Strategies for helping your baby to sleep

COMMON questions new mums ask parenting consultant Kate Barlow are ‘how can I get more sleep?’ and ‘am I spoiling my baby?’

For the first concern, Barlow advocates establishing a bedtime routine even as early as week one of baby’s life — the same sequence of events at roughly the same time each evening.

“It could be bath, lullaby, milk, bed, cuddles… For some co-sleeping works, for others it can make the situation worse so it’s just about experimenting.”