When to start baby nighttime routine
REALISTIC NEWBORN NIGHT TIME ROUTINE 2019 || BETHANY FONTAINE
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hi everyone and welcome back to my
channel my name is Bethany if you're new
here I do authentic motherhood videos
here on my channel so welcome so today
I'm gonna be showing you my newborn
son's nighttime routine this is
something I try to implement every night
just to help him wind down so this
routine kind of starts at around 9:30 10
o'clock my daughter who is two and a
half years old she's in bed by 7 to 8
o'clock at night so I'd like to do this
one it's just him and me so then I could
kind of give him all of my focus so once
he's had some happy time we will go and
start our bath time but usually I only
bathe him about every 2 or 3 days just
because he doesn't need to be bathed
every day and newborn baby's skin is
really sensitive
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and I actually just use the Johnson's
cotton touch newborn wash and shampoo it
smells really great and it's really
sensitive for their skin which is great
also so I'll make sure the water
temperature of the bath is just a
lukewarm what I do I don't actually have
a newborn bathtub or a baby bathtub I
just use a towel and I just lay it down
in the tub and so he can just lay on
that comfortably in the tub so one thing
that I also do is I'll take a receiving
blanket and just put it in the tub as
well put that over him and it kind of
gives him a sense of security where he
doesn't feel like it's you know his arms
are completely out or there's nothing
kind of heavy on his body and it also
keeps him warm as well
so the first thing I do like to do when
I give him a bath is use a wet washcloth
to wipe his face I don't put any soap on
his face I just use water because I
don't want to get anything in his eyes
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one thing you don't want to forget when
you're bathing your baby is to forget
his neck and to clean kind of the fold
within there because things like formula
or breast milk can get stuck in there
and he can get a bit of a rash so that's
just something that I always kind of
make a mental note of when I'm giving
him a bath
so once bath time is done then I'll go
ahead and just change him on our bed I
will use the same onesie Aziz before
because I actually just changed him out
of an outfit right before I felt this
video so this onesie is actually pretty
clean and so I'll just go ahead and
start drying him off I will put a diaper
on him he's still in size one diapers so
for the baby lotion I'm just actually
using the cotton touch a baby lotion
from Johnsons as well and I find it
works really well for his little skin
and it does a pretty good job of
moisturizing it and just making him
smell really yummy
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then I'll go ahead and just brush his
hair I know he has a little bit of hair
but it's always nice when it gets a
little fluffy after a bath and it gets
nice and clean because newborns hair can
get pretty greasy pretty quick because I
know I love touching my son's head a lot
and I know other people do as well
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we do every single night is I swaddle my
son Kellen a for sleep time because with
newborns they have something called a
startle reflex where they will actually
kind of jump in their sleep and that can
actually wake them up and I find to that
most do birds like to be swaddled in
tightly to kind of mimic the womb and so
it helps them sleep better at night
this swaddle is actually from swaddle me
I just got this one on Amazon it works
really well I use those also for my
daughter and she really enjoyed these as
well
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I've been loving recently is this
essential oil called gentle baby from
young living this was actually actually
gifted to me I'm not a huge oil person
but this smells amazing and I find it
just creates this nice relaxing scent in
the room to kind of help us relax for
the night then next I'll just go ahead
and feed Kel on one more time before bed
that this usually relaxes him and makes
him feel really happy so that he's
relaxed and ready for the night
then I'll just rock in the rocking chair
for a little bit just so we can have a
little bit of cuddle time where he feels
like he is secure and ready for sleep
time now I actually put my son in the
rock and play that we have for him at
nighttime because he is dealing with
severe reflux and he does need to be
sleeping on an incline so this has been
really really helpful for us I will be
transitioning him to a crib in the
future for sure but right now we're just
dealing with his reflux and he claims so
this has been a lifesaver for us so I'll
just put it on the half an hour rock
setting and then it will rock him to
sleep and then it will stop rocking
after half an hour so I highly recommend
using a white noise machine or just some
white noise I actually used this app
called sound sleeper and I used the hair
drying option on there and it puts
calendar right to sleep every time so as
you can see our night didn't and after I
put him down to sleep I did have to have
a few more feedings in the nighttime and
that's kind of it for our newborn
nighttime routine I hope you guys did
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