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Good to hear that it's ok to let baby cry a bit to get used to the separation. We're currently going through it with our 13 months old in the evening at bed time. We try to let him go to sleep by himself, sticking to our routine, and check on him after a few minutes to reassure him. He eventually falls asleep within 30min. But it's so hard to hear baby cry and to resist taking him in our arms straight away 😢😊
My baby would sleep around 6-8pm, wake up and cry around 10-11pm, wake up again around 1-2am, and then wake up again around 4am, i feed her every time she would cry, then shes totally awake around 5 to 6am 🥺 it happened around 6 mos , he's 7 mos now. Before she would wake only once or twice, and she dont cry. She sleeps beside me. We dont do sleep training here in our country.
This video is very helpful for my second child 2😊 everything you advised has actually worked. Is it possible to do a video on how to get your toddler to sleep in their own bed after getting use to sleeping in your bed? Xx
My baby stopped napping and started cat napping for like 10-20 minutes at 6 weeks and she is now 12 weeks and we aren’t doing much better. It’s hard because she is so tired and I don’t know what I am doing wrong… We have a little routine, close curtains, turn on white noise and swaddle. I worry that I’ve now made her dependent on me for sleep too as we use a lot of sleep props…
My son just started waking up at 3am in the morning on the dot 😑( he's 7 mo) he was sleeping through the night, now I just feed him and sit him beside me to go to sleep.
Hi Emma .. Thank you so much for the vedio .. I wanted ask regarding breastfeeding and sleep association .. My baby is almost a year and half old and wakes every hr or two and wants to feed and then fall asleep .. How do overcome this problem.. I am super tired and exhausted .. Please help
i think from what ive read and seen you transition slowly. like you only offer water no breast. and then eventually they will atop waking bc they realize theyre only being offered water and so they decide it’s not worth it and eventually just start sleeping through. provided the pediatrician said they dont need the breastmilk through the night.
My baby is 6 weeks old and the struggle is real.. he stays up for HOURS and no matter what I do to try and soothe him he doesn’t or can’t sleep on his own. He shows signs of being tired but fights it. Also when I want to get some rest, my parents take him but keep him up over stimulating him even though I tell them multiple times that he needs to SLEEP.. What can I do at this point? 😥
I found something very soothing for my baby boy (today 5 months old) instead of breastfeeding to sleep I give him now his pacifier, lay him on my lap while I'm sitting crossed legged on the bed, one arm under his head and back, the other hand holds his hand and the arm rests lightly on his legs so he can't move and kick his legs so easily. I myself curl bit up like a tent above him, playing blanket so to say for additional pressure on the tummy (not strongly of course!) and meanwhile I rock back and forth. Maybe sushing as well. It seems to work ^^' better than always offering the already very sore boob. However, disadvantage I could see this night was, he has his pacifier in his mouth and it stays in his mouth. If he wakes up and cries or complains, he still has it inside! He used to drop it out and being 90% of the whole day without pacifier. Therefore got all spoiled with nursing... however... I call that new method the curly ball technique 🤷🏻♀️ please no hate comments, I'm already glad that something helps make him fall asleep
Hi Emma Really love your videos, they've helped us as first time parents so much! Lately in having a new sleep problem that I'm hoping you can help with please. My son will happily go to sleep after his big/ first night feed but then when he wakes later in the night/ early morning, he won't go back in his crib but falls asleep immediately in my arms. As soon as he's above the crib of his body touches the mattress he's wriggling and complaining. It can take me around 2 hours to get him back in his crib 🥴 any thoughts on what it may be or how I can get him to stay asleep in his crib quicker please?
Hi Emma, glad I visited your channel. Please do a vedio on babies sleep difficulties and how to address them for babies with regurgitation. My 6 week old girl is having severe regurge and finds it v difficult to sleep at night and even during the day. She is disturbed every 2-3 mins of her sleep and gets out of sleep. She sleeps well only when held on shoulders, perpendicular. She gets up every now and them with a startle and finds it difficult to go bk to sleep. She hates swaddling too. I am running out of options and am v exhausted!!
Mine wakes up hungry, and he never falls back asleep unless I feed him. I’ve tried everything but if I don’t feed he just gets into a state and cries more and more intensely. So what can I do other than just feed him and be patient?
My little one is almost 4 months and still needs my touch to go to sleep. Do you have any suggestions to ween her off of needing that? I've only gotten her to fall asleep on her own once in the last couple of weeks. She cries if I don't put my hand on her to help her fall asleep. Also, is there a sleep routine that you suggest?
My preemie is 3 months old(adjusted age is 7 weeks 3 days)..She slept good first two months...But now her sleep is too short like 20 to 30 minutes...At times she never sleeps at all...I've been trying every techniques like shush pat, white noise,firm mattress,sleeping bag and so on..She sleeps easily but staying asleep is difficult..She became overtired...please help me...she is my third child..My firstborn had no problem..My second daughter had some sleeping issues but now at 2 years old she is sleeping peacefully...I dunno what to do..I am feeling depressed and sleep deprived...My preemie hate swaddling...Her arms and legs is disturbing while sleeping..She always move her arms...
My little guy when he was just 3 months wanted to go from 3 to 4 naps and I was resisting the change as I wasn't really understanding what was happening. Once I stopped resisting his change, he almost immediately went back on track.
In other videos you talk about sleep pressure. My boy shows a lot of signs that he is tired and in the end not only complain but cry because he is tired. And yet struggles falling asleep somehow ^^'
@savage cabbage he has that problem even when being awake for 2 or 2 and a half hours which shall be the time they shall be awake in between naps. And then it takes me 1 hour plus to comfort him to get him to sleep. When I place him down he wakes up or few minutes after. Very common is his sneeze that wakes him up. Seems to come from breast milk. It's just very difficult to get him and keep him asleep even he is honestly tired
My baby is 5 months physically but 4 months corrected and he wakes up every 2 hours still. I'm so jealous when I hear other moms say their baby slept through the night at 3 months or say "my child wakes 2 times still I'm so tired" like I WISH he only woke 2 times lol I actually pray for it. I've done everything dark room, fan, white noise, shhh noise, magic Merlin suite, consistent routine, sleep sack watching this awake windows. ..nothing has worked. Edit: I think he just can't link his sleep cycles but I don't want to leave him to cry
@@ChloeLukich my bed is very soft. He would have to be in a dock a tot (which I had him in when he was smaller) but it didn't work back then very well either and I'm afraid for his safety :( I've tried pulling him in regular bed with me out of desperation before And he wouldn't settle
Hi again Emma! Thanks for another informative video. My Little Man is about 4 months old, so I am expecting sleep regression, but his sleep has mostly been off since transitioning him out of his swaddle and into a sleeping bag. He is now waking at least 3-4 times in the night, whereas he might only have woken up once before. I know he can't be swaddled forever, and that it can be dangerous when he starts to roll. As he outgrew his last ones I figured now is as good a time as any to get him used to sleeping bags, but his arms being free does seem to disturb him more. The waking up tends to happen more in the early mornings, after the initial, big chunk of sleep. Do you have any advice?
There are transitional sleep sacks that confine the arms to limit mobility, but not so much that they can’t help themselves if they roll over. That said, I am reusing the halo swaddlers that i had for my daughter with my sons now who are 3 1/2 months. What i have been doing is a half-swaddle where one arm is completely free but the other is still compressed against them. This seems to be helping them as their sleep hasn’t changed but they still have some mobility and access to a hand for self soothing.
Hi @Tom Kins unfortunately when you transition a little one from a swaddle to a sleep sack their sleep can become a little disrupted. But it should improve once they get use to having both arms out. I do wonder if the change in your little one's sleep is the 4 month sleep regression (which is really a sleep progression)? In this video I discuss what this regression is, as well as, some tips to get through it quickly. ruclips.net/video/9OrwbXU6FXk/видео.html. Hope this helps!
Try a baby nest it worked wonders with our son at that age, and a very strong back to stand an hour or 2 next to his crib in his Own room. We avoided taking him out of bed but watching me stand there next to him not even talking sometimes and very little eye contact for my sake and his lol but where we touched hands sometimes cause that was enough to make him feel at ease and content. A Golden tip also is when your Child needs you and you as a Parents knows if something is UP make sure you are there unconditionly thats how you build trust between you and your Child and a forever strong bond. Never met him cry himselfnto sleep. You Will learn which cry means what. My toddler has very little sleepissues aside from that difficult age changes even when he was younger at the age of 3months in his own room cool temperature 16degrees, as dark as the night and quiet Like Emma Said. But you have to be consistent with his sleeproutine. Pardon my English Im from Belgium ♥️
Hi Emma, thank you for all the helpful information for a 'fresh' dad like me. It's really eye opening! (-; I have a question: As you explain in this video, our daughter (7 months) has had a lot of sleep disruptions during the night. For her, it's between 23h and 02h most of the time. She's just picked up crawling and started to pull herself up on all sorts of stuff, so at this moment in time she's learning a new skill. But the sleep disruptions have gone on for the better part of 2 or 3 months now. Some of my older collegue's at work have suggested that if she wakes up, I'm to just wait it out. For a full night. And not go in her room and help her get to sleep, not even after 5 minutes as you advise here. My collegue's argue that after one night our baby would hardly ever again experience sleep disruptions. A couple of other collegue's, also with older children, all agreed. Is there any truth to this, or just another myth? I'm not really aching to try this method because it would probably break my heart to not go and soothe my little girl whenever she's crying. D: If anyone could shed some light on this matter it would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
Hello! From what I have seen, this is a myth which was very much the norm for a certain period of time. Look into the brain science behind "cry it out", which is what your colleague is describing. Babies don't become better sleepers but instead learn not to cry for you.
Hi Emma thank you for your kind support for new mothers. I'm worried about my 4 month old twin boys have bad nightmares they scream in their sleep .is this normal or should I take them to a sleep therapist their dad talk in his sleep . is this hereditary I'm scared of sids
My baby is one year old and she never slept well. It takes her usually one hour to go to sleep and there are many nights she wakes up four to six times. We have a routine, she shows signs of tiredness when I take her to bed and she is neither sick nor teething. What can I do? Thank you so much!
My almost 5 month old can’t fall asleep on her own and has trouble staying asleep. She wakes after 20-30 mins every single nap. How can I help her to link her sleep cycles and get to sleep on her own? I’ve tried to stop nursing her before naps and feed her when she wakes but she falls asleep every time I nurse her. Mama needs help!
Hi, my 4 months 21 days baby use to wake up atleast 9,10 times at night. She never sleep on the bed at day time. I use to carry her n sleep every day. This is my first baby. I don't get a time to rest at all. I don't know what to do! Please help.
Hi Emma! Thank you so much for this video 🎉! I wanted to ask you, since what month can I put my baby to sleep in his own bedroom at night? Now he is sleeping in the same room with us in his moises
Hello, my little one is almost 8 months old and for the past month she is NOT going down like she used to. She still sleeps through the night waking once to feed 7pm bed time 5am wake feed and up for good around 6-7am. When I start our bed time routine she will cry hysterically during the whole thing she’s never done this from 2 months-6 months but 7-8months she will cry for close to 30 mins before falling asleep and nothing I do will help her.
Thanks for the very informative video! Do I have any hope in my son ever sleeping independently through the night? He is 12 months and constantly wakes up to either nurse or be soothed back to sleep. I don’t know how to even start to wean him off at this point. During his day naps he also can’t stay asleep in his crib, he’ll only stay asleep if someone is holding him.
Check out the Precious Little Sleep book for getting started on sleep training -- from gentle methods to faster. Sounds like your son has feeding and motion sleep associations and doesn't know how to fall asleep independently yet
Hi Emma thanks for the informative video. Now am going through this issue. My daughter (9 Mon) is waking up at night same time every day ( 12:30am, 3am, 5:30 am), she is teething as well, I don’t thinks it’s bcz of teething bcz she wakes up same time every night and back to sleep only when I feed other things like comforting, rocking is not helping her to go back to sleep. Can you please tell me what would be the reason?
Sorry that I ask here, not sure if you have time to respond, but is there a way to stop baby from rolling on their tummy 😂? My son is almost 9 months old, and through his sleep he rolls on tummy, which wakes him up and he immediately starts crying like he's abandoned. Should I just wait, and he will grow up from this?
At one point I am sure they will. 😊 But I also think if they don't go to sleep alone they just need it and what you can do is to accept it, if in reality you are fine with it (apart from society's pressure) and if not, little steps to change it. For myself I feel much better respecting her needs. We both are more relaxed like this. ☺️
Hi Emma. Love your videos, they are really helpful. We being a new parent are always confused and your videos are my first step of help. I had a question regarding sleep. My baby is 7 months old and doesn’t sleep on it’s on or on his bed yet. We have tried a lot but he seems to get up soon n start crying screaming bad. He cannot on his own yet, I need to make him sleep n then put on his bed. Any possible solution to it please or a video you recommend.
Hello, I love watching your videos and they have become so helpful for me. My little one turns 4 months next week. I am moving into a new house in two weeks and really want to start sleep training once we are settled in. Do you have any videos on tips/tricks and how to approach it??
Hi Emma, my daughter is waking up at 5 AM everyday because before she left our room, that was the time my husband had to get up for work. Now she sleeps in her cot in her room but she keeps waking up at 5 AM and she wakes up hungry.. not sure what to do. She is 6’month old
Hey Emma, thanks for your video. Do you have any tips for me, I have become the sleep association. Feeding or physical comfort every 2 hours overnight. Do I just go with it or should I be actively trying to change this? I'm not sure if he will grow out of it. He's about to turn 6 months old. For about the past 2 months there has only been 2-3 nights with more than 2 hrs sleep in a row.
I am in the same situation with our 6 month old! I have been wondering the same thing. Over the past few weeks I’ve successfully transitioned her from cradle to crib, bouncing on exercise ball to rocking in a chair, and have been working on getting her attached to a little blanket/stuffie (hoping it will provide comfort between sleep cycles...?) But we are still waking up every 2 hours and feeding 1-2 times a night.
@@rebecca6452 I've introduced a toy and it has helped me to get away during naps which has made a major difference! Still getting frequent wake ups though. He's just dropped a nap so hoping to make more progress which the daytime routine settles a bit more...🤞
@@BaconSteph he’s eating 3 meals per day, plus a nurse when he wakes up and before each nap. My problem is he has a nurse to sleep association and I have no idea how to break him of this. Nothing I’ve tried has worked.
Hi Emma, thanks for another great video! My baby is 3 months and I think she's starting sleep regression. You say when they wake up to try to fall them asleep with the routine and avoid using a feed. But what if the baby only stops crying with the breast? Thank you so much!!
Hi Emma, thanks for the video. When do babies set sleep associations? Our baby is only 3 weeks old, but watching this video makes me concerned that our soothing techniques like swaying and carrying him, or letting him sleep in a wrap while we get things done, may make it harder in the future. He’s already been quite fussy at times if we don’t hold him. We do try to put him down on his bed after he falls asleep.
Babies in the first three months are literally still getting used to being out of the womb and in the world. It's completely natural to need to imitate womb-like settings to soothe your baby because that is what they need to feel safe and secure. Newborns needing assistance to sleep is normal!! As they get older, transitions can be made. I think of it like learning to ride a bike - you start with lots of encouragement, support and training wheels and progress in stages according to your baby's readiness :)
Hi Emma I have a 3 month old FS. He has on and off good naps. Everyday is different. But his night time sleep is not good. He wakes up every 20 minutes. Wanting his pacifier. I am ready to ween his off. I have a 22 month old and he wakes him up. I am extremely exhausted. I know he will wake up for his bottles. And of course I am ok with that. But waking up all the time is draining me. I tired to let him try to go back to sleep. But he screams. His screams are so intense. I am in desperate need of sleep.
Hey my baby isnt cranky during day time but keeps getting up n crying at night her bottom to teeths are erupting can it be due to teething she cries at night
my 5 month old sleeps really good during the night but at night for him to stay atsleep the first time he need 1 to 2 hours pf me feeding him ho sleeps in his crib and wakes for breastfeed one or two times at night do not what to do
Hullo Emma, thank you for the consistent help through your videos. My baby girl is 10months now, she has trouble staying asleep, we are trying to sleep train, however this is really hard as she cries for so long and even when she goes to sleep, she suddenly wakes up crying. We've been to the pediatrician and she's ok.
Hello! Thank you for all the informative videos they are a huge help. Can you please post a video with some types of foods (solids) that is the best to start feeding a baby. I have a six month old baby and just started introducing solids but have been having problems with constipation. Can you please make a video with foods that are safe to give to a baby and with foods that cause constipation?
In the first part you talk about teething or a sleep association - our daughter is doing exactly what you tell about a wrong sleep association : how can we fix it? Thank you again for your help! It's the second half of night - naps of an hour
Hi Emma. What do you do if your toddler takes a late nap, he falls asleep 2 hours later than usual. Do you then move bedtime two hours later or do you try to keep the nap only 30 minutes and then try to give him an early bedtime instead?
Hi @Ayesha Akram the answer to this question really depends on the age of your little one? Because you said he is a toddler I am assuming he is older than 12 months. If he is having two naps a day but the afternoon nap is pushing the bedtime back he may be ready to drop the afternoon nap and just have 1 nap a day (the average age a bub drops to one nap is around 15 months of age). If your little one is not yet ready to drop a nap; - you can try and move the nap earlier in the afternoon, - or you can wake your little one to make sure he is awake for 4 - 5 hours before they need to go to bed. - Or can just move their bedtime back a bit so that they are tired when they go to bed (If you put them to bed too early and they are not tired then bedtime is going to be difficult).
Hi Emma, thanks for your videos, as a first time mom they've been a huge help. My baby sleeps well through the night, she's 1 month and 3 weeks old so she only wakes up when she's hungry and then she goes back to sleep immediately, what I'm struggling with is with her naps, starting a week ago she's been waking up every 10 to 15 minutes, and 50% of the time she wakes up crying, the first thing I do is to check for colic but most of the time that's not the problem and the only thing that seems to soothe her is breastfeeding her, even if it's only for 5 minutes. Is there something I can do to improve her nap time?
Dario is teething and wont sleep in his bed. Tried but he'll be crying for almost an hour and his cheeks will be red so i co sleep with him. When we co sleep, i breast feed him Nd he falls asleep. This has been ingoing for weeks now and he's used to it now. I'd like to stop but do not know how. Also Dario cant sleep alone. Please help me as im exhausted.
Hi Emma , my son is 7month and doesn’t sleep in night well. His 1st sleep will last for 2hrs and then he will wake every hour or just roll side to side constantly. I have tried all methods but still it continues
Hi, my baby is 17 months old since few weeks, I observed that she wakes up@3am-4am between regularly some times she will sleep after 10.15 min some times it will take 2-3 hrs and she takes only one nap afternoon 12.30-3 pm And she will sleep@11-11.30 pm.. some times she will wakes every hour from 3 am, am really very tired and exhausted... Plz help me how can I put my baby to sleep through night... Is 11.30 pm correct time or should i make to early bed time plz help me mam thanks in advance...
Me too. My area around the nipple is all sore and crusty because I can not make my boy fall asleep that easy anyhow anymore. He used to fall asleep on his own and now it's problematic since he was 3 months. (Now 5 months) the time right before his night sleep is the worst. Nothing that I do seems to work anyhow x.x
@@southlord are you able to put your L.o down without having your boob near by 😂 ? As funny as that sounds I cannot. When I lay her down after she’s asleep in my arms I almost immediately after putting her down have to give her my breast to stay asleep 🥹
Poor thing. Hope he isn't hurting himself. If your little one is a newborn they often accidentally scratch their head because their arm movements are not very controlled. After 3 months of age they can control their arms better and the scratching reduces. But if your little one is older and you're worried he is sick then it might be worth popping in to the doctors.
My daughter has had an ear infection for over a month and wakes every half an hour sometimes. We bedshare and she's so restless and struggles to get comfortable. It's hard on both of us.
So frustrated with this. 😢 I love your other videos but I am so against all this sleep training rubbish. Babies learn to self settle in their own time, it is not a bad thing to help your child fall asleep and they all eventually sleep through alone. Follow your baby’s cues and respond to them every time. Waking up overnight isn’t a “sleep problem” that needs to be “solved”, it’s just the way small babies’ brains work
So my baby is almost a year old and still wakes 4-5 times a night . Still think they will Learn to settle in their own time ?? I’m beginning to think otherwise .
I’m lost. I established bedtime routine since he was 2 weeks old. Now he is 7 months old he is still waking up 40 minutes later. I don’t pick him up immediately, I wait 2 minutes. I put him down awake. I watch his wake window. Nothing works
Hullo Emma, please help me, my little girl has refused to sleep long by herself, we have tried to keep a bedtime routine & put her in the crib but it's not effective. We've had to sleep with her on our bed. She's ok, no illness but we need help
My baby is 5 months old and needs me to do a special dance to put her to sleep while breastfeeding. Any suggestions on how to change it to a simple shush and pat?
Hi Emma, I’m so glad I found your RUclips channel, it has been so helpful being a first time mom! This video couldn’t have come at a better time. I have a question-my baby is going to be 12months in a week and was sleeping through the night. He had gotten a fever last weekend and has since recovered. However he has started to wake up once during the night. I went back to my sleep training steps, but he is waking and demanding a feed. The wake up is 5-6am, not sure how to manage that since his usual wake up is between 7-8am.
Thanks for watching! Is your little one experiencing a sleep disruption now? What do you think is the cause? Don't forget to get your free New Parent's Guide to Naps here: brightestbeginning.com/nap-guide
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HOW do people put their baby down drowsy but awake?? My baby never would do this. She just wakes right back up and gets so upset she misses her nap.
Same here
It’s not for every baby, I’m with you ❤ I disregard the advice every time - remember that, it’s advice not a rule
I thought the same. I was sure that nothing will help, but Pick up/Put down method helped a lot
I have 3 kids and this never worked for me. Mostly because they always fall asleep while feeding! 🤦🏼♀️
pick up put down method worked here, but requires a lot of patience
Good to hear that it's ok to let baby cry a bit to get used to the separation. We're currently going through it with our 13 months old in the evening at bed time. We try to let him go to sleep by himself, sticking to our routine, and check on him after a few minutes to reassure him. He eventually falls asleep within 30min. But it's so hard to hear baby cry and to resist taking him in our arms straight away 😢😊
My baby would sleep around 6-8pm, wake up and cry around 10-11pm, wake up again around 1-2am, and then wake up again around 4am, i feed her every time she would cry, then shes totally awake around 5 to 6am 🥺 it happened around 6 mos , he's 7 mos now. Before she would wake only once or twice, and she dont cry. She sleeps beside me. We dont do sleep training here in our country.
This video is very helpful for my second child 2😊 everything you advised has actually worked. Is it possible to do a video on how to get your toddler to sleep in their own bed after getting use to sleeping in your bed? Xx
My baby stopped napping and started cat napping for like 10-20 minutes at 6 weeks and she is now 12 weeks and we aren’t doing much better. It’s hard because she is so tired and I don’t know what I am doing wrong…
We have a little routine, close curtains, turn on white noise and swaddle. I worry that I’ve now made her dependent on me for sleep too as we use a lot of sleep props…
How is your baby now?
My son just started waking up at 3am in the morning on the dot 😑( he's 7 mo) he was sleeping through the night, now I just feed him and sit him beside me to go to sleep.
Hi Emma .. Thank you so much for the vedio .. I wanted ask regarding breastfeeding and sleep association .. My baby is almost a year and half old and wakes every hr or two and wants to feed and then fall asleep .. How do overcome this problem.. I am super tired and exhausted .. Please help
i think from what ive read and seen you transition slowly. like you only offer water no breast. and then eventually they will atop waking bc they realize theyre only being offered water and so they decide it’s not worth it and eventually just start sleeping through. provided the pediatrician said they dont need the breastmilk through the night.
My baby is 6 weeks old and the struggle is real.. he stays up for HOURS and no matter what I do to try and soothe him he doesn’t or can’t sleep on his own. He shows signs of being tired but fights it. Also when I want to get some rest, my parents take him but keep him up over stimulating him even though I tell them multiple times that he needs to SLEEP.. What can I do at this point? 😥
Nesha…how is ur baby now…plz help me im also suffering from same problem..
@@leenakumari3565 me too
I found something very soothing for my baby boy (today 5 months old) instead of breastfeeding to sleep I give him now his pacifier, lay him on my lap while I'm sitting crossed legged on the bed, one arm under his head and back, the other hand holds his hand and the arm rests lightly on his legs so he can't move and kick his legs so easily. I myself curl bit up like a tent above him, playing blanket so to say for additional pressure on the tummy (not strongly of course!) and meanwhile I rock back and forth. Maybe sushing as well. It seems to work ^^' better than always offering the already very sore boob. However, disadvantage I could see this night was, he has his pacifier in his mouth and it stays in his mouth. If he wakes up and cries or complains, he still has it inside! He used to drop it out and being 90% of the whole day without pacifier. Therefore got all spoiled with nursing... however... I call that new method the curly ball technique 🤷🏻♀️ please no hate comments, I'm already glad that something helps make him fall asleep
Hi Emma Really love your videos, they've helped us as first time parents so much!
Lately in having a new sleep problem that I'm hoping you can help with please. My son will happily go to sleep after his big/ first night feed but then when he wakes later in the night/ early morning, he won't go back in his crib but falls asleep immediately in my arms. As soon as he's above the crib of his body touches the mattress he's wriggling and complaining. It can take me around 2 hours to get him back in his crib 🥴 any thoughts on what it may be or how I can get him to stay asleep in his crib quicker please?
Hi Emma, glad I visited your channel. Please do a vedio on babies sleep difficulties and how to address them for babies with regurgitation. My 6 week old girl is having severe regurge and finds it v difficult to sleep at night and even during the day. She is disturbed every 2-3 mins of her sleep and gets out of sleep. She sleeps well only when held on shoulders, perpendicular. She gets up every now and them with a startle and finds it difficult to go bk to sleep. She hates swaddling too. I am running out of options and am v exhausted!!
That is exactly what I'm experiencing now with my little one!
Mine wakes up hungry, and he never falls back asleep unless I feed him. I’ve tried everything but if I don’t feed he just gets into a state and cries more and more intensely. So what can I do other than just feed him and be patient?
My little one is almost 4 months and still needs my touch to go to sleep. Do you have any suggestions to ween her off of needing that? I've only gotten her to fall asleep on her own once in the last couple of weeks. She cries if I don't put my hand on her to help her fall asleep. Also, is there a sleep routine that you suggest?
My preemie is 3 months old(adjusted age is 7 weeks 3 days)..She slept good first two months...But now her sleep is too short like 20 to 30 minutes...At times she never sleeps at all...I've been trying every techniques like shush pat, white noise,firm mattress,sleeping bag and so on..She sleeps easily but staying asleep is difficult..She became overtired...please help me...she is my third child..My firstborn had no problem..My second daughter had some sleeping issues but now at 2 years old she is sleeping peacefully...I dunno what to do..I am feeling depressed and sleep deprived...My preemie hate swaddling...Her arms and legs is disturbing while sleeping..She always move her arms...
My little guy when he was just 3 months wanted to go from 3 to 4 naps and I was resisting the change as I wasn't really understanding what was happening. Once I stopped resisting his change, he almost immediately went back on track.
In other videos you talk about sleep pressure. My boy shows a lot of signs that he is tired and in the end not only complain but cry because he is tired. And yet struggles falling asleep somehow ^^'
Try changing room, go outside or activity. Boredom can make my daughter seem tired and she complains but then is happy when we do something else.
@savage cabbage he has that problem even when being awake for 2 or 2 and a half hours which shall be the time they shall be awake in between naps. And then it takes me 1 hour plus to comfort him to get him to sleep. When I place him down he wakes up or few minutes after. Very common is his sneeze that wakes him up. Seems to come from breast milk. It's just very difficult to get him and keep him asleep even he is honestly tired
My baby is 5 months physically but 4 months corrected and he wakes up every 2 hours still. I'm so jealous when I hear other moms say their baby slept through the night at 3 months or say "my child wakes 2 times still I'm so tired" like I WISH he only woke 2 times lol I actually pray for it. I've done everything dark room, fan, white noise, shhh noise, magic Merlin suite, consistent routine, sleep sack watching this awake windows. ..nothing has worked.
Edit: I think he just can't link his sleep cycles but I don't want to leave him to cry
Maybe have him sleep next to you? My baby sleeps next to me and if she wakes up she falls back asleep quickly because I’m right there
@@ChloeLukich my bed is very soft. He would have to be in a dock a tot (which I had him in when he was smaller) but it didn't work back then very well either and I'm afraid for his safety :( I've tried pulling him in regular bed with me out of desperation before And he wouldn't settle
Pls try to ensure baby is well fed and full a belly full baby sleeps longer
Hi again Emma! Thanks for another informative video. My Little Man is about 4 months old, so I am expecting sleep regression, but his sleep has mostly been off since transitioning him out of his swaddle and into a sleeping bag. He is now waking at least 3-4 times in the night, whereas he might only have woken up once before. I know he can't be swaddled forever, and that it can be dangerous when he starts to roll. As he outgrew his last ones I figured now is as good a time as any to get him used to sleeping bags, but his arms being free does seem to disturb him more. The waking up tends to happen more in the early mornings, after the initial, big chunk of sleep. Do you have any advice?
There are transitional sleep sacks that confine the arms to limit mobility, but not so much that they can’t help themselves if they roll over. That said, I am reusing the halo swaddlers that i had for my daughter with my sons now who are 3 1/2 months. What i have been doing is a half-swaddle where one arm is completely free but the other is still compressed against them. This seems to be helping them as their sleep hasn’t changed but they still have some mobility and access to a hand for self soothing.
I recommend baby Merlin’s magical sleepsuit. It helped my little one transition from swaddle into sleep sack.
Hi @Tom Kins unfortunately when you transition a little one from a swaddle to a sleep sack their sleep can become a little disrupted. But it should improve once they get use to having both arms out.
I do wonder if the change in your little one's sleep is the 4 month sleep regression (which is really a sleep progression)? In this video I discuss what this regression is, as well as, some tips to get through it quickly. ruclips.net/video/9OrwbXU6FXk/видео.html.
Hope this helps!
Try a baby nest it worked wonders with our son at that age, and a very strong back to stand an hour or 2 next to his crib in his Own room. We avoided taking him out of bed but watching me stand there next to him not even talking sometimes and very little eye contact for my sake and his lol but where we touched hands sometimes cause that was enough to make him feel at ease and content. A Golden tip also is when your Child needs you and you as a Parents knows if something is UP make sure you are there unconditionly thats how you build trust between you and your Child and a forever strong bond. Never met him cry himselfnto sleep. You Will learn which cry means what. My toddler has very little sleepissues aside from that difficult age changes even when he was younger at the age of 3months in his own room cool temperature 16degrees, as dark as the night and quiet Like Emma Said. But you have to be consistent with his sleeproutine. Pardon my English Im from Belgium ♥️
Your videos are my favorite, thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Hi Emma, thank you for all the helpful information for a 'fresh' dad like me. It's really eye opening! (-;
I have a question:
As you explain in this video, our daughter (7 months) has had a lot of sleep disruptions during the night. For her, it's between 23h and 02h most of the time. She's just picked up crawling and started to pull herself up on all sorts of stuff, so at this moment in time she's learning a new skill. But the sleep disruptions have gone on for the better part of 2 or 3 months now. Some of my older collegue's at work have suggested that if she wakes up, I'm to just wait it out. For a full night. And not go in her room and help her get to sleep, not even after 5 minutes as you advise here. My collegue's argue that after one night our baby would hardly ever again experience sleep disruptions. A couple of other collegue's, also with older children, all agreed.
Is there any truth to this, or just another myth? I'm not really aching to try this method because it would probably break my heart to not go and soothe my little girl whenever she's crying. D:
If anyone could shed some light on this matter it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Hello! From what I have seen, this is a myth which was very much the norm for a certain period of time. Look into the brain science behind "cry it out", which is what your colleague is describing. Babies don't become better sleepers but instead learn not to cry for you.
Hi Emma thank you for your kind support for new mothers. I'm worried about my 4 month old twin boys have bad nightmares they scream in their sleep .is this normal or should I take them to a sleep therapist their dad talk in his sleep . is this hereditary I'm scared of sids
My baby is one year old and she never slept well. It takes her usually one hour to go to sleep and there are many nights she wakes up four to six times. We have a routine, she shows signs of tiredness when I take her to bed and she is neither sick nor teething. What can I do? Thank you so much!
Check out low sleep needs babies and the possums approach 🙂
Helpful. Thank you.
My almost 5 month old can’t fall asleep on her own and has trouble staying asleep. She wakes after 20-30 mins every single nap. How can I help her to link her sleep cycles and get to sleep on her own? I’ve tried to stop nursing her before naps and feed her when she wakes but she falls asleep every time I nurse her. Mama needs help!
Same here, even I am facing with my little girl.
Anything on signs of baby constipation and things that can help it once identified
Hi, my 4 months 21 days baby use to wake up atleast 9,10 times at night. She never sleep on the bed at day time. I use to carry her n sleep every day. This is my first baby. I don't get a time to rest at all. I don't know what to do! Please help.
Hi Emma! Thank you so much for this video 🎉! I wanted to ask you, since what month can I put my baby to sleep in his own bedroom at night? Now he is sleeping in the same room with us in his moises
EMMA! WHAT IS THAT PLANT BEHIND YOU!!???! i keep trying to figure it out. The small vining one!
Hello, my little one is almost 8 months old and for the past month she is NOT going down like she used to. She still sleeps through the night waking once to feed 7pm bed time 5am wake feed and up for good around 6-7am. When I start our bed time routine she will cry hysterically during the whole thing she’s never done this from 2 months-6 months but 7-8months she will cry for close to 30 mins before falling asleep and nothing I do will help her.
Hello austin..how is ur baby now..im also suffering from same problem
Thanks for the very informative video!
Do I have any hope in my son ever sleeping independently through the night? He is 12 months and constantly wakes up to either nurse or be soothed back to sleep. I don’t know how to even start to wean him off at this point. During his day naps he also can’t stay asleep in his crib, he’ll only stay asleep if someone is holding him.
Check out the Precious Little Sleep book for getting started on sleep training -- from gentle methods to faster. Sounds like your son has feeding and motion sleep associations and doesn't know how to fall asleep independently yet
@@emilyyu9421 thank you so much. I just got the book and so far it’s a great read
@@mariferguson1373 you got this mama!
Hi Emma thanks for the informative video. Now am going through this issue. My daughter (9 Mon) is waking up at night same time every day ( 12:30am, 3am, 5:30 am), she is teething as well, I don’t thinks it’s bcz of teething bcz she wakes up same time every night and back to sleep only when I feed other things like comforting, rocking is not helping her to go back to sleep. Can you please tell me what would be the reason?
Same here 😞
Sorry that I ask here, not sure if you have time to respond, but is there a way to stop baby from rolling on their tummy 😂? My son is almost 9 months old, and through his sleep he rolls on tummy, which wakes him up and he immediately starts crying like he's abandoned. Should I just wait, and he will grow up from this?
Wait so if your baby can’t self soothe to sleep by four months then they never ever will? 😳
At one point I am sure they will. 😊 But I also think if they don't go to sleep alone they just need it and what you can do is to accept it, if in reality you are fine with it (apart from society's pressure) and if not, little steps to change it. For myself I feel much better respecting her needs. We both are more relaxed like this. ☺️
Hi Emma.
Love your videos, they are really helpful. We being a new parent are always confused and your videos are my first step of help.
I had a question regarding sleep. My baby is 7 months old and doesn’t sleep on it’s on or on his bed yet. We have tried a lot but he seems to get up soon n start crying screaming bad. He cannot on his own yet, I need to make him sleep n then put on his bed. Any possible solution to it please or a video you recommend.
Please do check there message
Hello, I love watching your videos and they have become so helpful for me. My little one turns 4 months next week. I am moving into a new house in two weeks and really want to start sleep training once we are settled in. Do you have any videos on tips/tricks and how to approach it??
That's far too young to sleep train
We share a room with my 4 month old. He wakes up crying and usually it's because he is hungry
My 2 month old consistently wakes between 3-5am for a feed - is this normal and when do you drop the feed?
U can stop night feeding from Around 4-6 months if u are satisfied with baby's weight gain
Hi Emma, my daughter is waking up at 5 AM everyday because before she left our room, that was the time my husband had to get up for work. Now she sleeps in her cot in her room but she keeps waking up at 5 AM and she wakes up hungry.. not sure what to do. She is 6’month old
Hey Emma, thanks for your video. Do you have any tips for me, I have become the sleep association. Feeding or physical comfort every 2 hours overnight. Do I just go with it or should I be actively trying to change this? I'm not sure if he will grow out of it. He's about to turn 6 months old. For about the past 2 months there has only been 2-3 nights with more than 2 hrs sleep in a row.
I am in the same situation with our 6 month old! I have been wondering the same thing. Over the past few weeks I’ve successfully transitioned her from cradle to crib, bouncing on exercise ball to rocking in a chair, and have been working on getting her attached to a little blanket/stuffie (hoping it will provide comfort between sleep cycles...?) But we are still waking up every 2 hours and feeding 1-2 times a night.
I’m in the same boat with my 8 month old. I haven’t slept more than 2 hours at a time since he was about 4.5 months old.
@@WelderBarbie100 Have you started solids? I've read by 3 meals a day I might expect a sleep through...
@@rebecca6452 I've introduced a toy and it has helped me to get away during naps which has made a major difference! Still getting frequent wake ups though. He's just dropped a nap so hoping to make more progress which the daytime routine settles a bit more...🤞
@@BaconSteph he’s eating 3 meals per day, plus a nurse when he wakes up and before each nap. My problem is he has a nurse to sleep association and I have no idea how to break him of this. Nothing I’ve tried has worked.
Hi Emma, thanks for another great video! My baby is 3 months and I think she's starting sleep regression. You say when they wake up to try to fall them asleep with the routine and avoid using a feed. But what if the baby only stops crying with the breast? Thank you so much!!
A 3 month old baby still needs their 2-3 hourly feed. You can make a transgression toward their sleep partens from around 6 momths
Thank you
it's my absolute pleasure! I hope it was helpful!
Thank you for all your help. I'm a Nana. your videos help me so much.
I'm so glad!
Hi Emma, thanks for the video. When do babies set sleep associations? Our baby is only 3 weeks old, but watching this video makes me concerned that our soothing techniques like swaying and carrying him, or letting him sleep in a wrap while we get things done, may make it harder in the future. He’s already been quite fussy at times if we don’t hold him. We do try to put him down on his bed after he falls asleep.
Babies in the first three months are literally still getting used to being out of the womb and in the world. It's completely natural to need to imitate womb-like settings to soothe your baby because that is what they need to feel safe and secure. Newborns needing assistance to sleep is normal!! As they get older, transitions can be made. I think of it like learning to ride a bike - you start with lots of encouragement, support and training wheels and progress in stages according to your baby's readiness :)
Grunting and felling like hea gone explode 🤯 gassy and being all tensed up..😢 not crying ofc..slepps on side hip
My baby frequently demand for feeding… Any suggestions
Hi Emma I have a 3 month old FS. He has on and off good naps. Everyday is different. But his night time sleep is not good. He wakes up every 20 minutes. Wanting his pacifier. I am ready to ween his off. I have a 22 month old and he wakes him up. I am extremely exhausted. I know he will wake up for his bottles. And of course I am ok with that. But waking up all the time is draining me. I tired to let him try to go back to sleep. But he screams. His screams are so intense. I am in desperate need of sleep.
Please try to feed your baby adequately at least every 2-3 hours. Hunger makes kids fussy
@@molliegiselle1235you’re missing the point. And my comments was to Emma not you.
Hey my baby isnt cranky during day time but keeps getting up n crying at night her bottom to teeths are erupting can it be due to teething she cries at night
my 5 month old sleeps really good during the night but at night for him to stay atsleep the first time he need 1 to 2 hours pf me feeding him ho sleeps in his crib and wakes for breastfeed one or two times at night do not what to do
Hullo Emma, thank you for the consistent help through your videos. My baby girl is 10months now, she has trouble staying asleep, we are trying to sleep train, however this is really hard as she cries for so long and even when she goes to sleep, she suddenly wakes up crying. We've been to the pediatrician and she's ok.
Hello! Thank you for all the informative videos they are a huge help. Can you please post a video with some types of foods (solids) that is the best to start feeding a baby. I have a six month old baby and just started introducing solids but have been having problems with constipation. Can you please make a video with foods that are safe to give to a baby and with foods that cause constipation?
When you realize your baby has constipation give them food that contains more water like watermelon or a watery porridge. That will help
In the first part you talk about teething or a sleep association - our daughter is doing exactly what you tell about a wrong sleep association : how can we fix it? Thank you again for your help!
It's the second half of night - naps of an hour
Hi Emma. What do you do if your toddler takes a late nap, he falls asleep 2 hours later than usual. Do you then move bedtime two hours later or do you try to keep the nap only 30 minutes and then try to give him an early bedtime instead?
this is always a tough one for me
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Hi @Ayesha Akram the answer to this question really depends on the age of your little one? Because you said he is a toddler I am assuming he is older than 12 months. If he is having two naps a day but the afternoon nap is pushing the bedtime back he may be ready to drop the afternoon nap and just have 1 nap a day (the average age a bub drops to one nap is around 15 months of age).
If your little one is not yet ready to drop a nap;
- you can try and move the nap earlier in the afternoon,
- or you can wake your little one to make sure he is awake for 4 - 5 hours before they need to go to bed.
- Or can just move their bedtime back a bit so that they are tired when they go to bed (If you put them to bed too early and they are not tired then bedtime is going to be difficult).
I can do either with my baby x
@ Emma Hubbard Thank you very much for your answer =]
Hi Emma, thanks for your videos, as a first time mom they've been a huge help. My baby sleeps well through the night, she's 1 month and 3 weeks old so she only wakes up when she's hungry and then she goes back to sleep immediately, what I'm struggling with is with her naps, starting a week ago she's been waking up every 10 to 15 minutes, and 50% of the time she wakes up crying, the first thing I do is to check for colic but most of the time that's not the problem and the only thing that seems to soothe her is breastfeeding her, even if it's only for 5 minutes. Is there something I can do to improve her nap time?
Omg I'm having this exact same problem! Sleeps great at night but nap times have been a struggle. She's two months.
@@rachellenicole309 same. I just put her in a carrier because otherwise she gets so cranky when she's overtired
Make sure baby is well fed and full it can help Baby sleep longer
Dario is teething and wont sleep in his bed. Tried but he'll be crying for almost an hour and his cheeks will be red so i co sleep with him. When we co sleep, i breast feed him Nd he falls asleep. This has been ingoing for weeks now and he's used to it now. I'd like to stop but do not know how. Also Dario cant sleep alone. Please help me as im exhausted.
Hi Emma , my son is 7month and doesn’t sleep in night well. His 1st sleep will last for 2hrs and then he will wake every hour or just roll side to side constantly. I have tried all methods but still it continues
Hi my son is also like this.
No rolling is reduced?
How you have managed?
Hi, my baby is 17 months old since few weeks, I observed that she wakes up@3am-4am between regularly some times she will sleep after 10.15 min some times it will take 2-3 hrs and she takes only one nap afternoon 12.30-3 pm
And she will sleep@11-11.30 pm.. some times she will wakes every hour from 3 am, am really very tired and exhausted... Plz help me how can I put my baby to sleep through night... Is 11.30 pm correct time or should i make to early bed time plz help me mam thanks in advance...
She can't fall asleep on her own either I will do cradle or breast feed then only she will go to sleep.... Very rare she fall asleep on her own
It’s like you knew I was having a rough night with my little one or something 😩
I'm sorry to hear that Meia! Hopefully this helps 💜
It did, thank you so much!
I'm so happy to hear that! 🙂
Me too. My area around the nipple is all sore and crusty because I can not make my boy fall asleep that easy anyhow anymore. He used to fall asleep on his own and now it's problematic since he was 3 months. (Now 5 months) the time right before his night sleep is the worst. Nothing that I do seems to work anyhow x.x
What about breast fed babies lol please help my L.O will not stay off my breast it seems .. wakes up and goes to sleep to a boob Everyday.
I want help with the same thing!
@@southlord are you able to put your L.o down without having your boob near by 😂 ? As funny as that sounds I cannot. When I lay her down after she’s asleep in my arms I almost immediately after putting her down have to give her my breast to stay asleep 🥹
My 6m old waking up every one hour pls advice it’s not due to hunger I have tried that too
Give baby a pacifier
My baby is scratching his head and ears so often
Poor thing. Hope he isn't hurting himself.
If your little one is a newborn they often accidentally scratch their head because their arm movements are not very controlled. After 3 months of age they can control their arms better and the scratching reduces. But if your little one is older and you're worried he is sick then it might be worth popping in to the doctors.
@@EmmaHubbard thanks! He’s 5 months now. I’ll let the doc know
Hello, any tips on how to stop feeding to sleep?
Give baby a pacifier it helps to put them to sleep without having to feed them
My daughter has had an ear infection for over a month and wakes every half an hour sometimes. We bedshare and she's so restless and struggles to get comfortable. It's hard on both of us.
That does sounds very hard for you both! I hope she recovers from the ear infection soon 💕
So frustrated with this. 😢 I love your other videos but I am so against all this sleep training rubbish. Babies learn to self settle in their own time, it is not a bad thing to help your child fall asleep and they all eventually sleep through alone. Follow your baby’s cues and respond to them every time. Waking up overnight isn’t a “sleep problem” that needs to be “solved”, it’s just the way small babies’ brains work
So my baby is almost a year old and still wakes 4-5 times a night . Still think they will Learn to settle in their own time ?? I’m beginning to think otherwise .
I’m lost. I established bedtime routine since he was 2 weeks old. Now he is 7 months old he is still waking up 40 minutes later. I don’t pick him up immediately, I wait 2 minutes. I put him down awake. I watch his wake window. Nothing works
Same mine is 10months and still I’m having a hard time
Hullo Emma, please help me, my little girl has refused to sleep long by herself, we have tried to keep a bedtime routine & put her in the crib but it's not effective. We've had to sleep with her on our bed. She's ok, no illness but we need help
This is just sad.
My baby is 5 months old and needs me to do a special dance to put her to sleep while breastfeeding. Any suggestions on how to change it to a simple shush and pat?
A pacifier should do the trick
Hi Emma, thanks for wonderful videos. I want your guidance on breast refusal.. my baby is 3 an half months old now and
Perfectly fine. how to find root cause of this problem and solve it.
He is crying when I get him for feed. I gone through some videos on RUclips and tried multiple positions but not result. As per doctor he is
Some babies don't like breast milk. Try baby formula
Hi Emma, I’m so glad I found your RUclips channel, it has been so helpful being a first time mom! This video couldn’t have come at a better time.
I have a question-my baby is going to be 12months in a week and was sleeping through the night. He had gotten a fever last weekend and has since recovered. However he has started to wake up once during the night. I went back to my sleep training steps, but he is waking and demanding a feed. The wake up is 5-6am, not sure how to manage that since his usual wake up is between 7-8am.