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When you commence your journey into the world of parenting, you certainly face many challenges and changes. Not only do you need to recover from giving birth but you’ve also got an additional family member requiring much of your time. Many of the mums I speak with are struggling with this and often sleep challenges plague them as well. Let’s face it, it’s very hard to show up as your best self when you’re sleep deprived and this is inevitable when your little one is waking up multiple times during the night requiring your attention.
Whether your little one is on the way and you want to learn about how to plan a good bedtime routine for infants or you’ve already given birth and are faced with sleep issues or queries, then I’ve got a great episode for you! This week on First Time Mum’s Chat I’m chatting with pediatric sleep specialist, Hilliary Giglio. Hilliary battled with sleep issues with her child which left her sleep deprived and struggling. After experiencing an amazingly quick transformation when she sought help, Hilliary decided to make it her mission to help other parents faced with the same issues.
Whether your little one is on the way and you want to learn about how to plan a good bedtime routine for infants or you’ve already given birth and are faced with sleep issues or queries, then I’ve got a great episode for you! This week on First Time Mum’s Chat I’m chatting with pediatric sleep specialist, Hilliary Giglio. Hilliary battled with sleep issues with her child which left her sleep deprived and struggling. After experiencing an amazingly quick transformation when she sought help, Hilliary decided to make it her mission to help other parents faced with the same issues.
Hilliary shares many tips and insights during our chat including the following:-
- Why a clearly defined bedtime routine for infants signals to your little one’s body and brain that sleep is coming, making them crucial for good sleep.
- When is the right time to introduce a bedtime routine for infants where they are sufficiently able to pick up on the necessary cues.
- Why consistency is key and you need to follow exactly the same steps in your bedtime routine for infants each and every day without exception.
- Tips on when to schedule your little one’s feeding in your bedtime routines for infants to optimise their sleep cycle.
- The benefits of using soothing and calming activities and items such as sleep sacks to prepare them for the expectation that it’s sleep time.
- How including identical music and a keyphrase in your bedtime routine for infants every night provide verbal or auditory cues that help prepare them for sleep. The keyphrase is a little spoken verbal cue that indicates it’s time for sleep.
- Tips on how to handle the bedtime routine for infants transition when they reach that age when they are ready to start sleeping in a bed which is so different from a cot without rails. This of course introduces a new found freedom to get out of bed and roam around.
- Using a toddler clock to help teach your little one when it’s time to sleep or get up by way of lights colour or other means such as playing sounds.
And so much more ….
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About Hilliary Giglio
Hilliary is passionate about helping exhausted and frustrated parents teach their children to sleep through the night, so they can too.
She has a successful coaching business working with expecting parents through parents of school-aged children. Hilliary is a master at teaching you how to get your child falling asleep independently, sleeping through the night, and taking restful daytime naps.
When she is not speaking, she can be found fantasizing about a future where her son listens to her as enthusiastically as her clients.
