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E.A.S.Y how do you get them to sleep?

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Cbell · 09/10/2013 05:35

I have 2mo DS and I'm interested in trying the baby whisperes EASY routine. A few questions

This is baby number two so does this routine work with a toddler in the picture?

Also my boy is not a great napper. Usually I bf to sleep then have to sling him to keep him asleep. If I put him down he either waked immediately or within 15 minutes and is grumpy because he's not had enough sleep.

So how do you get a fussy baby to follow this pattern?

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Sunnysummer · 09/10/2013 05:51

Can you let him nap in the sling for now? That was the only way we could manage it with DS in the early days...

MinesAPintOfTea · 09/10/2013 06:14

I gave up and bf to sleep for every sleep to nearly one year (and still some after that...) Afraid that's no help, but didn't want you to think everyone else was effortlessly following it.

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Cbell · 09/10/2013 07:22

Haha...no magic answer then.

He likes to bf to sleep then kip on me so not the best situation when you've got a toddler.

Yes, I do use the sling for most of his naps but I find it gives me back ache. Also by the end of the day the lack of physical freedom (always carrying a baby) drives me mad. I say this after being very pro baby wearing for my DD.

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ZuleikaD · 09/10/2013 07:38

I gave up on the BW almost immediately and fed to sleep until they didn't need that any more.

MoneyMug · 09/10/2013 07:43

I don't do the EASY thing or have a clue what it means but I also have a 2 month old that does exactly the same as yours. Wakes straight away after being put down. So I bf to sleep and then put him in the sling too. On the rare occasion he does stat asleep after being put down, the toddler normally wakes him up!

No advice, just wanted to let you know my baby does the same.

MoneyMug · 09/10/2013 07:45

And I totally get the fedup-ness of BW all day. Even though you've got your hands free, you still can't do alot! Very frustrating.

Trazzletoes · 09/10/2013 07:45

DS was an EASY baby - his choice, not mine as I'd never heard of it.

I rocked him to sleep for the first 6 weeks or so.

ZingWantsCake · 09/10/2013 08:03

to understand better why baby cries watch Priscilla Dunstan baby language on the Oprah show on YouTube. ( can't link sorry )

babyrose · 09/10/2013 09:31

We rocked, fed ds to sleep until 6 months who could not fall to sleep independently. My health visitor suggested putting him down for naps and b/t we never done it.

This continued for a few months rocking to sleep etc then one morning it hit baby whisperer!

Best decision I ever made, there is also a forum which these lovely ladies will help you with anything you need! Good. Luck

Jellyandjam · 09/10/2013 12:35

I used EASY for my DD (first child) and it worked brilliantly. She liked to be left alone in her cot to fall sleep - Always in the dark, no noise (obviously only if we were in for the day/ sleep times). If she did need any help, I would use the shush/pat method in the BW book but still put her down awake for her to fall asleep alone. She liked to be swaddled to, as she got older she liked her arms out but still swaddled.
When DS came along I tried EASY again as it had worked so well with DD but found with a three year old around it just didn't work and he ended up just having to fit around pre school runs etc.

Ladyhawke127 · 10/10/2013 11:21

We fell into easy by accident, as I was determined that I wasn't going to rock or shoogle or bribe to sleep ( as my son is huge, and I have back probs) as they are all fine when your baby is 10lb, but not so much when they are 20lbs. I would feed little hawk in a blanket (bf) then pop him in his Moses basket still in the blanket. He did wake up to begin with, but we persevered and it eventually worked. We found that the change of temperature ( warm snuggly mummy, cold Moses basket) and scent all played a big part in the waking up thing, and the blanket was warm, and smelt of me still, so he was much more settled. At night, after his bath, he was popped into the dining room ( an extension of our front room) with the lights out in his basket, awake, while I pottered about making dinner. He still knew we were there as he could hear and see us, and he would just drift off to sleep. Back ground noise, such as the telly on low and me in the kitchen definitely helped. Good luck. This is what we did, but we are pretty lucky, as little hawk is pretty good at sleeping now. We did have to persevere to get him this way though. I did so by routine, ( doing to the same way every time I put him down to sleep, not by leaving him to cry, although there is a world of difference between crying and low level grizzling, which I would leave. If your baby is crying, it is beyond me to leave him to it, but I would leave him to whinge a bit. Good luck!

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