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Bedtime Routine for 5 week old
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we have just started to try and get Amy into a bedtime routine, hubby baths her at 7pm and then i feed her and put her down at 8pm. she wriggles and kicks for another hour (think she wants to play) but i ignore her-which is hard!
my problem is i put her down in her moses basket in our room - what do you do then???
Stay with her and watch telly v. quietly or is she too young to be left alone with a baby monitor?
How old was yours when you left them on there own to sleep?
thanks xxx
my problem is i put her down in her moses basket in our room - what do you do then???
Stay with her and watch telly v. quietly or is she too young to be left alone with a baby monitor?
How old was yours when you left them on there own to sleep?
thanks xxx
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I've ALWAYS left my lo to go to sleep alone - as in, from birth! I don't have a baby monitor, because our room is downstairs anyway, so I just keep going in to check on him.
Since about 2 weeks old I have put Gabriel (now almost 12 weeks) down awake. He doesn't cry or if he does then after 5 mins, he settles. (I know he is fed and clean.) I've never left him cry or anything as at this age they're 2 young for controlled crying.
Gabe is put down at about 8 o'clock. If he's very tired he will sleep within 5 mins (I check him at 5-10 min intervals...just peep in the door, then about 20 mins once he's asleep) but sometimes he's up for up to 45 minutes wriggling and sucking his thumb. I just leave him...it's not mean at all! Babies need winding down time, if I played with him constantly then he'd be wired up and not sleep.
I am SO glad I started doing what your doing, and you will be too! I used to worry that my lo wouldnt love me if I didn't cuddle him or rock him to sleep but its much better in the long term to let em sleep alone
As long as Amy is not crying, hungry, or dirty, then it is 100% fine to leave her!!!
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Sounds like you are doing really well and I think starting to get them used to a different routine at night all helps them understand the difference btwn their daytime naps.
I have bathed mine (6mths now) every night since I sarted a routine at about 5 wks. Then I breast fed him in his nursery in the dark (hard to see at 1st!) then put him down with some music and then with monitor on left him. Sometimes he whinged and I used some controlled crying, then patting his chest, sitting in dark with him and so on. Now he knows cot is bed and will oten just shut his eyes as soon as I put him down!
But diff things work for diff babies. Don't beat yourself up about it, some nights it works, someimes it doesn't!! But keep doing what you are doing and i am sure it will pay off x
Think i shall leave her tonight see how we get on.
our baby monitor has a speaker thing that we can talk to her from downstairs, whilst i was drifting off yesterday hubby started making noises down it which woke me up thinking it was Amy - he thought it was funny - it wasnt!
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As much as i love my son dearly, i don't want to end up with a baby that needs constant attention just to fall asleep or one that is clingy as they grow older!
if i put my lo down and she's not asleep she will cry and then scream!
i have tried to leave her in hope she'll stop and settle but didn't work
during the day she'l only sleep in her moses basket for about 10mins too......although today she fell asleep in her chair - she was sleepy when i put her in it so i could use the bathroom and brush my teeth, she slept for nearly an hour.
as to sleeping in same room, my lo will be 3 weeks on sat, at the moment her moses basket is right next to bed, i couldn't have it anywhere else first night at home after having her sleep there in the hosp too, it is easier for me to take her out and put her in for feeds.
now i find i wake less to check on her while she's asleep next step is to put it at the bottom of he bed before putting her in her cot in her own room. She was born a very long baby and is already soooo much longer i dont think she'll fit in her moses basket for very long!
Hoping to get more routine over the coming weeks
She was bathed and fed at 7.30pm (took about hour for her to settle tho) she then woke at 1am when hubby gave her a bottle of expressed milk and she only woke up at 6.45am!!!! although she only fed for 10mins and now at 8.15am she is having her morning nap!
routine seems to be working
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Hi. Do you have lights tv on and talk etc ? Do you put him in moses or hold him? And are you breastfeeding or formula? Thanks
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