how can I get 6 wk old in a day/night sleep routine??

[helly24]

help! Dont know where/how to start! Everybody is giving me not-so-helpfull advice. She just wants to be cuddled in the day, bad habit I know. & I'm puting her down asleep at night....how can I change this before it becomes a biger problem??

it's fine! seriously... you can't spoil a baby that young. enjoy your cuddles while you can. you'll miss them in a few months!

what happens if you put her in her cot awake during the day?

we usd to have ds's crib in the sitting room and i would pop him in there while i was making dinner etc etc so he was used to being in it awake

kind of agree...

My baby never liked being held too much, so I envy the cuddles and agree with starlover you should make the most of them, but I do think you need to start thinking about putting her down awake.

Can you try a halfway thing? Will she go into her bouncy chair, fall asleep in there and then be transferred upstairs? I did that with my baby, who's still tiny (13 weeks). Eventually I started to notice when she was just tired enough to go down awake (ie, when she was too tired to kick up a fuss!), and I would take her upstairs. She now goes down happily awake (though ALWAYS cries when I put her down for daytime naps)

Would that work for you??

course she wants to be cuddled in the day! She's 6 weks old - cuddle her as much as she (and you) like! I wouldn't worry about it too much. My DS2 was fed to sleep for the first year of his life, then put down awake for the next 6 months and the last 6 months he's been rocked to sleep - I don't care as long as he sleeps for a long time when he gets there

I know others who have rocked children to sleep until they were three. The problem seems to be they get heavy???

Personal choice, of course, but I'd have thought it was better to avoid it? How will you break the pattern??

thank you all! dont feel so rubish now! I have just managed to but het in her bed for a sleep without her waking up, she has moaned but so far still asleep. Maybe if she'll have a good day sleep evenings & bed might follow? Will atempt to put her down awake next time. Glad I'm not the only mum cuddling my baby lots, thought I was the only one whos little person wouldnt go down fuss free!