mirage
January 28, 2013, 8:20pm
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Re: Self-soothing - When is it the right age?
It also didn’t help that I had her sleep in bed with me :hinna: But after she would keep me up for hours, I was desperate for sleep and would just let her sleep with me so that I could get some rest at night. My sister’s older daughter (she was only 12 months older) was sleeping in her room and if she had both of the babies with her, it would have been a full bed.
It took about 2 weeks to change her habit and get her used to sleeping in the crib (as opposed to the bed) and from there, we worked on sitting in the glider to get her to go to sleep as opposed to having to walk her to sleep. It also helped that she was getting older and wasn’t as physically needy.
The only reason we even broke that habit was I was moving away and my sister was exhausted just by the idea of two babies under 30 months sleeping in her bed and waking up throughout the night.
LOL! As it was, her husband used to end up sleeping on the ground in their room until the girls started to sleep on their own.
how about the daddy? didnt he also help soothing her when the sister and you were tired? And your sister was lucky indeed to have you around to help her take care of the baby. It does drive you nuts when you have to manage it on your own. Or with the help of none else but your mom, which rather adds to your guilty conscience and stress :hinna: