I was just wondering what method everyone is using these days....Do you..
A) Lay your baby down awake and let him/her fall sleep on his/her own...
OR
B) Help your baby fall asleep by rocking, singing, feeding, holding,etc....your baby?
2006-12-06 04:51:04 · 25 answers · asked by rkonkin226 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I always put my babies asleep by holding them. I either nursed them, rocked them or walked them in the sling till they were asleep. It helped me relax and unwind from the day.
There is just something magical about a sleeping baby in her or her mothers arms. It so peaceful looking and I think it forms a strong bond. Plus why not hold them while you can. 18 years goes by very fast. Hold them as much as you can because soon it will just be memoris.
2006-12-06 05:02:27 · answer #1 · answered by Holly C 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rocking them until they get too big to do that. I would say around 7-8 months you should let them lay there and fall asleep on their own so they don't get to used to it
2006-12-06 14:39:51 · answer #2 · answered by vanessac2006 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My son is now 21 months & will lay down on his own at night, but when he was an infant I didn't want to let go of him!! I would sing, rock, walk & so forth with him.
The best was the rocking & singing, or even telling him a story.
2006-12-06 13:10:44 · answer #3 · answered by yu247365 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whichever he wants at that particular time, sometimes he wants to be rocked, sometimes he falls asleep nursing, and sometimes he just wants to lay in his crib and "talk" to himself until he falls asleep. Although up until about a month ago he had to be nursed to fall asleep. As for his nap during the day he has to be rocked in his swing and he likes to listen to music (the same music his daddy listened to when I was pregnant). It's almost instant that he falls asleep when he hears his music, it's been like that since he was born!
2006-12-06 13:03:10 · answer #4 · answered by LittleRaysMama 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I rocked and sang both my girls asleep. If that didn't work I did the car ride. I never could just lay my kids down while they were still awake until they were about a year old.
2006-12-06 12:55:52 · answer #5 · answered by April L 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is only three weeks old, so I usually hold her and rock her to get to sleep. Sometimes if she looks sleepy, I'll lay her in her crib and she just goes down by herself.
I think once she's a little older, I'll stop rocking her so she doesn't get too used to it and just let her do it on her own, but for now, she's still so young.
2006-12-06 12:53:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well my daughter who will be a year old on Sunday.We used to rock her when she was younger and then we got it to where she would fall asleep by herself in her crib.But then her dad started to work out of town and out of state and is gone for 10 days at a time(she is a daddys girl who would only fall asleep for him) and she got sick and was teething and then she would not fall asleep on her own anymore.We have to rock her now.
2006-12-06 13:25:22 · answer #7 · answered by Dixie H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I nurse him to sleep. Breastmilk is full of hormones to make babies sleepy, mother nature knows what she is doing.
At 6 months he stopped nursing to sleep for the first going to sleep at night. He would nurse, go in his crib and play quietly and fall asleep. This was his choice, he wouldn't settle in the bedroom with me anymore. A few weeks ago he started having sleep problems, he is having trouble getting to sleep at all, but he is teething and miserable and has learned to stand up so he just doesn't stay still long enough to sleep.
So you see babies do learn to self-sooth all on their own.
2006-12-06 12:55:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the age of the child. With my daughter we waited to let her "cry it out" until she was like 10 months or so. That is when we felt like she could understand "bedtime" and it didn't seem like we were just abandoning her. There was a period of time prior to that though that car rides were the only way to get her to sleep. Before that it was "walking" the first floor or around the dining room table. When she was really little she just fell asleep on her own.
2006-12-06 12:58:02 · answer #9 · answered by katherinernilson 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
When they were younger we rocked and sang the first few months. Then came the difficult task of letting them cry it out a couple of nights. It is torture but the only assured way they will instruct themselves on how to go to sleep. There are all sorts of documentations that state equal advantages to rocking versus letting your baby calm themselves.
We started a routine. Bath, grooming (finger nails, lotion, powder, etc.) story, rub backs, then good night. Seems to work well and they are 3 & 2 now. You have to give them a chance to help themselves, if not you are in for decades worth of rocking and shushing!
Amy
2006-12-06 12:56:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋