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Health Wellbeing CPD Babies
How can practitioners create an effective sleep routine and environment for infants and support parents? By Annette Rawstrone.
Supporting babies and young children to meet their sleep needs is vital to their development. - PHOTOS ADOBESTOCK (PIXELOT - STOCK.ADOBE.COM)

It is generally accepted that having a baby will result in sleepless nights, so a child's sleep – or lack of – is often not queried until a parent is considering returning to work. By then it can be difficult to instigate a regular bedtime routine.

‘Around 90 per cent of our clients don't come to us at the newborn stage,’ says Bek Dalrymple, co-founder of sleep consultancy Simply Sleep, based on the Isle of Man. ‘Parents come to us when they're reaching some sort of pain. Often while they are on parental leave they will muddle through on little sleep, but by the time their child is starting nursery, they're needing to get their sleep back on track.’

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