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Tips from those with good sleepers!
Hi, well angelo's brother or sister is due in 4 weeks time and I am panicking more than a little bit. You see my little angel was a nightmare sleeper and I (& oh) were a wreck for months and months. I really don't think I could go through that again, especially after a difficult pregnancy & having another lo to look after as well.
So really I would be so so grateful if you could share any tips/info/advice you might have that you think contributed to your lo's sleeping well from an early age. ANY advice welcome..please! xx
So really I would be so so grateful if you could share any tips/info/advice you might have that you think contributed to your lo's sleeping well from an early age. ANY advice welcome..please! xx
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He uses a dummy and I believe this helps him settle himself back to sleep,I would also put him down while he was still awake but sleepy so he learnt to settle him self to sleep.
Using black out blinds have also helped.
He sleeps 7pm till about 8.30/9.30am.
Good luck
Good luck!
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Hope that helps!
Good luck chicken!!
with my first, even tho we followed Donna&Poppys routine, we would let him stay downstairs with us until we went to bed - then he'd wake, and be unsettled!! we should have put him in bed when ready - we could have had more us time too!!
eventually, i got a dummy (i have hangups about them and really didnt want one!!), but he only had it in the night when he cried (i knew he wasnt hungry). this made a rod for my own back, as he cried when it fell out, couldnt find it, so i was up and down to him to put it back in!! he eventually slept thru properly from 10months old when he was walking everywhere and i put him in a grobag! BUT he still gets up 6-6:30 (he's 7!!)
with my second and third, i changed it all totally - when they slept during the day and we were home, they went in the cot. they always went to bed after their last feed etc etc they were allowed to cry themselves to sleep neither had a dummy, although they are both thumb suckers.
they have either been awake or asleep when going to bed - that never bothered them or me, and now older (4 1/2 & 16months) they climb in bed awake and go off on their own!
god, that was a ramble on, wasnt it!! bet you fell asleep, didnt you!
Bedhead Barney sounds like a dream, can I ask if he had a dummy and also when he had his feed in the night would you make sure you put him down awake again? Thanks.xxx
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Well, with his milk (diffrent now he is on solids) but with his milk if he left an oz.. I would give him a little break and then offer it to his again towards the end of the hour.. because the oz's they miss out on they normally try to make up on.. and you perfer that doesn't happen at night.
I put Charlie down awake at 7pm give him his dummy, give him his comfort blanket, cover him, kiss him put on his music mobile and leave the room. Then he just goes to sleep on his own.. Sometimes he'll call out for us.. we never give him eye contact or talk to him.. just re-settle doing the above.. might take a couple times but thats it.. he just goes to sleep then. x
tracey, hope caitlin hope caitlin redems herself soon! xx