Daytime sleeping
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Any tips for getting my boy to sleep by himself in the day?? He is great at night, he knows once he's in his sleeping bag it's time for bed, and is really good at settling himself after night feeds.
However, even when he is clearly tired and ready to sleep in the day he won't unless he is cuddled to sleep, and then if i put him down he wakes up and is either wide awake or we have to soothe him to sleep all over again.
Any advice welcome!
xxx
However, even when he is clearly tired and ready to sleep in the day he won't unless he is cuddled to sleep, and then if i put him down he wakes up and is either wide awake or we have to soothe him to sleep all over again.
Any advice welcome!
xxx
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I would cuddle him to sleep (that's the only way he would go to sleep) and then put him down in his crib. Initially he would wake up pretty much straight away but I would just stroke him and put his dummy back in and 'shush' him gently. I think babies have to lean how to fall asleep on their own, and they need the reassurance that you are not leaving them when they are going to sleep. My DS would hold my hand whilst he was falling asleep in his crib, and I think this was reassuring for him, and then when he's dropped off and I can take my hnd away fine. It might also be worth thinking of getting a comforter and stuffing it in your top for a while so that it smells of you and you can let him cuddle it when he is falling asleep.
Around the 13/14 week mark he started to get into a 3 hourly routine and I think this has helped him to sleep on his own, as he knows when nap times are, and he doesn't try to fight it as much now.
my little one is 16 wks and she also fights her nap time in day. when got her to go off she would last about 15 mins and then wake up crying. A couple of times she has woken and i have put her dummy in and she has gone off again for longer.
today she has been asleep since 1 ish and now almost 4 so need to wake her up for her feed! bet she doesn't sleep tonight now ooops...she is so grumpy in day though if won't sleep and or only has little disturbed naps so thought she must need the sleep.
who knows what to do for the best ey? LOL
love from first time mom
I dont know whether now he sleeps so long at night i should be making him sleep in the day. I dont think it affects his mood most of the time. He does rub his face and yawn etc so maybe i should be encouraging him to go off? The other thing is we're out and about a lot as im finding it hard to stay in at this stage - he takes some entertaining. This doesnt help with regular day sleeps i suppose but in a way, the car journeys and being pushed in the pram does allow for short naps where he wouldnt have them at home.
My mum thinks when he's moving a bit more he'll have a nap in the day x
if we go out she rarely sleeps as nosey and cat naps in pram.... this does knock us out of sync and i have seen that she then gets over tired and screams place down as so tired! when we stay in for most of day she is better...i dont want to be couped up in house all day everyday though so will perservere to find an alternate way of her getting enough sleep.
what time are you putting yours down for night? after bath and bottle etc? liv goes down for night after 8pm bottle? wonder if should be 6 or 7pm?
what you say? I think as the baby have his day time sleep, he always sleep late at night.