Tips for velcro baby needed!

[heylottie]

I let my 13 week dd fall asleep on me after feeds for all her daytime naps - all very cosy and I liked it a lot at first. Hot chocolate, movie, baby. Done, as Gordon Ramsey would say. However I didn't really realise what a hard habit this would be to break.

DD's eyes pop wide open when I try and put her sleeping into her basket. So, in order for her to get her naps, I have to stay rooted to the spot (she doesn't like a sling). All was ok, but now I really need to reclaim a bit of the day for myself. I need to eat healthily! Phone friends! Have a wee wee when I need to!

So I need to get her into her cot for naps. Am looking at the Baby Whisperer EASY routine and going to try and do that. I saw a programme with her on telly a couple of weeks ago where she swaddled the baby, sat in the dark, ssshed, and waited for the baby to stop crying and fall asleep. It took about 15 mins.

If I did this, would I have to do it for EVERY nap? Has anyone else done this, and does the crying get less?

I fret at the thought that I may cause dd to cry quite a bit before every nap, whereas once she just fell asleep on me. Will she get used to it?

Are there any other methods I can try? I can't think of any really.

Thanks!

i just let ds2 grow out of it, which he did and we reinforced with some techniques from the no-cry sleep solution when he was around 9 /10 months old

when he was little however I used the following method:

lie on bed, feed to sleep.
once I had un-latched him and he was still asleep I would wait a while (at least 5-10 mins for them to fall into a proper deep sleep)

while you feed you need to be lying on/cuddling your pyjamas, or something else you've been wearing recently (to make it warm)

then, veeeeeeeery slowly, you move. if baby stirs then stop, and make sure they resume sleep! you roll away as carefully as you can, replacing yourself with the clothing you have been warming up. (or a pillow sometimes works)

if baby stirs at this point try just gently patting back or bottom.

surround with pillows to ensure not rolling off bed

run downstairs (really quietly) and have a cuppa.

I wouldn't bother putting yourself through the pain - she will probably grow out of it. I'm no expert but mine is now 16 weeks and she's starting to let me put her down - albeit quite often she wakes up instantly and I have to pick her up then put her down again, and again - but we usually get there and she'll do up to one hour naps now. She wouldn't have done this at 13 weeks. We still always have at least one nap a day where she's in my arms though - I'm so with you on the hot chocolate, movie and babe-in-arms....lovely

Thanks for the replies - I will see how we get on in the next couple of weeks. I really hope she will get used to being put down of her own accord - we will see! Thanks again x