When to Start Letting Baby Sleep in Crib
 01-25-2005, 11:41 PM | #i |
| crystal_barnes Newbie (female person) Bring together Engagement: Jan 2005 Posts: 4 | Won't Sleep in Crib I have a five calendar week old that will not sleep in his crib. At first he would but sleep on my chest and at present nosotros take him sleeping in his machine seat. At his one calendar month appointment I questioned his dr. about this and he stated that now is the time to correct this "event". He said to put him in the crib every night and if he hadn't fallen a sleep within 45 minutes to take him out and allow him to sleep in the car seat. This is solar day five and all he does is scream the whole time. I have tried putting pillows underneath the mattress, leaving a nightlight on and off, and leaving his mobile on and off, giving him a bath before, laying him downwards a wake and a slumber. Zip is working. Once he calms downward, he'll fall a sleep in my artillery and I'll put him in the car seat and he won't wake up. Any suggestions would be great, I return to work in two weeks and would like to take him sleeping in the crib by than. |
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| 01-26-2005, 07:40 AM | #2 |
| siren1024 Senior Veteran (female) Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Jacksonville, AL U.s. Posts: 997 | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib I have to say here I don't hold with your pediatrician. My pediatrician didn't either. Babies that young only know what makes them comfortable and what doesn't. They are far to young to be forming habits. My son also hated the crib. Information technology's very common because afterward being snuggled within you, they want to be secure. The crib is likewise "open" for them. Plus, they just experience safe with mom. He also hated back sleeping and startled awake similar he was falling every few minutes, but I was agape to put him on his stomach. So he slept in his carseat every dark in my room (or with me subsequently the first nighttime feeding) for the commencement few months. He felt more secure in there. I've heard swaddling can help too, just my son would always squirm out of a swaddle no matter how tightly we wrapped him. I also felt pressured for him to sleep in his crib, but I'd put him in there, and he'd weep and weep, and I couldn't stand up it cause I knew he was crying because he but wanted me to go him and didn't understand why I didn't. Equally far as "correcting the outcome" in my experience, all that is important in the first few months is survival. Doing whatever gets anybody the most sleep! By 6 or 7 months, if you transistion them to the crib, they usually do fine. My son did. He has been sleeping 12 hours through the night in his crib since we put him in there at about 7 months. They are old plenty to know at that point that you will always exist in that location and will come dorsum for them. Newborns don't have any idea of object permanence. Basically, if they can't see something it doesn't exist anymore. I couldn't stand the thought of leaving him crying for that reason. Don't experience pressure level or guilt if you make up one's mind you lot want to go on him with you at night. Information technology'south natural. All the rest of the creature kingdom does it, and every culture in the world likewise ours does it besides. Of course, if you decide y'all need him in the crib, you lot tin can attempt swaddling, or one of those sleep positioners to make him feel more "cuddled." My son would oftentimes sleep better on his side than on his dorsum. Good luck! __________________ |
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| 01-26-2005, 08:33 AM | #3 |
| chelle4 Inferior Member (female person) Join Engagement: Jan 2005 Posts: 30 | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib after about eight weeks dh and i alsways insisted our kids slumber in their cribs. but i wasn't particular about position, in fact all slept on the tummy's, which about peds will say is fine again so long as your matress is regulary disinfected. my advice on how would be to dress baby warm enough to not need blankets, unless you plan on swaddling. then i would pick a routine and stick with information technology. don't change it when it doesn't piece of work the get-go night. ex. bathroom, go far pj's, sit in rocker and sing a lullaby very softly with the lights off in room. then identify baby gently in crib in any position he may prefer. quietly leave room, making sure that all is quiet and night. things that make racket or shed light will overstimulate baby, and make it even harder to slumber. now be prepared for the crying to showtime. chech baby every 10-xv min to brand certain he has not tangled himself or wedged himself in corner, and so quietly exit without picking babe upward. you lot may take to exercise this for hrs the showtime fourth dimension. if babe ends up needing a feeding, quietly feed in the darkened room with no stimulation, and then start again. it will be crude the start 2-3 nights but you volition exist shocked at how speedily they answer and learn to comfort themselves. equally a parent if i new i had to become back to piece of work, and infant would exist in a daycare setting i would want to equip my child to comfort themselves. i accept done this with all three of my kids ages 4 and twin iii yrolds, and i volition do this with the new baby do in july. all of my kids have slept thru the dark around 8-12 weeks with 1 eye of the nighttime feeding. the primal is consistency and routine. i promise that helps |
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| 01-26-2005, 11:sixteen AM | #four |
| crystal_barnes Newbie (female) Join Appointment: Jan 2005 Posts: 4 | Re: Won't Slumber in Crib Thanks for your replies. I've tried the swaddling thing, and he absoletly hates it. Even in the infirmary he hated it. I'm going to attempt the sleep positioner, considering I noticed that he likes sleeping on his side more than his back. I simply get sick to my stomach every night he's in the crib screaming. I don't know how many more nights I can take listening to him cry. Especially when he stops as soon as I pick him up. I experience bad, like I'g punishing him. I don't experience him sleeping in the car seat is an "issue", simply the doctor does. I'm a get-go time mother and I don't know everything. The dr. feels that letting him sleep in the car seat volition cause bigger issues as he gets older. |
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| 01-26-2005, 01:01 PM | #5 |
| siren1024 Senior Veteran (female) Join Appointment: Feb 2003 Location: Jacksonville, AL USA Posts: 997 | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib What kind of issues will sleeping in the carseat crusade? Is your doctor older? I gauge I just lucked out, because my dr. was Center Eastern, and he saw absolutely no problem with those types of things, since culturally, information technology is acceptable and even expected for babies to sleep with or near their moms in other parts of the globe. My son went to sleep in his carseat every night and slept 4-v hours. And then he woke for his nightime nurse, and I'd keep him with me for the residual of the night and we both got sleep. I remember trying to brand him sleep on his own in one case and felt sick, just similar you lot said. That'due south when I said "I'g his mother and I know instinctively that he needs ME!" And then I just went with the menstruation. And as I said earlier, he transitioned beautifully to his crib at 7 months with a couple nights of crying information technology out in his crib. At that age, they're aware of alot more than simply wanting you, KWIM? My pediatrician told me of something he'd seen in school where video of Western moms and newborns were shown to women in Africa and Bangladesh. All the women were very distressed when watching the videos at how long it took western moms to respond to their babies cries. And they were all blown away by the way we try to force independence on such helpless young babies. They thought it wasn't natural. My pediatrician said "And so if your instinct is telling you it's non natural, you have to go with it." He was a firm laic in prompt response to babies younger than 6 months. He also said that babies younger than six months can't form habits or be spoiled. He attended University of Chicago Med School. And so if in that location'south anything you'll learn existence a new mom, it'south that doctors aren't God, and they aren't always right, and many of them volition tell yous many dissimilar things. You lot accept to know that yous know what's best for your babe and trust your instincts. Skillful luck! I know it's tough. __________________ |
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| 01-26-2005, 01:07 PM | #6 |
| siren1024 Senior Veteran (female) Join Engagement: Feb 2003 Location: Jacksonville, AL The states Posts: 997 | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib Quote: Originally Posted past crystal_barnes I'grand a first time female parent and I don't know everything. I only saw this quote... no, you don't, but neither does the doctor!! Have organized religion in yourself and your instincts. Babies are very adaptable. It's really hard to "spiral them up" in the first few months. LOL. Believe me, I know. Larn as you get what's right for Yous and try non to worry so much most what the doctors say. I could tell you of a case where my maternal instincts saved my son from being hospitalized with a strep infection at 3 ane/two months, even though the doctors told me naught was wrong with him. Hang in there, okay?? You're a good mom! There's no sense in making yourself sick every dark. __________________ |
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| 01-27-2005, 06:xx AM | #vii |
| rouge Senior Veteran (female)Join Appointment: Jan 2005 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 871 | I don't have whatsoever parenting advice from my pediatrician. They study medical stuff in med schoolhouse not parenting. The advice they requite is their opinion or advice from their own experiences. Especially with a human being pediatrician. My husbad is clueless virtually parenting, so why would a male pediatrician know any more. My point is that parenting is non always instinctual. Of course responding to your babies crys and simply "knowing" certain things about thier well existence is instinctual. Still, knowing about routines and how to deal will helping them learn to sleep are non nesasarily (sp?) instinctual. Luckily in that location are many out there, who have studied and worked with many parenting problems for many years and then they write books. There are some really great books out there on sleeping. However, even the weep it out books warn you not to let them cry this early. They are learning trust at this age and if you don't respond to their only way of communicating to you then they will learn that you will not exist there for them when they need y'all. This will manifest itself later on with an overly clingy child who is not very independant and hard to displine (imho). Some books that saved my life are "Secrets of the Baby whisperer"; "The no cry sleep solution"; "The happiest babe on the block". I highly recomend you getting all or at least one of these books. Near are available at your library if you tin't purchase them. The info in them is and then important to know. If you are assault the weep it out aproach (which you can do when infant is older) yous can get the Ferber book "Solving you childs sleep issues" If yous desire to cry it out - get the volume, there is a set way of doing it. You are correct on when you feel bad well-nigh letting baby cry, your mommy instincts are working well. Skilful luck - the first months are Sooo hard you will go throuh it though. |
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Re: Won't Slumber in Crib 
| 01-27-2005, 09:20 PM | #8 |
| BioAdoptMom3 Senior Veteran (female person) Bring together Date: January 2004 Location: FL Posts: 1,207 | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib I concur with most of the others here. Just use the carseat if it works. Think about it. Your Ped says it may cause issues every bit he gets older. What kind of bug? Does the ped think he is going to be sleeping in his carseat when he is in kindergarten? LOL! Simply enjoy your baby and remember that cypher lasts forever. We had 2 babies during the tummy sleeping era (prior to 1993) and adopted ane after BTS. I tin tell based on firsthand experience that the vast majority of babies do not slumber well or for very long apartment on their backs. Do whatever works with which you are comfortable, whether it exist the carseat, the swing, sleeping on the side or sleeping on the tummy (SIDS rates for tummy sleeping newborns are not even close to 1%). Nancy |
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| 02-02-2005, 07:26 AM | #9 |
| astw22 Senior Fellow member (female person) Bring together Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 293 | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib I agree.. if the carseat works use it... in the early months you have to do whatever works for your babe.. and I don;t call back its possible to spoil a infant under half-dozen months... that being said... my DD is two months former and is sleeping in her crib... at first she was in a bassinet in our room but her noises were keeping me up at nighttime so I thought I would try the crib and so I could get some slumber as well... At beginning I tried putting her in there for naps and she would non sleep..she would cry and cry until I picked her up and and so she would fall asleep...I laid a familiar blanket down on the mattress and the next time I put her down for a nap she went to sleep.. I dont know if it was the smell, coincedental or what information technology was but it worked.. she has been sleeping in her crib now every nighttime no problems.. and as a bonus sleeping through the night between seven-eight hours... you might try this.. information technology worked for me... adept luck and let united states know how it goes... __________________ To view links or images in signatures your mail service count must be x or greater. You currently take 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. Yous currently accept 0 posts. |
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| 02-14-2005, 04:38 PM | #10 |
| silver007 Junior Member (male) Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: thirteen | Re: Won't Slumber in Crib Our little daughter is half-dozen months. Just concluding week she started sleeping in her crib, knock on wood. This is our beginning child and no ane tin can say it too many times or strongly enough - DOCTORS DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING. Hell, I consider myself lucky if they know much at all! Bask that little packet of dear and don't endeavour to make it too complicated. |
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| 02-27-2005, 09:46 PM | #11 |
| trace0914 Newbie (female) Bring together Appointment: February 2005 Posts: i | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib This really works! I tried (unsucessfully) to become my 7 month old to transition from sleeping with me to sleeping in his crib. He COULD NOT put himself to sleep unless he was in his swing. I tried for a calendar week in a half to just go him used to his crib for naps, to no avail. Leaving him upset and crying for upwards to 2 hours at a fourth dimension. Finally, I put him in for practiced a few nights ago....I read him a story (so that I wasn't just dropping him off and running out the door), told him goodnight, and then put my ROOMBA vacuum cleaner in, turned information technology on and left the room. Within minutes, my babe was finally able to put himself to sleep, peacefully. I knew that white dissonance (fans, vacuums, etc. helped to soothe babies to slumber) and luckily, I just received a Roomba vacuum as a Valentine'south Day present. They usually retail for $150. It is great to have a vacuum cleaner that does the vacuuming for you, and as an added bonus, a sleep aid for my vii month onetime! |
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| 02-27-2005, x:04 PM | #12 |
| flash1079 Newbie (male) Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: iii | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib I would too reccomend using the "Ferber" method. He says that you start putting your baby in his/her crib for an alotted ammount of time (yet long you are comfy) and if your baby is still crying at the cease of that fourth dimension, become back in, soothe him and and then leave again. Do this until the infant falls asleep. The next week increase the time past 5 minutes. Pretty soon, yous will be able to put your infant down and he will fall comatose on his own. One more thing is important, develop a night time routine. Make it calming and continue it the same each night. We have quiet play and get fix for bed about an hour before bed, and just do relaxing things... and then when 8:00 comes, nosotros put her in her bed. We only got to 15 minutes, now she falls asleep with minimal crying. She all the same doesn't "similar" going to bed, but she's able to put herself to sleep now. And we went from rocking her to sleep every night, to only putting her downwardly. It was rough, and took us about two-three weeks. But I can tell you lot information technology is worth it!! |
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| 03-04-2005, 06:48 PM | #xiii |
| sam0831 Junior Member (female) Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 48 | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib my girl only turned vi months quondam, I held her in my arms while she slept for the first 4 months, information technology is the only fashion either ane of u.s.a. got an ounce of sleep, every one from my hubby to my doctor my mother my mil my best friend, anybody criticised me - they said I was creating a monster, every week, i would try her crib at nap time, she was never ready, then one twenty-four hour period two months agone she fell asleep and she has been in her crib since. i started with brusque periods, naptime and such so slowly moved to night fourth dimension. she sleeps only in her crib and i am happy to report she is finally sleeping thru the night. moral - every child is different and you do what feels right for your babe -ps- there is a cd called infant at-home that plays the sweeper, the dryer and the pilus blower - information technology besides part of the reason i got her in her crib considering she too loved the vaccum. i copied to some other cd and play it over and over for most 2 hours proficient luck |
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| 03-09-2005, 02:41 PM | #14 |
| TAZMZN Senior Member Bring together Date: May 2004 Posts: 230 | Re: Won't Sleep in Crib My first DS now 20 months old, slept in his carseat until he was about 6 months onetime. He wouldn't sleep in his crib at all, and he felt more safe and secure in his carseat. My DH hated that I let him do information technology, simply I was the ane that had to go up and tend to him at nighttime, and so I did what worked best for the both of u.s.. In one case I got him down to a routine and he had developed expert sleeping habits, I would allow him autumn asleep in his carseat and and then gently move him to his crib. This worked extremely well! Now with my second DS, 9 days old, I take noticed that he as well doesn't really similar to sleep in his crib. He actually prefers to sleep on my breast, but this makes me nervous...so I have discovered something that might work for you. It is called a "Boppy Pillow". You tin can get it at most baby supply stores, runs nearly $xxx and it looks kind of like a donut that is not completely hooked on one side. I put my DS in this pillow, propped up in his crib and he sleeps better! I think that he likes it because it simulates the same holding sensation he would feel if I were belongings him rocking him in my arms. You should attempt it. That way he still feels safe and y'all have him out of the carseat. As well, I agree with what some of the other posters said about overstimulation. At night brand sure that his room is dark and quiet. Best of luck! |
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