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Honestly! Do babies grow out of this...? Update, aagghh!
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Do babies grow out of needing to be rocked or fed to sleep?! DD is almost 5 months old. Was debating doing some form of self-settling technique but I don't have the guts and its just easier and quicker doing it her way! Just wondered if anyone's babies had learnt how to settle themselves over time and stopped needing to be rocked or fed to sleep? Was it something they did themselves? How old were they? Honest experiences pleeeease!!
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[Modified by: hopefulmummy on 30 June 2010 20:50:33 ]
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[Modified by: hopefulmummy on 30 June 2010 20:50:33 ]
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From my experience it is something you have to teach them, I've no doubt that now , at 15 months, he'd still be falling asleep during a feed. He sometimes needs me to just sit next to his cot for a few minutes .
Every babys different though, you may find that yours does it naturally x
I started doing PUPD last week and am not getting on too well with it - naptimes have gone from being nice and peaceful to being something I dread (I think we both do!)
So I am admitting defeat for now and will try again when he's a bit older (and when my hubby has a week off work so he can help!)
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i was then reading that by 6 months they should be able to sefl settle (lizzie is 6 months old today!yay!!) so i saw her rub her eyes about 10am one morning so i took her up to her cot without takliing to her laid her down on her back gave her her dummy and left the room. she winged twice and both times i just went in put her back on her back and gave her back her dummy and left the room. it took 20mins ish but she feel asleep on her own.
from then on i tried it at night to. so now i feed her last bottle, then change her nappy whioch wakjes her, casrry her up stairs withoyut her dummy in (otherwise shge would fall asleep on transport,lol) then ;ie her down awake,give her dummy and leave her and only once in 2 weeks habve i had to go back in.
if you want to try it, i woyld start with naps as you wont be too tired. i normally stay upstyairs in my bedroom sat on bed for 5 mins before i come down just so if she does take 15 mins to settle im nit up and dfown stairs x
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I've decided that I'm just rubbish at this sleeping malarky! Fed her at bedtime today, tried to pop her off when she was just comfort sucking, but she woke right up and wouldn't let me put her in the cot, so I did what I shouldn't have and put her back on me... She fell asleep and I successfully put her in the cot. About 45 mins later she woke agan. DH tried to rock her but she kept grizzling. In the end, I gave up and took her - she fell asleep on my boob again and is now fast asleep in the cot. Meanwhile I feel like a failure...
Spoke to a friend today about her DD's sleeping and she was saying that she self-settles at nighttime no problems, and although she needs a little ritual for her naptimes, she also self-settles for these too. It just feels like I'm the only one of my friends who needs to rock their baby!!
On the one hand, I'm thinking it doesn't matter, she'll grow out of it, and its easy to rock her. But on the other hand I worry about bad habits and having to spend months and months doing this. Aaagghh, this is so hard!
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