STM - TTMA about crib plans

[leloyd]

agm04,That is an awesome idea. I am going to have to do some shopping on amazon and find something since we have several trips coming up too.

I know I need to work on getting her to fall asleep on her own. She still nurses to sleep most nights although we are slowly having a few night where she will stop nursing and just snuggle to sleep. I wanted to get her to 15-16 months before dropping that last nursing sessions, but I don't know if that's pushing it too close to the new baby coming.

[agm04]

leloyd you only "need" to do what is best for you and your family! we're still nursing at bed time, just not until she falls asleep. i hope you can find something that helps. sleep is so precious and such a game changer in the way you feel.

[sdlaura]

leloyd ITA with agm04 that you should only do what works for your family. If you are interested in other approaches, though - I found the Ferber book ("Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems") to be helpful/interesting in terms of not just methods to encourage babies to fall asleep on their own, but the background on why it's important.

To way oversimplify, the book compares a baby falling asleep nursing or rocking and then waking up in a different place to an adult, say, falling asleep in the living room and then waking up in the bedroom, or falling asleep with a pillow and waking up without one. An adult would be really freaked out in that situation, and so is a baby.

The book was also set up so you could just skip to your issue and not have to read the whole thing, so it wasn't too time-consuming.

My first was an incredible sleeper and didn't require any sleep training...and a part of me definitely thought maybe I had some influence on that. But then the second one came along and I realized I had absolutely nothing to do with the first one being a good sleeper. My second was a terrible sleeper until we sleep trained.

[huskermom]

We're apparently doing the big boy bed in the nick of time. DS climbed in and out of his crib for a good half hour yesterday. He was so proud of himself and I was so happy we have a bed on the way!