- Take baby to Grandma's and try to get a project done. (This step caused steps 2 and 3)
- Grandma will teach you how to let baby "cry it out." Proving to you that it can be done, it's just hard in the beginning for Mommy.
- Grandma will try letting baby sleep on belly. Proving THAT is how he wants to sleep.
- Start practicing night time sleeping on belly. Find great success!
- Start practicing "crying it out" at home. Keep practicing, it's tough on Daddy.
- Allow baby to nurse to heart's content, place him on belly, and wait two hours or more until he awakes.
**Back up plan- Taking baby to swim lessons, exhausting and relaxing him to better prepare him for nap time works well too!
Ta-da!
Personally, I have always been a fan of nap time when I was the one sleeping. But now that I'm the one who can get some stuff done for longer than 20 minutes, I love it even more!
2 comments:
Yay! I was going to advise letting him sleep on his tummy, despite doctor's orders but I wasn't sure how it would be received. After my first had acid reflux and would literally start choking on his own spit up by sleeping on his back, I never did that again. I lie to the doctor when they ask. I've tried letting mine cry it out too, but I can't get it to work for me... mine can go for an hour or more, even as newborns. 15 minutes I can take... an hour? No way. Maybe I'm doing it wrong... You'd think I could have figured it out by the time I'd gotten to number three, huh. ;)
I lived through the SID's epidemic. There is a reason for back sleeping.
A. Lana
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