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Rest Easy: Helping Your Baby Stay Asleep with the 5 “S’s”
When it comes to sleeping, you and your baby are a team, and you
will both have to be flexible to make it work. However, as every mother
knows, for the first four to six months, you will be the team member
who bends the most. You will rearrange your priorities, put off chores,
and try to sleep in synch with your baby’s schedule.
But don’t despair. There are five specific ways you can nudge your
baby into a better sleeping schedule during these early months: the 5
“S’s.” These womb sensations will keep your infant’s calming reflex
turned on and, when they’re used at night, they may even keep him
soothed until daybreak.
1. Swaddle—
Tight wrapping prevents your baby’s accidental whacks and
disturbing startles. Just by swaddling your baby, you may increase
his sleeping periods from three to four or even six hours at a stretch.
Remember, his blanket must stay very snug for it to work all

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through the night.
Karen’s son, Connor, was three months old (and seventeen pounds!),
but he still had trouble sleeping more than three hours at a stretch:
“When I put Connor down after nursing, he would
struggle and squirm for over half an hour until he finally
settled down to sleep. He hadn’t been swaddled since he
was a newborn, but Dr. Karp suggested I try again.
“I was surprised that he not only accepted the
swaddling (after a little struggling) but settled down
immediately and slept one hour more than usual.
Wrapping also extended his daytime sleeping from fifteen-
minute catnaps to one-to-two-hour luxurious naps,
morning and afternoon.