https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:38:09 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2576419 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 20:50:57 +0000 Mrs. Lion 2576419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used the swing for naps for both kids! It worked great and they both slept great in their cribs at night. And I love that blog too :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2576382 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 19:15:35 +0000 PawPrints 2576382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Orchid: If you're hoping to avoid CIO style sleep training then unfortunately the swing is not going to help - the only thing that will help is to slowly, gently help LO build up positive associations with a regular bedtime routine and going into to crib drowsy-but-awake so she can learn to soothe herself to sleep. The swing is a short term solution sadly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2576359 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:23:27 +0000 Orchid 2576359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PawPrints: the sleep training is the thing I want to avoid. We tried with my son and it was gut wrenching and we couldn't go through with it. I hate the thought of having to.go there again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2576059 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:23:25 +0000 PawPrints 2576059@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caterw: We had the opposite experience; DD immediately took to sleeping in the co-sleeper all night and then the crib when she was bigger (pretty seamless transition from one to the other) - as opposed to naps, which were a struggle. Getting her to initially fall asleep at the beginning of the evening was always a much bigger challenge than the through-the-night stretch, which she was pretty good about slugging through. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2576057 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:20:47 +0000 PawPrints 2576057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 7 weeks, DD was still falling asleep anywhere she happened to be located when she was tired, so we weren't worried about rocking or swings so much just yet. As she got to like 2-3 months I started to stress more and I wish I had just relaxed more. DD did sleep really well in the swing for a while and it was a huge help to me, but I was never able to transfer her from sleeping in the swing to the crib. I only used it for naps, not night time. </p> <p>I think if I had a 7-week-old right now, my Plan A would probably be to do a slow/gradual/gentle introduction to positive sleep associations a la Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child, in the hopes that by the time she was 4-5 months she would be much better prepared for sleep training. If that proved to be too big a struggle though I'd just go for the swing (for naps). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575923 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:33:29 +0000 caterw 2575923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Orchid: We did. DD started napping in the crib earlier than she slept all night in there. I think she was having trouble self-soothing for long periods of time when she had to start sleeping flat/ alone. Napping in the crib was good practice for her to sleep overnight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575698 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 07:14:34 +0000 Orchid 2575698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catlady: it's ok! It's good to hear a variety of experiences. I am a bit torn too. On the one hand, I do need to stop spending so much time putting the baby down because I need to pay attention to my toddler, but on the other hand, I worry about 1) sleeping at an incline versus flat, 2) creating this Sleep association that may be hard to shake, 3) I read somewhere that motionless sleep is the most restorative. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575694 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 07:09:52 +0000 Orchid 2575694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caterw: I'm glad it worked for you! Did you use the same approach for naps? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575628 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 21:38:10 +0000 DesertDreams88 2575628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a bouncer with the same concept, just for naps, and it worked well with a smooth week long transition at 4mo bc of rolling and weight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575605 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:51:16 +0000 catlady 2575605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine started taking naps in the swing at 6 weeks. It was a godsend at the time (first time we could put her down for naps at all) and we kept using it until 12 weeks. I had read Troublesome Tots and really tried to follow their recommendations. But honestly, we had an extremely hard time transitioning out of the swing. She would sleep on the lowest setting but not at all in a stationary swing. At least she was sleeping stationary at night (in a Rock n Play) but the whole transition from swing/RnP to crib was awful. </p> <p>Anyway, sorry to be the one negative one on the thread. We are expecting #2 right now and I am incredibly torn on whether or not to use a swing this time. I am not sure the 6 weeks of naps we got using it was worth the two months of terrible sleep transition that followed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575597 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:31:03 +0000 caterw 2575597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter would only sleep in her swing or nurse down to sleep in our bed and cosleep for probably seven months. I just let her sleep in the swing, which lived in our room, and we did exactly what the blog suggested- lower and lower the amount of swinging. Eventually, we didn't turn on the swing, just the swing music. Then we moved her into her crib and put the swing in her room so we could play the same music. The Snug A Puppy swing saved my sanity in the early days- we were all so much happier if DD would sleep even if it wasn't flat on her back. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575566 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:33:02 +0000 Orchid 2575566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: I find myself obsessing about sleep! I definitely need to relax about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575565 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:31:52 +0000 Orchid 2575565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Maysprout: my first never slept in the crib either. It was used to dump our clean laundry before folding! I really want this baby in the crib though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575564 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:29:26 +0000 Orchid 2575564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSRS: :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575554 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:09:45 +0000 Maysprout 2575554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine hated the crib. We went from swing to trying a little bed next to ours to them on a floor bed by a year. They hated the crib from day 1 and still hated it when I tried to transition them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575547 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:53:29 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2575547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Orchid: I nurse then cuddle in our glider, wait until they are drowsy and then lay them down. If they call asleep nursing I let them be. I try to not make a big deal about bedtime or naps and just follow sleep cues. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575545 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:50:43 +0000 MrsSRS 2575545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575539 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:45:08 +0000 Orchid 2575539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: I love those but my good friend is offering to lend us a swing so there's no way DH will consider us getting one. Did the transitions go well? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575537 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:41:46 +0000 BSB 2575537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our twins didn't sleep in a swing (ours is still new in the box) because they slept in the mammaroos. I know its recommend that they not sleep but we did. I slept right next to them. Eventually we did transition to the rock n play and then to the crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575536 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:38:39 +0000 Orchid 2575536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: ok! That's encouraging! How did you teach then to go to sleep on their own at night? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575534 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:35:36 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2575534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know about the blog, but that's exactly what I've done with all my three. We've never had much trouble in the sleep department.<br /> I'm currently transitioning my five month old from swing naps to crib naps. So far so good.<br /> I've never used the swing for night sleep, only during the day when I'm close by. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/using-baby-swings-troublesome-tots-blog#post-2575529 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:32:18 +0000 Orchid 2575529@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Someone recommended I look at the Troublesome Tots blog for some good sleep ideas. The blog is now apparently called "precious little sleep". Anyway, the writer is a huge proponent of the baby swing as a good way to get babies sleeping without mom/dad. The idea is to put them down awake in swing at highest setting, then gradually reduce swing speed to lowest setting and eventually have baby sleeping in a stationary swing. Then the writer says transitioning from falling asleep by themselves in a stationary swing to falling asleep by themselves in the crib in pretty easy.</p> <p>My baby is 7 weeks and it's time to get my sleep plan in place! Momma's getting tired of rocking (I have a toddler at home with me too).</p> <p>I know the AAP advises against sleeping in an upright position but my LO sleeps now in the rock and play and the incline on that seems even greater than the swings I've seen.</p> <p>Anyway, what do you think about all that? </p>