Hey yall,
I just wanted to say that this is my first post here, and this question has probably been asked many times before. This kind of long, but I will try to cover everything relating to the question so I don't have to keep answering questions.
The wife and I had our little girl on 1/30 of this year and she is our first child. Both of us are new to the parenting thing, so we don't exactly know what to do.
The first couple of nights that we had her home from the hospital, we kept her in the bed with us because we were not sure if she should sleep alone. We had our first pediatric apointment, and the Doc advised us that she should have been out of the bed and in a crib or basinet "yesterday". She advised us that it is dangerous to have them in the bed and so on and so forth. We are well aware of this now and see the risks.
So we moved her basinet right up to the edge of the bed, and we started letting her sleep there. She was fine for the first 2 or 3 nights and then all the sudden it was like a switch flipped. Now, she just refuses to sleep in her basinet at bedtime. Funny thing is, She spends most of her time in the basinet. Every day while Kimm (wife) is messing around in the house, she has Haleigh nearby in the basinet. She does not sleep all day, but she does spend most of her time in the basinet. She is content throughout the day and rarely cries.
I am worried that she will, or already has gotten used to us having her in the bed with us, and I know that it is imperative to her health and well being that she sleep alone in a crib or basinet. We are trying very hard to make her do this, but she starts to fuss every night at about 9pm. I get up very early for work, about 3:30am, so When I jump in the bed I always try to get to sleep pretty quick. She is really making this hard, because this often continues on into the night.
Things to check off the list: She has been fed and is full, burped. She always has a clean diaper. She is not sick or running a fever.
I am trying to break her of sleeping with us early on (now) so that she doesn't develop this bad habit and we have a time trying to break it. I do not want her still in the bed with us at 5-6-7 years old, like so many people's kids we know of. Kimm's mother instinct always kicks in, and she picks her up. Frankly, it is the only way we can get her to stop crying. If we put her in the bed with us she stops immediately. If we put her in the basinet, she starts back. Usually within about 30 seconds lol. We have a swing, and that sometimes does the trick, but the wife is afraid to leave her in it because after being in it for a little while she is sitting kind of funny when we go to check on her lol. She does wear the little harness, but she still somehow gets kind of cockeyed.
My main questions are:
Is it okay to let her cry herself to sleep in her basinet?
Do you guys have any tips for getting her to be more comfortable so she will not have such a problem in her basinet?
I just wanted to say that this is my first post here, and this question has probably been asked many times before. This kind of long, but I will try to cover everything relating to the question so I don't have to keep answering questions.
The wife and I had our little girl on 1/30 of this year and she is our first child. Both of us are new to the parenting thing, so we don't exactly know what to do.
The first couple of nights that we had her home from the hospital, we kept her in the bed with us because we were not sure if she should sleep alone. We had our first pediatric apointment, and the Doc advised us that she should have been out of the bed and in a crib or basinet "yesterday". She advised us that it is dangerous to have them in the bed and so on and so forth. We are well aware of this now and see the risks.
So we moved her basinet right up to the edge of the bed, and we started letting her sleep there. She was fine for the first 2 or 3 nights and then all the sudden it was like a switch flipped. Now, she just refuses to sleep in her basinet at bedtime. Funny thing is, She spends most of her time in the basinet. Every day while Kimm (wife) is messing around in the house, she has Haleigh nearby in the basinet. She does not sleep all day, but she does spend most of her time in the basinet. She is content throughout the day and rarely cries.
I am worried that she will, or already has gotten used to us having her in the bed with us, and I know that it is imperative to her health and well being that she sleep alone in a crib or basinet. We are trying very hard to make her do this, but she starts to fuss every night at about 9pm. I get up very early for work, about 3:30am, so When I jump in the bed I always try to get to sleep pretty quick. She is really making this hard, because this often continues on into the night.
Things to check off the list: She has been fed and is full, burped. She always has a clean diaper. She is not sick or running a fever.
I am trying to break her of sleeping with us early on (now) so that she doesn't develop this bad habit and we have a time trying to break it. I do not want her still in the bed with us at 5-6-7 years old, like so many people's kids we know of. Kimm's mother instinct always kicks in, and she picks her up. Frankly, it is the only way we can get her to stop crying. If we put her in the bed with us she stops immediately. If we put her in the basinet, she starts back. Usually within about 30 seconds lol. We have a swing, and that sometimes does the trick, but the wife is afraid to leave her in it because after being in it for a little while she is sitting kind of funny when we go to check on her lol. She does wear the little harness, but she still somehow gets kind of cockeyed.
My main questions are:
Is it okay to let her cry herself to sleep in her basinet?
Do you guys have any tips for getting her to be more comfortable so she will not have such a problem in her basinet?
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