https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 20 May 2026 13:12:28 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleepingnursing-to-sleep-and-babysitters#post-2185678 Thu, 21 May 2015 11:17:44 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2185678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@miramira: this weekend! Saturday out for nice dinner with a gf so dh will try bedtime. Sunday we are going on our first date so our babysitter will try. We might come home before bedtime though if I have my way. </p> <p>@Mrs. Oatmeal: @JessKas: @FaithFertility: @Rockies11: @mrsjyw: thank you guys so much. I can't wait till I am used to this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleepingnursing-to-sleep-and-babysitters#post-2185297 Thu, 21 May 2015 08:41:14 +0000 mrsjyw 2185297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS took a bottle if I wasn't around to nurse him to sleep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleepingnursing-to-sleep-and-babysitters#post-2185292 Thu, 21 May 2015 08:38:21 +0000 Rockies11 2185292@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I nursed to sleep for a very long time (heck I still do at 22 months) and whenever she was with different caregivers I told them to fly at 'er and do whatever they thought would work. They always managed to get her to sleep! She also never took a bottle, so feeding her to sleep wasn't an option. I read somewhere that babies adjust to different caregivers and different ways of being put to bed by them, and in my experience it was true. My baby was also by no means an easy baby! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleepingnursing-to-sleep-and-babysitters#post-2185212 Thu, 21 May 2015 08:00:35 +0000 FaithFertility 2185212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD will fight to nurse from me in MOTN wakes but if DH is home, bang a few rocks from him and shebis out again!<br /> I think they figure it out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleepingnursing-to-sleep-and-babysitters#post-2185190 Thu, 21 May 2015 07:54:44 +0000 JessKas 2185190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Agree with PP, it's different with each caregiver. I always had to nurse to sleep, but LO would take a bottle and go to sleep with DH. Also, I couldn't get her to nap without nursing when she went to daycare at 12 months, but she would nap for them. You never know! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleepingnursing-to-sleep-and-babysitters#post-2185072 Thu, 21 May 2015 02:41:29 +0000 miramira 2185072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree with Mrs Oatmeal. He may behave differently if someone else is watching him. Maybe you could give it a trial run before you go back to work? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleepingnursing-to-sleep-and-babysitters#post-2185069 Thu, 21 May 2015 01:57:22 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 2185069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She always took a bottle from anyone other than DH and I. I found, when nursing to sleep wasn't an option, she usually settled with a bottle, rocking, and bouncing on the exercise ball. Might be easier than you think for someone else to put baby down! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleepingnursing-to-sleep-and-babysitters#post-2185043 Wed, 20 May 2015 23:42:02 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2185043@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Any cosleeping/nurse to sleep moms out there with tips on how to get other people to be able to put your baby to sleep? I am about to go back to work and I almost always nurse my 4 m old to sleep. It works well for us 75% of the time, the rest I think he's overtired and I just rock him while holding him really tight. I used to put him in his crib for first stretch, but lately he will wake up twice needing to be rocked or bounced back to sleep, and then within two hours wanting a feeding. Then I can't get him back to crib and he'll spend rest of the night with me. I have been putting him in my bed from the get go and he will have 1 or no wake ups before 1 am. </p> <p>I will be at work until 11 pm and my husband won't get home weekdays till 945. Bedtime is usually 8 pm. Childcare will be my husband on weekends and two weekdays split between my mom and a babysitter. </p> <p>Tonight I tried a bottle to sleep but it didn't really work, plus probably a habit I don't need to try to form! I am guessing rocking and singing are the best bets. </p> <p>Any advice for people who have been there? How do you teach someone else to put him down when you are the only one who's done it? </p>