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Bed-time was horrible!

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Tonight I decided to start letting back learn to self soothe. Unfortunately I decided after his afternoon nap & just thought I would try for night time. 

Our regular routine (without letting LO self soothe) consisted of us having one angry baby sitting in his bouncer while we ate dinner around 7 pm. He eats dinner around 6 pm & wakes up for a bottle at about 10 or 11 pm each night. While we eat, he is fine until we give eye contact. Once we finish eating, I rinse dishes & put them in the dishwasher while H hold's baby & comforts him. Once I'm done, I will usually grab him & H will get in the shower. I will rock LO in the rocker & pat his back. He falls out at about 8 pm & I put him in crib. He's back up in between 10 & 11 for hislast bottle & then STT(restof)N. 

Tonight's routine - I made dinner a little bit earlier & we ate around 6:30 pm. I let him have tummy time on the rug in the living room & we ate in the living room so he could be supervised. After I did the dishes as I usually do them, H handed LO over. I put him in his crib & rubbed his head for a few seconds, kissed his check, gave him his paci, & left the room. Of course he cried. 

After 3 minutes, I went in. Rubbed his head & kind of patted the mattress. He stopped, so I gradually slowed down rubbing his head & patting the mattress. I walked out. He started crying again, so I went in after 5 minutes with the same technique. I left & was back in the room after 10 minutes. The same tecnique & he was quiet. After that, he was crying again. 

I waited 12 minutes & he was not crying!! I didn't wanna go in & wake him or him be awake & just done crying. So I waited for about 10 more minutes, without crying, & then decided to check on him. He was asleep!!! Wow!!

Hope we can finally get him to fall asleep on his on :) 

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Re: Bed-time was horrible!

  • dsmithplus2dsmithplus2
    "letting back self soothe" is supposed to read "letting BABY self soothe"
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  • alisonemmaalisonemma
    Why do you say it was horrible? It sounded like it went relatively well to me!  The first time we did self sooth, Anna was up for HOURS, and she woke again in the middle of the night for about an hour.  She sleeps like a champ now, though.
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  • BejebusBejebus
    I know it sucked in the moment, but that sounds incredibly successful! Keep consistent and the time should lessen each night- GL!
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  • dsmithplus2dsmithplus2

    imagealisonemma:
    Why do you say it was horrible? It sounded like it went relatively well to me!  The first time we did self sooth, Anna was up for HOURS, and she woke again in the middle of the night for about an hour.  She sleeps like a champ now, though.

    I meant for me, haha. Sorry! Should've clarified. I know it was successful, it was just so sad to not be able to hold LO while he cries :( I know it's for the best though. 

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