How do your baby sleep ?

[AugustinParis]

My younger one has difficulties to sleep at the moment... In these hot nights, how do you settle your baby for sleeping ?

Do you use a sleeping bag, simple bed sheets, a duvet ? Do you set up the air con ? and on which temperature ?

If you use a sleeping bag or a duvet, how thick is it ?

thanks !

Flo

[mondaymorningquarterback]

Alternate between aircon 23C and fan.

[buddhabelly]

hello fellow sleepless mums out there! I totally relate to what you are experiencing, I've got 2 boys, one is nearly 5 and the other just turned 1. I used the methods described in a book by Tizzie Hall called Save Our Sleep and within 4-5 days my then 8 month old was sleeping throughout the night 12 hours straight. The first few days are hard, as Sal my no. 2 cried for an hour but gradually his cries diminshed till he was able to put himself to sleep without needing any sleep aid. I highly recommend this book - saved my sanity! And my husband and I get down time from 6.30pm onwards! Just bliss.

[SunWuKong]

Babies tend to wake themselves up with their own movements when they are very young. I've had a lot of success here in Singapore with aircon at 21Deg with a fan on and a secure bunny wrap for the baby (Velcro tabbed ones are convenient).

Beyond that if you are fortunate enough to be breast feeding then I suggest feeding baby to sleep on the breast with the bunny wrap on. Baby and mother sleep together and for the long haul.

Good luck.

[smayrhofer]

Before you go straight to the cry-it-out sleep training method, please do read up on the pros and cons. Just because it works doesn't mean it's good. When a baby stops crying after an hour, you should be asking yourself if he is really feeling better or if he gave up because he no longer believes anyone cares.

http://www.phdinparenting.com/2008/07/05/no-cry-it-out/

[SunWuKong]

So long as you attend your baby lovingly when they are cheerful and happy, there is no reason why allowing a baby to cry itself out after all of its immediate needs have been met should cause any harm at all.

I believe it is more harmful to stress the parent to the point where they must ignore the baby in order to forestall abuse. Insisting that a parent stay up to attend a irritable baby throughout the night for weeks on end is potentially much more damaging.

I wouldn't give the author a PHD in anything, let alone parenting.

[snowqueen]

For the first 5 months my baby was in a short sleeved/no legged onezie/babygrow then swaddled with the air con set to 24 degrees. The temp in the room seems to range from 23-25 degrees.

After 5 months he went into a sleeping bag wearing a long sleeved no legged onzie/babygrow with the air con as above.

He always goes straight to sleep without any fuss, because we only put him to sleep when he's tired. This seems to work quite well although he often wakes up in the night, depending on how tired he was when we put him to bed. If we exhaust him by taking him swimming, leave him to craw around longer in the evening he tends to sleep till about 6am but if not then he could wake several times a night. Sometimes he self-soothes himself back to sleep, other times I go to his room, re-tuck him in, put in pacifier, teddies by his head and he goes straight back to sleep (this is part of our nightly routine).

I hear that feeding a baby to sleep every night could cause problems for the future so you may want to break this if possible. It is recommended to put a baby to sleep awake, then they are not scared/feel disconnected from you if they wake up.

Hope this helps.

[pills]

my nieces have to sleep in aircon as it's real humid and warm in sg.n they'll wear socks and long sleeves.

[pearline]

Try reading the "No Cry Sleep Solution" by Elizabeth Pantley (I should think that's the name).

We don't practise crying it out and find the methods in there very useful. Don't really believe in leaving baby to cry out loud so that is really not for me.

Keeping temperature consistent around 24 degrees is good. Sudden changes in humidity can be quite irritating even to an adult and sudden drafts of wind is definitely not going to help.

Did you try creating "white noise", etc. May want to consider a cloudB Sleep Solution. Locally can be found at Baby Slings & Carriers at Square 2 (Novena). Not sure if any other places have it though. Can find out about these at www.cloudB.com.

[QRM]

I dont know how people can walk away from their crying child, I tried it once and it was heart breaking she cried so much she vomited all over herself. I went back and saw the poor little thing all covered in vomit and soaked in tears. That when I promised myself never again to leave her crying.

[durain]

lavender oil will help the child sleep. johnson's does a lavender baby oil bath.

[chikadilly]

23C aircon, cotton pajamas (long sleeve footies as GAP or Children's Place), thin cotton sleeping bag (Halo). My one year old sleeps 11hours straight.

[AndyD]

Our little’un is now 8 weeks, and we are trying to really acclimatise him fully – so we have AirCon on when he goes to bed at 26 degrees, put that on an hour timer then it clicks off and nothing for him – just a very thin sheet over his legs… Fan for us (as his cot is in our room at the moment)…

His little monitor thing has a temperature display, and its very often 31 degrees in our bedroom - as long as we have a fan on us its fine (which I am shocked about, when I picture 31 degrees I picture sweat dripping everywhere, maybe we are also acclimatising more than we think) – plus it hopefully means he will get used to the heat properly…

[sundaymorningstaple]

We have never used Aircon here in Singapore. We have always used ceiling fans and find it's the most healthy method as well as the most economical. Cooling by evaporation to me is a lot better (yeah, I know, we have to change the sheets more often). Both of our kids were brought up from birth to even now (20 & 26) and still don't use Aircon. Oh, I'm not originally from a southern or tropical clime either.

[foop]

my boys usually sleep in 26 deg c aircon.

We tried no aircon (only fan and natural ventilation) in the room for the last couple of weeks even in the afternoons and they were fine and slept through nicely. The only thing was the smoke from forest burnings in the last couple of nights which was annoying me. So the boys slept with aircon at nights.