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Suggestions for helping a 10 month sleep
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First of all thanks to everybody whgo responded to my earlier question. Here I am asking your advice on another issue. We need to spend about 45 mins daily at night to get my daughter sleep. This included giving her a bottle\, reading her stories (both of them together take about 15 mins) and then I will need to rock her for about 30-45 mins before she can sleep. I feel she is sleepy but cannot settle down to sleep. We give her a pacifier but that doesnot work. She likes to play with something as a sleeping aid but not always we can get something of her choice ..she mightnot like it and just throw that away. I have tried maintaining a sleep pattern but that doesnot help either. She does sleep always but I will need to rock her for half an hour at least. I donot want to let her cry out. My parents stay with us and she is used to having four people in the evenings(when we are back from work too) and two people(my parents) to attend to her always. Whenever she cries or wants something - we are always there for her. We hold her and soothe her. If I suddenly allow her to cry at night - she will really be very very unhappy. It will be a drastic change. Please advise. |
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Suggestions for helping a 10 month sleep
New Mommy wrote: Hi - First of all thanks to everybody whgo responded to my earlier question. Here I am asking your advice on another issue. We need to spend about 45 mins daily at night to get my daughter sleep. This included giving her a bottle\, reading her stories (both of them together take about 15 mins) and then I will need to rock her for about 30-45 mins before she can sleep. I feel she is sleepy but cannot settle down to sleep. We give her a pacifier but that doesnot work. She likes to play with something as a sleeping aid but not always we can get something of her choice ..she mightnot like it and just throw that away. I have tried maintaining a sleep pattern but that doesnot help either. She does sleep always but I will need to rock her for half an hour at least. I donot want to let her cry out. My parents stay with us and she is used to having four people in the evenings(when we are back from work too) and two people(my parents) to attend to her always. Whenever she cries or wants something - we are always there for her. We hold her and soothe her. If I suddenly allow her to cry at night - she will really be very very unhappy. It will be a drastic change. Please advise. I can tell you what I did, but one reason it worked well for me was that I like to go to bed *early*. If the kids are in bed, I want to be in bed, too. When mine were this age, they'd fall asleep next to me in bed while I read a book. Then I'd move them to the crib. Occasionally, I'd fall asleep first, but that wasn't a problem - we'd just sleep together. If you want to be able to get her to sleep more quickly, and then go off and do something else, this might not be a good method. Clisby |
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Suggestions for helping a 10 month sleep
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I was hoping someone here would come up with some brilliant suggestions that would work for your situation. My daughter was like this. It got harder and harder for me to get her to sleep and then keep her that way. I also would not let her cry it out. This is when I started co sleeping. For my family it worked well. We all got much more sleep. I have coslept from day one with my two subsequent children. Cosleeping does not work for everyone and you may not want to go down that road. If you do try cosleeping you should make sure it is safe for your baby. Ideally use a bed rail, and make sure their is no adult bedding near her. I used to swaddle, wrap my babies till they were about 8 months old and put them on top of our bedding, with no pillows nearby. Our bed has no head board or foot board to worry about. I am sorry I do not have any better suggestions. Larissa Larissa |
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Suggestions for helping a 10 month sleep
I don't know if I have any good advice for you. My daughter is 15
months old and our situation is similar to yours. We take a bath at 8, play quietly until 8:30, read in bed until 8:45...then I nurse her until she falls asleep. All of these times are give or take and it often takes up to 40 minutes of nursing until she falls asleep. We also co-sleep, and she nurses 3-4 times/night. I've been feeling really frustrated by this lately. I've been wishing that I could just put her in the crib, kiss her goodnight, and then not hear from her for 10-12 hours. When I start to feel really resentful about the whole thing, I think about what those other parents had to go through to get to the point that a child will sleep on his/her own - often it involves a lot of crying and I'm not willing to do that, and it sounds like you aren't either. Keep up with the routine, maybe your baby will starte anticipating that it is bedtime (as my dd does now) and give you an easier time. Other than that, try to enjoy those moments at night, rocking your child to sleep. What a wonderful way to fall asleep at night, right? It sounds like you are a really loving, nurturing mother. I'll keep an eye on this topic to see if I can get any good ideas, too! Good luck! Karen, Amelia's mama (07/04) |
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