Parenting Techniques I'm Doing Again For Baby #2

[@stephanieruddock1386]

Just to ease your mind a little about the opposing naps situation, you really don’t have to do that! My daughter was 2.5 when my son was born and once he hit the 2 nap routine, I just stretched when she took her nap to around 1, got her down, and got him down by 1:30pm and then usually had 1-1.5 hours of them both sleeping. He would take his morning nap around 9/9:30am or in the car if we had errands. So, it really naturally worked itself out and once he went down to one nap around 15 months I try to get them both down at the exact same time around 1pm. Hope that helps!

[@stephanieruddock1386]

Don’t have to stay home all day I meant!

[@Abidingmama]

The no sleep schedule is the BEST!! I watch his wake windows as well and it’s so much less stressful because babies and young toddlers can vary so much it makes no sense to keep a schedule. I also found he sleeps much better at night when we just go with the flow. Sometimes he sleeps at 8pm sometimes it’s 10:30 🤷🏻‍♀️ as long as the total hours of sleep/wake are the proper amounts the actual time doesn’t really matter to me so much

[@Abidingmama]

Also we prioritized a bedtime routine so whether he was ready for bed at 8pm or 11pm we do the same routine so that he differentiates naps with bedtime.

[@shakaanita]

We get the room shady for day naps. I can't sleep in daylight at all, my baby is the same. We need shade, not necessarily a dark room. Just not direct sunlight

[@emimoshi]

Great video again! I definitely agree with not being so strict on naps. There was a time when I would decide my day around her 3 naps. It was extremely exhausting and I was miserable. Now I just let her do her thing and I go out so much more.

[@Abidingmama]

I found that for my kid he needs a dim room with a soft night light for naps BUT we make sure the door to the room is open and he can hear the loud talking/tv/cooking/etc so that he’s not startled by any little noise.

[@amandalozano1360]

I swore by dream feeds!! I received so much judgement for them because “you should never wake a sleeping baby” but I can say I have never felt sleep deprived as a mom thanks to the dream feeds!

[@Abidingmama]

My baby is almost 4 months and for the first month he ONLY really slept on me. It was exhausting. Once we started putting him in his bed for naps he slept better, I was able to nap too, and when hubby and I went back to work his aunt was able to get him down for naps without him wanting to be held. It was basically sleep training And involved a lot of waking up and comforting him back to sleep but now even with his regression starting he’s able to sleep about 10hrs a night, and puts himself back to sleep most of the time. There’s still 1-2 nights a week where he might get hungry or wake up from gas/poop but most of the week mommy and daddy are pretty well rested!

[@caitandrews533]

Yea Ashley talks about these sleep preferences like it's a habit under parental control... Lol I don't think so. The sleep industry perpetuates this too like its some fault of parents.

[@Abidingmama]

@@caitandrews533 I mean there’s definitely things you can do as a parent to improve your baby’s sleep like putting them down for most of the naps and having routines to help with sleep association but ultimately the baby is gonna decide their schedules.

[@shwacp0809]

Lol I was the same with my first in regards to holding the baby. I made sure to give him time to be sitting on his own or sleeping on his own. With #2 I wish I could hold him more 😭 my first is now 2 and I need to give so much attention to him that I only really get to hold my newborn in the evenings. So often if my first is out of the house and I have time with my newborn I will forget about the house and just snuggle the crap out of him on the couch because I feel the mom guilt of not holding him enough!!

[@austenmidland7034]

If it makes you more relaxed about baby holding, we held both our babies constantly and around the 6month mark both of them never wanted to held, just wanted to crawl and be independent and honestly unless it's for help/comfort or going out our kids don't want to be held, one is 1 currently and the other is 4 🤷‍♀️

[@gabrielarivera6065]

This!! I always let him nap on me during my maternity leave. After a week at daycare he would get so mad at me on the weekends if I tried to get him to nap at me. Since 4 months he’s been a strictly crib sleeper

[@buzzi2k]

@@gabrielarivera6065 oh wow! We also have s contact napper and I wondered what a transition out of it would look like

[@bridgetmartinson2176]

Thanks for this video!

[@shammah4374]

Can you do a video about how you sleep trained ?

[@evapoole4514]

That Dream Feed is such a great idea! 👍 Also you are so close to 30k subscribers!! 👏👏👏

[@lucafriends567]

So many great tips for parenting throughout.... this is such a great video!

[@alexisweaver493]

I just love your videos so much. That is all💙

[@shaunagoralski2610]

I would love to know your plan on transitioning baby into the kids bedroom with sleep training!

[@ملتقىدجلةوالفرات]

I'm having a huge mom guilt for not holding my son enough skin to skin contact and in my arms when he was a baby 😔 sometimes this keeps me up at night. Fortunately i exclusively breastfed him (breastfeeding still continues) breastfeeding was the thing that saved us. I was so confused in the first period being a first time mother (not planned...at all.. never pictured myself as a mother)

[@callana9852]

I wish it was that easy for me 🙃

[@erinshannon1114]

Sleep training was the best thing I did for my baby! I will 100% be doing that again also.

[@stephaniemclain4382]

Oh man-- all the things you won't be doing I will be doing, lol

[@kringlekeep4821]

Yeah it's also very opposite to how I do absolutely everything with my litte ones.

[@kendravoracek3636]

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[@Ari-ct6mf]

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