Sleep journey - help!
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@Floz Don’t get me wrong, i adore the contact naps but if I transfer her to the next to me she wakes up immediately and cries and gets fussy if you put her down when she’s sleepy too! It doesn’t help that she’s super gassy, teething, has cmpa and reflux 😭
My partner had been sleeping with little one in living room whole night since birth. When he had annual leave we just bit the bullet and put him in the next to me. Was rough but now he sleeps well in it.
@Frankie how did you persevere!? So happy it’s working now! I just can’t leave her at all if she’s upset 😭
Does your next to me rock at all? We started with naps in the pram on walks and then transitioned her naps to the next to me and found rocking it helped calm her down. Now I no longer need to rock it. It's taken quite a long time to get to this point. Only works if motion helps them sleep though!
@Loren no it just tilts! She doesn’t always nap in the pram now, tried her in the cot and she loved it but not to sleep just basically chill and she loves to sleep on our bed now 😂 maybe it’s a space and comfort thing!? X
@Loren she also loves being rocked in our arms and bounced! She likes to see us and know we’re near or be held by us x
People will have lots of opinions on this but if it’s not working for you then you just need to persist and practise sleeping independently. Keep trying and practising every day and be really persistent. It can take a lot of work and your baby will probably cry because you’re trying to change what they feel comfortable with but it doesn’t mean letting them cry and leaving them. Kendra worth on Instagram has a lot of good suggestions to support baby to learn to sleep independently