- Hi everyone!
Welcome back to my channel.
Today I'm going to be talking about baby sleep
and how Jackson's routine has recently changed.
He was the perfect sleeping baby when he was newborn.
He would only wake up once a night and I was amazed
at what a good sleeper he was, but then we
went on holiday and it was long haul so he
experienced jet lag for the first time,
he possibly experienced the four month sleep
regression, he possibly needed solids in his life
because he's quite a big boy and his routine
just completely changed from the holiday,
then coming back and his sleep became really really bad.
He was waking up every two hours in the night.
Which was really unlike him and exhausting for me.
Obviously I've got three children to look after
so I've been so so tired.
In Jackson's five month update,
I touched upon how bad his sleep had become
and the people from Johnson's contacted me
and asked if we wanted to take part in the
Tonight We Sleep challenge, which can
improve your baby's sleep within just a week.
So I jumped at the chance.
It's basically Johnson's three step bedtime routine
incorporated with the Johnson's bedtime app.
So in this vlog, I'm gonna talk to you about the
challenge and if and how Jackson's sleep has improved.
So the first step in Johnson's bedtime routine
is to give your baby a warm bath using Johnson's baby bath.
It smells so so calming and it's Jackson's favorite
time of day, we normally do this at about six p.m.,
but it is so much more than just a bath for him.
It is like a real experience, he loves the water,
he's not just getting clean, he is definitely
winding down, and really really enjoying himself.
Then I get Jackson out of the bath, dry him
really really well, and then the second step
in the routine is to give your baby a little massage.
This step of the routine made me feel a little bit
guilty because Jackson is over five months old,
but it is the first time he's had a baby massage,
whereas my two older boys had baby massage classes,
had a massage every night, but poor Jackson,
being the third child, he's kind of been dragged along
in his older brothers' routines and part of the
problem may've been that I just need to get him down
so that I could then concentrate on his brothers as well.
It only takes a few minutes, so I don't know
why I hadn't done it sooner, but I would just use
Johnson's bedtime baby lotion or Johnson's
bedtime baby oil on his skin just a tiny bit,
you don't need much.
And I would just start on his chest and work my way
out onto his legs and his toes and then his arms
and fingers as well and he really loved his back
being done as well.
If you think about yourself and how relaxed you are
after a massage, it makes complete sense why
your baby would be nice and relaxed after they
have a massage.
Johnson's bedtime baby app was really helpful
in showing you how to do the massage,
so if you don't know what you're doing,
you can download that app and see how it's done.
But Jackson really enjoyed it and research
has shown that baby's that have a massage before bed
have better quality of sleep and better quantity of sleep.
So the third and final step in Johnson's
baby routine is to have quiet time with your baby.
So this could be a few different things for Jackson.
I read him little baby books.
This is also a time where I'll feed Jackson,
but I try to not let him fall asleep while he's
feeding, I try to keep him sleepy but awake.
On the Johnson's baby app, there are really really
lovely baby lullabies, you can even make your own
baby lullaby.
And there is also an array of different noises
so if your baby likes white noise, they have the
Hoover, they have the ocean, there are all
different kinds of sounds that you can choose from
to see what works best with your baby.
Jackson's favorite is definitely the ocean.
And then once he's had his quiet time,
I put him down sleepy, but awake.
While we were taking part in the challenge as well,
we would record and log when Jackson would wake up
in the night and when he would be asleep.
And this was quite helpful to work out patterns
of when he was awake.
Whether he was actually hungry or if he had
a sleep association or if it was exactly every
two or three hours.
This was really interesting for me
because I am breastfeeding Jackson,
sometimes I don't really wake up hugely
when he wakes up in the night cause I just
kind of come to stick him on my boob,
put him back kind of thing, so this actually
made me log the time, see when he was actually awake,
and see if it improved over the week.
Another feature I really liked about the Johnson's
bedtime app is that you can do a baby sleep
analysis, which is basically you answering a
questionnaire about how your baby is sleeping
currently, their routine, and all of that.
And then they will give you a sleep score
at the end of the questionnaire.
I was brutally honest in mine and Jackson scored
64 out of a hundred for his sleep score
at the beginning of the week.
App will immediately give you recommendations
on how you can improve your baby's sleep,
they'll give you some advice, which was really
interesting and a big one for me was
that Jackson needs to fall asleep independently.
And I completely know that as a third time mum,
but it was just a bad habit that I've got into
of like, I just need you to go to sleep
so I would just feed him to sleep sometimes.
So I'm really happy to report that Jackson's
sleep has improved finally.
At the beginning of the week, his sleep score was
64 out of a hundred, which isn't too bad,
but by the end of the seven days, his sleep score
was 83 out of a hundred, which means
he is a very good sleeper for a baby of his age.
His bedtime routine is now a much more enjoyable
experience and something that it is more just for him.
So if you are struggling with your baby's sleep,
I completely recommend having a consistent bedtime
routine and the Johnson's baby bedtime app
has been so helpful.
If you're a first time mum, the little videos
that talk you through the routine will be so so
helpful, sleep analysis is great,
I love the lullabies, and being able to log and track your
baby's sleep was also really really powerful.
Yes, so we have our great little sleeper back
again and I am so so pleased.
Let me know in the comments what your bedtime routine
looks like and I will make sure that I put
all of the links in the description bar below
of the Johnson's products that we were using
and also of the Johnson's baby app.
Thanks for watching and we will see you very soon.
Say buh bye!
He's looking at his feet, if you're wondering why
he's looking down, he is obsessed with looking
at his feet at the moment aren't you?
Amazing.
(laughs)
Bye!