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re: Putting an infant down in the crib after they have fallen asleep
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:50 pm to AZTiger7072
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:50 pm to AZTiger7072
My first daughter went down easy and slept through the night. My second daughter woke as soon as I laid her down. She was cruising at 4 months and walking at 8, so she would just stand and walk the edge of the crib crying and gnawing on the rail like a zombie. She ended up spending most nights on me in the recliner in her room.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:51 pm to wareaglepete
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My wife is a zombie to her phone.
I hope she snaps out of it... I have the same problem with my own devices but have been trying to break free of it a bit more.
Congratulations on successfully rearing the next generation! That's a big deal!
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:54 pm to SallysHuman
Thanks. It wasn’t easy having two little ones and then having twins. But, the experience saved us. Had the twins been first, I don’t know if we would have made it. 
Posted on 8/9/26 at 6:16 pm to AZTiger7072
When I put mine down in the crib I’d stay and keep rubbing their chest letting them know I was still there. Do that until they fall back asleep. And then when you’re 99.99% sure they are out and it’s age to stop keep rubbing for another 30 seconds
Posted on 8/9/26 at 6:25 pm to AZTiger7072
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Putting an infant down
Damn. Seems kind of harsh.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 6:28 pm to AZTiger7072
Are you using a raised crib? That helps when their too small to actually climb up anything, not such a long way down when you put them to bed.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 6:34 pm to SallysHuman
quote:If I were that adult size, I’d have just gotten in the crib with the sleeping bambino.
It's been a long time for me, but I remember it being especially awkward being 5ft tall and trying to stoop but up and over the rail *just right* to have maximum body contact right up until the kid touches the mattress.
I remember thinking (when I was trying to move my sleeping kids from car seat to crib/bed) that I was on a bomb disposal team.
One of mine had colic from around four to six months. Riding in the car seat was the only relief. I’d buckle that one up and drive out somewhere rural and turn around and get home to attempt the transfer.
More often than not it failed.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 6:35 pm to AZTiger7072
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Any tips?
Put them down and leave them be. Barring something wrong with them (i.e. sickness, hunger, diaper) they should tire themselves out and fall asleep. And I’m not saying it’s easy to sit there while your infant screams bloody murder. But they’ll eventually figure out how to fall asleep. And if you cater too much to doing it a certain way that requires extra shite (like rocking or driving around until they are asleep), they will get accustomed to needing that and only be able to fall asleep in that way.
Again, it’s tough to do. But it works (usually). Thankfully we didn’t have too many issues when mine (now 6) was an infant.
This post was edited on 8/10/26 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 8/9/26 at 6:39 pm to wareaglepete
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My youngest, my twins, are headed off this week. About to be an empty nester. Will be so strange. Hasn’t been just the wife and I since January 2001.
Mine has been mostly gone from 16-18 anyway, so that part won't be much different. I'd see her maybe 10 minutes per day, but I'd still check on her before I went to work.
I think the weird part will be that I know she's not coming home. My wife and I get along fine, but it's going to be different.
This post was edited on 8/9/26 at 8:23 pm
Posted on 8/9/26 at 6:40 pm to AZTiger7072
Routine is key.
Also, a fed baby is a tired baby.
Also, a fed baby is a tired baby.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 6:41 pm to AZTiger7072
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Any tips?
Enjoy every minute of it, they grow too fast.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 7:10 pm to AZTiger7072
Hold the baby as close to your chest as you can the whole way down over the railing.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 7:17 pm to AZTiger7072
Like trying diffuse an IED or relocate a rattlesnake.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 7:18 pm to AZTiger7072
I used to have to lay in my daughter’s bed with her and sing to her to get her to fall asleep. Took 30 minutes to get her to sleep………………then another 30 minutes to sneak out of the bed like a freaking ninja to keep from waking her. 
Posted on 8/9/26 at 7:21 pm to AZTiger7072
Train ninjitsu.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 7:24 pm to AZTiger7072
Scruffy’s daughter didn’t sleep the full night until she was about 1.5 years.
Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you try.
She would wake up every time we tried to put her in the crib.
Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you try.
She would wake up every time we tried to put her in the crib.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 7:42 pm to Scruffy
I always got mine to sleep laying on couch with them on top. I think that breathing rhythm puts 'em down easy.
The TRICK was getting up off sofa with an infant on your chest and not killing us both and not waking her up. very delicate balancing act. success rate about 60%.
then carefully putting them into bed without triggering that "falling" reflex they have and wasting all the aforementioned effort
The TRICK was getting up off sofa with an infant on your chest and not killing us both and not waking her up. very delicate balancing act. success rate about 60%.
then carefully putting them into bed without triggering that "falling" reflex they have and wasting all the aforementioned effort
Posted on 8/9/26 at 7:43 pm to AkronTiger
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The key is to put them down tired, not asleep.
This. 100%
They need to be on a good routine falling asleep on their own early.
Got a 2 yr old that has slept on his own since day one and his older brother has never slept a night by himself in his life.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 8:51 pm to AZTiger7072
Getting my arm out from under the baby is like the scene in Indiana Jones where he tries to replace the treasure with a weight so the trap doesn't go off. I have to try to put a pillow or stuffed animal where my arm was.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 8:53 pm to AZTiger7072
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This post was edited on 8/9/26 at 8:55 pm
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