Night Time Routine
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My son goes to bed like 8:30/9 😅 some days he’s a 1 napper and some days he’s a 2 napper. Just depends on how his nap at daycare is. But our usual routine after his second nap is dinner, bath, drink milk and run around the living room for a bit haha then bed. We put him in his crib and turn on his crib mobile that plays a lullaby. His room is super dark but he does have a hatch machine that makes his room red. It can play white noise but he already has a small fan and air purifier in his room that’s like his “white noise”. Then we just leave the room and he rolls around until he falls asleep 😅 my son is also a thumb sucker so that’s probably why he can go to sleep on his own.
Um.... Forward facing in states that allow it at one is strongly not recommended according to best practices by cpst s
But I can't quite tell in this picture if your kiddo is rear facing or forward facing
@Elizabeth I’ve rewritten this so many times bc I really don’t want to come off like a bitch but if I wanted to know about cpst best practices, I would’ve asked.
I get that. It was a " picture to get views on the post" picture. Yes..... but I've spent too much time in car seat safety groups on Facebook... And internal decapitation is a risk when FF too young.... And I've heard horror stories on YouTube of parents who FF too young or even moved to a backless booster too young and their child ended up critically injured .... And I know that wasn't the point of the post. But I just wanted to inform. RF to the height or weight max is considered best practices. And though I'm not a cpst myself, I would rather someone be informed in case they didn't know, because I never assume that people are knowledgeable on things . But a useful note. The chest clip should be level with the armpits . And if forward facing a seat the harness should be at or just above the shoulders. No snark was meant in my comment in any way. And I appreciate that you didn't send any snark to me in yours. Hope your Friday is going well
( every child is different on the growth charts and that is okay too .... My child will not hit 40 pounds before 4.... Easily.... Possibly before 5, but that's a bit harder to guesstimate and extrapolate )
As to answering your question, we nurse to sleep but once we are ready to do that less I will likely do other bedtime associations. Music is something that has helped him relax. I also have some bedtime rhymes and story collections that I've read to him from
I’m not sure I have suggestions but we went through this right around a year! We also used to rock to sleep with a bottle and weaned from the bottle easily. I would honestly rock my gal to sleep every night forever but we’re expecting her little bro to come in December and I do 5/7 bedtimes alone due to my husbands work shift. So I chose that time to also transition to setting in the crib and rubbing her back to sleep. When I say this took over a month to drop the rocking I mean it! I rocked for less time every several days and set her in her crib more and more awake but so gradually. Today she won’t let me rock her at all (sad but I guess great for when baby comes) but doesn’t quite just let me leave the room before she’s settled. I end up rubbing her back for about 5 minutes! Toddlers are hard! Who knows, next week she’ll regress to hard bedtimes again! Keep with it mama!