Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Sleep

Join our Sleep forum for tips on creating a sleep routine for your baby or toddler. Need more advice on your childs development? Sign up to our Ages and Stages newsletter here.

transferring nap times from vibrating chair to cot

3 replies

lisaloulou84 · 12/07/2014 22:56

My 5 month old son has slept all his daytime naps either in the pram or in his very flat vibrating chair since he was about 7/8 weeks old.

This mostly started because during the 5 weeks of colic hell I had to hold him constantly to the point where a recurring numbness in my arms and fingers from an old injury that I'd cured with physio started to come back and I couldn't hold him securely, so one day I put him in the chair, gave him a dummy and a little polar bear comforter he snuggles into and it worked!

But we're now totally reliant on the chair, and though he's starting to nap less (overtiredness is an issue with afternoon nap, 1st two in the morning/midday are fine, but the 3rd one he fights), he wont sleep in my arms and wont sleep in the cot without the vibration, just tosses and bangs his legs and then the dummy's out and he's awake.

I really want to get him sleeping for his naps in the cot, mostly because he's started rolling and can almost sit up and soon he's going to be out of that chair, but don't want to rely on feeding to sleep, or do anything which makes him confused with bedtime (Bedtime is solid as a rock, bath every other night, changed into pyjamas in the dark, no eye contact, no noise, fed in gro bag and straight down - sometimes he's fallen asleep during feed, sometimes he wriggles a bit and pop dummy in and he drifts off on his own).

thoughts? initial thoughts are slowly start turning the vibration off earlier and earlier in the nap, put chair in bedroom rather than living room and should I get a sleep toy? Looked at tranquil turtle...

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Hedgehogging · 13/07/2014 12:57

You're thoughts sound spot on.

I'd start with turning off vibration once he's well asleep then gradually try to turn off vibration as he is about to fall asleep- back on if stirs, off again when settling, back on if stirs etc.

Eventually then turn off vibration when he's just nicely sleepy but not "on the cusp" IYSWIM and then ultimately into chair minus vibration for naps at which point he should be nearly ready to go into cot. I'd start putting chair up beside cot now and then begin the weaning!

Note: I think this advice is lifted from some website or other I've come across while doing bleary-eyed night feeds Grin

NAR4 · 13/07/2014 14:39

Maybe put the chair in the cot while you do this, so he gets used to being in there and also is safe should he actually fall out the chair due to rolling or sitting himself up.

Craigy2323 · 17/07/2014 21:01

Hi we had exactly the same problem until our baby got too big for the vibration chair and it broke- forcing me to do something about it.
I have found that as long as our baby's full and tired ( first sign of rubbing hours ) or roughly around every 2-3 hours I put him down in his cot and he settles and sleeps....this has changed my life literally! He doesn't always have three naps a day and does sometimes fight it but go for it and see what happens....good luck

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread