Drowsy but awake

[mapetitefamille]

Is anyone doing this? Any success? Last night, neither DH nor I could soothe LO to sleep. Exhausted, I put her in her crib awake...and she fell asleep after about 10 minutes! I was always skeptical when I read this advice in the baby books, but now I'm a little more optimistic about instilling good sleep habits. DD1 was such a poor sleeper as a baby; I'd really like to avoid a repeat of those days.

[shannjohnston]

We did this with DS and have continued trying with DD. He was always quick to fall asleep. DS sometimes takes a couple tries, but it's a good habit to get in to if it works!

[emmyg65]

Yes, we try to do this whenever possible. He usually falls asleep on the boob or while burping though. We don't stress out about it too much at this point.

[grumpycat88]

We do it sometimes in the motn. Sometimes he falls asleep other times he gets upset.

[ashlantic]

We've tried but it typically results in a screaming baby. We'll just keep trying it though.

[tomorrowisanotherday]

We do this every night. I walk him around after his last feed/diaper change, and as long as he is calm, I lay him down in his crib. He usually sucks his thumb and falls asleep pretty quickly. I have found that especially when he is ready to sleep, at nap time or bedtime (we try to follow a schedule and are pretty successful), he will soothe better for himself as long as he is not crying.

[funinthenorth]

We've done it a few times. At first it didn't work at all. His eye's would fly open and he'd look more awake than ever. A few times in the last couple days he's been almost asleep but then gets restless in my arms, trying to get comfortable and I've been able to put him down and he went to sleep.

[rodiesmum]

Tried it and it works half the time especially when she had been up and about for an extended period of time

[naturelovers]

I do this, but DD is still sleeping in the rock n play. It works out great for us. Last night she slept 9pm-8am, got up to eat, and went back down from 8:30am-12noon.

[CoffeeOnIce]

Its worked a couple times for me. Mostly during day time naps because at night, all bets are off. I fully intend to keep trying both day and night to see if it catches on. LO is 6 weeks and was a week early, so I feel like she's just on the edge of being able to soothe herself, just not ready quite yet.

[maebb]

I tried it last night, and DH went and got him and brought him into our bed. "Oh, he's awake. That will never work," he said.

:Shakes fist:

[CoffeeOnIce]

Mar 9, 2015 16:40:52 GMT -5 maebb said:

I tried it last night, and DH went and got him and brought him into our bed. "Oh, he's awake. That will never work," he said.

:Shakes fist:

My dh always grabs the baby after my failed attempts to put her down like this and brings her to sleep in bed with me. I'm like get back in there and try again yourself bucko! I didn't intentionally kick him out of our bed, but he just sleeps too crazily to be there when our baby does end up in our bed.

[Deleted]

Yes. Almost every single time we put DD to bed she is awake. I think I've put her down already asleep like two times.

[mapetitefamille]

Thanks for all the responses! DD1 was so hard to put down that I guess my mind is blown that this is possible. We've been able to do this consistently at bedtime for the past few nights, but nap time is harder. From what I've read, it sounds like that may be age related, though. I hope she keeps this up and we get to avoid the complicated soothe-to-sleep ritual that we had to use with DD1!

[nachomomma]

Mar 10, 2015 8:31:25 GMT -5 mapetitefamille said:

Thanks for all the responses! DD1 was so hard to put down that I guess my mind is blown that this is possible. We've been able to do this consistently at bedtime for the past few nights, but nap time is harder. From what I've read, it sounds like that may be age related, though. I hope she keeps this up and we get to avoid the complicated soothe-to-sleep ritual that we had to use with DD1!

My main goal in life is to avoid the complicated soothe-to-sleep ritual we had/have with DS1. Unfortunately, this baby seems to need even more help falling asleep than DS1.

[mapetitefamille]

Mar 10, 2015 9:40:27 GMT -5 nachomomma said:

Mar 10, 2015 8:31:25 GMT -5 mapetitefamille said:

Thanks for all the responses! DD1 was so hard to put down that I guess my mind is blown that this is possible. We've been able to do this consistently at bedtime for the past few nights, but nap time is harder. From what I've read, it sounds like that may be age related, though. I hope she keeps this up and we get to avoid the complicated soothe-to-sleep ritual that we had to use with DD1!

My main goal in life is to avoid the complicated soothe-to-sleep ritual we had/have with DS1. Unfortunately, this baby seems to need even more help falling asleep than DS1.

Just to clarify, the lovetit is in solidarity- nothing to love about complicated bedtime rituals.

[nachomomma]

Mar 10, 2015 13:06:30 GMT -5 mapetitefamille said:

Mar 10, 2015 9:40:27 GMT -5 nachomomma said:

My main goal in life is to avoid the complicated soothe-to-sleep ritual we had/have with DS1. Unfortunately, this baby seems to need even more help falling asleep than DS1.

Just to clarify, the lovetit is in solidarity- nothing to love about complicated bedtime rituals.

Back at you.

[bigboneded]

naturelovers I am glad she's a good sleeper for you! It was such a challenging pg.... :-)