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newborn won`t sleep along
Added: 821 days ago.
Added by: kplum
Section: General.
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My son is 7 days old and will not sleep alone. he sleeps great in our arms, but as soon as he is put down, he cries and will not stop until he is picked up again. I have beenn sleeping with him on my chest as I lay on the couch so that I will not roll over. How do I get him to sleep alone? Or do I? Is he too young for that? Will he eventually learn? Thanks!

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enichan - 818 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I had teh same problem with my son.it started about 7 days after he was born.everytime we put him down he started to cry.he would only sleep in our arms and he only had short sleeping periods. he was considered a cry baby. to be honest with you...it was hell. i searched the net for some explanation and i found out that my baby had torticollis. the birth of my son was very exhausting and at the endof labour i had no power topush the baby out.so the midwife lay on my stomach and pushed the baby out with her elbow(Kristeller method). during that procedere a cervical vertebra got dislocated. that caused really strong pains for my son. after 4 weeks of crying i went to the hospital to recieve some treatment for my son.but they said he was ok. i doubted that. doctors often think they know better than a young mother that spends 24/7 with her baby. after 4 daysi left the hospital with my son...still in the same condition. fortunately ifound a doctor whoknew about the problem.she told me to see an orthopaedist to put the cervical vertebra back to the right position. after the socalles "manual therapy" my son never cried from pains again, he slept good...the whole life was so much easier for all of us. i have this link for you about this illness( we calles KiSS-Syndrom, I am from Germany)The site is in english. maybe it will help you find out what the problem is with your baby. i wish you all the best for you and your little family. http://www.drhong.com.hk/kiss-e.html

RJean - 819 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) Sometimes my son would wake up when I put him down. I figured it was the transfer of warm arms to cold crib. Try heating up his crib with a heating pad. Take it out and then try putting your son down. Hopefully it will work for you.

AliciaTTCBaby2 - 820 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) Omg my daughter was like this for 4 months, becoz all I did was hold her and rock her to sleep worst thing I ever did with her haha you need to get him to sleep on his own, I know there are some ladies who sleep with the kids for years but its unhealthy for you, bub and ur relationship with dh or whoever. Just put him in a bouncer, or how my mum did for me (as I was in hospital for 2 weeks when dd was 4 months old) she figured out that she would sleep on her little pooh bear couch, so mum just put the pooh bear couch in her cot and she slept in there perfect, and when I got home I took it out and she slept alone every since. Just find something he will sleep with, even try a clock or a shirt of yours that smells like you. Goodluck

mariettap - 820 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) Swaddle. Double swaddling, in fact, b/c it stays put better that way. Also, all babies are different. I had one that was jumpy and hard to put down, and one that was much more flexible about changes. Take it a day at a time and give yourself a break when you can. It'll all get figured out.

shelly-b - 821 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) when my daughter first came home this is the only way she would sleep too. then after a week or 2 i would put her in her chair(like a bouncy chair but the one that turns into a rocking chair) right beside my side of the bed and she would sleep there. of course there was alot of spending an hr or sometimes 2 of putting the binky back in every 15min before she would go to sleep for good for a few hrs or putting my hand on her belly so she knew i was there helped too, but after about a month or month n a half she could put herself to sleep and she is now 3months and sleeps 10-12hrs a night without waking up. does he use a binky? payton hardly ever goes to sleep without one. if shes tired all it takes is putting the binky in and she starts closing her eyes, it's funny. it was rough the first few weeks but stick with it. he's too young to let him cry it out but do whatever u can to comfort him and make him stop crying without picking him up so he can get used to sleeping on his own. like i said before, keep him in something close enough to your bed so u can just reach over and comfort him that way you dont hafta get out of bed. swadling her helped alot too. i know how to swadle but she LOVED the kidapodomas(sp?) swadler. it swadled her so much tighter. he's not gonna be a perfect sleeper instantly but with some work it will happen. good luck!

waitingfornumber2 - 821 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) My son is 13 months old and still sleeps with us nearly every night! I love it as crazy as it sounds! I love waking up and him being right beside me and i can just give him kisses and he always wakes me up in the morning, it doesn't bother us at all to share our bed! But we are expecting our second baby in May, so we may start slowly trying to get him to sleep in his own bed, he was doing well at around 6 or 7 months sleeping in his room, before that if he wasn't in the bed with us, he was in his pack n play right beside us, but he outgrew it at around 5 months. Good luck, i hope things go well, you may be surprised and love him sleeping with you! Oh and if your worried about rolling on him or something, when my son got a little older and didn't sleep in my arms all night we put him in a sleep positioner right in the middle of the bed so he didn't roll anywhere and we didn't have to worry about rolling on him on accident because he was always in the same place right in the middle.

MelissaJoanne - 821 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) Do whatever results in all of you getting the most sleep. He has no reason to want to sleep by himself, after having had constant contact with your body for the last 9 months. My daughter wouldn't sleep on her own, so I let her sleep with me. Once I stopped trying to set her down to sleep, we all slept much better! She slept/napped on me for months, and now she'll do it by herself no problem in our bed, she's 12 months old now. We never ended up buying her a crib. :-p At some point during the next year she'll probably move to her own real bed, when she's ready. So yes, he will eventually sleep on his own just fine. 7 days old is VERY young, and what he needs right now is you.

my.family - 821 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I had the same problem with my son for several weeks. Do you swaddle? My son loved swaddling, and as long as he was wrap fairly tight he would go asleep on his own. I don't know if this will work for you, but i think that is what worked best for my son. Good luck!

cuddlebunnymeg - 821 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I worked with my daughter on this for weeks and now she is able to sleep on her own in her crib in her own room. It was hard but I live in an apartment so we started placing her in her crib to sleep for naps during the day and she would cry. I tried to soothe her by not picking her up, talking to her, giving her a pacifier, rubbing my hands in a circular motion on her tummy. If she would constantly scream then I would pick her up, rock her then put her back down. It took weeks! You have to remain consistant but it will happen.

chamby - 821 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) He will eventually learn! My son wouldnt sleep alone at night until he was 12 months!! He just started sleeping in his crib at night 2 weeks ago :-D...he always slept with us in our bed!! have you tried to put him in his crib once he falls asleep and is in a deep sleep?