Cadence is 2 months old and shes been for the most part good about sleeping in her pack and play. Lately she's been falling asleep and we will put her in it and then about 10-15 minutes later she will wake up crying...we will wait 5 minutes and then pick her up and she will instantly fall asleep in our arms. My question is how long should we let her cry in her pack and play for until we go and get her???? Because we KNOW she is tired she just wants to be held.
THANKS GALS! ↓
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| Name: Randi | Date: Jun 23rd, 2007 4:08 AM |
| I never let Kaden cry it out until he was 4 months. Babies only have basic needs and you can't spoil them that young. If we were frusterated and needed a break we would swaddle him after we knew he had been fed and changed and then we would stick him in his swing on high speed. He would go right to sleep. ↑ |
| Name: Coartney | Date: Jun 23rd, 2007 5:27 AM |
| with braden, he usually wakes up crying then falls back to sleep in a few mins, if it gos past five i check everything makes sure he is okay, and let him go back and he usually does, or i just let him sleep on my chest ↑ |
| Name: Marti | Date: Jun 23rd, 2007 8:29 PM |
| Whittni - how long do you wait to put her in the pack and play? I have to wait at least 20 to 30 minutes to move Ian when he's sleeping otherwise he's up and crying. Otherwise, he won't really wake up while napping at all until he's ready to be up. If he does, he's pretty quiet - looks around and then goes back to sleep. He doesn't seem to care where he is as long as he's not in the crib. If he's in the crib, he CRIES. I usually have to take him out because he'll cry forever in there. He's had gassy issues that he still has but were worse week four through seven so I would always pick him up if he did wake up during a nap or whatever because usually his tummy was bothering him. I have two sleep books that say two different things so I'm no help. One says DO NOT PICK THEM UP. The other says DO NOT LET THEM CRY FOR MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES UNTIL THEY ARE OLDER. Like we don't h ave enough stress to have to figure this out. Ha ha ha. ↑ |
| Name: Coartney | Date: Jun 23rd, 2007 9:35 PM |
| haha marti, we took down bradens crib here at my parents and gave it to a girl i work with haha.. she had nothing and he hates the thing, we figure by time we get to turkey he'll be okay with a crib ↑ |
| Name: Marti | Date: Jun 23rd, 2007 9:57 PM |
| Ian has always hated his crib. He slept in his papasan chair thing for the first four weeks. Now he has this Amby Baby hammock bed that's supposed to be good for gassy babies etc. and he'll sleep in that at night but by 4 a.m. he's in bed with us. I always envisioned having the baby in the crib in the nursery but that sure hasn't panned out. I try to get him to nap in there but he wants no part of it. Glad it was a hand me down from his Aunt and we didn't buy one. ↑ |
| Name: missmara | Date: Jun 24th, 2007 4:01 AM |
Everyone has different opinions about this, but the important thing is that you find what works for you and your family. I personally tried the cry it out method, but not until Sophie was 6 months old. After a couple of weeks, Andy and I decided that we did not like that method. It worked sometimes, but when it didn't, we just felt really uncomfortable.
So then we just sort of tried some things for a couple of months, and they would work for awhile but nothing really worked consistently. Then we discovered Dr. Sears! Yay for his site - it completely changed the way Sophie slept and my whole attitude about her sleeping habits. He has some books, but I've gotten most of my info off his website: askdrsears.com Anyway - it is totally normal for babies to wake up during the night. My guess is that Cadence hasn't gone into the deep sleep phase of sleep when you put her down so she's vulnerable to waking up, and she's probably too young to soothe herself back to sleep. Try holding her for about 20 minutes before laying her down. ↑ |
| Name: jillw | Date: Jun 24th, 2007 5:30 PM |
| another thing you can try is to lay her down while she is falling to sleep and then stay next to her like on the couch or in you bed. That way when she falls to sleep she won't feel any position change so she won't startle her self awake so quickly. Then when she is sleeping you can get up with out disturbing her sleep. THis will also help her to not need to be held in order to go to sleep. IT is another thing that I have done with kendra. She would sleep forever in my arms, but the moment I layed her down she was up even if she had been sleeping for 30+ min in my arms first. ↑ |
| Name: Marti | Date: Jun 25th, 2007 12:45 AM |
| Jill - I do that too with Ian and it usually works like a charm. I'll lay him down on my bed and I'll lay down next to him. Once he's zonked for 20 mins or so I'll move him ↑ |
| Name: Marti | Date: Jun 25th, 2007 9:04 PM |
| of course i have to nurse him too. ha ha. ↑ |
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