Sleep Science Guru

Hope you all have a Happy Halloween 👻 🎃 ! Let’s talk witching hour or hours 🧙🧹. It can be scary, especially for new parents! Witching hour(s) is a time in the evening (usually between 5pm and 11pm) when a usually content and happy newborn has an extremely fussy period
It begins around 2/3 weeks and resolves by 3/4 months.
The most common cause of witching hour is:
➡️Overtiredness
➡️Overstimulation
When little ones become overtired and overstimulated more cortisol and adrenaline is released makIng it difficult to fall asleep, hence the cycle of a crying, unsettled little one who won’t sleep
Witching our can also be cause by
➡️Tummy issues
➡️ Hunger
Witching hour(s) can be extremely challenging so here are our top tips to manage it and things you can try:
✨stay calm
✨try not let little one become overtired
✨ try our CALMS technique or other settling strategies (all revealed in our online course)
✨ decrease stimulation, go into a dark room
✨ white noise
✨ swaddle
✨ go outside or change the environment you are in
✨ try a bath
✨skin on skin
✨cluster feed
✨ use motion (try rock or sway)
✨ baby wear, try a bouncer (you are not creating bad habits you are just meeting your baby where they are developmentally
✨try introduce a night time routine
✨ remember this is a part of your babies development, it is temporary and it will pass⠀
✨ don’t be afraid to ask for help
If you want more tips on preventing overtiredness and strategies to calm your fussy baby, check out our newborn “shaping healthy sleep habits from the beginning” course! It’s a game changer. You will learn to read tired signs, understand awake windows, calm your fussy baby and lay the foundation for healthy sleep habits. It doesn’t involve cry it out or allowing your baby to cry
If you experienced Witching Hour tell us how you coped with it ⬇️ You might help a mama or dada today!

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With Covid now in our community we at Sleep Science are trying to minimise the spread as much as possible.

✅ Everyone in the Sleep Science team has been vaccinated
✅ We hand-sanitise before every face to face consults
✅ We wear masks for face to face consults
✅ Our Guru’s check the exposure site list before face to face consults
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Thank you for your understanding.

Stay safe,

Jenna and the Sleep Science Team x