Baby Wise Moms

momatheart

Can you give me any insight to starting Baby Wise this late in the game?  My boys are 3.5 months.  What do you do when one wakes and is screaming constantly so they don't wake the other baby in the same room?  I am nervous to start but I have to find more than 15 minutes to do something around the house or shower.  Please help.  

UsedToBeGoldie

i really can't help much with starting it that late... just realize that it's a goal to get them on the schedule- and it won't always happen - even if you started it day 1 - they are always changing, so just when you think you have it down- they change it up... so if you have the 3-hour rotation of sleep/eat/play as a goal - and do what you can to get there as good as you can... that's all you can do

as far as them crying in the same room - i have never had an issue with it.  My boys don't wake each other, unless it's close to wake up time. If it's the middle of the night and one wakes up crying- the other hardly ever wakes up...  we have never been sticklers for keeping the house quiet for them while sleeping- so they know how to sleep through dogs barking, their big brother making noise, etc...

we do have a white noise machine on in both rooms (griffin's and the twin's)... and i think that helps a little, too - so it's not like a totally quiet room suddenly has a crying baby... there is always some noise.

momatheart

That helps.  Thank you.  We have also been really good about making sure they don't need a really quiet room to sleep in.  That's great to know it will help with this process too.  

 

I just want them to STTN so bad!  I am dying for some sleep and to be able to nap at the same time during the day and for more than 15 minutes.   

CV2011

Do some research on Baby Wise before you try that technique...I was desperate to try anything but after reading some horror stories about babies getting so sick and dehydrated I quickly changed my mind...I will not train my babies just for sleep..it will all happen in due time!

CarolynAndBrad

Baby Wise was too much for my taste.  I started really implementing the techniques in Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child (and there's a twins companion) around 4 months and I reference it constantly ever since.  Works great and it's moderate in its approach.