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Baby’s First Year: What Every New Parent Needs to Know: 63 total pages.

1. Start the bedtime routine with a bath, some cuddle time, a song or story, a feeding, more cuddling, and then bed. 2. Sing a soothing lullaby just before you put your baby to bed. 3. Try to do things in the same order, with the same people involved, at that same time each night so that you create a pattern that your baby will recognize as a pre-sleep routine. 4. Make sure the lights are low and dim. You want to make your baby recognize that when it's dark, it's time to sleep. 5. Make sure that whatever routine you set up for you and your baby that there is a finality to it at the end. Your baby should learn that when you put him into bed, no matter how pleasant the bedtime routine has been, that it's time to sleep. Give him some time to fuss. Number five in the above list is a very important point to remember when it comes to establishing your bedtime routine. If you cuddle your baby, lay down with him, or sing to him one more time after you have put him to bed, he will come to expect that anytime he isn't ready for sleep

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