When he woke during the night, I fed him to sleep, as I couldn't bring myself to wake him and then try to shush-pat him to sleep in the middle of the night.ĭoes this sound broadly along the right lines? The crying period at the start of the night is very stressful, but the only thing which will stop it is an endless cycle of rocking. He only woke three times last night, and I'm waiting to see what happens tonight. He cried for 1 hour last night (whilst being held) and 30 minutes tonight before conking out. So after bathing / feeding / winding down at around 7pm, DP sits holding but not rocking him and shush-patting. We've basically decided to focus on night-time sleeping for now, and make sure he gets some decent daytime naps in his sling in the meantime. I've ordered the BW book, but have already started trying a new shush pat "regime" and would like to know from any experts out there if I'm doing this right. I thought the BW shush pat method might help to get him to (eventually) self settle a little better the problem at the moment seems to be that he is completely reliant on feeding / rocking to sleep, so can't get himself back to sleep whenever he (frequently) startles or stirs during the night. We've tried co-sleeping, but it doesn't work for either of us. I'm shattered / starting to feel quite ill from lack of sleep and need something to change.
He has reflux: I'm avoiding dairy and this, combined with infant gaviscon, seems to be keeping the vomiting under control. He has 3 reasonable naps in the day, but will only take these in the sling. So each waking it takes between 1-2 hours to get him to sleep. At each night waking I feed him to sleep, but he often wakes when I put him in his cot or soon after. He stays down initially for about 3 hours, then is up at least every 2 hours through until 7ish in the morning, when he's up for the day. And yes, I also remember standing in his room for over an hour before he fell asleep with my hand cramping up. The key is to be persistent and consistent. I can't remember exactly how long it took for it to finally work (maybe 2-3 weeks). He used at least to go down for his first sleep of the night fairly easily (fed to sleep), but now wakes multiple times before eventually conking out (after much rocking and pacing each time he wakes). As mamagoose has already said the 'shush/pat' method worked for me, and I highly recommend it. Once I realised this and started settling her much earlier (like as in after 50 min to 1HR rather than 1.5)all the other stuff became so much easier.Some background: DS2 (16 weeks) has been an awful sleeper since birth, but if anything seems to be getting worse. They need less awake time than I think we think they need.
But I am finding less and less needing to do this and she gets it quicker and drops off to sleep faster - I've been doing these things for a while and it works really well! But I reckon the biggest part to this. But if bubs freaks out then I pick up and start the swaying again (gahhhh hate this part).
Same thing if bubs wakes into first sleep cycle. I rock and jiggle the basinette too if becoming really unsettled. Same with patting, lighter as she gets sleepier - If bubs starts to get wriggle and fuss in cot, I start patting her more vigorously and shush louder. Once the droopy eyes or vacant stare kicks in that's when she goes into her basinette - Turn down volume on my shushing as Bub starts to settle. I spend a long time shushing, swaying and patting bubs' bum/back to get her calm before putting her down. I see it as a way to help bubs get the idea of what's about to happen (sleep) so they don't freak out when you pop them into the cot. But when my husband and I tried it, we felt self-conscious and, well, more than a little bit ridiculous. Apparently if you lay your baby down awake, you can pat her steadily, while repeating a drawn out shush sound, until she falls asleep.
#Shush pat method how to#
Yep I use this method. SEr if you can borrow the Happiest Baby on the Block dvd or maybe google it as Dr Karp explains how to do it, the shushing is much louder than you'd think (right in bubs' ear). Another method I read about was called shush pat.
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