How do you get baby to sleep without nursing without tears?
3 comments so farSo I have the No Cry Sleep Solutions and I have been doing he gentle removal plan. We have been making progress, most nights she pulls herself off an rolls overand goes to sleep. I used to have to let her lay in my lap for awhile but now I put her in her crib immediately. Sometimes she'll open her eyes and then close them and go back to sleep. But what now? I would like to move her nursng to earlier in her bedtime routine. How can I do this without tears?
I have no idea. If you feel like you really need her to sleep without crying or nursing, then keep trying. My personal feelings are that as we evolved as humans and were living in the wild, we couldn't have let babies cry it out and we would have been so exhausted that we would have always just nursed them to sleep. There are some cultures that still do this. I feel like our bodies were designed to nurse to sleep and during the night and that there is nothing wrong with it. Our culture is strange in the way moms are made to feel like we have to make our babies fall asleep on their own and sleep through the night. I've even had people tell me that nursing her down and through the night will cause a sleep disorder, but the cultures who do that don't have sleep disorders and I haven't seen any scientific study that says that it will cause a sleep disorder. So I nurse my 22 month old to sleep and let her nurse during the night when she wants and it works for us and it is great. I also have friends who have night weened their kids (same age as mine) and when their kids wake up at night they gently help them fall back to sleep using other methods and they are happy to do things that way. Personally, I need my sleep and for the most part I sleep through the nursing so we are just going to keep on doing what we are doing. I hope you aren't feeling pressure by family or friends to change what you are doing. It will work best if it is something that you want to do and feel good about doing.
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pacifier? Our son takes a paci now (he never would) that I cut his nightly feedings
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Well first let me ask - what's wrong with tears? She is just cryin she isn't dyin…..
A little crying is ok if it eventually makes her soothe herself to sleep on her own - which it will. As long as she isn't hysterical or horribly upset and screaming a little crying is ok. Certainly better than YOU being the only way she can put herself to sleep.
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I have no idea. If you feel like you really need her to sleep without crying or nursing, then keep trying. My personal feelings are that as we evolved as humans and were living in the wild, we couldn't have let babies cry it out and we would have been so exhausted that we would have always just nursed them to sleep. There are some cultures that still do this. I feel like our bodies were designed to nurse to sleep and during the night and that there is nothing wrong with it. Our culture is strange in the way moms are made to feel like we have to make our babies fall asleep on their own and sleep through the night. I've even had people tell me that nursing her down and through the night will cause a sleep disorder, but the cultures who do that don't have sleep disorders and I haven't seen any scientific study that says that it will cause a sleep disorder. So I nurse my 22 month old to sleep and let her nurse during the night when she wants and it works for us and it is great. I also have friends who have night weened their kids (same age as mine) and when their kids wake up at night they gently help them fall back to sleep using other methods and they are happy to do things that way. Personally, I need my sleep and for the most part I sleep through the nursing so we are just going to keep on doing what we are doing. I hope you aren't feeling pressure by family or friends to change what you are doing. It will work best if it is something that you want to do and feel good about doing.
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