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Help With Sleep

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My daughter is 5.5 months old. She is a good sleeper however getting her to sleep can sometimes be a challenge. It's gotten a lot better. Many nights she falls asleep nursing. Some nights I'm able to quickly rock her and put her down. The problem is sometimes an hour after she's down she's back up and needs to be rocked completely to sleep. My husband and I cannot agree on how to manage this. I say we can't let her cry it out because she's swaddled and can't self soothe. He argues that I always run to rescue her and I need to start putting her down awake and left her cry herself to sleep. Does anyone have any ideas or resources if she snot swaddled she constantly wakes up.  

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  • momofmanyinthemittenmomofmanyinthemitten member
    DD had a phase like this. I would go in, nurse her and put her back in bed. It was one of her longer phases, at a couple months. You could always try pick up out down for getting her to sleep. Check out The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems. Great read!
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    Do you not want to break the swaddle? Maybe at least start with leaving one arm out. Sometimes they actually sleep better without it once they get a little older. We started with one arm out when he was around 2 mos old then did both arms when he started breaking the second one out.

    I would also stress the importance of putting baby down awake but drowsy. We did this at around 4 mos, first for bedtime and then for naps. Makes life so much easier for all of us and he sleeps much better. 

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  • hansonam446hansonam446
    Is she screaming her head off? LO is still swaddled and sometimes wakes up whining. I give him like ten minutes and if it doesn't stop or escalates to a full on meltdown go down to him. I did this last night and after about 5 mins he fell back asleep.
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  • BabyMakes 3BabyMakes 3 member
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    Do you not want to break the swaddle? Maybe at least start with leaving one arm out. Sometimes they actually sleep better without it once they get a little older. We started with one arm out when he was around 2 mos old then did both arms when he started breaking the second one out.

    I would also stress the importance of putting baby down awake but drowsy. We did this at around 4 mos, first for bedtime and then for naps. Makes life so much easier for all of us and he sleeps much better. 

    This. We had to break the swaddle at 12 weeks because LO decided to roll both directions and did it swaddled as well. Try one arm out first. You might be surprised at how well LO sleeps! And try to put baby down drowsy. Benjamin can be put down drowsy and may fuss for five or ten minutes but then goes to sleep. But sometimes I put him down totally asleep and he'll wake up within an hour or so needing some extra snuggles. We started giving him an initial 10 minutes to cry it out though, and that really helped! He may wake in the MOTN, but a lot of the time, unless he's hungry, he'll put himself back to sleep after a max of 15 minutes. 

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  • DublinMamaDublinMama member
    The drowsy but awake part has thus far also been working for us, with the help of a projector and the Merlin sleep suit. At bedtime DS gets a bottle, which gets him pretty drunk and sleepy, I may rock him for a minute more (more for my benefit than his), and then we head over to the crib. I lower him down and he usually starts to fuss, but then I turn on the projector and he gets distracted. He talks and coos to the ceiling for a few minutes, and may fuss for a few minutes when he does catch on I've left, but he has consistently been putting himself to sleep with little drama.  The Merlin suit makes LO feel cozy like the swaddle, but legs and arms are free. We'll see what happens when he outgrows the suit, but I'm hoping that starting drowsy but awake now will help when we lose the suit when he outgrows it or can roll over in it (which the producer then recommends you stop using it).
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  • tigergirl25tigergirl25
    When my 15 week old started breaking out of the swaddle, we purchased the Woombie.  It has worked wonders for him.  It allows him to move his arms, but they are still contained so that he can sleep. We let him cry to go to sleep and he is usually out within 5 minutes and he will sleep 12 hours a night in the Woombie.
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  • Danni7535Danni7535 member
    Check out the book The No Cry Sleep Solution.

    I think you have to do what works for you. My husband doesn't put the baby to sleep so as far as I'm concerned he can keep his ideas to himself. Thankfully, he doesn't chime in because I don't mind rocking my baby back to sleep. I personally wouldn't let my baby cry himself to sleep. Eventually, he'll learn to fall asleep on his own. We all do.
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