Baby MCD is here and we just adore him! He's 10 days old. We originally planned for him to sleep in his pnp by our bed at night, but he wanted no part of it. We've been trying the rock n play, but he'll stay in it for about an hour at the most before fussing. If I bring him in our bed, he'll sleep 2-3 hour stretches, which is what I've been doing, but we'd prefer not to co-bed. Any advice?? Are we starting a habit by bringing him into the bed to sleep? During the day we mostly hold him or put him in the baby ktan, but he will stay in the rock n play also during the day for longer stretches than at night. Stressed out first time mommy over here... Any thoughts/ advice would be much appreciated!!
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Are you swaddling? We were having trouble with DD at night until we started swaddling arms out at only a few days old. She much preferred having her arms free but still liked the tightness of the swaddle around her midsection. We quickly switched to the Halo swaddle sleep sack because it was easier to swaddle with arms out than the A+A blankets. Just a thought, I know every baby is different!
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Yes we're using the swaddle me sacks but haven't tried arms out... He might prefer that, as he seems to like to move his arms!
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@MCD919: Good luck! And congratulations
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Congratulations! I had the same experience and for the first few months I just let him sleep on me. I know it is not a helpful response to hear if you don't want to co-sleep but it was the only way I could get any sleep! Around three months, we discovered the miracle blanket and that worked great until he was too big for it. I highly recommend it. Good luck!!
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DS was very much like this and we're still transitioning away from it at 10 weeks. We used to co-sleep pretty much the entire night, then half the night, now I'm down to about 5 or 6 am on. What's been working for us to is to just keep trying to put him down alone for as much as he'll tolerate it. I started out putting him in the PnP completely asleep, but now we're working on drowsy but awake. It's still a work in progress, but it's slowly getting better.
ETA: I know for us swaddling, especially arms in, is key to getting more than a few minutes of sleep out of him. Without swaddling his arms they would flail around and wake him up. Babies that young don't really *want* to move their arms purposely, it's just a reflex.
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We were having the same trouble until we started swaddling him very tight. Our swaddles were just too loose in the beginning.
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Congratulations!
E was like this...but completely refused to be swaddled, hated the co-sleeper. Not gonna help, but after a night dozing off in a recliner holding him we ended up co-bedding just so I could get any sleep. And I held him for pretty much every nap.
After we decided to co-bed I didn't work to hard to change it, though, because I was getting sleep and it made night-feedings super easy.
The silver lining is that at 5.5 months we moved him to his crib and he's a great sleeper there, now! (which is no help to you now, sorry!)
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You can't spoil a baby! We had the twins in bed with us until about 6 weeks. Then I transitioned them over to bassinets in our rooms until they outgrew them around 5 months. My son went into a pack and play and my daughter a mini crib in our room until about 8-9 months. Slowly my daughter then my son made their way back in bed with us but that was more because they were still waking at night 3 times to nurse and it was easier on me that way. I have 2 beautiful cribs in their own room that have never been used.
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We sort of had this problem. From about weeks 2-4, DD would only sleep on me. The minute I would out her in the rnp she would wake up. After this happened once or twice a night, I would give up and let her sleep on me bc I just needed to sleep! I kept trying each night though to put her down, and one day she was suddenly fine there! She has slept in the rnp basically without problems every since (well at night, naps are another story). I suggest you keep trying but also allow cosleeping if it's the only way you can get any rest for now.
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Congratulations! I subscribed to the "do whatever you need to do to get your baby to sleep and worry about removing any sleep crutches later" theory. It just causes unnecessary stress for everyone otherwise! If it works, keep doing it. I would say around 3mths is the time to start getting your baby to fall asleep on their own, if you want to. Although some parents and babies co-sleep successfully for years
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Congratulations! My DD was/is the same way. She's almost 8 weeks and we've just managed to get her to sleep in her bassinet for the first nighttime stretch, but no luck yet for the rest of the night. Part of our problem is that she has some reflux, so I think she's uncomfortable on her back. She also hates the swaddle and screams bloody murder when we try, though I've found the Halo swaddle sacks work best because we can leave her arms out until she's asleep and then sneak the swaddle part around her. Really, though, I think babies just need to grow out of it -- though I admit the lack of sleep (or I should say good sleep, since I'm always half awake when she's on or next to me) is killing me slowly...
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@Zbug: that's pretty much exactly our story, so hopefully it will get better!
Thanks so much everyone... It really helps to know we're not the only ones to go through this and it will get better. I just want what's best for this little guy!
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