Sleep

How is everyone putting their little ones to bed at night? My son is 10 weeks old ,he has CMA and reflux and the only way we could manage to get him to sleep was holding him in our arms and rocking him gently then he had to stay for 20 min on our chest and after that will put him in his cot ,the other way he would fall asleep was just after finishing his bottle. He refuses the dummy and I really tried everything to make him have it but nothing works. We have a routine now and give him a bath every other night ,then massage,low light,white noise,bottle and then rocking him to sleep. I don’t know how to make him fall asleep without the constant rocking,and get him to self soothe without the dummy 😩,what are your steps to get your LO to sleep? Xx

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Mine will only sleep with rocking and swaying too, it’s gets really tiring because he’s the same with all the naps in the day. Have tried to get him to sleep laying down in his cot or in the bed but he just cries and doesn’t settle and gets overtired so I feel bad. I guess they are still really small and hopefully it’ll come with time

mine does the exact same thing 😅my back is absolutely killing me ,and don’t know what else to try as he is not taking the dummy xx

My little boy is 9 weeks and has CMA and reflux also. I’ll sit on my bed and feed him his last bottle and I’ll hold him upright for around 20 minutes. If he’s not already asleep but his eyes are closing I’ll just place him in the next to me cot with Ewan the sheep on and his red light/white noise and just hold his hand while he falls asleep. If he’s still wide awake I’ll have to sit and rock or sometimes he likes to be sitting over my knee, bent over my arm and his back patted 🫣 he also refuses a dummy x

yeah mine takes a dummy but still needs to be rocked 😂🫠

after he finishes his bottle if he doesn’t fall asleep he will scream his lungs out to pick him up 😅so eventually have to rock him to sleep 😂

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