Putting LO down for nap question

LaurenandMack · March 2011

Do you rock your baby everytime he/she goes down for a nap? I always give DD a bottle, and rock her to sleep then place her in her crib. DH thinks I am spoiling her and not teaching her to fall asleep on her own. I have never put her down while she is awake, until I tried today and she just cried. I know later I will have to let her cry herself to sleep, but she is just now getting used to her crib and I want her to see it as a "good" place. What is everyone else doing? TIA!!!

Kara5109 · March 2011

Hadley just now decided on her own that she doesn't want to be rocked. When she starts getting fussy I just lay her down and she usually falls asleep in 5 minutes. I think you are doing fine with LO being that young.

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HairStylinWifey · March 2011

I put her down at the first sign of a tired cue. I put her in a sleep sack, give her her paci, and click on her seahorse. Shes asleep in less than 10 minutes.

vandm1107 · March 2011

I rock LO to sleep for naps and nightime, sometimes she has a bottle sometimes she doesn't. I plan on starting to put her down awake and start some sort of sleep training at 4 months.

themissizz · March 2011

My LO still gets a bottle to sleep for naps and overnight. I know that it's a horrible habit, but it works for us, and that's what matters to me right now. He doesn't take a pacifier, or else we'd try that instead.

heyitsme · March 2011

Sometimes I hold him to put him to sleep if he's really tired or restless but most of the time I just lay him down awake with his paci and he goes out. I think it totally depends on the child, though. DD needed rocking/nursing to go to sleep. DS put himself on the EASY pattern early on, with no encouragement from me. I just go with it.

KtLMae · March 2011

We also do the eat-play-sleep but early on it didn't always work. As D got older it got easier to put him down without rocking/holding etc. The only time he goes down right after eating is his last bottle of the day. For naps we either watch cues like others mentioned or if its a day when he hasn't napped at all we put him down with the sleep sheep on. Sometimes it might take up to 15 minutes of him talking to himself or doing whatever but as long as he isn't fussing we let him work it out.

momofmanyinthemitten · March 2011

We do Happiest Baby on the Block. She is pretty much out when we put her down. We shush and jiggle her once she gets in her crib if she starts to wake up. She will not put herself to sleep. She will lay there forever and finally start crying, but she will not go to sleep. I figure she's just not ready for it.

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