Will Using Music Help Baby Sleep?
Does music help your baby sleep through the night? This is a question that comes up often, and the answer is, “usually.” You may need to try a few different techniques — and a few different forms of music — before you find the one that works best for you and your baby. Although your newborn will probably divide her 16 hours of daily sleep into chunks of only an hour or two at a time, within a few months she should be sleeping as much as five solid hours at night. And by the time she is six months old it’s not unlikely that she’ll sleep ten hours at night. You can assist her in falling asleep and in remaining asleep in a number of ways, including the use of the correct form of music at bedtime. Your baby didn’t grow to term in silence. She was exposed to the sound of your breathing and other bodily functions — blood circulating, heart beating, etc. — while she was developing. She became used to hearing rhythmic sounds. Continuing rhythmic sounds, along with a consistent routine when
