How the fuuck do you do drowsy but awake?

laurenFaith · December 2008

DD SCREAMS bloody murder when I put her down. She will be dozing off in my arms. I put her down and she screams. I pick her up and repeat a million times until she just falls asleep.

Will she eventually get it? Do I keep picking up and putting down?

Uch, this is ALL naps and bedtime.?

JollyGreenGoat · December 2008

I don't know how we did it honestly... DD just was OK with it. I guess she's just independent and it's a personality thing. We never let her CIO at all, but with all the chores we have to do to keep the house clean, oftentimes we'd need to leave her alone in the bouncy chair (with the toy active of course) or in her crib with a mobile going.

I guess she just got used to it. We put her down completely awake sometimes at night and she puts herself to sleep... just depends on the kind of day she's had and what mood she's in.

mabst196 · December 2008

DD started letting me do it sometimes in the past couple weeks. I don't know why or if there is a method. I'm just thankful it works sometimes.

Crissyjo30 · December 2008

I think drowsy but awake is BS. I rock her till shes fast asleep and put her down. For naps I nurse her till shes asleep. I dont know if I am creating Hell for myself later, but the few times we have tried putting her down 'drowsy' we ended up starting the whole process over again.

Crazycrustacean · December 2008

Crissyjo30:
I think drowsy but awake is BS.? I rock her till shes fast asleep and put her down.? For naps I nurse her till shes asleep.? I dont know if I am creating Hell for myself later, but the few times we have tried putting her down 'drowsy' we ended up starting the whole process over again.

Me too. It doesn't work for us. As soon as I put dd down she screams like someone is murdering her! So I rock her or nurse her to sleep. ?

NJLH · December 2008

My girls only want to be held...they scream if I put them down. They have to really be fast asleep. Its a long, long night.

JuneMommy2B · December 2008

For us, it took a little CIO. Life is much easier now though. It was a rough couple of days, but she's napping so much better now. I know its not for everyone, but it worked for us.

jess545 · December 2008

it's worked for me like twice but i think it was a fluke! otherwise she just starts crying.

lime_ladybug · December 2008

I I had the same problem with DD. Every time I would put her down "drowsy" she would scream and then be totally awake. My mom told me she might like to have some sound in her room when I put her down, so I bought the Baby Einstein "Classic Lullaby" CD from Target to use for her naps. Now, I just put her down when she starts to get sleepy and start that CD. She fusses for like 2 min. and then is out like a light. It really worked like a charm...

ladeebri · December 2008

Sometimes having something like a FP Rainforest soother to look at in the crib helps. It distracts DS from the whole idea of being put down. It doesn't always work though.

laurenFaith · December 2008

I am losing my mind. Up until about 2 weeks ago we were rocking her to sleep for every nap and bedtime. The woman who watched her, my MIL, my mother, DH and myself would even hold her for entire naps because otherwise she would wake up after 30 minutes and not be well rested at all.?

I guess we created a monster! Now I'm trying to train her but I guess she's like what the hell are you all doing this isn't how I go to sleep?! So every nap and bedtime I'm trying to do drowsy but awake. She SCREAMS and SCREAMS and we let her go for about a minute and then we pick her up. She stops crying instantly and puts her head down and falls asleep. Then we repeat..and repeat and repeat and repeat.

If we keep picking her up is she always going to expect that or will she eventually fall asleep on her own? Are we creating bad sleep associations if she is screaming. Will she think sleeping is something scary? Pedi says to let her CIO but I just can't. It literally rips my heart out when I hear her cry. I feel panicky and sick. It just doesn't feel natural to go against that natural instinct to comfort my DD but on the other hand everyone that has let their DC CIO has had great success with sleep.

laurenFaith · December 2008

BTW...we have the babycrack machine, another sound machine, mobile and FP Rainforest thingy.

laurenFaith · December 2008

Junemommy....How is your sister and the baby. I saw your update the other night. I have been thinking about you all the time. Also, when you let DD CIO how long did she cry? When I've tried for just a couple of minutes DD starts getting this high pitched scream and choking. I just can't do it. It kills me.

laurenFaith · December 2008

Newmommy...I have been crying right along with her too. It's such a sad sound.

beachbride0528 · December 2008

OMG, I just posted a long post about my little guy not sleeping unless he is on me. This post cracks me up, because I have asked this same question myself.

laurenFaith...it is as if you are speaking my mind! I, too, have tried this and as soon as I set DS down, he wakes right up and it's back to square one. it took 4 HOURS last night for him to stay asleep after I put him down. 4 hours. I felt totally defeated. I also cannot let DS CIO, he's way too little for that, and it breaks my heart to hear him. He'll start this awful deep, hurtful-sounding cry and that's just not cool with me...I have to pick him up.

I was able to do this one time, put him down while drowsy, and out he went. Ever since, he won't have it. He screams. About an hour and a half ago, he screamed at me when I tried putting him in the PNP so I could eat. I mean wouldn't stop screaming. I know I now have hearing damage from all of his crying and screaming, because my ears start humming whenever it is silent. It sucks.

Muffin0 · December 2008

Somedays DD will be ok putting herself to sleep if I put her down drowsy, other times I have to curl her legs up like she's swaddled really tight at gently rock them back and forth, or sometimes I have to let her drink from a bottle for a couple seconds and the second I see her get drowsy I replace the bottle with her paci.

DD will go for a week being awesome about sleep, and then the next week she'll refuse to fall asleep.

tobeMrsSzabo · December 2008

laurenfaith i could have written that exact same post! i tried drowsy but awake on recommendation of the books when she was new and it never worked for us so i gave up i have since tried again and it is NOT working at all. GL

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