Does your child need assistance going to sleep?

GalLaura · July 2014

Does your child need assistance to go to sleep? Meaning you rock, sing, give milk, etc. Is it all sleeps or just naps or bedtime?

GalLaura · July 2014

@violet1183‌ so at night, do you just put him in bed awake and say good night?

GalLaura · July 2014

Wow that's impressive. We do milk before bed in our family room and then I put his sleep sack in to wake him up a bit. Followed by a few songs and when he goes down is half asleep. Same for naps, but no milk then. Been thinking that I need to cut all the songs out

. It just works and I don't want to mess a good thing.

BC&LM · July 2014

Yes, for all sleeps. Pacifier for both.

For naps, shushing and/or rubbing his back usually do the trick. We also need to stay in the room until he is down, or he gets up and tries to play or cries.

For bedtime, sometimes just milk and the pacifier will do the trick, but sometimes he needs the stuff we do for nap too.

HelgaFunk · July 2014

Yes for all. I tell her I love her, wind up her lamb, and leave the room. She usually goes right to sleep and if she cries it's rarely for more than a couple minutes.

edit because this thing is being wonky.

weddinginthecove · July 2014

Yes, we still have to lie down with him until he goes to sleep. I really hoped this child would learn to appriciate sleep more by this point, but it seems sleep is a terrifying thing.

ColieAnn31 · July 2014

ChicagoChic82 said:
Yes to all the assistance. Rocking, singing, back patting, white noise machine, space heater on (he likes it in the high 70s). Over and over and over again.

Pretty much this. His nap we rock, pat his bottom, and give him his binky all while his music is playing and his fan is on. Bedtime he stills gets a bottle plus the things mentioned above.

numbersgirl08 · July 2014

No to all. For naps we walk in her room, turn the light off and sound machine on, lay her down and walk out. She might fuss a little but is quiet/asleep within 5 minutes. For bedtime we do a bottle in the rocking chair right before but she stays awake an we put her down asleep. She might fuss a bit again but not long.

flerlgirl · July 2014

The only thing he needs is his white noise and his blanket. So if those count, then yes to all. But we don't really do anything - I give him the blanket and turn on the white noise machine and he's usually good to go.

lioness13 · July 2014

I just put her in the crib and walk out for naps and bedtime. Occasionally she will cry a little when she doesn't fall asleep right away but it never lasts for more than a few minutes. We also use white noise. We probably don't have to but I like it since our room is right next door and I don't feel like I have to tiptoe around.

ColieAnn31 · July 2014

@Ciahanna‌ Grayson does the same thing with crying with his eyes closed. He will not open his eyes, he'll just start crying and screaming from a dead sleep, and no amount of comforting will help settle him. They only thing that I've found that settles him is turning the tv on for a minute. I think the light gets him to open his eyes long enough to see that he's ok and that momma has him. It breaks my heart every single time. Someone told me that he's having night terrors

musicalsilver · July 2014

I still nurse LO to sleep most of the time. Sometimes he doesn't need it, and at daycare he goes down for naps just fine om his own.

AimeeSue02 · July 2014

NaChelleBeck said:

CL8badB said:

Same as flerl. I bring him in awake for everything. He has his A+A lovey waiting in his crib. For naps i turn on mozart and for bedtime i turn on white noise. I give him a kiss and lay him in his crib. He rolls around to get comfy and falls asleep. (For naps i put his ceiling fan on. Partly for extra air and partly bc he likes looking at it. Lol) Im trying to wean him off of the white noise machine at night but im chicken. Lol I have lowered the volume a lot but im not ready to fully shut it off on him.

If it makes you feel better, I had to have some kind of noise at night until I was 13.
Then one night the power went out and I just had to deal, and I've never looked back.

I still sleep with a loud-ish fan on at night….luckily my husband likes it too! lol

MorganWP · July 2014

Yes to all.

Naps are usually easier to put her down for though. A snuggle and her 'soozy' (pacifier) seems to do the trick.

Bedtime is a whole other ball game. She gets a bottle and soozy and a snuggle. But sometimes she fights the snuggle and will cry/scream bloody murder if you just leave her. So we have to like wrestle her down and hold her until she calms down enough and then snuggle. Some nights, instead of just a quiet snuggle, she likes to switch it up and be rocked, sang to or have her head lightly scratched but its a super fun guessing game as to which one it is.

GalLaura · July 2014

If I have another baby, this is one of the things that I want to do differently.

momofcatan · July 2014

flerlgirl said:

The only thing he needs is his white noise and his blanket. So if those count, then yes to all. But we don't really do anything - I give him the blanket and turn on the white noise machine and he's usually good to go.

This exactly except add a pacifier. I don't consider this her needing help.

Cricket81 · July 2014

I'm also still nursing to sleep unless we are in the car. I have a snuggle bug who has never taken a pacifier or a lovey. Like @subliminalrabbit‌ I am assuming that someday it will just click for him.

momofcatan · July 2014

@subliminalrabbit You make an interesting point, they are definitely both "props" to help the baby sleep. I guess I read the question as needing a assistance from a person. Since DD can put the pacifier in herself I don't consider it needing assistance.
Even when LO's are young and need a parent to put the pacier in for them, they can need the pacifier prop, but still fall asleep in their crib. I think this is a big difference between nursing vs. pacifier (kind of what you added in your afterthought).

BunnyLove416 · July 2014

He has pacifiers and a blanket he cuddles at bedtime but I lay him down awake and he puts himself to sleep. Naps are a little trickier but for the most part he's got them down now. We do have a bedtime routine but I don't think I'd call that assistance to go to sleep, especially because the few times we've skipped parts or all of it he's been fine and gone to sleep.

ColieAnn31 · July 2014

@Ciahanna‌ I don't mean to scare you! That's just what someone told me. I have no idea if they can have night terrors this young. But it breaks my heart seeing Grayson scream like that and still be half asleep.

WasNotWas · July 2014

The title of this thread makes me think of drugging your kid or like holding them down until they fall asleep...

daffy2k · July 2014

I said yes to all. She still usually likes to nurse just before going to sleep (naps and bedtime). She doesn't ever nurse to sleep but it does seem to relax her enough that she will settle on her own in her crib. Anytime I've tried not nursing before sleep time she ends up screaming. We are trying to transition to at least a cup of warm milk or something other than nursing to give her that same calm, since right now it is such a fight if anyone but me has to put her down for a nap or bed.

GalLaura · July 2014

So is anyone concerned or have a plan to stop using assistance for bed?

I've been thinking about it a lot and not sure what to do or if it will fix itself.

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