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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
iris427
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Tell me your bedtime routine
iris427
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How do you get your baby to sleep every night? If baby wakes in the middle of the night, what do you do then, and who is getting up (you or DH)?
Did you do any sleep training? Also if a book helped you, which one?
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Re: Tell me your bedtime routine
1. Attach baby to boob
2. Pop in paci once passed out
3. Lay baby down
Weaning is gonna suck.
When he gives his sleepy cues, dh gives him a bath and bottle. He's usually out by the end of the bottle and if not, he just needs a little bit of rocking to go down. Usually down btw 6:30 and 7:30.
Now, the middle of the night stuff we are struggling with, so I will no comment on that. I'm reading the No Cry Sleep Solution and hope that will help some.
dinner for DS is around 6pm- veggie and cereal with fruit. M,W,F around 630/7pm DS takes a bath and LOVES his bath. Then he gets lubed up, jammies and MH brings up a bottle. 730pm. I feed DS in the dark ( w/ night light) rock him a bit until he starts to get all snuggly and then put him in his crib. For the most part if DS wakes up at anytime while we are still up its because of lost binkie. If he wakes in the middle of the night I am the one that gets up to give him his binkie back. MH just sleeps through the monitor. I try not to let DS see me when I go in so it is better and I turn his crib waterfall on. We never did any sleep training or used any books.
Our routine is the same for bedtime and naps. I recap what we did today, talk about plans for tomorrow (or when she wakes up from nap), read a book, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," put her in the crib and say "nighty night, sleep tighty tight, I love you."
The routine was in place for about a week before I started the CIO part of sleep training (we used Ferber, and it worked very well for us). If she woke up, it was DH going in to check her (because she wasn't hungry- but we think she had sleep associations w/ bfing.)
1 - book
2 - we go around her room and say good night to everyone (bear, fish picture, mermaid lamp, etc.)
3 - nurse or bottle (depends on if DH or I am putting her down)
4 - turn on Beatles lullabye CD and put her in her crib. We ONLY play that CD at bedtime, so I think it is a cue for her
As you can see if you scroll down, I am no help for middle of the night. But she does initially go to bed really well with this routine. GL
Oooh I just posted about sleep regression b/c I had some questions.
Our bedtime routine is bath, book, bottle (used to be boob) and bed. ?He is great about falling asleep and goes right in his crib no problems. ?Except he will sleep about 4hrs and then wake up hourly the whole remainder of the night. ?We take turns, but the last 2 days H has called "Not It" which I am pretty sure is grounds for divorce. . .I kick him and make him get up anyway.
When Ian wakes up in the middle of the night we go in there, pat him on the back and shush (he's a belly sleeper) and he calms right down and goes right back to sleep. ?Except, he will be up again an hour later unfortunately. ?I saw the shush-pat in the Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems book first, then my pedi recommended it a week later. ?I haven't tried any other sleep training methods.
Our routine is still being tweaked, but so far:
Bath, then PJs. Read a book, if she's willing. Nurse. Sing, swaddle, sing, rock/bounce/dance, lay her in the crib, sneak out and hope it sticks.
Night wakings: Before midnightish, if she wakes, DH goes in and soothes her back down. After that, he gets her and brings her to me to nurse. We're trying to start putting her back in bed after nursing rather than having her sleep attached to the boob all night (because then I wake up whenever she latches back on or needs help latching on). We're slowly making progress. Slowly. Very.
I can't do anything CIO-related. No-Cry Sleep and the Dr. Sears sleep book have been mildly helpful, but not really.
Our routine is: Dinner (solids)...we give her last bottle at 5.....at 6:30p, directly into a bath after that, then lotion and pjs, sing a lullabye and in the crib she goes at 7:15ish. Asleep by 7:30pm.
She seems to wake around 10pm about once a week. I do not do CIO for these wake ups because they are only 1x a wk so I feel she must just need the extra hugs. It literally takes me 10mins. I simply rock her and put her back in the crib. Sometimes she is still awake after that but she still goes right back to sleep w no problem. As long as she doesn't start to wake up on consecutive nights, I will not do CIO for these night wakings.
After his dinner, DS gets a bath, lotion, jammies, etc. He nurses, and I read him a bedtime story. Then DH comes in and takes him. He says "goodnight" to me, to his room, and to Mr. Frog. Then DH rocks him for maybe 5 minutes until he gets drowsy and puts him in the crib. He *usually* goes to sleep pretty quickly (sometimes fusses for a minute or two).
It took us a long time to get there. We used the Ferber method and it took a good month before he went down with minimal crying. But he does great now.
He still wakes up to nurse once in the night. DH gets him, changes his diaper, and brings him to our room. I nurse him and settle him back in his crib once he's done (he usually passes out). Sometimes he wakes up randomly and cries, and usually I send DH in to rock him and get him back down, since if I go in he'll want to nurse.
He has gradually dropped his night feedings himself, and I think he still needs the one he has. If he doesn't drop it in a few months, we may try Ferber's method of gradually moving it into the morning.
6 pm- Boob and then a bit of cereal/veggies which most of it gets spit out-she isn't a huge fan of solids.
7 pm- play a bit to get her tired
8 pm- bath time with dad
8:30pm- more boob until she falls asleep/then take her to our room for bed
9:30- I go to bed
2:00am ish- She wakes up and I nurse
4:00am ish- She wakes up and I nurse
Weaning is going to be so hard bc we cosleep most of the night and I always take the easy road out by nursing her. DH is happy to help, but it is just so easy to nurse her back to sleep. She doesn't even really eat, it is just a comfort suck. She won't take a paci so I am just setting myself up for issues when I wean in 6 months or so. But for now we are doing what works.
I read the No-Cry Sleep Solution...not really sleep "training" per se, but an overall plan for how to get your baby to sleep "better".
Bedtime routine is one of the main things the author pushes, up to an hour ahead of time. However, that's tough, so we have included her "sitting in her highchair while we have dinner" as part of the routine. =D
6pm-6:15pm: bath (every other night)
---turn on our sound machine at this point, helps make a bedtime association
6:15-6:20pm: naked baby time/baby massage (what baby doesn't like a little extra naked time?).
6:20-6:30pm: read 2-3 books, while trying to keep DD from eating them
6:30-7pm: this stretches into a long nursing session, and holding her for a bit before putting her down. She sometimes falls asleep nursing, other times I put her down w/ her paci & her FP seahorse and she'll put herself to sleep. Sometimes this is all over by 6:45pm, sometimes it's longer.
DD wakes *sometimes* at 10pm & all she needs is her pacifier back in. At around 2am, she'll want to nurse, so DH changes her diaper and hands her to me.
We get his jammies on, brush his teeth and then he and daddy hang out on our bed playing/reading books until Ben falls asleep. Then, DH waits 20-25 minutes and then carries Ben into his room. I told DH recently that we can't continue to do this until Ben's 5 yo and he got upset with me. He said that this is his time alone with him...and he looks forward to it. So, we're sticking with it, for now.
Now tonight, DH is going out and instead of hanging out on the bed, I will take Ben in his room, rock him to sleep and then put him in his crib.
The only time he really wakes up is when he's got a tooth ready to come in (which he does right now)...and when that happens, we go in and get him and put him in bed with us.
I read The No-Cry Sleep Solution and thought it was a fabulous book. The things she said just made so much sense to me. That being said, we never needed to use the techniques. When I finished it (Ben was 3 months), I put him in his crib one night, just to see what he would do. We were co-sleeping before that and he totally shocked me because he slept for 9 hours that night and never looked back.
very simple.
5:30 dinner
6:00 bath and/or dress for bed
6:30 in bed with night light on, paci in, and musical frog on for 5 minutes or so.
oh forgot he has a bottle around 6:00