Not exact matches
After Carly's parents enlist her help in making her
room as comfortable and cozy as possible, she will know what is expected of her for future
bedtimes.
But that would have made the largest
room in our apartment basically unusable
after bedtime.
After you have spent some awake time in the
room he will sleep in, go through your normal soothing
bedtime routine when you are ready to put him down to sleep.
There are a few reasons, the primary reason being that babies have an easier time falling to sleep in a completely dark, quiet
room after their predictable
bedtime routine.
A floor bed can actually help promote independence, since the baby can explore his
room before
bedtime and
after he wakes without having to cry to get out of his bed.
Our problem is, is
after her 7 pm feeding, we put her down in our
room for
bedtime, and she SCREAMS.
I slowly transitioned from nursing her to sleep, to lying beside her and gently stroking her face as she fell asleep, to sitting at a desk in the same
room, to eventually giving a good night kiss
after our
bedtime ritual, turning on her sound machine, and leaving the
room.
If you're putting baby down with music, try to make it part of the
bedtime routine but not something that stays on
after you leave the
room.
We never had a
bedtime even
after we had our own
rooms and believe it or not, we all did well.
Try offering half a cup at each meal (or right
after), which leaves
room for another half cup before
bedtime if that is part of your routine.