how long to take your baby to go nite nite?

momof2girls wrote: Ive posted about this before kinda
How long does it normally take you to get your baby to sleep for the night?
For the last 4 nights its taken me at least 2.5 hours, Im going nutty.

Usually took me about 20 mins, feed her, rock her and she was out.

I think Im gonna take her to the Dr in the am to make sure all ok, I know she is teething but I wanna make sure no ear infection or anything else. But no fever or anything other then teething.

mummy2girls replied: Your going to hate me but it takes me 5 miniutes. I just give her some milk. and then put her into her crib after she drinks it and she is out for the rest of the night!

But i know what you are going through with the teething at night. jenna was horrible at one time(molars) and she would take 1 hour to get to sleep and she would wake up every 2 hours for milk...have you trtied the hylands teething tablets?

momof2girls replied: I dont hate you but I am super jealous!!!
No I have not tried those I had read some posts on another board that they had made there babies so out of it... so scared to do that.
HOPEFULLY this is just a few bad nights.
thanks!

A&A'smommy replied: when she is tired probably about 10 or 15 minuts I change her diaper, put some lotion on her, put a onsie on her (because it is SO hott) a bib, give her a bottle and rock her. When we are upstairs I let her play for a few minutes (we co-sleep) I cuddle with her sometimes giving her a bottle or a binky we cuddle and she goes right to sleep probably a process of 10 to 15 minutes there too.

CantWait replied: Well usually it takes me a good hour and a half or so. The last few days though, it takes 4, only cause he's going to bed 2 hours later then normal The teething tablets say on the container that it may make baby sleepy only because they're so tired already, and probably can't get any rest, so that once they get relief from the symptoms and the pain, this is why they sleep. I just recently started using them and they work a bit better then tylenol, etc.... Good Luck

amynicole21 replied: It takes us 30min to 1 hour to get Sophia down... always has I've never had any problems with Hylands, and we used them a lot.

Kirstenmumof3 replied: I don't really have any trouble getting Claudia to bed. She usually lets us know she is tired and wants to go to bed (usually around 8-8:30). Once she is in her crib she goes to sleep right away.

MommyToAshley replied: For Ashley's nap, I put her in her crib and she is out in a matter of minutes. Nighttime is a little different. She wants to be rocked and fights sleep to the bitter end. It usually takes us about 45 minutes, but that includes her drinking a couple sippy cups of milk, while holding her fingers over some of the holes to make it come out slower (she'll do anything to stall). I don't like putting her to bed with milk for a numbre of reasons so I rock her and let her drink it. By the time she is done with her milk, she is ready for bed so she snuggles up on my shoulder and goes to sleep. Once in awhile, she'll go to sleep in her bed at night too.

Kaitlin'smom replied: most nights about 10-15 minutes.....after he jammies are on she knows it bed time so we have quite play time them one I get her cup ready with water (and a little juice) I rock her for a bit and then its of to nite-nite, she is usaully pretty good about going to sleep on occasion when she is teething it will take longer to rock her (I dont mind this). She just recently got back into tthe rocking things for a while she wanted nothing to do with it I glad I get the time at ngiht back with her.

kimberley replied: i don't fight her when she is not tired. i just let her stay up and play. but usually 20 minutes of nursing and she is out cold.

A&A'smommy replied:
that is what we do! except for the nursing lol we just wait unti she is ready but I'm also a SAHM and I can work around her schedule.

alice&arik replied: With Arik I tell him it is nite-nite time and when I get him changed and dressed for bed, I fill up his sippy, sometimes with milk, or water. Then he gives his hugs & kisses and then he runs to his room and jumps into bed. Then he falls asleep on his own. Sometimes he goes to sleep right away, and sometimes I hear him kicking his feet on the mattress and talking to himself. But I hardly ever have to go back in there. So what is that, like 2 minutes?

ediep replied: It usually takes Jason about 15 minutes to fall asleep. bath, pj's, milk, and a little rocking. It wasn't always like this though, I used to have to rock him to sleep (45 min), but noe he lets me rock him for a few minutes, and then he points to his crib.

pinka_star replied: Emma fights me so much at nap time. Most days she doesn't have one. But at night she doesn't fight me at all. We give her a bath, change her, put her in her jammies, give her a bottle and she's out.

kit_kats_mom replied: It really depends. Some nights she goes right down after the 30 minute routine. Others, you have to lie next to her for 2-3 hours before she will stay asleep for more than 15 minutes.

Recently, she's been doing much better but now I'm sure that the move will throw that all out of whack.

coasterqueen replied: Depends here too. Last night took 20 minutes. Some nights it's 30 minutes, and some nights it's 2 hours.

My2Beauties replied: With Hanna having ear infections it's not that it's hard to get her to sleep (although she cries more ) but it's the fact that she doens't stay asleep long! Woe is me I haven't had any sleep in while

But when she is feeling good, I have about a 30 minute routing, every other night a bath, put on a onesie or sleeper, give her a bottle, and out she goes! She fights it sometimes but not for long!