My little girl is 5 weeks old and at present she is cuddled to sleep in arms or babasling during the day and fed to sleep at night. She sleeps for 2-3 hours between night feeds and is fairly sporadic during the day as to when she wakes/sleeps and how long for.
I'm happy with this arrangement but I'm now wondering if I'm making a rod for my own back by rocking cuddling feeding to sleep. If I put her down in her cot she is often calm for sometime but fusses and eventually cries, never falls asleep by herself.
I would like to try and avoid problems later on with sleeping so is there anything I could/should be doing differently now to avoid problems later on? Most sources of info I have looked at say it's too early to teach her to fall asleep by herself. Is this so? Is there a middle ground??
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helsybells · 29/10/2012 09:14
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