14 Tips for Weaning And Sleeping Through the Night

Do you need help with weaning or getting your baby to sleep through the night? Here are some great suggestions from the members of our First Time Moms group.

1.	Consolation and music Console her and just try that for about a week but wait longer each... Posted 12/11/2007 - 0 comments

2.	Read "Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child" The basic idea is that kids NEED sleep and if we dont teach them... Posted 12/11/2007 - 5 comments

3.	Keep the Lights Low We always kept the lights really low and never talked to him or did... Posted 12/11/2007 - 1 comments

4.	Read "No Cry Sleep Solution" by E. Pentley She describes there what to do when the baby wakes up in the middle... Posted 12/11/2007 - 0 comments

5.	Bears with heatbeat and lullaby player Bears that have a heartbeat sound inside of it and it seemed to... Posted 12/11/2007 - 3 comments

6.	Start a Routine Start a routine that you do every night and stick to it. We do the... Posted 12/11/2007 - 3 comments

7.	Use a Humidifier If it's dry in our apartment, he tends to get up more wanting a... Posted 12/11/2007 - 1 comments

8.	Try a Pacifier Try substituting nursing with a pacifier. Posted 12/11/2007 - 1 comments

9.	Falling asleep after crying Letting him cry has started working like a charm! He's never cried... Posted 12/11/2007 - 3 comments

10.	Adiri Bottles Try adiri bottles, so much more like the boob Posted 12/11/2007 - 0 comments

11.	Having your husband take over The child "smell" the mother, so if the mother is around... Posted 12/21/2007 - 0 comments

12.	Jenny " Night light & Soft music" Posted 09/04/2008 - 0 comments

13.	Lois I would feed baby a little extra. Possible baby food or rice... Posted 11/10/2008 - 0 comments

14.	Learning Curve's BreastFlow bottles worked better than Adiri Posted 04/29/2009 - 1 comments

See also: weaning, sleeping

Created by Vero

Last updated on 04/29/2009 08:08 PM

See all lists by Vero

Rating:

Currently 3.69/5
1
2
3
4
5

3.7/5 (13 votes)

Comments:

"SleepEasy Solution" by Jill Spivack is the best tool to help your baby/child to learn to sleep. The first night is the hardest, but if you can just follow the program to the "T", smooth sailing night after night!!! This book and cd is are the best thing since sliced bread, promise!!! And teaches great naps too.

posted by on 01/30/2008

"Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child" I loveee this book and it really helpful.My husband freind at work recommended and we read and followed the book our baby is a very happy baby and naping well and sleep Through the night at 5.1 months.

posted by kalaya on 03/06/2008

My best advice is to hae your child sleep in a crib using a sleep positioner as an infant of course but teaching them that that is their space and where they sleep will cut back on the issues in the future plus it will give he parents the much needed privacy too. When breast feeding yeah you'll have to actually get out of bed rather than just roll over but it's definately worth it in the long run. My daughter has slept in her crib since day one and the only issue has been the transition to a todler bed because I made the mistake of laying with her to read a story and fell asleep, but now it's back to normal. Music has always been her white noise and classical is good for development as well!!! Good Luck and Sweet Dreams!!

posted by Deborah on 07/11/2008

Adiri bottles didn't work for us... we tried.. so I asked around at my OB and a nurse was glad to suggest Learning Curve's BreastFlow bottles.. they are much less expensive and in my very own opinion more like a breast(I thought the adiri bottles were too hard)... these worked like magic to get our son from breast to the bottle. After a few weeks or so he would accept any bottle offered to him.

posted by Susan on 04/29/2009

Your comments: