My baby is 8 weeks old on Tuesday and I really want to try get to grips with her day and night time sleeping if possible.
In the morning, she won’t wake up until about 9am and then within an hour is ready for another nap. This is her best nap of the day and we usually get about 45-90 minutes (sleeping on us). From then on, it seems to go slightly downhill! Her naps get shorter and shorter as the day goes on, usually only lasting about 20-30 minutes!
She won’t go down in her Moses basket, bouncy chair to sleep, she just wakes up and cries so most sleeps are on us or in the pram on a walk.
On a night, we had been letting her sleep on us in the living room then taking her up to bed when we go at around 11-12, this was working fine. We were co-sleeping and she’d sleep until 9am, just waking for a couple of sleepy feeds.
This week she has been refusing her sleep and fussing on and off from 9pm until 12.30am, it’s been such a fight to get her to go to sleep.
So, long story short, what age did you start a bedtime routine for your babies? I know you’re not supposed to leave them in a room on their own until 6 months but I don’t see any other way to get her settled downstairs with us.
I’m not looking for any ‘cry it out’ techniques 😊
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Sls668 · 02/01/2021 18:53
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