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Run!!!!

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showtunesgirl · 27/06/2012 19:51

Tonight I fed DD BEFORE her bedtime bath. Upon her "last feed" of the day, she didn't want it as she was full. Usually I feed her until she's almost drowsy and then pop her in her cot. I have now put her in her cot, very much awake and have run away!

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MNP · 27/06/2012 19:52

Do let us know how the evening progresses :)

pinkyp · 27/06/2012 19:53

Good luck Smile

missdeelite · 27/06/2012 19:54

Lol this is going to happen to me one day!!! Good luck x

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showtunesgirl · 27/06/2012 19:56

She was babbling a few mins ago but she's now gone quiet!

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showtunesgirl · 27/06/2012 20:25

She's asleep!

Now I'm going to pray to the MN gods that she will repeat what she did last night which was a sleep from 8pm to 630am!!!

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MNP · 27/06/2012 22:09

Have my Fx'd for you.

lizzywig · 27/06/2012 22:11

Can I borrow your DD? I'd like her to come and have a word with my DD about how to fall asleep on her own at bedtime!

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showtunesgirl · 27/06/2012 22:39

lizzywig it's taken a while to get here, DD is 7 months old!

She's been good at self-settling without a boob for a while for naps but I haven't dared try this out until now for the bedtime one. It just so happened today that she was very hungry BEFORE bedtime.

If you haven't tried it, I would recommend doing Pantley's Pull Off. I did it gently when DD was about four months and even before tonight she was happy to be almost asleep but not quite before being put in her cot.

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NoComet · 27/06/2012 22:46

I still don't get why feeding DCs to sleep matters. I did it for years, it is beautiful. I miss it.

I hugged my 11y DD2 to sleep on the sofa a night or two back. Trouble is DH has to carry her to bed.

NoComet · 27/06/2012 22:48

I guess feed to sleep for naps would be a pain, but DD2 didn't do naps (nursery pick up for DD1 was at exactly the wrong time)

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showtunesgirl · 27/06/2012 22:49

StarBallBunny, for us, it was already not really working. Now that it's her decision to get herself to sleep, she's much happier.

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showtunesgirl · 28/06/2012 00:36

Ah she woke up half an hour ago. Oh well, it still worked for about four hours!

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lizzywig · 28/06/2012 07:36

If it's worked once it'll work again, if you keep at it then she'll get the message. My problem is not that I can't put her down, DH can't put her down, she just won't go to bed for him. She goes to sleep for nap 1 without milk but not nap 2 or bedtime, she's almost 8mo, on the plus side she's been sleeping through since she was 9wo so I guess you can't have it all.

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