Am i wrong to do this?
Me again-im on a roll today!!
I keep reading about people 'getting lo off to sleep', i just feed Max, wind him then put him back in his bed awake, he grizzles for abit, then the 'night noises' start and i know he's nodded off. Should i be getting him to sleep first and then putting him down? I don't want him to feel abandoned.
Another thing i do is only go to him during the night if he cries even though i sometimes know he's awake. I wait until that first cry. Is it wrong to leave him lying there? He starts kicking and fidgeting about so i know he's not 100% happy but sometimes he goes back off to sleep so i wait to find out if he really wants something or not. At what point to you pick your baby up?xx
I keep reading about people 'getting lo off to sleep', i just feed Max, wind him then put him back in his bed awake, he grizzles for abit, then the 'night noises' start and i know he's nodded off. Should i be getting him to sleep first and then putting him down? I don't want him to feel abandoned.
Another thing i do is only go to him during the night if he cries even though i sometimes know he's awake. I wait until that first cry. Is it wrong to leave him lying there? He starts kicking and fidgeting about so i know he's not 100% happy but sometimes he goes back off to sleep so i wait to find out if he really wants something or not. At what point to you pick your baby up?xx
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Sounds like your doing fine to me! xx
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As for picking him up, I only do so when cries start to sound unhappy. So I would say that what you are doing is perfectly normal. If we picked them up as soon as they made a noise, we would be picking them up every few minutes which wouldn't do much good for their rest.
As for the leaving her when she wakes, i always do this- especially in the mornings. Sometimes she just has bit of a moan and the goes back to sleep, only get her up or feed her if shes having a proper cry. Think if you pick them up as soon as they start moaning youd make life alot harder for yourself.
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Having a second one I don't have the time to pick him up all the time, my daughter is 2 so needs the attention more and baby is showing all the signs of being able to entertaining himself already - he's only 4 weeks but will quite happily lay and watch - which i'm grateful for.
And remember the old saying mothers no best, you will do what you feel is right for you little one.