Hi Tracy!
Welcome to BabyU! We've been anxiously awaiting for your visit. Just wanted to thank you for joining us and sharing your expert advice! I wish that I had known about your book when my daughter was born 5 years ago (labeled colicky)!
I can't wait to review the video -- I hear it's excellent! I have a 12 week old son and I'm sure that I will find some helpful advice!
I have a problem that I'm hoping you might have some advice to handle. I also have a son that turned 2 last week. He absolutely can not go to sleep unless he is touching me. He can't just lay near me, he has to physicallly be touching me (usually twirling the hair on the back of my neck). If we try to put him into his bed once he's asleep, he wakes up screaming and panicky.
I honestly don't know why he's like this. He never co-slept as an infant (unless you count the few times we fell asleep while he was nursing). By three months he was too large for the basinette, so he was in his crib early. He was always an excellent sleeper and slept through the night at 8 weeks.
In the rare instance he awoke, I'd change his diaper and fix him a bottle, and back to sleep for him. When he was about 18 months, we started preparing him for the transition to a bed since his little brother would be needing his crib.
He did very well until we had to switch his room. Now he refuses to sleep in his bed or be alone in his room. On occasion, he will play in his room, but that is the extent of it.
Do you have any suggestions for getting him out of our bed? Every once in awhile he will fall asleep in his sister's bed and even make it through the night, but those instances are rare.
And what should I do to prevent our youngest son from following in his brother's footsteps?
Thank you!
Welcome to BabyU! We've been anxiously awaiting for your visit. Just wanted to thank you for joining us and sharing your expert advice! I wish that I had known about your book when my daughter was born 5 years ago (labeled colicky)!
I can't wait to review the video -- I hear it's excellent! I have a 12 week old son and I'm sure that I will find some helpful advice!
I have a problem that I'm hoping you might have some advice to handle. I also have a son that turned 2 last week. He absolutely can not go to sleep unless he is touching me. He can't just lay near me, he has to physicallly be touching me (usually twirling the hair on the back of my neck). If we try to put him into his bed once he's asleep, he wakes up screaming and panicky.
I honestly don't know why he's like this. He never co-slept as an infant (unless you count the few times we fell asleep while he was nursing). By three months he was too large for the basinette, so he was in his crib early. He was always an excellent sleeper and slept through the night at 8 weeks.
In the rare instance he awoke, I'd change his diaper and fix him a bottle, and back to sleep for him. When he was about 18 months, we started preparing him for the transition to a bed since his little brother would be needing his crib.
He did very well until we had to switch his room. Now he refuses to sleep in his bed or be alone in his room. On occasion, he will play in his room, but that is the extent of it.
Do you have any suggestions for getting him out of our bed? Every once in awhile he will fall asleep in his sister's bed and even make it through the night, but those instances are rare.
And what should I do to prevent our youngest son from following in his brother's footsteps?
Thank you!
