6 month baby I want to try help her sleep without me needing to rock her
When I put her in the cot she just starts trying to crawl immediately rolling over and moving around…
My husband says just leave her she’s not crying
I get what
He means but then it gets to a point where it’s 30 mins and she’s still pissinf about in the cot????
Like she’s never gonna go to bed if I don’t rock her to sleep????
How should I try doing this
She has a noise machine on I’ve even put the pram rocker on the cot on low setting
The room is pitch black…
I’ve even gone in and shhhed and just kept my hand on her not picking her up but nope
HOW DO I DO THIS!!!
Mind you she’s still in her next to me even though she’s started to crawl….. shall I try putting her in a big cot will this make any difference other than obviously she needs to be in a cot now
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You could try habit stacking? It's like you do other things as well as rocking them to sleep so you add in shushing and patting as well as the rocking and then slowly take away the rocking keep the shushing and patting and so on so on but it takes a few weeks to establish and then remove as you would need to do it for a few days with each - I've not tried it myself I always breast feed mine to sleep and my partner pats him to sleep
But also if she is not sleeping but not tired and just roaming around she maybe isn't tired enough so maybe if she isn't sleeping get her back up play with her with some low stimulation toys for 15-20 mins and see how she seems, if she is showing cues for being tired try putting her down again but if not she might just not have been tired enough to sleep
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