A sleeping beauty eventually after his usual screaming before bed!
Daniel's bedtime routine starts at 8pm. I gave him a bath around this time, then change him into his sleepsuit. He has became enjoying his bath since 4 weeks old. The only thing he dislikes is the getting dressed bit. Putting clothes on him after bath is a nightmare. He would scream all the way through while I putting the nappy, vest and sleepsuit on him. I still don't work out why??? The room is not cold, he is not hungry and he enjoyed bath. I breastfed him before putting him in his moses basket. Normally he would scream once his head touchs the bed. We've been tried a few times to set up him a good bedtime routine, all attemps ended up in failures. Now he goes to bed nearly the same time as we do, namely around 10 o'clock. Tonight we wanted to have an early night after the tiredness from the driving on weekend he screamed his head off...
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Poor Zhuzhu!
Isabel doesn't cry before falling asleep. She sings and talks instead, ranging from 20 minutes to more than one hour. It's slightly better than crying I guess. But with her singing, I can't go to sleep either.
To be honest, dummy is still the only way I can make Isabel quiet and eventually fall asleep. I will just have to go through another painful session of weaning the dummy when she is older.
Dummy doesn't settle Daniel as it used to do. It might work sometimes if I am lucky. Daniel need to fall asleep on the breasts
I wanted to suggest "controlled crying", but this article made me rethink the whole idea:
http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/crying.html
That's why I have been "spoiling" Isabel: let her get into bed with me and fall asleep when feeding and stay in bed with me.
Isaac started sleeping through and in his own bedroom downstairs when he was 5 months. But somehow I'm unable to put Isabel in her own room yet, not for another several months I guess.
An interesting article! This coincided with my doubt over the western tradition of letting baby sleeping alone. Many times I questioned myself and Terry 'is this all worthy it?' when I sit alongside the moses basket for hours trying to get Daniel into sleep knowing he can easily fall asleep if sharing the same bed with us. The argument against co-sleeping with infants in the west probably has a lot to do with the parents' privacy and it's for the interest of parants and not for a human infant.
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