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Offline emmamw06

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Sleep training 7 week old: What to expect??
« on: August 19, 2015, 05:37:45 am »
Okay, so we started sleep training today (7 weeks old). She is already on an EASY routine but has been mostly sleeping in my arms/car seat/pram to date. I am wanting her to sleep independently and to transition between sleep cycles. Today I have been putting her into her cot drowsy but awake. She has been falling asleep for maybe 15 minutes and then waking and not able to go back down, or she has not slept at all. I have been patting her on the back the entire time but she is just crying. Is this normal for day one? Do I keep doing the same thing tomorrow? I saw there was a really detailed article on teaching sleep to babies 4 plus months which detailed what is likely to happen each day. Is there anything like this for teaching sleep to babies under 4 months? What should I anticipate?
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Re: Sleep training 7 week old: What to expect??
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2015, 06:35:21 am »
I started sleep training my two at around 7 weeks when they started getting more alert and stopped going to sleep so easily! I aimed for one nap in the cot at that age, and at first I was often spending the whole nap sshh patting. I normally went for the first nap of the day cos that's the one babies often find easiest, and at first we started with the moses basket in the sitting room where I could easily sshh them. After a while I think we moved to a dark room and played white noise to save me sshhing. It took a while to get them to sleep independently for every nap. I'm pretty sure they were both 12 weeks at least before it really clicked.  Swaddling helped.

Most importantly though, I'd treat it as a long slow process and try to be relaxed about it. I read somewhere that babies organise night sleep from 0-3 months and day sleep from 3-6 months, so it can take a long time for a LO to grow into napping well. My neighbours little boy only slept for 30 minutes at a time til he was 8 months old, then suddenly started taking 2 hour naps. But those early months fly by really  (I remember it doesn't feel like that at the time). Try to take time to enjoy your LO too  :)
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