I’m a firm believer in an earlier bedtime. From my sleep consulting experience, the most common mistakes parents make, is putting their infant or toddler to sleep too late.
Infant Bedtime Routine 5 – 10 minutes. If you can methodically do these tasks in the same order, that helps. This infant bedtime routine should take no more than 5 minutes. Babies love consistency and predictability.
In this article, I discuss an 18 month old baby sleep sample schedule and also listed the signs about when your baby is ready to drop down from 2-1 nap.
A binkie, soother, sou sou, or pacifier, whatever you want to call it, is a device that baby can suck on to soothe herself. Babies have a natural tendency to want to suck, and the pacifier can meet those needs.