ergoPouch Sleep Blog - Tips to Help Baby & Toddlers Sleep

Raising a little human isn't easy. From well-meaning friends, to experts and baby brands comes a slew of advice and information, some of it misleading and some downright dangerous.
ergoPouch work with experts in the field of sleep solutions to offer your family no-nonsense help and support along your sleep journey from birth to five years. If there is a topic that we haven’t covered and you would like some advice, please let us know.

The Pouch Process

Tell me parents, does this pattern of night time sleep feel familiar? Put down to sleep wondering if your child is too hot or cold and continue to check and wonder every 2 hours throughout the night Check if they’re breathing 15 times in the night, including whether or not you can see their chest rising on the baby monitor Change nappy overnight (or take them to the toilet) whilst trying not to wake them fully, so you don’t have to wake up to a soaked-through cot or bed in the morning.

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Is your nursery a safe-sleep environment?

As new parents, we can often get caught up in the Instagram-worthy look of our nursery, or fandangled contraptions marketed as sleep-saviours. However, the most important thing you can do for your little human is to ensure their sleep environment is set up safely to reduce the risk of SUDI (Sudden Unexplained Death of Infant)

 

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Soothing an unsettled baby

It doesn’t matter how well a baby sleeps, or how hard we try to create the best sleeping environment; the reality is that babies will inevitably have unsettled times. And some more than others. The first 3 months of life are frequently referred to as the 4th trimester because babies have so much maturing to do. They have the enormous task of organising everything they experience into something that makes some sense, which is very challenging. Read on for tips on how to settle your baby.

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Perinatal Depression and Anxiety

With the news of a pregnancy and then delivery, we shower families with flowers, gifts, love and praise. But this celebration and joy can sometimes seem at odds with the emotions parents are experiencing. For a range of reasons, from traumatic delivery to isolation and even previous mental illness, many parents experience antenatal and postnatal anxiety and depression.

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Top tips to get your baby to sleep better through the night

It sometimes feels like a bit of a guessing game when it comes to creating the perfect little nest for our babies to peacefully slumber. Are they too hot or too cold? Do they need more layers or less? And what about those tog ratings on sleeping bags? If you’re a little clueless about how to make your baby as comfortable as possible over autumn and winter, these are our top tips to get baby to sleep through the night.

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Why won't my baby sleep?

Why won’t my baby sleep? If the answer was an easy one, then I wouldn’t spend my days talking to so many families struggling with baby sleep. The reason we don’t have a single 'fix' is because every parent and every baby is different.

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