baby sleep routine

kirstle99

We had our baby sleeping through at 8 weeks and to be honest I wouldn't say we did much to get that to happen really.
We did the bath, bottle & bed thing as describes above, but only every other night. On non-bath nights we used baby massage to get him to chill out & realise it was bed time.
Also at bed time we did just literally put him down in his room after his bottle and sometimes we would have to sit there & let him cry & go up, walk round with him (not comforting him, silent cuddles), tell him it was bedtime, put him down, the cycle starts again. But we only did that for about 3 nights before he started speeing through.
Also, we used to put him in his cot at set times during the day, e.g. 10am for 30 mins, 3pm for 30 mins, so he would get used to being in his room during the day, even if it was for just some quiet time.

I think you should just do what feels right for you, everyone has their own little ways and while listening to advice is good, sometimes you can have 'too much' advice. I hope you have some success hun.

Paparika

I had my DS in bed with me for the first 5/6 months, he slept through the night and then transferred to his own cot and room.

This was all good till he turned one and had his first jabs, then was a right !!!!!! to go to bed till 4, soon realised it was his father thinking he knew best.

got rid of the father and DS went to bed with no problems.

I was worried about taking my baby to bed with me, but then again he slept all night through and i barely got sleep as i was worried i would squash him

kynky_kyta_23

i totally know where you are coming from, my son is 6 months old, and since birth he feeds 3 hourly, through the night too.

he is on solids, but still demands constant feeds, we have tried offering water with no luck.

its a nightmare, he gets chronic wind through the night, and is awake from 2-5 then eventually sleeps till 8, but i have a 3yr old early riser!
he too ends up in our bed, as as soon as i place him in his crib he awakens, and i am so desperate for sleep.
since birth i honestly have had less than 4 hrs in 24hrs, i ended up in hospital, as i was totally exhausted and collapsed in asda.

nothing i try works, plus he is a moant attention seeking boy, he cannot sit in his seat etc, he just screams till he is sick, so he is on my lap 24/7, i have become great at one handed tasks lol

maybe she is going through a growth spurt, but you need too nip it in the bud, or you will end up like us lol
the older they get the harder too break cycles.
i know i am soft on my kids but i need sleep!!!!
he does sleep in the day, but cat naps 20 mins at te most!

rjh090384

ok so the bath bottle story bed routine worked great lasw tnight. we did have one false start becuase she fell aslleep without her dummy and she soon woke realised she didnt have it and was screaming for it!! but after that was fine. she slept form around 9.30 to 4.30 and had a feed tehn i couldnt get her back down. was ten minutes then crying for about fory minutes with me up and down from bed. she then eventualoly went to sleep until half six. i teh ncouldnt get her down again so brought her into bed with me and she is still sleeping now. think tonight i am going to try her with a 7oz bottle at bed.

thanks so much for all the advice. bedtime was a lot less stressful last night!

mooma_2

Don't try and get your baby into a feeding routine when she's this young, it makes it more stressful for you! When you are more comfortable with her feeding patterns, etc then try a routine.

Don't listen to the advice on the milk tins - it's a bunch of rubbish! If your little one still seems hungry after a full bottle, give her a little more, then increase on the next feed to see if she takes all that too. If she takes it all, increase all bottles.

Maybe if she's gone from sleeping through the night to waking again she could be teething early?

Also try to get her to bed at the same time each night, and only put her in her bedroom for sleeping and naps so she associates the room with sleep.

onlyroz

You can't seriously expect a 9-week old baby to sleep through the night. Their tummys are really small at that age and so need feeding at least every 4 hours. My son slept through the night for the first time at 7 months, which seems about normal.

I bought the Baby-Whisperer book, but I wouldn't recommend any of the advice in it. I think that it's far too militant, and I don't see how it can be wrong to cuddle a crying child.

Just feed on demand, and don't try to force the baby into a routine before it's ready.

rjh090384

its not the feeding routine i worried about she gets more than enough. was just about how to get her to go down without screaming the place down. i do feed her when she wakes up for food which is normally once a night but there were a few times when she was sleeping during hte night so wondered what the difference is.

feclmum

ive also done the bath, feed, story bed routine with all four of mine and 3 out of the 4 slept through by 12weeks,babies thrive on routine , we also play a childrens meditation cd in the room when we out them down and leave it on low, even now the youngest is 3 they still have it playing every night they say it gives them nice dreams!!
there are no rule books with children its all trial and error just trust your instincts and dont be hard on yourself when something doesnt work

beckseven

My little boy started to sleep through from 16weeks onwards when I went to get his 3am feed and by the time I got back he was asleep again until 7am so I thought that he obviously didn't need it anymore. I continued with a dream feed at 10.30 until he was 6months and he has been a great sleeper since-he was quite small for his age until then and he did need the extra feeds until he was weaned. It's all personal choice and some people can't stand the thought of them crying themselves to sleep and think it is wrong and some are ok to do this. In my case I used to put my DS down for naps and bedtime and he would cry for a little while-i'd never let it go for more than 10 minutes without going in again and then drop off. Now he is 2 and a half and has been going to bed happily from about 6months onwards without crying-we bought a Fisher Price aquariam that plays lullabys and he played and chatted with that until he fell asleep and now he just says 'Night night mummy see you in the morning' and happily snuggles down so it worked for us. Just try what works best for you. Good luck