Started a Bad Habit?

Crequito

DD will be 6 months next Tuesday (yay!) and has been sleeping 8-10 hours straight at night for the past 2 months.  She normally goes down between 7:30 and 8:30pm and wakes for a small bottle around 4 or 4:30am.  The past few nights it's been so difficult to get her to go back down after her small bottle and stay asleep.  She'll get drowsy after feeding and burping but once I put her in her crib she's wide awake.  DH and I think it's because her sheet is cold by the time I put her back down, even though we've started using the heat at night because it's getting chillier.  The past 2 early mornings we've put DD in our bed between us and she's fallen right to sleep - we may have created a monster by doing this.  Any tips??

chimneygrl

We did this and my son is 7 months. He was waking up at 4:30 and then he changed to 5:15 and in the past two day he woke up at 6:30. If it was past 4, we put him between us in bed. We all loved it and it has not changed his habits. When you pick her up for a bottle you could put a heating pad down and then pick it up when you are ready to put her back down. It will keep the bed warm.

Crequito

I think we're going to try the heating pad.  Last night DD woke at 2:30am and was super fussy so I went ahead and offered a 4 oz bottle which she downed.  DH had the idea to pull her mattress out of her crib and lay on it to make it warm and then put it back in the crib right before I was going to lay her down again - it seemed to help.  DD didn't fuss when I put her down drowsy, she just chewed on her sleeper a bit then fell asleep.

Note: DH took the mattress out of the crib because him trying to climb in the crib probably would've broken it!

TheEditor

chimneygrl said:

We did this and my son is 7 months. He was waking up at 4:30 and then he changed to 5:15 and in the past two day he woke up at 6:30. If it was past 4, we put him between us in bed. We all loved it and it has not changed his habits. When you pick her up for a bottle you could put a heating pad down and then pick it up when you are ready to put her back down. It will keep the bed warm.

We did the heating pad when LO was an infant and it worked like a charm.  We are also having trouble with the early morning bottle + time-to-party issue.  I've started rocking LO back to sleep with a blanket over him and then put him in the bed with the blanket wrapped around his waist.  I've found this keeps him from re-waking.  (And yes, we have transitioned to blanket in the bed instead of the sleep sack.)