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Is it okay for my baby to sleep in his swing?

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Linda Jonides
Answered by Linda Jonides R.N., C.P.N.P.
"I have worked as a pediatric nurse practitioner (P.N.P.) for over 30 years," says Linda Jonides. "I continue to thoroughly enjoy forming new relationships with parents and newborns and working with them through infancy, childhood, and adolescence."

Linda Jonides is a pediatric nurse practitioner in a private pediatric practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received her Diploma in Nursing and Certificate as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is a past recipient of the Michigan PNP of the Year Award. She has a B.S. in Nursing from Eastern Michigan University. She has published articles and lectured on childhood obesity, infant colic, role of the P.N.P., growth and development issues, and infectious diseases. She was an author of "Clinical Insights Column," published biannually in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care for nine years. Jonides is past president of NAPNAP. Currently, she is a steering group work member of NAPNAP's HEAT (healthy eating and activity together) project. One outcome of this group's work is the clinical practice guideline, "Identifying and Preventing Overweight in Childhood," that was published as a supplement to the March/April '06 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.

Ms. Jonides has been married to John, a university professor, since 1971.
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Question


My 6-week-old son fights sleep. Everyone has told me to put him in the swing for his naps. Is it safe for him to always sleep in his swing?

Answer


Infants are born with irregular sleep cycles that take about six months to mature. Ideally, it would be best to put him in his crib for naps and bedtime — that's your eventual goal anyway. But for right now, if he will fall asleep in the swing (often that swinging motion is calming and helps babies fall asleep), that's okay.

Babies often look uncomfortable all curled up with their neck bent over in the swing, but this position does not seem to harm them. Keep in mind that he won't fit in the swing for very long, so if it works for now, use it.

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