Many parents who haven’t developed a sleeping strategy for their babies will complain that their child can only fall asleep with the bottle, or while breastfeeding, or while being rocked or patted. Whatever the differences might be, these are all sleep strategies, and without them we’d have trouble drifting off. Some need a cup of herbal tea, and some have to read for ten minutes. Some of us need a glass of water beside the bed, some need white noise or music, others can’t sleep without the window open. Most of us have a favorite position on the bed that we turn to when we feel sleep about to come. We have bedtime routines that we tend to do without really thinking about it, and we do these things because they help us transition from the busyness of our day to a restful sleep. We all have strategies that help us make the journey into sleep each night.
But barring those times when your child has a burning fever or a new tooth coming in, the real reason most babies won’t sleep or stay asleep is that they just haven’t learned how. The list goes on and on.Īre any of these explanations the real truth? Sometimes. We worry that she is too small and she needs to eat in the night, or he is too big and he needs to eat more or he won’t feel full. When our babies don’t sleep well, we tend to look for an explanation. My husband found me at 3:00 in the morning sobbing away in our living room. My son just would not stay asleep and I had hit rock bottom, exhausted from waking up multiple times every night and having to soothe him back to sleep.
I can remember the night and some of you will know exactly what I’m talking about when I felt like I could not take it anymore.
I asked it in a sweet voice, I asked it in a pleading voice, I asked it in an angry voice, but no matter how many times I asked, he never gave me the answer. This is a question I often asked my son when he was an infant.
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