baby be sure it is quickly and not a playtime for baby. Say the word Night Night each time you put the baby to bed so he learns what is expected when you lay him down. Don't make the feeding a big feeding. As the baby gets older and doesn't need to eat durinng the night you can just go in to him and give him his binkie and cover him up and say shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nite nite
Eventually baby will learn to comfort himself if he wakes up during the night.

In the day time, make sure he is in a well lit room. Talk to him, turn on the TV or have music on. He will soon realize at night you don't give him much attention.

Answer 4

He'll get the hang of things soon. What will help though is, if you are up with him at night, don't play with him in the middle of the night, keep room a dark as possible. Try a low watt bulb to put in a lamp. Keep distractions to minimum. If you can feed him in the same room at night so that you don't have to leave the room with him where he's gonna start looking around at things. Then during the day, keep him up, play a lot etc. He/she will sleep through the night soon enough! Good Luck!

Answer 5

Two key things- light and noise. Your baby is probably still eating and getting changed at the same interval around the clock. So when you feed and change him during the day, have the curtains open, sing to him, walk him around when he's done, talk to him, take him outside, etc.. At night, keep the lights dim, keep movement to gentle rocking, keep your voice VERY quiet and soothing...

My son didn't know the difference, and at 5 weeks I started doing these things. But 7 weeks he was sleeping more at night than during the day and at 10 weeks he was sleeping 7-8 hours straight in his crib at night. So I think they worked pretty well.

Answer 6

If you're trying to get him to sleep at night, make sure he's in a fairly dark room, you can put a night light in the room to give off a dim light, and make sure there aren't too many things that can disturb him while he sleeps. During the day, keep lights on around him and go about normal business, making everyday household noises around him. He'll eventually fall into a pattern and he'll know when it's time to sleep and when to wake up.

Answer 7

My mother told me when i was pregnant to turn her "upside down" in her crib ya know like put her head where her feet should be. But thats an old wives tail. She said it worked for me. I found that when the baby wakes up in the morning to sit by a window and let her get in the morning light also make noise during the day, dont tip toe around. and at night time make it darker and quieter so its kinda boring at night so they want to go to sleep. Good luck!

Answer 8

Make sure everything is bright and you keep active during the day and dark and quieter at night. Worked for me.

Answer 9

An infant will not be able to be differentiate between night and day for at least another 6 monhts.

Answer 10

Two months is just a little to early. He's practically straight from the womb. Wait a few months longer but for now, just enjoy every moment you have with them.