Keeping the baby up during the day
Written by jlz on December 2, 2005 – 8:52 pm -Beeber heard from a coworker that in order to ensure the baby’s asleep at night, she will tap on her stomach to try to wake the baby up during the day. The coworker can feel the baby waking up and stretches after tapping. She will keep the baby up for like 6 or so hours and at night the baby will be sound asleep through the night. Also, after the baby’s born, she will sleep through the night as well.
There’s quite a few articles out there, such as Newborn sleep and My baby is up all night and sleeps all day, that talks about newborn infants being night owls.
During the later part of pregnancy, each baby develops her own sleep/wakefulness rhythm. You can get a good idea of what this rhythm is by the baby’s activity patterns. Some babies will tend to be fairly quiet during the day — lulled to sleep by the gentle rocking motion as Mom moves about her daily activities. These same babies often begin doing gymnastics in Mom’s belly about the time things get quiet at night. Other babies tend to be active while Mom is active during the day and to be quieter at night. Whatever your baby’s pattern before birth, it is likely that she will continue the same rhythm in the period shortly after birth.
However, I can’t find anything that talks about waking up the baby during pregnancy. Has anyone heard anything or had experience regarding this?
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