What gets your baby to sleep? *fun thread*

[Mazzy17]

Hi Ladies,

The other night Amy was not a happy lady at all, even after being bathed, fed, changed and hugged she was still REALLY whingy and stroppy. So trying to think of what else to do i remembered how still and calm she was when i was pregnant with her and went to cinema to see The Hobbit. So i downloaded the soundtrack and played the Dwarves song "Misty Mountains"...its only 1.37mins long but within 10 seconds she was calm and within 30 secs she was happily sleeping. So to calm the little lady every night i put that song on repeat for 10-15 mins. Peter Jackson i love you!

What unique things do you do you get your LO to sleep?

 

[AC1987]

Well now that shes older she decides when she wants to sleep, so I normally just stick her in her crib and she falls asleep.

 

[kit10grl]

At night she has ewan the dream sheep and as ligth show ont he wall but during the day the theme tune from Doc Mcstuffins does it everytime lol

 

[Millnsy]

For naps I put lo down In her buggy in her snowsuit whether or not we are going out! It started when she was kicking off one morning and I thought I'd better take her out for a walk. So I got her ready then went to brush my teeth and finish getting ready. By te time I was done, she was spark out! Works every time!

 

[greats]

ooo I love the music idea!!! Every time I'd play some music from my all-time fave tv show (Battlestar Galactica) Rylee wouldn't kick so much in my belly. I need to try this out now when she's fussy!

 

[BUGaBOO]

Isla has to be swaddled, put over my shoulder then patted very firmly on the bum so that her head bobs a little bit and she will eventually go to sleep.

 

[AngelofTroy]

ooo I love the music idea!!! Every time I'd play some music from my all-time fave tv show (Battlestar Galactica) Rylee wouldn't kick so much in my belly. I need to try this out now when she's fussy!

Is it the spooky 'all along the watch tower' one? That gives me goosebumps now!!xxx

 

[Soph n Chris]

When my lo was younger I used to rock him.

Not the lovely rocking that most people do, oh no, I virtually had to roughly jig him from side to side so much that his head was bobbing about. If my arms got tired so I wasn't jigging hard enough he would wake again so I had to start again!

Crazy baby.

He's not what I would call a gentle baby though. He loves to be 'thrown about'.

 

[Buckles]

Ewan the sheep, who ever invented that ugly looking sheep, I could kiss
It makes our nights a lot easier x

 

[Clucky as]

I second the jigglyrock. Its more like a jiggle rock, pivot dance move with a bum pat thrown in. Looks ridiculous but works most times.

 

[Sproglet]

Yep, for Robyn if she's fighting sleep I have to cradle her in my arms but tummy against mine, and support her with my arm through her legs and pat her on the back. Then I have to jiggle her up and down. And put her dummy in. All while she's trying to scratch my eyes out (or so it seems). If she's really fighting I have to stand up and add in a sway/bounce/sideways turn sort of movement.

 

[corgankidd]

For naps I swaddle him and put him in his swing and he falls asleep within a few minutes. For bedtime I either hold him in the breastfeeding cradle position with his dummy in and stroke his face or I lay on my bed with him on my chest until he falls asleep and then I put him in his rock and play sleeper. He's a pretty easy baby to get to sleep, thankfully!

 

[CoffeePuffin]

At bedtime, it's not too bad and she usually falls asleep just after she's finished her bottle or I'll have her on my chest and pat her bottom. But for naps, she fights it - I try everything but nothing seems to work and she just eventually falls asleep from exhaustion.

 

[bumpbear]

When LO was tiny, we had to play uptempo music from her baby gym that is designed to get kids active to get her to sleep. Lullabies would just wake her up!

Now she likes to watch an episode of in the night garden before bed. If we're not at home, I have to whisper in her ear 'goodnight makka Pakka, goodnight upsy daisy, goodnight Tomliboos, goodnight hahoos...' (You get the picture!) and then she rubs her eyes and is happy to be put down for the night to some amazon rainforest white noise in the background!

 

[Mazzy17]

Have now ventured into Indiana Jones...

 

[Pink Sunshine]

Yep, for Robyn if she's fighting sleep I have to cradle her in my arms but tummy against mine, and support her with my arm through her legs and pat her on the back. Then I have to jiggle her up and down. And put her dummy in. All while she's trying to scratch my eyes out (or so it seems). If she's really fighting I have to stand up and add in a sway/bounce/sideways turn sort of movement.

I can just picture this. Sounds like a technique mine would like.

Mine is fairly good about just going to sleep. When she is overtired and refuses to nap I cradle her tight with one are through the legs and pat her back. I rock back and forth sideways while singing some stupid song that I made up just for this occasion that goes like this, "What's wrong wit chew, what's wrong? 3x What's wrong, what's wrong wit chew?" I've been singing that same silly song since she was born and that seems to work the best. That song works anytime she is upset. That with boob, boob, and more boob.

 

[carlyjade86]

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Elsie's new trick to get to Z-town... She's gonna be the death of me... Panic much?!

To nap, She likes me singing in a whisper in her ear: to the tune of Daisy Daisy) Elsie Elsie the coppers are after u. If they catch u they'll give u a month or two. They'll tie u up with wire, behind a black moria, so ring ur bell and peddle like hell coz the coppers are after u" , while I stroke her foot or if she's on the sofa, she likes my arm under her legs, patting the sofa... She's a funny egg.

 

[babydust1990]

Yep, for Robyn if she's fighting sleep I have to cradle her in my arms but tummy against mine, and support her with my arm through her legs and pat her on the back. Then I have to jiggle her up and down. And put her dummy in. All while she's trying to scratch my eyes out (or so it seems). If she's really fighting I have to stand up and add in a sway/bounce/sideways turn sort of movement.

This is my technique for when he's overtired/fighting sleep too

 

[Feronia]

I've never heard of Ewan the Dream Sheep until this thread, but I looked it up and it's terrifying! Let me get this straight: it's a sheep that looms in the darkness, glows blood red, and stares directly into your baby's eyes while making terrifying guttural noises from a horror film. And it's supposed to put your baby to sleep? That thing would keep me up and give me nightmares!

At any rate, the over-the-shoulder, pat-the-back, bob up and down manoeuvre + pacifier does the trick maybe 80% of the time. But we have to be standing and rocking from side to side at the same time. If we try to sit while doing the same exact thing, she can tell we're half assing it and wakes right up.

 

[MrsEngland]

Tilly has a cloud b giraffe that plays a heartbeaat noise its amazing she loves it! The hoover/hair dryer works awesome too.

The only fail safe though is to bring her in bed/lay on the sofa with me (only me) and she'll be sparco in seconds.