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| My son is 2 months old and since the day he was born has taken a nap in my arms. The doctor said yesterday to put him in his crib and let him cry for 20 minutes and he would fall asleep on his own, I am trying it right now and it is killing me. He has not even begun to fall asleep. I don't know what to do. Any advice on day time naps would be great. PS he sleeps in his crib at night, but I rock him to sleep before I put him in it. He usually only wakes one time for a feeding. |
| Posted by on 11/14/2007 02:20 PM
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Crying it out doesn't work for my daughter-she just makes herself more upset. Try rocking him to "almost asleep" and putting him down. Watch his eyelids, when the lids droop and he starts to give in and let them close, gently set him down on the mattress. It worked for my daughter at about 2 or 3 months even though it took a few days to get her used to the routine.
Having a fan, or other form of white noise really helped her to block out sounds of dogs barking, lawnmowers, TV, cars, etc. and to sleep better.
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| posted by Bethany on 11/14/2007 05:31 PM
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Listen to Bethany. I have been having the same problems with my 6 month old! She won't even sleep through the night, but Bethany suggested the same thing to me and it works like a charm. I am almost there with a full nights sleep for my baby. She only wakes about 3 times a night now.
Good luck! (and thanks Bethany!)
Caity |
| posted by caitlin on 11/15/2007 12:00 AM
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| I wouldn't be able to let him cry it out. You will want to start a good routine of getting him to nap without falling asleep in your arms but it can take a few days/weeks. There is nothing wrong with holding him in your arms for 10 minutes but you also have to recognize their sleep cues like yawning or when their eyes start looking tired--that's the sleep window you want to get. It's not going to work everytime but keep at it! |
| posted by Lisa on 11/27/2007 11:44 AM
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| I am having the same problem. She is starting to sleep better at night but the naps are really hard. She will nap here and there in the crib but it takes some rocking and usually she has to be out before i put her in. She is also 2 mths old. Sometimes she wakes up after 20 minutes screaming. She never does that at night. I don't get it. Try the rocking, it works for me at least some of the time. |
| posted by Colleen on 11/28/2007 04:27 PM
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| I went throught the same thing. My son is now 9 months and he does well at night going to bed with out me rocking him. it takes time and patients, i found that putting him down for a nap at the same time every day did help even though sometimes i still had to rock with him until he fell asleep. P.S as i said he is 9 months old and we are just getting hime used to going down for naps and bed without bieng rocked. you do not have to let him cry it out for the whole 20 min start of slow start off with 10 min then go in and let him know he is ok with out picking him up and leave the room and next time go longer. it can take a week or more till he gets used to it and he is still young he still may not understand. i was told that at 6 months is when they start to understand more that you are going to come back and that they are ok. |
| posted by Fabia on 12/01/2007 12:15 PM
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We had the same problem, our ped told us to do what ever we had to in order to make sure she would get some sleep. Needless to say we ended up finding a new ped, but with the help of the book "Sleep easy solutions" was a life saver. She was 10 months old, and still not sleeping through the night, and someitmes still wanting comfort feeding as much as evey hour! I had read so many books, and tired so many things, then the Sleep easy book, made sence. And with in 4 days, saw a great improvement. I worked on nites then tackled naps. SOmetimes it's still touch and go with the naps, but there is usually a reasoon if I have difficulty these days. IE teething, cold etc. It's a great book!
Sooth till they are in that "drunken sailor" heavy eye stage, then put them in bed. When they don't go to sleep (it wasn't if for Caroline, it was WHEN) check in 5, 10-10-15-15-15 till th ey do. Be very calm, and do not touch. There were times when we tried the cry out method, Not going to ck in, and she's work herself into such a frenzy, that it would take 45 min just to calm her down. It was horrible! But This seemed to work, now granted she was 10 months before I could do it, even then, I made my husband do it for the first week, and I slept where I couldn't hear her. But it's a great book, and it even lists road blocks and eveything you could think of. |
| posted by Cara on 12/01/2007 08:33 PM
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| THANK YOU ALL for your advice. Naps have been the same, sleeping in my arms. I can't do the crib for naps yet, I guess I must be consistent with it, but he breaks my heart everytime and I have to get him out. It's really crazy because he sleeps in his crib every night just fine! Of course I rock him to sleep before I put him in it. And he still only wakes 1-2 times for a feeding and goes right back to sleep until 6:60. So...... taking naps in my arms, well, I guess I will deal. I heard about the Sleep Easy Solution on Tyra just the other day. I believe they have a DVD now, which I am thinking of getting??? It sounds like the same book. Thanks again everyone for your advice, I am trying everything!!! |
| posted by on 12/02/2007 07:21 PM
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| Hi there, Ferber's method (aka, cry it out) worked for me. However, not at two months!!! More like at 4 months! When my daughter was two months, she didn't nap in her crib -- nor did she sleep in her crib for that matter. (We started putting her in there at around 3 months. She's 6 mths now and sleeps just fine in there for naps and nighty-night.) What we did was have her sleep in a little glider or rocker chair. You could get one of them and then transition her to the crib by putting it in the crib. I don't mean to contradict your doctor, but I don't think putting a two mth old in a crib and having him cry it out is going to work. Good luck! |
| posted by Tara on 12/03/2007 09:54 AM
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| Thanks. His startle reflex is still really bad, don't know when he will be able to sleep without a swaddle blanket. That's a major issue for naps, I hold his little hands while he sleeps in my arms. I swaddle him everynight. I can't do the crying out thing, I think I get more upset them he does. Course, I've only tried it 3 times since I wrote the first post. |
| posted by on 12/03/2007 03:18 PM
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