to let my baby stare at the gro egg?

[Effiethemonster]

She's in her cot overtired and grumpy, we've tried rocking and white noise and I fed her to sleep briefly but she woke up 10 seconds afterwards. Anyway it really seems to be chilling her out, is it just gonna overstimulate her? I normally hide it but got it out to check temp and she stopped grizzling immediately.
Oh it's on judgey pants orange as per usual in our super hot flat.

She's 3m and having a bit of a rough patch at the mo, fights all sleep, hates naps etc etc.

Do I continue to let her enjoy this gro egg moment?

Yes revolting it's my first! You can probably tell

That's funny about your dd, I remember seeing something similar on here about a kid who as soon as they could speak said "go away mummy you're bothering me" when she had been trying to soothe them to sleep their whole infancy!

I do try and leave the grumbles but they do tend to grow into proper cries after a while..but you're right that all the rocking clearly wasn't necessary once I got that bloody gro egg out!

All hail the gro egg. My approach with sleep is if it isn't doing any harm, and she and you are getting some rest, then go for it.

I'm one if those terrible parents that lets the little one watch tv in bed. She watches the first 30 seconds of toy story and she's gone! Whatever works!

IKEA do a similar glo light alien shaped thing that both my DS's have had to clutch at different occasions - they are 2&5 now

It has worked for now at least take your opportunity to have a sit down and fingers crossed it works again tomorrow night

You do whatever the hell it takes to let her sleep. If that's staring st the gro egg then she shall stare at the gro egg.

Ah well, they're all different, so might not work for you.

at 'go away mummy'

DSis2's first complete sentence was 'Mummy please don't sing'. To be fair DM is tone-deaf, but still, imagine waiting expectantly all those months for your baby daughter to speak to you, and then........

Wow! My 3 month old would never fall asleep on his own. He requires vigorous rocking, shushing, patting, walking, feeding etc. I ended up walking out today and leaving DH to it, just couldn't cope a moment longer. I just seem to be rubbish at this baby lark.

Haha that's amazing revolting, what a snackdown.

Oh niceteeth believe me this is a complete freak occurrence, the last few nights I have had to transfer her from the sling ninja style! It's really been getting me down and there's been ALOT of tired tears and frustration (from me but also dd!) so I feel your pain. You are NOT rubbish, it's just impossible to know what these babies want from us. Turns out my dd didn't really want anything from me except for me to turn the flippin gro egg on!

I really hope this is a corner turned for dd but like I said I don't like to get too excited, like they say, everything is a phase either good or bad!

niceteeth you aren't rubbish at all, that's just the way your baby is. My DD is 17 months old and is as likely to fall asleep on her own as she is to sprout wings and fly about the room. I still rock and feed her to sleep now she also has to be touching me in some way when she sleeps but that is another story

It is shit at times but you will get there

Thanks OP and Salem I'm just feeling a bit sorry for myself. It's just so hard! I was wandering the streets earlier thinking that nothing I do works! Im not used to being unable to fix things and its been getting me down. Was forced to return to prevent a starving baby! Anyway sorry for the thread hijack!

DS2 likes this seahorse

I used to wedge it in his moses basket. You can tell he was DC2, DC1 I used to sit on the floor rocking the basket and singing for bloody hours!

I totally get it niceteeth, every bedtime has become stressful for me recently, never knowing how's it's going to go or if she's going to settle. I'm constantly paranoid she's not getting enough sleep and I'm harming her by not being able to get her to sleep (neurotic or what). But like pp said, every baby is different and we just have to try and go with the flow. I can't exactly give any advice as I'm a ftm but everyone keeps telling me it gets easier, so fingers crossed for us.

My 3 year old DS tells me to go away when he wants to go to sleep! He body rocks too which was a bit unnerving when he started it at about 12m but it seems to work for him. He likes to put his socks on his hands or put his hands up the opposite sleeves too. As long as it's not harmful, whatever works for them....

Ooo moan that seahorse looks cute, and safer than a wirey gro egg.

Effie, I've seen your threads on the Sleep board - this is great! I'm moving ours as soon as I've managed to put DS down.

Niceteeth, I really empathise, we had one of those days here and I nearly walked out myself this morning. My life currently revolves around getting DS (5.5 months) to sleep; I think I'm going to be singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Fucking Star on repeat for the rest of my days. That and marching the streets with the pushchair like a madwoman and gritting my teeth whenever a police siren goes past which is clearly a sign I'm getting fixated but months of sleep deprivation does that to you.

Yes. The endless walking. In my case it's shushing, not singing. For aaaages. My mouth is so dry!

DD's lullaby was a Prodigy song.

(still works 5 years later )

We have a toy which changes colour and that sends little one to sleep...maybe gives them a focus?

Just a little update for you, turns out the magic of the gro egg was a one night special, she's now totally nonplussed about it despite me waving it in her face going "oooo look at the lovely gro egg!" when just turning it on didn't have the desired effect.
I also bought a glow panda thing that she's totally indifferent about too.

Back to vigorous rocking < manic sleep deprived smile

Oh hi acatcalledfang ! Nice to see you hear, unfortunately it was a one off so in back on team "WHY WON'T MY BABY SLEEP"

Oh and i laughed at the siren thing, I've done the same, it's terrible what those eyes flicking open will do to you.

Anyway dd has just awoken for the 4th time this evening so I better go.

Effie, as of the last two days, my baby won't sleep. Full stop. Took nearly two hours to get him down tonight and he actually fell asleep with his eyes open. Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself! We'll ignore the fact that he was awake 30 minutes later.

I spent three hours walking this afternoon and achieved two 30 minute naps. So frustrating! I actually left him with DP and walked out this morning as I couldn't take any more. Had an hour drinking coffee with two hands to compose myself. It's a good job he's cute, as it's getting worse rather than better for us. Fingers crossed for a better night!

Wow, looks like there's something in the water (or the milk?) tonight. I did a loving and relaxing pre-bed routine with bath, massage etc and put him in the sling, bounced him for ages till he fell asleep, and stayed asleep for... 10 minutes. My wonderful mum was here for the day and has offered to sleep over and bring him to me for feeds. I'm now confused about my new-found freedom and mnetting instead of sleeping!