How to train
2 Month Old Baby To Sleep
Nap Training Tips: How I Got My Baby to Sleep During The Day | Susan Yara
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interested in any of that today we're
gonna talk about my baby's nap schedule
and his sleep training to get him to do
these naps because i have had so many
messages about this i I think a lot of
people appreciate it the sleep training
video and you can watch that but I think
a lot of people were really curious
about naps so we're gonna talk about it
one of the first things to point out is
when I sleep train me gosh he was
between the ages of 5 to 6 months and
that's important because when it comes
to naps especially he was doing three
naps a day now he is 10 months old and
he is down to two naps a day so there's
a really big difference in that and your
schedule is a really really big deal
when it comes to naps because you want
everything to be completely consistent
from five to six months his schedule was
wake up between 6:30 to 7:00 a.m. we
would change his diaper feed him almost
immediately he would go down for his
first nap at 8 a.m.
sleep for up to two hours max then we
would get him up same thing again we
would change his diaper feed him and
then let him play around for a little
bit and then his next snack would be
around noon and then again max he would
sleep which is two hours it's the
longest set you were ever allowed to let
him sleep during one nap and then we'd
get him up again change him fume all
over again and then we would let him go
down for one more nap so that would
normally be around 3:30 but we would
never let him sleep past 4:30 so all of
his naps ended by 4:30 every single day
and that was a really really big deal
because you wanted him to be able to
like have enough time to sleep during
the day but also not go down so close to
his actual bed time because that can
mess that up so that schedule is really
really important and I'll put that in
the description so you guys can see that
schedule if you have a baby that's
around that age he probably switched up
to two naps a day when he turned about
eight and a half
sold something like that he he is
definitely now on a tuneup schedule he
is wide awake midday so that midday nap
is now completely gone so that is really
really important to know one of the
things I also want to point out is
whenever we gave him a bottle which at
the beginning when we were sleep
training him we were giving him a bottle
like every two and a half to three hours
you have to make sure you feed him in a
very well lit him or her in a very well
lit area and your baby does not fall
asleep so if you're feeding your child
and it's really close to nap time
sometimes they start to fall asleep
because the bottle is so soothing for
them so you want to make sure you keep
them awake so you feed your baby we
sometimes have to take breaks that way
he doesn't completely fall asleep during
his feeding and then you go upstairs or
in my case go upstairs whatever you go
to your baby's room and you just make
sure it's completely dark in the room
that is another really important tip
because it kind of just lets your baby
know that this is sleeping time you know
it's dark outside there's nothing to
distract him and we put on a white noise
machine sleep sack is also a really big
deal definitely those three things keep
it dark white noise machine and a sleep
sack or if you're still swaddling your
baby swaddle your baby because those
three things will let your baby know
it's time to go to bed those are the
things that we definitely do right
before the nap same thing is in my slip
training video you hold your baby
completely still and just stay like that
for five minutes and let your baby kind
of like calm down and everything get
sleepy
so again ratio of 1 to 10 you want your
baby to be like at a 5 so tired but not
completely exhausted where he's gonna
fall asleep in your in your arms because
you want your baby to do that on his own
so once you get your baby to that point
and you've got the room as dark as
possible
I usually then throw on the white noise
machine and then I lay him down into his
crib and I just had him on his stomach
and I say alright time to go to sleep
usually I walk out the door really
really fast that way it's it's you know
it's just not distracting he at this
point is really good about just you know
I watch them in a little
and he was kind of like cuddles up with
his little lovey and he is good to go he
goes to sleep a few people have asked me
what happens though if you have put your
baby down and he continues to cry and
cry and cry for an hour for instance are
you supposed to just let him be there no
so what my sleep trainer told me to do
was to go get your baby well let your
baby try to put himself to sleep for at
least an hour and if that doesn't happen
then what you do is you go back in you
get your baby open all the windows again
and everything and act like the nap is
over and then just get your baby back
together start the day again and then
let your baby stay awake for at least
thirty minutes you cannot go back into
another nap for at least 30 minutes that
is a very very critical thing like you
don't want your baby because usually
when you try to put them down for a nap
they were probably tired they're just
trying to fight it so when you go and
get your baby up after that hour of them
fighting a nap
they're probably exhausted and now that
you go get them they're gonna be like oh
yes I can finally go to sleep because
I'm at Mom's arms or in dad's arms so
you have to fight to keep your baby
awake for the next thirty minutes so
feeding playing changing diaper anything
that you can do for the next thirty
minutes that way your baby gets the
sense that like nap was over the day
started again and then now we're going
back down for another nap so after that
thirty minutes back down for another nap
if you notice in the in the schedule
that I have in the description
each nap was about two and a half hours
apart so you want to kind of still keep
it that way right so if your baby sleeps
for two hours then make the next nap
about two and a half hours later even if
that is throwing off your schedule a
little bit because you just don't want
to force your baby into trying to sleep
right if they're not tired then they're
not gonna go to sleep and that's just
torture right so you spread out the two
and a half hours and then if that kind
of continued into like the next nap the
third nap then I would just let him go
down around four o'clock
and just let them have like a really
quick catnap like from 4:00 to 4:30 but
whatever you do do not let them sleep
past 4:30 because that you don't want
that to mess up your nighttime schedule
you know I also got a message on my
sleep training video about how you know
if your baby is in distress like what if
he poops or what if he
need something or is sick or something
at that you're gonna just let him cry it
out no trust your intuition that was a
really really big thing that the sleep
trainer pointed out to me she was like
if you feel like something is wrong then
something's probably probably wrong
trust your gut instinct as a mom babies
are really smart so if you start the
sleep training process you have to
really pay attention to that if you let
them cry and cry and cry and cry and
then you finally just give up when
they're like at their most intense
screaming and crying then they're gonna
realize that if they just scream and cry
no matter how long it takes you will
eventually go and get them just remember
that babies are really really smart and
they'll pick up on your cues so if you
feel like you need to keep going in
there and stuff like that you're
probably not ready to do this and I
think that's like a really big note
because naps are really hard to get them
into the schedule and especially when
you're trying to follow someone else's
schedule that they gave you it took us
probably like two weeks for him to
really get this scheduled so we were
trying to put them into the schedule but
you know you take cues from your child
like if he's not tired you know it's
kind of hard to put them down so another
tip this goes for the sleep training in
general is no strollers no car so if
your child likes to fall asleep in the
car or the stroller you don't want you
want to try to push that off for at
least as long as you can she recommended
our sleep trainer recommended 40 48 to
72 hours but the longer you can go the
better so we actually went a whole week
without putting him in a car seat or a
stroller we just kind of like kept him
around our house that way he could you
know get used to sleeping on his own now
that Nakash is ten months old his new
schedule is he goes to sleep around 9:00
9:30 in the morning for his first nap
and then he stays awake throughout that
whole thing but now we feed him food and
everything - and he's so into playing
and he goes to a music class and he's
gonna start swim lessons all that kind
of stuff so he's got more of a day to do
things and then his next nap starts
around 2:30 at the earliest or at the
latest like he goes down around 3:00
3:30 but he's usually out by like 2:30 3
o'clock and
two hours max we never let him sleep
past 4:30 his schedule has gotten so
much shorter but he still goes down to
sleep now like at 7:30 every single
night because he's always exhausted at
that point I'm gonna answer some
questions that I got on my direct
messages and on my youtube channel so
let's start with direct messages a limb
Higgin she says that she watched my
sleep training video
they've been sleep training her child
and they said he cries for about 45 to
60 minutes at his nap but then she says
that she wants to know what do I do at
that point because when you get him up
then he wants to go down she says he
eventually does go down do I put him in
a stroller or anything like that so like
I said earlier the best bet is if your
baby just fights a nap the 45 to 60
minutes
go get him up after 60 minutes get him
dressed
feed him do all of that stuff and try
your best to keep your baby up for 30
minutes then go back into a nap time
routine so then you put your baby down
try the whole thing again because he's
eventually gonna go down right he's
going to be super tired so that's my
best advice and it really does work and
and actually we didn't have to do that
too much with Nakash because he
eventually just got it right like once
they realize like okay this is sleep
time they they start to go down so that
was what worked best for us was letting
him cry it out for a little bit he
actually never made it to a full 60
minutes before but if your baby is
making it to 60 minutes
go get him up start the day again 30
minutes keep them awake it's really
really hard another question I got on my
Danns was which sleeps active use we use
the halo sleep sack it is the best one
in my opinion it has not broken all the
other sleep sacks I've tried brand wise
the zipper eventually breaks on them
sleep sack has made it through these
nights with the baby and I'm convinced
actually that he has a little bit of a
harder time standing up in the crib and
doing all of that stuff because of the
sleep sack so I think it's gonna
actually keep him in his crib a little
longer than normal and also I'll say
when we put him down for naps and stuff
sometimes we and we forget to put him in
a sleep sack or maybe his sleep sack
surgery I haven't done laundry or
something like that um I do notice that
he doesn't sleep as long
have been really really important for
this what do you do when your baby
stands up in the crib so when we were
sleep training him that was not an issue
but it eventually became an issue where
he realized he could stand up in his
crib and then we would go in there and
try to put him down what ended up
working for us the best was to go in
there and then just put him right down
don't look him in the eyes at all and
say Shh it's nap time and then just like
Pat him on the chest really quickly and
then walk right back out there was one
day where I had to go in there like 10
times and just do this like put him down
walk out put him down walk out like and
his his room is on the top floor of our
house so I had to actually like just
hang out on our stairs and my husband
would look at the monitor and he'd say
now and so I'd have to go back in put
him down close the door put him down
close the door put him down like it
seemed like it was just this repetition
and we did this for almost a week but
then he started to realize that you know
we're not going to play this game with
him we he has to go down for his nap and
he has to stay down a question that I
got on the YouTube video that I did on
sleep training is do you eliminate
pacifiers when your sleep training the
answer is yes you eliminate pacifiers
only because you are trying to get rid
of anything that will help your child
fall asleep so sleep sack is a little
bit of like a gray area but I use it
because you know you can't give your
baby a blanket so I keep with the sleep
sack but we were no longer able to
swaddle that was one of the things that
the sleep trainer told us I know some
people are just like nope I'm gonna
swaddle no matter what so you know
obviously again use your mother's
intuition but we eliminated all of those
things and that included a pacifier I
will say two months later after we had
done the sleep training Nakash start
teething really really bad and one of
the only things that really helped calm
him was his pacifier so he's back to
sleeping with his pacifier but I
actually think it's okay now because
again he's sleep trained right so he
knows how to go down for a nap and he
understands his schedule and everything
so he doesn't really fight it anymore
and he also one of the other big notes
about this
he knows how to grab his pacifier now
and put it back in his mouth it's not as
big of a deal in the middle of the night
because he doesn't wake up crying
looking for his pacifier unless it's
just completely lost like maybe it fell
out of the crib
but that doesn't happen too much we had
those little weapon no pacifiers and
they're finally coming in handy because
you can actually throw him in the crib
and he plays with them a little bit and
then if he really needs a pacifier and
there isn't one around there's not least
a pacifier on that so he'll just suck on
that for a little bit
the last question we got is what sound
machine are we using and it's the
electro fan jr. I love this one I
actually like it better than the sleep
machine that me and my husband used to
use I think this one is much better it's
got all these little adjustments on it
you can you can turn it on so that it
just stays on for an hour or you can
change all the noises on it you can
change the volume we keep it on the
entire time he sleeps that way it's just
consistent and if there's anything as
far as like noises or anything like that
he just stays with sleep through all of
it because it just drowns out all of the
noise and it's not like a piercing sound
because I've noticed that like with some
of the apps on my phone when we've like
been traveling or at someone's house and
he needs to sleep and I don't have a
noise machine with me I've noticed that
the apps are the sound is just not a
very nice sound whereas this has a few
different sounds on it that I just think
are really nice and calm sounding and
not piercing because some of those noise
is really bothering me there are some
people are very anti sleep training and
they think that it's cruel and rude and
can traumatize your child I will throw
out there I did a lot of research before
I started this and the overwhelming
amount of research that I have found is
that this is actually good for your
child
it absolutely will not traumatize them
they in fact won't even remember and I
was actually afraid that my baby might
be so mad at me you know like that I'd
walk into his room in the morning and
he'd be like mad at me or something but
I'll tell you he gets really good rest
he sleeps through the night and when I
go in there to wake him up it is the
best thing because he wakes up with a
big smile on his face and he loves it
and I also do know the difference
between his cries now in the beginning
I'd say I probably wasn't completely
sure but now I'm absolutely sure when
he's really in distress and I wouldn't
just let him be in there you know I just
wouldn't let him be in real distress
there's a difference between him being
like needy and wanting mom or dad but
you know you could just kind of tell the
difference and as far as pooping through
the night he doesn't even tell us like
he sleeps right through his poops so
even if he does have a poop which is few
and far between sometimes I wake up and
change him and he does have a poop in
there and he never woke up and let us
know so you know some babies just won't
let you know and that's okay I mean
you've got to do the best that you can
and just pat yourself on the back for
being a good parent so there you go
you're doing great I hope you enjoyed
this video and it helps you out I know
that sleep training can be hard so good
luck pat yourself on the back you're a
good parent and I will see you soon
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