She's 10m and a shit sleeper :(
I've been getting her to sleep easily (staying asleep is another matter) with some gentle lullabies on my iPad for the past couple of months. She's a dreadful wriggler and shuffler but with the music on she seems to chill a bit and stops writhing long enough to go to sleep.
I've stopped doing it for the last couple of weeks (out of routine of it with Xmas etc) and I've suddenly realised it's been taking four or five times as long to get her to settle enough to sleep if she doesn't have music on.
Am I nuts to consider playing it all night?
Would it create yet another terrible dependency, along with the dummy/being hoiked into Mummy's bed at 1am dependency I've already managed to create in her?
And really, would it actually matter?????!!! If she could only sleep with gentle music playing every bloody night for the rest of her life, but gained a mummy who wasn't close to a nervous breakdown every night???
Is white noise a better bet?
Really just asking if anyone has done this and if so if it was a good idea or just another way to screw up in the long term :( create a sodding rod for your own back etc etc :(
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Has anyone else tried white noise/gentle music ALL NIGHT? For an older baby... Trying anything now!!
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emeraldgirl1 · 09/01/2014 20:25
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