help getting baby to sleep

Your baby was carried by you in a lovely warm comfy place for 9 months so of course they would still want to be carried by mommy post birth as they feel they are still a part of you.

It is normal so I wouldn't worry.

The dishes can wait. Be with baby and make the most of this special time as they grow far so quickly!

Skyler - we had the same problem with Jensen and the only thing that we found to work was the following:

We would put him in his carry cot and rock him on our legs until he was fast asleep, from there, we just moved the carry cot into his normal cot and left him to sleep like that.

His paed said it was more than likely that he didnt like being in too much of an open space and felt safer in the carry cot.

We did this until he was about 3 months old and then put him straight into his cot with a few rolled up blankets around him to make it seem he was still in the carry cot and every few days would move them further away, and now he has no problem sleeping in his cot.

Good luck! I know how tiring it is, but you just need to find the thing that will make baby settle and it might just be that your LO doesnt like big open spaces just yet.

Skyler *strongs* angel is 9weeks nd she wont fall asleep unless she is on my chest has a dummy in her mouth nd i'm sshing all @ once! I do this till she fast sleep then put her down but always make sure where i put her is warm, the hot water bottle is great use that. You can never spoil a newborn baby so continue rocking your baba!

SkylerV


I still rock my 3 months old girl, i know how sometimes you run out of ideas and patience to put them to sleep.

But i assure u, it does get better.

Hugs

thanks so much for your adivce i really appreciate it!

Skyler, you are not starting a bad habit by rocking your baby to sleep at 4 weeks! Babies tend to only form real sleeping habits from 6 months, also I really wouldn't advise letting him cry it out at such a young age.

If I where you, I would rock (even if it means investing in a rocking chair to sit on) until he is fast asleep. Then put him down. I used to put a hot water bottle in the cot under a blanket about an hour before bed time so that the blankets would be nice and warm. Hubby would then take it out just as I put LO down. Then I would cover him again with the warm blanky that was over the bottle. This really helped us.

But you are doing everything right, swaddling is the best thing at this age as it should make them feel secure, so keep doing it.

So my advise would be:
Swaddle, rock, hot water bottle in cot, put down and cover with another blanky.... You can even leave the bottle in the cot behind him if it is covered in a safe cover and not to hot anymore. The extra weight with the body temp imitation might trick him into thinking he is lying next to you.

You can also wear something comfy while bathing and rocking him and then put that near him so that he can smell you.

Good luck!!! You are doing great, and I promise it does get better!!! 6 weeks, it gets a little better, and 12 weeks it gets a lot better!

Dear All

I really need some advice and help please feel like i am going mad here!

My son is 4 weeks old and we struggle to get him to sleep, we have resorted to rocking, which he does fall asleep but as soon asyou put him down he cries.... i really just dont know what to do any more. I hav etried the patting onthe back and shusshing it doesnt work... its like the only thing is he will sleep in my arms on my chest or in bed with me up close but i just cannot get him to sleep in his cot, now and again i can and dont ask how as i dont know maybe when he is really tired.... i dont know

Please help i want to be able to have him sleep in his own cot i really dont want a baby needs to sleep by me constantly.

I have got him colic drops as its normally the evening we have this fussiness, the doc prescribed so lets hope it works.

I do the swaddling thing, i always check hunger, nappy, etc.... wind, but still you rock him he falls asleep the second you put him down he cries.

I have heard of "letting them cry" to teach them to sleep on their own who agrees? i am not so sure, does everyone do that? If you do, do that what is the time limit? how long do you let them cry?

Please i really need help here and i know i have set a bad habit already of rocking him but i really dont know how else to do it.

its no jpoint me putting him down when he is half alseep or drowsy as like i said he just screams.... i dont mean cry but scream so i have to pick him up again....

Thanks for listening and i hope you can help me!