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bedtime/nap routine

NowDNAtooNowDNAtoo
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We are back to having sleeping issues at night again (naps never straightened out).  We went to the ped today to make sure his ears/nose/throat, etc. all looked healthy.  Of course they are and we just have one of those difficult babes to put to sleep.
 
I know I need to be better about following a consistant routine at night and nap times.  What is or was your routine for putting down your child?
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Re: bedtime/nap routine

  • smacbsmacb

    nurse, bath, nurse, books, nurse, rock, song, nurse

    repeat last three until he's asleep 

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  • SofkaSofka
    DD is 6 weeks old and there really isn't a routine. Sometimes it takes 3-4 hours (yes, hours) from the moment we go up in her nursery till the moment I can actually say "yes, she'll be asleep for the next 1.5-2hrs" - it's really hard, I don't know if it's even normal! I nurse, read, rock, put her down, she cries, I try to calm her, this goes on for a very long time (the crying and me calming her w/out picking her up), eventually she'll need to be changed and nursed again and this goes on and on and on. I'm hoping to have something more routine in a month or so (hoping...)
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  • manciibridemanciibride

    Bed time routine-

    bath, bottle, sleep (she usually falls asleep when she finishes her bottle and I am burping her). 

    During the day its a cycle of eat, play, sleep every 3 to 4 hours.For Nap time we just watch her while she is playing and when we notice the sleepy signs (rubbing eyes, wining) we take her up to her crib, pat her and she fusses a bit and then falls asleep. (nap time routine didn't stick until she was about 4 months, she just turned 5 months last week).

     

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  • KarenbirdKarenbird

    For naps we do a diaper change, put on the sleepsack, and then rock/nurse/sing 3 songs (the same.three.songs.every.time.)

    For bedtime, we start with a bath, then slather on aquaphor (it's dry out here) and then do all of the above.  

    We started the routines at around 4 months.

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  • northernvabridenorthernvabride member

    Naps during the day are only if she is in motion (swing, stroller), so that isn't really a routine - DD is 3 months old. At night, we change her diaper, put on music and watch her projector on the ceiling with the lights off, DH gives her a bottle as we switch to the heartbeat sound, then I nurse her until she falls asleep.  This usually works - but not tonight.  So I had to sing and rock her (she didn't want to eat any more) for an hour.  We are worried about when she goes to daycare (next month) and that she has to be pretty much asleep to be put down for the night, but we figure we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. 

     

    Good luck

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  • AgrippaAgrippa

    When DS hit 3.5 months old, our bedtime routine switched from bath, nurse, bed to bath, nurse, book bed.   For the first week, he alternately cried or slept through the book.  The idea was to just make sure that he was slightly awake before putting him in his crib.

    For a while, I had to come back in 2 or 3 times to bounce/shush him to sleep.

    For naps, I nursed him to sleep for quite a while--up to 5 or 6 months.  Again, I always woke him just a little bit before putting him in his crib.  He got much better about taking naps without me needing to come in and shush him at 4-5 months.

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  • asolareasolare

    i don't do a bath every night because it's bad for her skin (dries it out too much), but if i do, we do it in the hour before bedtime.  it is a great tool for for relaxing her though.

    the nap and bedtime routines are the same (i found doing the same routine for both was the key to getting consistent naps.........and this was a long road for me, trust me!)  she was sleeping 12 hours at night but not napping much and everyone (including my doc) told me, oh, maybe she's just not a big napper, etc. etc....but i kept on and now she is napping two 1 1/2-2 hour naps a day and 12 hours at night.

    we change her diaper, put on her jammies, put her in her sleep sac, read a book, nurse, rock, and then place in crib.  some nights she isn't sleepy enough so i turn on the mobile or soother.  some nights she goes right down.  i am now working on steadily switching the nursing and the book.  i want to seperate the eating from the sleeping.  (she is almost 5 months old for reference.)

    at this time, the room is dark with a nightlight and the sound machine is on at a moderate volume (at night, i turn it down to the lowest possible setting after she's been asleep a few hours and the house is quiet.)  i plan on steadily trying to phase out the sound machine by 1 year or so.

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  • tracy042206tracy042206

    At 3mo old we were still giving her a bottle and rocking her to sleep at nighttime and then putting her in the crib.  What time are you trying to put him down for the night?  How many times does he wake up?  Maggie was still waking up 2x between 9/10PM and 5/6AM at that age.  It wasn't until she started actually sleeping through the night around 4.5mo that we had a bath/bottle/rock to sleep routine.  Then around 8mo she didn't want to be rocked to sleep anymore so we just put her in the crib after the bottle and she played a while before falling asleep on her own.

     Naptimes were always rough for us too - hang in there!

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