Filed under: Sleep, 0-3 months, Infant / First yearI promise I will try not to write about the exact same subject over and over here at ParentDish but there are certain things that are almost always on my mind these days and one of them is sleep. Specifically, how to maximize the possibility that my 7-week-old will start sleeping through the night soon.Our current nighttime routine is not that bad, I just don't want to do it FOREVER. My husband does the last feeding of the night around 11:30 PM and brings the baby into our room in the bassinet (I've usually conked out around 10:30-11), then Dylan usually wakes me up around 3:30. I feed him, rock him for a while, then try and put him back in the bassinet. This sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. If it doesn't, I try him elsewhere, and as a last resort I put him on my chest (which almost always works). I do another feeding around 6 AM and then he's up for the morning around 7:30.Lately I've been bringing the swing into our bedroom and putting him in there after the 3:30 feeding, which seems to work well in terms of getting him down right away but then he doesn't stay down as long. I don't love that option, though, because I want to avoid creating a set of circumstances without which a baby cannot sleep -- for instance, I'll be spending almost 2 weeks with family soon and there's no way I'll be able to bring a swing into the bedroom there. I also don't want to continually bring him in bed with me, because, frankly, it's uncomfortable to sleep with an infant on your body, and yes I am aware that it's not exactly recommended by pediatricians either.Overall I think we're doing okay, I'm just worried about creating habits we later have to break. For instance, I haven't put Dylan in his crib even once at night because I figure it'll be too much of a pain to have to go into his room when he wakes up -- plus, I don't want him to wake up my 2-year-old. But maybe that's not good since I am continually responding to him in the grouse, grouse, grouse stage of his waking up rather than waiting until the full-fledged crying starts?SIGH. I don't know. What's your .02 on what I'm doing? And did you employ techniques during the early survival-at-all costs months that you had to 'fix' later?Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments



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