putting baby to sleep

jengansert · October 2012

my lo is 3weeks. he will not fall asleep on his own. i have to swaddle, rock, and use white noise to get him to sleep for any nap and at night. as soon as i put him down he wakes himself up. anyone else having this problem?

danieliza1127 · October 2012

You shouldn't expect your baby to fall asleep on his own until he's 3 to 4 months old. Until then it's totally normal and fine to rock him to sleep or swaddle or whatever else you need to do. If he's waking up when you put him down, you may need to hold him longer until he's more deeply asleep. If you're putting him down with a pacifier and he wakes up when he drops it, try getting it out of his mouth before you lay him down.

KarmB · October 2012

hes 3 weeks old.......this is normal.......hes a baby....

bitsybubbles7 · October 2012

danieliza1127:
You shouldn't expect your baby to fall asleep on his own until he's 3 to 4 months old. Until then it's totally normal and fine to rock him to sleep or swaddle or whatever else you need to do. If he's waking up when you put him down, you may need to hold him longer until he's more deeply asleep. If you're putting him down with a pacifier and he wakes up when he drops it, try getting it out of his mouth before you lay him down.

This.

ThePinkSuperhero · October 2012

jengansert:
my lo is 3weeks. he will not fall asleep on his own. i have to swaddle, rock, and use white noise to get him to sleep for any nap and at night. as soon as i put him down he wakes himself up. anyone else having this problem?

Diagnosis: Baby! He's still getting used to the outside world.

mrsj0423 · October 2012

danieliza1127:
You shouldn't expect your baby to fall asleep on his own until he's 3 to 4 months old. Until then it's totally normal and fine to rock him to sleep or swaddle or whatever else you need to do. If he's waking up when you put him down, you may need to hold him longer until he's more deeply asleep. If you're putting him down with a pacifier and he wakes up when he drops it, try getting it out of his mouth before you lay him down.

This. LO is 11+ weeks and I still have to rock/nurse her to sleep for both naps and bedtime. The exception is when we are in the car or when she is in the baby carrier. In which case, she is basically being rocked anyway.

katieh1017 · October 2012

That's normal and in fact I still do all of that for my almost 6 month old, minus the swaddle. I would just be happy that it actually works. Around 4-6 months if you want to try a method of sleep training you can, but until then baby is normal.

mben1119 · October 2012

I think most parents of 3 week olds experience this, because it is very normal.

IncognitoSuperhero · October 2012

danieliza1127:
You shouldn't expect your baby to fall asleep on his own until he's 3 to 4 months old.nbsp; Until then it's totally normal and fine to rock him to sleep or swaddle or whatever else you need to do.nbsp; If he's waking up when you put him down, you may need to hold him longer until he's more deeply asleep.nbsp; If you're putting him down with a pacifier and he wakes up when he drops it, try getting it out of his mouth before you lay him down.

Yea! Ours is 10 weeks and even if he's exhausted wont just fall asleep on his own unless we happen to be driving. Babies seem to fight sleep, who knows why. So we've always had to get him to sleep.

Kschmitt19 · October 2012

Our LO does this as well. She is 6 weeks and I found what works for us is once we lay her down to keep holding her arms down in the swaddle and keep with the rocking motion.

krissi813 · October 2012

KarmB:
hes 3 weeks old.......this is normal.......hes a baby....

This, especially because he's so little. Babies need to be cuddled and rocked. They are used to being inside of you- of course he wants to be close.

Grk_Natasha · October 2012

DD is doing the exact same thing. Some nights it takes her 2 hours of us putting picking her up, rocking, feeding, putting her down, for her to finally fall asleep. It'll pass, I promise!

NerdyMama2 · October 2012

We still rock DD and she's almost 2 months...

j&j060708 · October 2012

I rocked/nursed my DD until she was a year (not ideal), but I plan on letting DS lead the show. It is such a small portion of their life that you get to snuggle them non stop that it doesn't bother me. Plus I don't know any 8,13,24,38 year old people that still need moms boob and rocking to fall asleep.

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