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We absolutely give him the night time gripe water, it makes him sleepy like he is currently but he fights through it no matter what we do. He doesn't seem gassy and has been burped religiously, and rocked. It's maddening.

He has a white noise machine but seemed to sleep better with voices in the background (like very soft TV), currently neither works.

For example, I just rocked him for maybe 30 minutes and he seemed to be asleep until I went to put him in his bassinet - suddenly wide awake.

He does this exact same thing repeatedly

step one: Lay him in his bassinet

step two: let him cry. It sucks, every parent hates it, but you just have to go through it. He will fall asleep eventually. Could take 30 minutes, could take 2 hours.

Do this and he learns to fall asleep on his own. Don't do it, and you are fricked.

PS- God Bless, it is hard. Be there for your wife, it is harder for her.

ETA: Letting my son cry was as hard as quitting smoking. But it was just as rewarding

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Posted by GusMcRae

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Posted on 3/18/23 at 5:23 am to Roaad

It’s very simple. Put more closed doors and walls between you and the baby. Put him in the crib at bedtime, go back about 5 am. Bam! He slept through the night.

No baby ever cried to death. They’re very resilient. Like 6 billion currently have made it through the night.

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Posted by LSU2ALA

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Posted on 3/18/23 at 9:03 pm to Roaad

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step one: Lay him in his bassinet step two: let him cry. It sucks, every parent hates it, but you just have to go through it. He will fall asleep eventually. Could take 30 minutes, could take 2 hours. Do this and he learns to fall asleep on his own. Don't do it, and you are fricked. PS- God Bless, it is hard. Be there for your wife, it is harder for her. ETA: Letting my son cry was as hard as quitting smoking. But it was just as rewarding

This is the way. Right when my twins turned 3 months, I told my wife to go to bed and turn off the monitor. She is too kind hearted to go through this. I slept in the room next to their nursery. They woke up and I checked on them. All was fine so I left. They cried for 1.5 hours that night. The next was 30 minutes. The third night was 5 minutes. They slept through the night ever sense.

It’s called sleep training for a reason. Either you train them, or they train you. There are no other options.

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