Sleep schedules of 3 month olds -

butterbrickle · February 2009

How do you get them to sleep? Put them in their cribs awake? Drowsy? Asleep?

Is there a "rule" at 3 months? I know Ferber method they say not to start til 4 months?

She will start daycare in a month so I want to be sure she will nap in the crib.

Mjmksb04 · February 2009

Do you mean at night or for naps? For naps, he usually can be put in his crib half asleep sucking on his paci. But at night we rock him to sleep. He is still too young to be put down drowsy because if we try it, he gets mad and spits up all over. I figure we will start the drowsy but not asleep when he is able to fall asleep without having a bottle right before at night. I personally would not do Ferber at three months. To me, babies that young still wake up at night because they are hungry or they need something.

hayleydeee · February 2009

She's still napping in her swing a lot of the time, or co-sleeping at night.

But I have found that swaddling her helps a lot. We don't swaddle unless it's sleep time, so when that happens she knows what's coming. The larger size Swaddle Me works well.

I usually put her down drowsy, or awake if I think she'll be tired soon. We don't really have a set?schedule. ?

butterbrickle · February 2009

Mjmksb04:
Do you mean at night or for naps? For naps, he usually can be put in his crib half asleep sucking on his paci. But at night we rock him to sleep. He is still too young to be put down drowsy because if we try it, he gets mad and spits up all over. I figure we will start the drowsy but not asleep when he is able to fall asleep without having a bottle right before at night. I personally would not do Ferber at three months. To me, babies that young still wake up at night because they are hungry or they need something.

Good. I just wanted to be sure she is still too young to try any kind of sleeping method. And I'm glad to hear your response because that's basically what we do.

AmyJ1116 · February 2009

We actually just had this conversation with our pediatrician at Will's 2 month appointment. He told us that by 4 months, you should be putting your child in their crib for all sleeping and that he/she should put themselves to sleep. He said that at 4 months, babies who are rocked to sleep then placed in their cribs begin to wake up and wonder how they got there. As a result, they get scared and cry. Maybe this is the reason for the 4 month wakeful? By putting them to bed drowsy, but awake, when they wake in the night, they know where they are, and they are better able to self-soothe themselves back to sleep.

So to answer your question, we've been working on putting him to bed/naps in his crib only and drowsy. If he fusses after we have left the room, we'll come back in to comfort him until he calms down, but we don't pick him up and rock him. I hope this helps!

mavs_girl07 · February 2009

We just lay her down wide awake and she puts herself to sleep. I don't think there are any "rules" really. I wouldn't do Ferber until at least 4 months. I know in Healthy Sleep Habits, Weisbluth says you can do cio earlier than 4 mos. in certain instances, like when the mom goes back to work. I don't think I could do it though.

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