Creating a regular pattern of calming activities which your child can expect and look forward to every night.
	Making it fun for yourself when you create sleep routines for your baby. Try to create calming activities that provoke and bring on your baby's sleep.
	Completing the final steps of your baby's preparation for bedtime in the room where your baby will sleep.

	Your baby's favourite 'sleep place' will be wherever you regularly allow them to fall asleep. Try not to let your baby drop off to sleep in your arms, on the sofa or in your bed for example.
	When they wake up in their own bed later, they may well find the new surroundings strange and disorientating because it's not where they have become accustomed to going to sleep.
	The shock of waking up in an unfamiliar place can upset a baby to the extent that they may cry and need to be held long enough to feel assured enough to go back to sleep.
	Although it may feel right, avoid rocking, feeding, or cuddling your baby completely to sleep. After you have calmed them, place them on their side or back while they are awake.
	This way you reinforce for the baby that their bed is the chosen "go to sleep" place. When they wake in the night, they will feel secure enough to be able to calm themselves back to sleep, unless crying because of a basic need.

	If the child cries more than two of three minutes after you lay them down, gently pick them up, calm them and lay them back in the cot.
	If your baby wakes up during the night and cries, go into their room and reassure the child that you are there by gently placing your hand on them, for example.
	Always call your doctor if you think your baby is crying because it is in pain.

	Put on the Baby-Go-To-Sleep music at low volume in your baby's room.
	Hold or rock the child gently until they are calm, then put them to bed. (Remember, don't let them fall asleep in your arms).
	Allow the recording to continue playing during the gentle, brief transition from your arms to the baby's bed.
	Let the music continue playing until it stops.
	If the baby will not stop crying after two or three minutes then pick them up. Don't allow them to become so upset that they cannot calm themselves.
	The Baby-Go-To-Sleep musical therapy recordings should not be played to babies or young children at such a high volume as it can damage their hearing.

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