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She won't sleep in her crib. Please HELP!
My little angel will be 11 weeks monday. We just transitioned her from her PNP to her crib on Tuesday and it has been a NIGHTMARE! It takes her 2+ hours to get her down, if she even goes down (she's in her swing now in the family room with us because i waved the white flag), and when she wakes up for her 3am feeding, it's another 2 hours to get her to go back down.
Am I pushing the crib on her too early? She was a lot easier to get down before. I feel like I've tried every single method down to the blow dryer and the 5 S's, and nothing gets her to sleep until she's utterly exhausted! What am I doing wrong! Please help. I'm so tired.
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Re: She won't sleep in her crib. Please HELP!
I don't really have any advice because I'm going through the same thing! DD used to go down fine in her crib, but this last week has been a nightmare. It take 2+ hours to get her to go down for naps and same at night. (Thankfully, when she's down, she sleeps through the night.)
Don't really know what to do about it either. I'm trying the pat/shush for naps (when she fusses, I just go into the room and pat her back and shush her back to sleep, if she's crying, I pick her up until she's calm, then put her down again). Basically, by the time she's asleep, it's time for her next feed. I figure eventually her brain will get the message that crib=sleep.
Eleanor Noelle - 18/05/12 Claire Elisabeth - 16/-5/10
DD will only sleep through the night on her belly. Some people don't agree with it, but it works for me!
Eleanor Noelle - 18/05/12 Claire Elisabeth - 16/-5/10
You're not doing anything wrong. You just have to figure out what works best for her. DS doesn't sleep long in his bassinet so at some point I started to bring him into bed with us for his 3am feeding. I nurse while laying down and he goes back to sleep and sleeps for a few hours now. I suppose this could bite me in the ass later because he definitely sleeps less and less time in his bassinet or when alone in the middle of the bed. We haven't bought a crib yet because we're moving soon.
I was just about to post a similar question. I was wondering how others are getting their LOs to sleep in their crib? DD will only fall asleep at my breast or in my arms (or in the pram walking during the day) and if I put her in her crib or bassinet she wakes up 90% of the times. if not immediately then within half an hour. And like PP I found that belly sleeping gives the longest stretches of sleep. In fact yesterday she slept 2 hours uninterrupted in her crib on her belly. But then I sat in the next room and went to check on her 27 times lol.
I would not have 2 hours patience to put her to sleep so I feed her in our bed and let her sleep here at night. If she is fussy I let her sleep on my belly, which make it possible for me to sleep too. It is my impression that when babies are this young (mine is 9 weeks) there is nothing wrong in helping them go to sleep and not expect them to be able to do this on their own in their crib. But it seems as some people here are able to, I would love to hear how they do it?
DS is going to be 3 months tomorrow and we have just now started transitioning him out of the swaddle and Rock And Play Sleeper. He just wasn't ready before now. He is the one that told me he was ready.
First, he started sleeping 6-8 hours at a time through the night consistently. Then, one night, I had to put him in the RNP and then walk away to do something really quickly before I could rock him to sleep and he fell asleep on his own. Since then I have been putting him down "drowsy but awake" and he has been able to put himself to sleep every time. After that was happening on a consistent basis I moved him to his PNP for naps and he has adjusted to that really well. Our next step is to start placing him in his crib at night which we will probably start tomorrow.
How was she sleeping in the PNP? I have always been a supporter of the idea that it doesn't matter where baby sleeps at first as long as they are able to establish good sleep habits which means sleeping longer stretches, learning to put themselves to sleep, and developing some self soothing strategies (DS is a thumb sucker...if it works for him right now I decided that I am all for it, haha!). It could be that she's just not ready for the crib yet, which is okay. I would work on getting her to fall asleep on her own in the PNP first, since she is familiar with it, and then move her to the crib.
You could also try one of the "crib soothers" that they make that you can attach to the side of the crib. Fisher Price makes a couple and they play lullabies and have lights that mesmerize babies and help lull them to sleep. If her swing has this feature and she likes it you might think about getting a similar crib soother. DS loves the fish and lights on his Ocean Wonders swing so I am going to purchase an Ocean Wonders crib soother this weekend.
She's probably just not ready. Don't force it.