How you settle your baby

I'm really just curious as to how other people get their babies to go to bed and how long you keep them up.

 

We wrap, then I put him on my shoulder and ssh until he goes quiet and then put him in bed and ssh a bit more and normally he goes down quite well. Some days it seems to take a long time for him to go down, and some he seems to go down really well. I do have to wait until he is really dopey until I put him down and I keep reading everywhere how he shoud be awake, but that just doesn't work for me.

 

Also how long do you keep your baby up for, Finley is easily up for 90 minutes if i try and get him to bed before this he just refuses.

 

As I said just interested to hear what others do and any other magic tricks I can try?

We used to stick to the 1 hour rule religiously until about 5 months when she would protest violently if I put her down so now it varies a bit, I just go by her tired signs - eye rubbing, yawns, gets a bit jumpy. Anywhere from 45mins - to 3hours.
When I want to put her down I sing 3 little ducks (its been the same song since 3 weeks old) and give her a cuddle as i walk to her nursery. I put her down in her bed, wrap her and tuck her in, and if she's being grumpy about it I play her a song on her Lullaby glow worm. If she refuses to settle I leave her for 10min then go in, check her nappy (just in case) and give her a comfort feed, all without talking to her, then put her straight back down to bed. If that doesnt work, I go in and sit or lay down in the nursery and sing 3 little ducks over 2 or 3times, then leave. I know she'll be asleep soon if she's sucking on her thumb as she uses it too self settle.

I always had the same routine for Caitlyn , and i still use it now , she has dinner, a bath then cuddles , then story then songs then lights off, see ya later , thats it .
She also likes to sleep with a fan , which I would hate personally , but each to their own ,
And the songs I sing now are the same ones ive sung since she was born , Rainbow Connection , Dancing bears , You are my sunshine .
All babies are different tho, I'll just see what this ones "way " is (and think of another nice song to sing to it just in case haha )

We've been through different styles as Daniel was unwell as a wee baby.

When he was'new', we would put him down when he seemed tired. We'd wrap him in his wrap, then put him in the hammock, rocking him if he didn't go to sleep quickly (and was upset). When he was sick, we rocked it and did whatever it took.

After surgery, we went through a phase (for about 4 weeks) of wrapping him, giving him the dummy, putting the radio on and putting him down. We would pat/stroke his head till he went to sleep. After a few weeks this did my head in, so we went back to trying to get him to self-settle. We would wrap him in the miracle wrap, then put the sleeping bag over top, dummy in, music on, and leave him. I would leave him if he grizzled, but only for a minute or so if he fully cried (I can't handle that!).

Now, when he starts grizzling, we put him in the sleeping bag, dummy in, teddy bear given, and put him down. He will often talk to himself for a while (up to 45 minutes) but usually goes to sleep by himself.    I still don't leave him for long if he's crying (maybe 2 minutes now!).

My next goal is to get rid of the evil dummy (I hate it passionately but it works so well as a sleep cue )

ETA: at 6 months, he's still very rarely up for more than 2 hours.

Edited by Flissty

Even though Lucian is nearly a month old, we have doing the same thing.

He went straight to a cot from hospital (with the mattress base set up at bassinette level). He self settles.

We also don't use a pacifier for him to settle. He seems to know when it is ready to go to bed (at night, so he differentiates between day and night), as we close all the curtains, and turn down the lights in the lounge. I change him into his night clothes and change his nappy. I then feed him. When he is finished, I wrap him in his swaddle wrap, then in his Safe T Sleep (I also use the their sleep wedge, so he doesn't get flat head). I make sure during the whole time that the lights are off in his room. Not once has he cried, and he just goes straight to sleep.

The only time he cries is when he wakes up for his 2am feed (he sleeps from 10pm to 2am, then 3am to 7am).

Ok well I think my son is different and i'm not sure whether to battle it or not.

 

To get him to go to sleep i wrap and sssh until he is calm then put down and ssh until his eyes look heavy then leave and its ok, however he only stays down 45 minutes and I have to do the whole thing again. At night he must wake but he carries on sleeping, if i have to get up to him in the night, he feeds I put down wide awake he chats and then goes to sleep - he will not do this during the day.

i guess i worry than in the day he needs me to get to sleep, but perhaps i shouldn't worry since nights are fine - confusing.

I have tried letting him cry - it did not work, or i did not work at it, after 20 minutes it was too much.

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