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Putting your 3.5mos old down awake

thomas&lynnthomas&lynn member
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This has now happened 4 times in the past 2 wks or so. I'll be nursing and rocking him to sleep at night and he'll just be wired. Thrashing about, eyes wide open, can't "sit" still, whathaveyou.

He's usually quick to put to bed...like 20mins?....but when it starts getting close to 40mins of this nurse-rocking thing we do, I have simply kissed him and put him down in his crib. Wiiiiiiide awake. I figure I've got about 5mins to pee, get a drink of some sort, maybe even throw a few crackers in my mouth and then I'll go back in and resume (refreshed lol) before he starts fussing seriously.

One time this plan did not work and I did have to go back in and start from scratch and he was asleep a 1/2hr later. But tonight makes 4 times he's just.gone.to.sleep. It's amazing that he can do this!! I know books say babies his age are "capable" of doing it and I do think you've just got to catch it right, but DANG I'm impressed. 

Are you able to put your similarly-aged baby down *awake* and find they fall asleep on thier own with ZERO crying? (I had to do Ferber at 8mos for DD to do this!)

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  • amykins1283amykins1283 member
    I've never had to Ferber or do CIO with DS.  I usually like to wait until he's fairly drowsy before I put him down just because of the extra cuddles but sometimes he's wired and thrashing all around so I just set him in his crib, leave, and listen on the monitor.  He's been able to fall asleep on his own (maybe needed one pacifier replacement) most of the time. 

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  • KalamazaarKalamazaar member
    DD has been doing this for about the past two weeks, but only at night. She doesn't cry, but she does babble before falling asleep.
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  • msditz00msditz00 member
    We've been putting him to bed awake from the beginning.  There have been times an hour later he is still awake, but he happily entertains himself until he falls asleep.  If he does fuss, I won't pick him up - I just "bounce" the mattress and it settles him down.
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  • bakerlmbakerlm member

    I just set my son in his crib, awake (but absolutely NOT wide awake) and he will put his fingers in his mouth, flip on his tummy, and go to sleep.  I don't even hear gurgles from him most nights.  After a few nights like yours when he was younger, we decided changes had to be made.  We put him on a nap "pattern" where he sleeps about every 2 hours (used to be about an hour and a half).  My son is a cat-napper most naps, with the exception of one or two "good" naps a day.  We don't let him nap past 7pm.  He goes to bed without issue after a bottle at 8:30pm.  He sleeps through the night and soothes himself back to sleep if he wakes up.  We have a 5 minute cry policy... if he cried longer than 5 minutes or was holding his breath crying, we'd get him.  Most times he didn't make it to 5 and he was asleep.  Now we just lay him down and off to sleep he goes. 

    Our "pattern" is loosely based on BabyWise.

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