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11-21-2012 at 11:42 AM
Stephorse
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8th week growth spurt?

Hi,

My LO will be 8 weeks here soon and all he wants to do is eat and walk around with me looking at things, and making faces with me and talking with me. He won't go down for a nap. He only slept for 2 hours during the day yesterday and then he's really fussy from around 5 until I finally get him down for bed around 10 10:30. He then usually sleeps fine during the night. How can I get him to go down for a nap? I hold him (which usually worked before) I rock him, sing to him, put him in his swing. Is there anything I'm forgetting or something special I should try?


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11-21-2012 at 10:07 PM
opaque1997
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This won't be popular - but on advice from my doctor - I swaddle - sway - give her a binky and then put down in her "bed" (rock and play for us) and let her lay / fuss / cry for a minute at a time (at most two) and then settle her down (give binky back - pat her - shhh her - rock her  - etc) and then let her cry / fuss again.  Normally takes me about five minutes and she's out (hoping that gets shorter and shorter).  That said - if she's not over fussy I don't worry about it - I let her stay up.  My thought on this was - she was crying a LOT more then a minute or two (for a total of 5-10 at most) when I was trying to get her to sleep in other ways..

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11-24-2012 at 2:32 AM
kimswim26
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Week 8 is a wonder week. I don't have the book, but you can google it.

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