If your baby sleeps in the bed with you, do they stay up until you are ready to go to bed, or do you put them to bed earlier in the evening?
If the latter, do you put them down in a cot until you come up to bed? And do you still follow a bed-time routine?
Just wondering, as not really considering co-sleeping but getting totally fed up with trying to settle dd (who is 7 months old) to sleep on evenings where she is clearly not tired enough. She fights sleep unless she is really tired and if I put her in the cot she just cries and screams. I am sick of wasting hours picking her up and down out of the cot until she gets sleepy enough that I can bf her to sleep. Hours in which I get progressively more frustrated and upset, as she will not even be cuddled to a relaxed state - she pushes me away and fights to get out of my arms.
I just wondered about just abandoning the whole 'she has to learn that bed-time is bed-time approach' (because it simply isnt working) and taking her back down stairs until later on those evenings.
What do people think?
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bumbleweed · 04/06/2006 21:49
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