“I’d recommend soft music with few or no changes in volume and tempo since any change might trigger an awakening,” she explains. “Some parents use music and lowered lights, for example, to mark the transition from family after-dinner time to bedtime-routine time,” Schneeberg says, though the wrong choice of music can stimulate a baby to wakefulness, making bedtime harder instead of easier. Bedtime rituals are still important and they can incorporate music. That doesn’t mean music has no place at bedtime. Schneeberg advocates instead for teaching a baby to be a robust sleeper, able to sleep under a variety of condition with typical ambient noise and with very few sleep crutches. They are stimuli or conditions that babies cannot replicate themselves, and so when they awake in the night, they lack the tools to help them relax and fall back asleep. Inappropriate sleep onset associations are also known a sleep crutches or sleep props. One that runs continuously is a better option than one that runs on a timer.
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