Settling baby
If your baby wakes after a short time and is upset, what do you do to settle? If I go in it seems to set her off more :( but she still seems tired. I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing, she isn’t really a cuddly baby and I feel like I don’t have natural motherly instincts sometimes. I’m afraid to create bad habits and she is sleeping awful as it is and I’m doing it all on my own.
Any advice please?
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Is this for naps or nighttime? Our LO used to cry a lot being rocked to sleep. We had terrible problems at night with her waking after half an hour when she eventually transferred. It’s called a false start. This is when we rocked and placed in the cot. It didn’t get better until we sleep trained and now she goes to sleep on her own, she sleeps for 4-9 hour stretches. When she was ill recently and the time she got freaked out by her own shadow going down, I stroked her head until she fell asleep. During these times leaving the room before she was asleep she would have continued to cry even though normally she’s like get out I want to go to sleep
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I’m so sorry you’re feeling this way. The brain has a horrible way of making you believe you’re not doing a good job, and I’m absolutely sure that you are - because you’ve asked this question! My little one is doing the same thing at the moment and it is tricky. I leave her for a little to see if she settled back down, and if not, I go in, pick her up and cuddle her to reassure her quickly, then I lay her back down (she sleeps on her front) and keep my hand on her back and my body/head close to her and shh gently in her ear. It is definitely more involvement than ideally like, but apparently this waking up after a short time and crying lots in the night is part of a big developmental leap because standing, crawling, moving is on the horizon. I don’t believe it’s going to create bad habits by reassuring her, remember you’re her main comfort and there is nothing wrong with that ❤️