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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Help Me Courtney!!
Ok, so I saw Dave today and was talking (complaining) about how Sam refuses to sleep in his crib. He was doing fine a couple of weeks ago and now he all of the sudden decided that he is NOT going to sleep in his crib. We let him scream for 45 minutes yesterday. He was purple and hyperventilating at the end. This is so hard!!
So Courtney, Dave said that you had lots of books about how to help with this but there was one that was your favorite. Which one is that?!! Please!! I am planning on getting it tomorrow if I can. I head back to work in 1 week and this HAS to get better by then. I am not getting any sleep unless it is on the couch with Sam on my chest.
Help Me Courtney!!
Ok, so I saw Dave today and was talking (complaining) about how Sam refuses to sleep in his crib. He was doing fine a couple of weeks ago and now he all of the sudden decided that he is NOT going to sleep in his crib. We let him scream for 45 minutes yesterday. He was purple and hyperventilating at the end. This is so hard!!
So Courtney, Dave said that you had lots of books about how to help with this but there was one that was your favorite. Which one is that?!! Please!! I am planning on getting it tomorrow if I can. I head back to work in 1 week and this HAS to get better by then. I am not getting any sleep unless it is on the couch with Sam on my chest.
The E.A.S.Y. routine is so totally what I recommend to every mom. Eat, Activity, Sleep, You. Both my kids were E.A.S.Y. kids after I discovered the Baby Whisperer.
I also love that she doesn't promote one method over another for getting baby to sleep. She will give you some options. The most important thing is to choose the option you think is best suited to your family at that time and stick with it for a while.
I hope you can get him all sorted out soon. Otherwise, threaten to send him to Courtney Boot Camp.
And I'm not a believer in the CIO (cry it out) method because I believe that my babies cries were his/her only method of communication; therefore, if Galvin/Gwen was trying to tell us something and we left them to cry themselves to sleep, we were ignoring their pleas. We found that if we simply went in, attended to them and then put them back down, it was less stressful on them and us.
I do like the Baby Whisperer and have two of her books, so she's good, and though she doesn't promote one method over the other as Courtney said, HER method proves that she doesn't like the CIO way either. At any rate, good luck and just love him!
We did do the cry it out (CIO) method in the beginning. We'd let him cry for 20 minutes, then go in and remind him it was night-night time. And if we had to, we'd repeat the process. But when going in, we didn't make eye contact or play...just checked on his well-being and let him know we were still close by. It really didn't take very long to get him accustomed to putting himself to sleep.
With Mia, we started on the EASY program the first day home from the hospital. She has always put herself to sleep and been a very good sleeper.
Another book I can remember referencing was "The Happiest Baby on the Block" by Harvey Karp. Ethan was colicky, and Karp's calming method of the 5 S's was very helpful (Swaddle, Side/Stomach, Swing, Shush, Suck). Although, Ethan preferred to skip the sucking part.