A calm night: getting ready for sleep, step by step

Routines, room temperature and overnight leak protection.

Night waking is usually about discomfort rather than hunger: too warm, too wet or too bright. All three can be dealt with in advance.

The comfortable range for a nursery is 18–22 °C at 40–60 % humidity. Overheating disrupts sleep more than cool air does — check the back of the neck rather than cool hands.

A repeatable routine of three or four steps in the same order — bath, diaper change, feed, dimmed light — works as a signal for sleep. What matters is the predictability of the sequence, not how long it takes.

Put on a fresh diaper right before bed and make sure the leg barriers are flipped outward — a barrier tucked inward is the single most common cause of night leaks. And if your child has outgrown their size, the night is where you'll notice it first.