Do people still rock their baby to sleep? Shes nearly 12 months old and still needs rocking to sleep for both naps and bedtime. Worried as she’s starting nursery soon…

And don’t know if they’ll have the time/staff to rock her to sleep but I really can’t see how else she will nap there!! Tried reducing the rocking and other sleep cues but nothing really works. She has always been a crap sleeper and wakes many times in the night.

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I always feed my baby to sleep or he is pushed in the pram.

I’ve worked in nurseries and they’ll definitely rock to sleep if needed. Or they’ll find their own way… back rubs etc

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Yep I still rock to sleep for all naps and bed time! 🥰

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Yes! Xx

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We still rock to sleep!!

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Yes here too! My son has never slept well at night or self settled, i rock or feed him to sleep, or use the pram.

When he started nursery they had to rock him to sleep but within two weeks they’d managed to transfer him to a bed for daytime naps! And he now sleeps long stretches there too.

They definitely have their own magical ways of settling babies. I also think seeing other babies sleeping at the same time has had a positive effect on mine x

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I rock to sleep for naps but bedtime he has a bottle then goes down his self. That's only been in the last month though

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My little one is 11 months and has to be cuddled up on someone to go sleep if wakes up in the night have get her out her cot and take her down stairs cuddle her back to sleep she won't fall back sleep if standing up with her always has to be sat down cuddled with a blanket

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Please tell me someone has some advice for this cause wow it’s trying. My almost 11 month old is fully on the move now and his new favourite thing is repeatedly pulling to stand in his cot. The problem is that he wears a sleep sack (mainly so his legs don’t get stuck between the bars tbh lol) so he’s not stable enough to lower himself down. So earlier he fell backwards and hit is head and now we feel like we can’t just leave him to it. Typically it’s his first full day at nursery tomorrow and my first day back at work IT’S LIKE HE KNOWS!!
Please tell me someone has some tips. Currently we are quietly placing him back on his back every time but he just keeps doing it! 🤣🤡

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Took 9 week old to a family party where there was loud music and she was next to the speaker for most of the time (about 3 hours). She slept through most of it. Do you think she has hearing loss from this?

Freaking out right now :(

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My seven year old

Is out of control. Her dad and I share 50/50 and when she comes to my house she is so mean. And idk what to do

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Would this upset you…

Our baby never sleeps, so our current arrangement is I will feed her to sleep around 8-9pm and then when she wakes initially my husband will hold her in his arms until around 11pm-12am, then he puts her down and goes next door to the spare room to sleep for the night and I do the rest of the night alone (but obviously have been able to get a couple of hours head start on sleep while he’s been holding her)…

Today he has gone to watch the football with his friends and had several drinks and got home around 8pm… I fed her to sleep as normal and put her down and I heard him getting up to leave, when I asked where he was going he said next door, and when I was confused he said “I don’t trust myself to stay awake with her” implying he had drank too much and was using it as his excuse to get out of helping…

So not only have I solo parented all day, I now have to all night with no help at all, and then we are straight into the working week where it’s all on me…

I just feel SO ANGRY about it - if it was a one off thing or a special occasion it would be fine - but football feels like it’s on every other week and it’s not acceptable to me to drink enough where you are unable to support your struggling partner for the first couple of hours of the night?!

Do I have a right to be annoyed?????

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Intrusive thoughts

Does anyone else constantly have thoughts in the back of their mind that put the fear of God in to them? I'm a first time Mum & my baby boy has just turned 2 weeks old & I cannot shake the feeling of something bad is going to happen to him! I keep feeling like we have been far too lucky to end up with such a perfect boy & that our luck is about to run out! I am so in love with him but this is really putting a dark cloud over our newborn bubble 😔 I just want to keep him safe!

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Hey Girlies!
I’m a nursery practitioner and I said this to parents ALL the time. “ they will get there in their own time”, don’t compare them to others etc etc etc… but now being a mum.. I’m my own worst enemy. I constantly compare my little guy to others younger than him.

My Jack is not yet crawling- he gets to where he wants to go by rolling or one arm commando crawl. But at nearly 11 months I thought he would have reached this milestone.

When stood up holding on to me, he doesn’t move his legs to ‘walk’ he will bounce.

He is not pulling himself up on to furniture. When he tried to pull up on my I give a little had by placing my hand under his arm pit so he has something else to help him up.

Should I worried? Am I over thinking? Xx

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