About to start Baby Whisperer Routine...

[eenybeeny]

The title says it all really. Our 13 week old son has his days and nights mixed up completely. As of tonight (tomorrow being the first proper day) we are starting to try the Baby Whisperer routine. Just wondered what your experiences of it were? If any?

I used her techniques to get my youngest to learn to go to sleep with out his dummy or a boob. It took about 4-5 nights and worked a treat!

ooh thanks! I hope it does for me too! I havent read loads of the book (I havent got time!) just skimmed through it. I really really hope it works!

I did baby whisperer when ds1 was 7 weeks and it worked brilliantly. I think the earlier you can start with it the better. I have tried to do this now with ds2 who is 6 months but having no luck - he was a very poorly baby so did things totally differently.

The structure to the day helps, especially knowing when they fed and watching their body language to see when they are tired. EASY routine is fab and works. The only thing I did maybe a bit differently is when he had a tea time feed I split it -some before his bath and then the rest as he was about to be put into his cot so he had a nice full tummy.

The dreamfeed is good too, they do just feed in their sleep!

If they do show the series again on Discovery Home and Health it is certainly worth seeing it put into action, especially her dreamfeeding a baby and how she winds her without waking her!

Is it the easy routine? The 3hour cicle thing? I havnt done it, I plan to with my next though.

it is the 3 hour easy routine. today is the first full day of it. Really crossing my fingers hoping it works. I actually wish I had tried it earlier, Alex is 13 weeks now and we already have a lot of bad habits in place. Like where he sleeps - on our chest, in a sling etc. rarely in his cot. The sling is brilliant though i couldnt do without it now!

We used baby whisperer from the start with Alex and he is now 13 months and i can highly recommend it. He sleeps happily in his cot, goes down for naps fine and we never felt mean. Its also great advice when you need to wean off night time feeds (which happens regularly as various things like teething, sickness or growth spurts mess up the routine). Its the middle road between respect for the baby and parents needs. Alex still doesn't have a bedtime bottle and wouldn't want one if you offered it!

Hello

I tried Tracy Hogg's pick up put down for 8 days. It was exhausting and it didn'twork I'm afraid. My baby is 9 months old.

Incidentally, any tips anyone can give me on what to dowith my sleepless babe would be appreciated.He currently wakes up 8 times a night and is awake for long stretches of the night unable to go back to sleep. In his whole life he has never slept for longer than 3 hours at a time. Last night he woke at 8.15, 8.40, 9.15, 9.45, 10.15 and was awake until 11am. slept for half an hour until 11.30 and then was awake until 12.45. slept until 1.45 then went back to sleep until 4.30. went back to sleep at 5am and was up for the day at 6.30.

have tried just about everything including 140 days of the 'no cry sleep solution' and not feeding him at night + various daytime regimes including Tracy hogg's easy. He goes to bed in his cot awake and puts himself to sleep with a little back rubbing from me when he goes to bed at night and we have well established bedtime routine and structured day routine. And his napping is OK as well.

let me know if you've had any success yourselves

lilivax

I dont know what the pick up put down routing is? Liliva sorry I dont have any advice for you, my boys's sleep is no better at the moment!

thanks for the recommendations waps - hopefully if it worked for one Alex it will work for another!

sounds like he has a 30 minute sleep cycle and is waking up totally after each cycle. mine has a 45 minute cycle and on disturbed nights (teething etc) comes round after each one until late. but mostly I get him back to normal within a few days. does your baby have any discomfort when he wakes? Alex slept very lightly until we realised he had trapped wind from milk allergy.

Sorry, what is this baby whisperer Routine??? sounds good, want to try it. thanks.

reccommend her, I followed alot of her stuff ans thought she was great, must more humane and caring approaches than other we cannot mention

I have her book for sale if anyone is interested.

Have tried elements of the EASY routine - and it is about as much of a routine as I can cope with - certainly the flexibility of it seems sensible. However - don't quite get all of it..... I think by 3 months they are only supposed to having 2-3 naps during the day, yet are also supposed to be having about 6 feeds.... so how does that work out? Do you just leave out the S in EASY sometimes? (and therefore the Y too!!) What has anyone done about this?

As I remember, one feed is at bedtime, so bottle, bath, bed, one was early morning so bottle, bum change, bed, then through the day we followed the advice of watching for signs of sleepiness and our rule was 2 yawns and your in bed. Even if the kid looks really happy and playful this is the best time to put them in bed, before its too late. From 4 months I gave up breastfeeding which made things a bit more predictable and by then we were more in tune with Alex and created our own regime, based on the things we had learned from the book. Things do get a bit harder as they sleep less but Alex still sleeps after each Easy cycle, which is still sometimes 3 naps a day!