| my daughter started to be like that too, and all the nurses and docs just told me to hold my baby as much as she wants to be held, but for me i think it started to be a problem, so I had to just do the 'tough love" thing!! finally my doc said to just let her cry it out.....let her cry for about 15 minutes then go back to her and DON'T pick her up, just rub her and talk to her until she calms a bit (if she doens't calm down then pick her up but only until she stops crying) then do it all over again, until she realizes that she's just gonna have to sleep without you!! Believe me, it was VERY tough to do....to listen to your baby crying like that....but don't underestimate them...they're smarter than you think and they learn how to play you pretty quickly!! :-)....if you can endure it, i would try it out anyways!! It really worked for me, and now whenever she goes in her crib she knows it's nap time, and there's no fuss at all!! ↑ |
PLEASE don't let her cry it out! she is only 6 wks old. you can not spoil a baby this young. babies at this age are just starting to be able to regulate there temp. good. also little ones need to know that they are safe, they like to be cuddle and to know that when the need something you are there. do u co-sleep? if not then this might be a good solution for you for a while. i always had my son either in a bassinet right next to my bed or he slept in bed with me. this way he never felt alone. another trick i used when my son was still really little like yours i would put a heating pad in the bassinet about 15-20min before i would lay him down. then i would take it out right before laying him down. this way his bed was nice and toasty. remember they never felt cold until they were born and sometimes it takes a while for them to get used to it.
if you aren't wanting to co-sleep because your afraid of smothering the baby or afraid of SIDS you and take the railing off of your crib and push the crib up next to the side of the bed. stuff the gap with foam or pillows so the baby won't get stuck in it and then the will be close and not feel so alone. also there are "side cars" you can buy that attach to the side of your bed. i hope that this has helped you some. ↑ |
| also there is a good book out called "the no cry sleep solution". it is for babies a little older than yours though. but you might want to check it out. ↑ |
| sorry about that!!! Melissa has a point... I thought about this more and Anika was a little older than 6 weeks old when I started to let her cry it out!! for now....cuddle your babe all you want....but maybe when she gets a little older and it gets out of hand then maybe try it out, if you're comfortable with it....some people aren't comfortable doing it, some people are!! all up to you!! :-) ↑ |
At only six weeks all you can do is cuddle and give lots of love, enjoy your cuddles before you know it ... "poof"... there toddlers.
Have you tried playing music in the babes room "sounds for silence" is an excellent cd it has sounds of being in the womb the blood wooshing and the heart beating I use to put it on repeat for my baby and it works. It also has tracks of sounds called white noise like vacuuming, washing machine etc...
At about 12weeks you can start some settling techniques waiting for them to be tired looking for the signs, grizzles, jerky movements and warpping the baby up tight giving them a dummy and putting them to bed. Waiting 3 mins if unsettled and patting on the bottom saying shhh shhh shhh, don't let your baby cry for anymore than 5 mins at this age as it can be harder to settle them when they get worked up. You have to repeat the process until your baby drifts off to sleep.
I do hope I have been of some help. ↑ |
| i had a very strange sergestion (soz cnt spell!!) my littlw boy had the same prob at that age and we found that when we played him white noise he jst stoped crying it also distarted him from being held and helped him settle. its basicaly th sound of a vacum cleaner (countinuous sound) in the end we brought a cd wiv it on coz the vacum had no volume control!! http://www.purewhitenoise.com/ ↑ |
