Routine for babies

Ms_Piggy_2

Glad to hear things are settling down a little.

It's a good idea to make day and night 'different' - so lots of interaction, talking, singing and fun during the day and less (or none!) at night. Sounds like you are doing this already.

Unfortunately light mornings means babies, toddlers and children do wake up earlier!

freebiequennie

Glad things are getting better and if she has some reflux then 3hrly feeds are a good idea she will slowly take more feed, when you put her to sleep fold a towel under the matress (not directly under her head) so its slightly tilted then that will help with any reflux.

Just finished a night nanny job baby now 16wks old but was 4 1/2 wks prem and slowly but surely we have got her sleeping through I did 2 nights week, and parents followed routine advice I posted with some tweaking as they needed, but for past 3wks we have been using cooled boiled water a night and very minimal controlled crying ie- baby sucked fingers when she was tired so if she woke and cried for more than couple mins would go in see if she would settle with some hushing noises and if not then would offer water, this last week or so she hasnt needed anyone to go in more nights than not she has slept through and if she has woken literally been one or 2 cries and she has resettled self.

Molly41

hngrymummy wrote: »

Hi Molly41. I too am interested in this. Do you know where I can access the research data at all. This just states that a dummy can reduce cot death but doesn't give any more details or information.

Thanks

Try contacting the http://fsid.org.uk/Page.aspx?pid=191
Specifically look at leaflet download which takes you to NICE website and then click on research which takes to all the research collated including dummy usage

Rainey_LB

Haven't had time to go back and read all the other posts, I know that some people don't like the Gina Ford approach but her book does make a lot of sense, it took me a long time to get my first child into a routine, trying to follow so much conflicting advice. A friend who had a very contented baby in a very good routine recommended it to me, so I read it during my second pregnancy and it just seemed to me like everything made so much sense and could understand why things hadn't gone to plan first time round.

Sticking to the routines as rigidly as they are in the book was never going to work for me, but I used them as a guide and always starting and finishing the day at 7am & 7pm, trying to stick to feed times if possible and not letting her sleep through them in the day etc, by 7 weeks old my DD would go down in her cot and sleep with no fuss, I would give her a dream feed at 10pm (she never woke for this), put her straight back down and she would sleep until 7am. She didn't have a dummy, I did offer her one as she started sucking her thumb and I thought it would be easier to get rid of a dummy later on than a thumb, but she would just spit it out and put the thumb back in......still sucking thumb now when sleepy!!

My DS was a very sucky baby and had a dummy from very early on until he was about 2, our neighbour had a baby at this time so together we put all the 'num nums' as he called them in an envelope and posted them out the door one night on the way up to bed for the new baby as he was now a big boy......could not believe it worked and that was the end of the dummy!!

What I would say is every mum and baby is different, look at all the advice and then take the bits that work for you and leave the rest.

Good luck, hope you start getting some rest soon.