Did anyone have a prop for their baby? My boy had colic for 4 months, nothing but his bouncy chair would settle him. So - obviously- along with Mr. my husband & I both got addicted also! It's so easy to get him to bed, just bounce him until he is asleep and put him in bed.
Well, I know this is not a good idea as he needs to learn to settle himself. He is now 9 months old. Sometimes (actually rarely) he will go to sleep w/o being bounced, but most of the time he has to be. I know it's my fault for using it for so long. I feel it's time to wean him from it, but am anxious. I'm thinking about trying to bounce him until he is drowsy then put him into bed; for about a week or so. Making the bouncing time shorter and shorter - until there is no bouncing at all. Hubby thinks we should go cold-turkey.
I'm also starting to try and do a bedtime routine, of which I already should have been doing. Sigh.
Do any of you have suggestions? Methods that worked for you. I have a *string bean* for a baby and he is just too big to keep stuffing him in the chair!
oh man, i don't know. but i need suggestions on this, too. lilah only goes to sleep either by being taken for a walk or by nursing her to sleep. (*sometimes* she will go to sleep in the swing, but that's rare and takes a lot of coaxing)
my only thought is that i wouldn't quit cold turkey. that sounds like setting things up for an unhappy baby!
Well, we haven't gone cold turkey. We have been cutting down the bouncing time...it seems to be going ok. Sometimes I put him down, he looks at me then goes right to sleep. Other times he cries, but 10 minutes has been his longest.
We've been busy this last week so a few times he has actually gone to sleep right after/while nursing. I know this is just replacing one crutch for another - sigh.
