Helping 2 month old

[BH31]

Hi,

My 2 month old seems desperate to learn how to sleep with less help from me. Before, rocking, shushing, swaying helped. Now all that makes her so cross and she screams. She also used to love the sling, but in hot weather hates it.

If I lie her in a crib / Moses swaddled with dummy and white noise she is instantly calm and drifting but can’t actually get herself to sleep (I assume she’s too young!) I lie next to her with my hand on her chest, stroking her nose and she nearly goes but not quite. So we have to battle through the screaming rocking.
Any tips or shall we just keep trying?

She doesn’t feed to sleep, or sleep in a car. She sometimes sleeps in a pram so we do that once a day.

Oh also it’s not me trying to change things - it’s her. I enjoyed the sling and rocking chest cuddles!

Try white noise.
It helped my LG get off to sleep on her own.
Also have u tried a dummy?

@JLQ1020 yes when I put her down she is swaddled, dummy and white noise. She gets so close to falling asleep but just can’t quite do it! Maybe we just keep practising to try and help her. She’s so desperate to do it without the rocking etc…. I’m trying to not take it personally 😂

I would keep trying. Have you tried the leaving lo to it. Swaddled, fed, dummy, dry, white noise(is it loud enough? My lo loves it loud) and stay in room and maybe don't touch lo unless needs it? Maybe less input from youM

Maybe she just needs to be left for a few minutes? My 12 week old likes to be put down and just left alone to get himself off to sleep and he's been like it pretty much from day one! His older brother was a completely different ball game 🤦‍♀️

If she is quiet and happy i would just leave her to it, potter around doing whatever you would normally do and see if she drifts off. You don't want it to be deadly quiet at that age anyway, otherwise they'll always need quiet to sleep

Great tips thank you, I’m obviously in the room anyway due to her age so I’ll potter for longer and see if she eventually just goes. What was working last week doesn’t work this week so it may well start to work!

My 8 week old seems to take ages to fall asleep in the moses basket by himself, but he does do it - he's my second child so I'm not actively watching him and interfering at every noise etc, I just lay him down and then he wriggles about (hates swaddle and dummy, and I'm not about to start playing white noise downstairs constantly as I think it would drive both me and toddler insane!). If he cries I obviously go and get him but that's the limit of my involvement atm, sometimes he takes 30 minutes or so to drift off, but he's happy/quiet the whole time.

My eldest never put himself to sleep until he was much older, he used to scream as soon as he left my arms night and day so this is very new to me.

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