Putting baby down awake or asleep???

Hey there

How old is he?? There is a post in Toddler Times called "Sleeping Habits" and there we have been talking about controlled crying etc but then it depends on babys age too...

If hes pretty young have you tried wrapping him I found Blake used to startle him self and wake so I went back to wraping and he was good! I did it upto 3 1/2 months.
Hope this helps.
Karen.

Hey Karen,
thanks for your message, I tried wrap him but he likes to have his hands free so he can suck his fingers. I now wrap him in a blanket and then have his main blanket on his aswell

It was ages before Jacob got used to being put down awake. We did the cry it out thing, and it worked after a couple of weeks, although I would go in and get him after 10 minutes. My plunket nurse advised me to stop having a "set bedtime" Idea for night, and just let him go when he was tired, as I found i was trying to get him down from about 7pm till sometimes midnight before he would go to sleep. I started off putting him down at 10pm, he'd cry for 5 or 10 mins then off to sleep. I gradually moved bedtime back by half an hour untill he was in bed by 7. I did that every ten days or so. I found secrets of the baby whisperer an AWESOME book for helping me get some routine into Jacobs sleep patterns, my midwife reccomended it. Also wrapping is meant to be great, but Jake never liked it. Hope this helps?

Also, could be wind? jake had real trouble with this. He liked to suck his fingers, and dare I say it, a dummy, which I would take out just before he was asleep. My p/nurse also said pitting bub to sleep first not such a great idea, because it upsets him when he wakes up and he's not where he went to sleep (i.e your arms), same as the dummy thing, apparently if you use a "prop" to help sleep, you have to use the prop everytime they wake up, but if they learn to go off on their own, they can re selttle themselves if they wake up. Hope that made sense?

I found the same thing with Chloe when she was very young. I was really bad at giving in to her or feeding her or carrying her non stop so she would sleep. I found that using the controled crying method worked really well although it did take about a week of doing it before she learnt to just fall asleep on her own. It may sound really silly but when she was three weeks I found she wouldn't fall asleep unless there was a dim light on. At about 12weeks Chloe started not sleeping very well and after a week of trying the controled crying again I took her to the doc where we found she had colic(really bad wind) and we were given natural ginger mixture to settle her.

ha ha I'm hearing you! Jake still spits it out, would rather thumb suck, which is fine, but when he was littler he would take the dummy in bed, and I would rescue it out before he was fully asleep, seemed to work. I took Jake to Dr for his 6 week check anyway, and we got our vaccinations when we where there, and I had my 6 week check out (which my midwife had done as well)at the same time.

We have a little 7 watt might light which is great, provides Jake with a little light to help him sleep (dosent like dark either) and its just enough for you to see in the middle of nite for feed, change etc, but not bright enough to light up the whole house or drain your power. Got mine at warehouse for about 5 bux.

I think dummys are great!!! I really don't know why everyone in NZ is so anti them! If it works for you then do it. There was something on the news the other day re. dummys being good against SIDS too.... so they can't be all bad!

My little one used to go to sleep on my shoulder at night and she started sleeping through at about 7 weeks old. Lots of people told me that I should let her cry herself to sleep or that she would wake up and be confused but it didn't seem to bother Hannah.
I couldn't let her cry and decided that I was willing to let her fall asleep on me for the next couple of years if I had to seeing as I was the one that had to deal with it. It was when Han was about 3 months that I discovered that she was more than happy to fall asleep by herself so now I know she can do it!
We have had our problems since then (esp during teething) but overall she's an awesome sleeper.

I think I had a point... oh yeah... babies sometimes have a way of sorting themselves out. Good luck with your little one