what if your child is too young to cry it out and he wont sleep in his crib?

Question

my baby hates to be alone he is 6 weeks old and he always wants to sleep with us, co sleeping? bad to do, harder to ween them out of it as they get older. but the only way he will sleep right now, he will nap in his crib during the day but refuses at night. any tips or advice out there?

Answer 1

My daughter did this, she is now 4. Try this. She would go to sleep riding in the car in her carseat. So I would make a few trips around the block, then when we got back home, I would unlatch her carseat from the base that stayed in the car, and put her whole carseat in the crib. When she woke up for her next feeding, I took her out, fed her and laid her back down in her crib without the carseat. If she did wake back up, I put her boppy pillow under her and wrapped a blanket around her and it both, so she felt like she was being held. Eventually, she got used to just going to sleep with the boppy under her (propped up) and then when she got old enough and learned to turn over, I pulled the boppy out of her crib and rolled a single blanket up and put it behind her back while she was laying on her side. It worked for her, very well. Try it and see. Good luck

Answer 2

Sometimes my babies at this age would sleep in their carseat with one of those "cover" things on it that stretch over the top and have the little flap you can open to see their face--do you know what I mean? I think it felt like a womb environment to them, and was a God-send for those times that they fell asleep in the car. Also, yes, co-sleeping is not an ideal arrangement and not something we wanted to do either, but sometimes it's just worth more to get the sleep, even if it means with your baby next to you! Don't worry too much, one night or even one week of co-sleeping at that young age doesn't necessarily mean your child will still be sleeping with you at age 5. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow, especially when you're sleep-deprived!
Sometimes a pack n play will also work, or a basinette or cradle, since the crib can be so big to a six-week-old.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do and congrats on your baby!

Answer 3

First of all your baby is only 6 weeks old and his days and nights are confused. He probably sleeps better during the day and in the crib because he feels like it's night time. I think that your baby is too young to sleep in a crib and maybe you should try swadling. Some babies do not like it but for most it reminds them of being in the womb. Yes, your baby is too young to cry it out he is at the stage where he needs to feel your warmth and love and going to him when he cries is a good way to show that. Try to swaddling and see what happens and try a cradle or a pack-n-play for sleeping.

Answer 4

Yes bad to do. You don't have to let him cry it out but let him cry a bit this will tire him out and then when you get him to sleep, he should be too tired to care where he is placed.
Put him in the crib at night and sit next to him with your hand through the bars pat him on the back to get him to fall asleep. It is possible that he is spoiled to this already though my brothers wife let the baby sleep with her and when she tried to put the baby in her crib she did the same she called me and I said sounds like she is spoiled and she got mad and said something is wrong with her and the doc told her the same thing.

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Answer 5

I don't believe in having a baby that young cry it out. Rock your baby to sleep and put them back in the crib. (make sure they are dead asleep, check by picking up one of its arms, if they tug back they aren't fast asleep)

Keep trying, I finally got mine to go to sleep in her crib. She does come to bed with us around 6am though. Now sleeping through the night at 3 months.

If you wear tight clothing or no shirt at all, and make sure the covers only reach up to their chest, the risk for sids is minimal. Also don't sleep with them if you've been drinking or taking any meds. (legal or illegal)

Letting them cry it out is stressful and hard on the baby. They are learning to trust you at this point. (that all goes away when their 13 yrs)

gotta go, she's waking up from her nap.

Good luck

Answer 6

I don't know where they myth came that co-sleeping caused SIDS. I believe the opposite it true.

Your son isn't too young to cry it out. My son had to cry himself to sleep EVERY single night until he was nearly one. (Just too busy and didn't like to go to bed.) Keep a strict bedtime routine Give him some quite time where you bathe, feed, read to him, rock him, etc. a good half an hour before bed. That way he'll be relaxed. Put him to bed and if he cries, he cries.

Too many people think that if their baby cries, it means something is terribly wrong or that they're doing something wrong. If you know everything is fine then let him howl a little.

Answer 7

My oldest was the same problem - this is what I did, hope it helps...

He slept between my husband and I, on the first night that i started this - i waited until he fell asleep and then i put myself in the middle and so he woke up on the edge (don't worry - I had a side rail in place)

i did this for two nights and then i laid him down on the side instead of the middle and he stayed their till morning after a day or two - after he fell asleep, i moved him to his carrier so that is where he woke up.

After a day or two - i began laying him down to sleep in his carrier. the next week and a half each night i moved his carrier closer toward my bedroom door. After that - I began moving him after he was asleep to his own room (still in his carrier). I kept it this way until he was about 2 1/2 months old and then i started putting him in his crib after he was asleep. After a couple of weeks i began laying him down in his crib and everything was fine from that point.

one downfall however - after he switched to a toddler bed - he would get out and sleep on the floor - he wasn't falling out of the bed - he literally got up and moved to the other side of the room (not sure if it was an effect or not though)

Answer 8

You can put him in his crib and let him cry for a little bit. be sure he doesn't need anything first. let him cry for 10 minutes at a time, that's not cruel. then go to him and comfort him. when he calms down, put him back down. do this for as long as it takes to tire him out. he'll fall asleep. also...i know the argument with pacifiers, but, i might suggest one as a means of comfort, if you don't already. (sucking is soothing). you have to decide if you'd rather deal with trying to get him to give that up later and a good night's sleep now, or dealing with the crying now.

Answer 9

My son got to love his crib more as he got older. I used to always let him sleep in his bouncy seat right by me. Then when he got older and we bought him a crib I started putting him in it during the day. It was strange, because I thought that I was going to have problems with him sleeping in his own bed, but he took to it after awhile with no problems.

Answer 10

shop putting him in his cot and in basic terms shop going decrease back to him at the same time as he cries (in case you do not opt to do administration crying) he will settle in the top and get used to the cot. it would want to easily take awhile for him to regulate to dozing without you. also you ought to sleep mutually with his blanket/wrap/clothing and so on in basic terms so that they scent like you. I somewhat have a 5 month old and he hasn't ever slept properly. in difficulty-free words has 30 min naps in the day and sleeps a max of three hrs at nighttime, then it takes me about a million hr to get him decrease back to sleep, I in basic terms continually flow to him and positioned his dummy in or re wrap him and so on until eventually he's asleep. now and again i am going to get 5 - 7 hrs! If i'm very fortunate or he's really exhausted. My little guy also likes it when I stroke his head from the crown down over his eyes as I rock him in his bassinet.