[Oreobaby]

The title is a little inaccurate. Rayanne doesn't really have issues sleeping...she sleeps quite well, but other than at bed time, I generally have to rock her, or walk around with her for about 20 minutes for her to fall asleep. She used to just fall asleep, but as she has gotten older, it has been more difficult to get her to sleep. I know she is tired cause she does this little cry, that sounds like an I'm to tired to even cry so this is the sad sad sound that comes out of my mouth. It really is cute...but once I start to try to put her to sleep, it takes quite some time to get her there. Is this normal? Am I creating a bad habit by rocking her to sleep all the time? Anyone have advise? Once she is sleeping, she sleeps for at least an hour, sometimes longer. She has three naps a day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one early evening.

[CandaceDianne]

I have to do the same thing with Lilyan lately. At night, the bottle usually knocks her out, but when I am home during the day I will rock her so she will fall asleep (now, she will fall asleep onher own in her boppy chair...but we arent to the point where I can just lay her down in the bed wide awake, no where NEAR that point). I was looking something up on my peds website and an article they had posted said it is impossible to spoil a child when they are 3 or 4 months old. Every baby is different in my opinion, but I after hearing other ladies in the June '10 PR pretty much agree with that statement, I would say you are moe than likely fine. But I get what you mean, you dont wnat to start a 'bad' habit that you will have to break.

[MommyPoky]

Josie has the same problem. It took me two hours to get her to sleep today! Two hours! She'd sleep for a few minutes then wake up SCREAMING, then turn it down to whimpering and stopping (I presume falling asleep) then screaming again. I kept going in and feeding her, but I could tell she was tired. I went to put her down as soon as she started yawning at her normal time. She has also started waking up as soon as I get up from the glider, for naps and at night, by the time she's in her crib, she's wide awake. Drowsy but awake does not exist. It's just a question of if she's full enough to not scream and cry when I put her down...
Maybe it's a weird phase.

[fromustobaby]

Kaiden slept ok till 4 months, then it all went downhill, I'm a complete mess over it TBH...from what I understand, they cant get to sleep by themselves, so anytime they stir at all, they wake themselves up...
I dont have any answers, so I'll just say good luck and I feel your pain!

[Jodi0804]

I'm sorry your having sleep issues - it makes it very hard. Because of Billy's reflux was bad when he was younger after I nursed him we had to hold him upright for at least 20 minutes. So he was usually drowsy but really fell asleep when he was held (DH would sit in the recliner with him). And to be honest - he only napped in his swing for his first 4 months because his colic was bad and it was the only placed that worked. After that, we started putting him down drowsy (and his reflux was better) and we did a modified CIO. I know your LO is still very young and not ready for that so until then I would do whatever works for you guys!

It seems good that she's taking 3 naps a day. I too don't think you can spoil a young baby, but everyone has different opinions. Does she nap at certain times or on demand?

[~* Liss *~]

Nikolas won't go for a nap on his own either. He'll only nap on his own in his carseat or stroller on his own... and sometimes in his bouncy chair on the porch.

[MommaLee]

We don't have a routine. She sleeps whenever and we will continue to do so cause that is what works for us.

[Oreobaby]

Today we kind of did whatever because we had company, and that actually seemed to work well. I don't know we will have to see how things go. I love being a mom.

[amazing_love]

We have definitely had ups and downs regarding sleep. When he was very little he would only go to sleep by nursing and then would only sleep on me except at night. I read the baby whisperer and it was the biggest help EVER! After that he only slept in his crib unless we were out and about but i still couldn't get him to put himself to sleep. For the longest time i was having to put him to sleep until one day i finally got sick of it because it was constantly taking at least 45min to an hr and so i gave him a pacifier (even though he hated it until that point) but i left him in his crib and just stood there and kept giving it to him and crazy enough he finally fell asleep w/it. Then the next time was a lot easier. Ever since he has the paci when he sleeps. he still doesn't LOVE it but it helps soothe him to sleep. And i decided that NO MATTER WHAT i would not pick him up, because i knew that once i did everything could slowly go downhill again. There have been a few times he's had a hard time and has started screaming but i just stand next to his bed and try to help him and he always calms down through other things. I am also against CIO because he will just get hysterical if i walk away and leave him that he just WONT calm down. Every baby is different. 99% of the time now i lay him down, give him his paci, and he puts himself to sleep. I cannot tell you how nice it is and is SO worth the steps we had to take to get here and the few times he still has a hard time. Consistency is everything. Before Camden was used to me putting him to sleep so that's what he expected. Now he wouldn't expect that because i never do it. This is just my story though Every family has a different way of doing things. Some people love nursing/rocking their babies to sleep and that's great for them, but i was going crazy. lol. I hope you find something that works for you!!