Falling asleep independently - bed time/nap routine
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Sleeps independently at night, bottle, bath, book bed Naps... needs feed or rock to sleep
No we tend to bath every other day. When he was first learning to fall asleep independently we did it every day but not now. Just so bath some nights, then massage, get dressed, dry hair if bath night, story, sing sleep song, sleep phrase, put him down. Naps put on sleep bag, white noise dark room, sing sleep song, use sleep phrase, put down.
@Sam yeah I worry about his skin with bathing daily but we’ve never tried… he doesn’t have eczema just very sensitive dry skin. He’s never had a dummy so we’ll see - I do think it’s temperament but he’ll need to nap independently when I go back to work so that’s really my only concern/goal.
@Tanya would you say you did the nightly bath for a long time before he got it?
No we don’t do a bath every day (baby has excema). Rough timings but baby goes down at 7pm and wakes up at 6:30am. Naps are around 9, 12 and 4 - all depends on what we’re doing in the day and timings range. To be honest though, I think it’s baby temperament and mine went down independently from very little, I honestly have no idea why/ how as he has always contacted napped, I THINK it’s because he’s always had a dummy so has been able to ‘self soothe’ with that x