Any advice would be much appreciated. I need some gentle method to get my baby to fall asleep in his bed not on me.
I rocked DS1 to sleep until he was 2 months - then introduced a dummy as I was exhausted from carrying him round (v heavy boy! needing a lot of short naps) but realised the dummy was interrupting his sleep - and went cold turkey at 5.5 months. He cried a lot the first nap - screamed in fact - but after that cried less and all appeared to be going well (tho it was v v hard to let him cry at all). He even fell asleep a few times with no crying at all. UNTIL - one time he started freaking out when I put him in his cot for a nap... he would scream and scream and stare at me madly... when I got him up he would be all jerky and seem pretty traumatised {sad}. So I have started to hold and sway and rock and he falls asleep happily on me - sucking his fingers and yawning. While I do not mind this at all - enjoy it in fact - he won't accept my husband doing it and I am going back to work when he is 10 months so someone else will need to get him to sleep - tho the buggy always works.
ALso, I'd like him to fall asleep happily in his bed when he wakes up at night (I am feeding and rocking a fair amount still). And I hate the idea of him being unable to get back to sleep if I am not there - out for the evening or at work.
How can I put him in his cot awake and him not get freaked out? Obviously he would prefer to be held and jiggled / rocked etc but I don't feel this is sustainable...
WOuld appreciate your ideas please! Gentle ways to settle a baby for naps and bedtime in bed.
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dycey · 31/08/2009 13:05
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