View Full Version : My baby son (The Rockin' Dude...) How did you get your baby to sleep?
Draggletail 10-09-2005, 16:55 After nearly four weeks of trying all the 'usual' methods of getting a newborn to sleep, we discovered today that playing rock music sends him off in a jiffy :suspect:
He particularly seems to like 'The Strokes' (A chip off the old block :D )
Once he is 'off' we turn the volume down gradually, it seems to be working a treat - keep your fingers crossed for us :)
Did you ever have any unusual ways of getting baby to sleep?
mitziwillow 10-09-2005, 17:23 Richard and Judy had an 'expert' on their programme earlier this year whereby they swaddled the baby and had the baby facing outwards whilst gently rocking and swooshing in their ear - something like that anyway. The babies settled immediately. Babies like to be swaddled as it makes them feel safe.
It might be an idea to look on R & J's website. Although it was several months since the programme was shown.
Internetowl 10-09-2005, 17:26 Car fumes used to do it for the little un - 4 am every morning driving around the estate - been stopped by the Police on numerous occasions :(
Don_Kiddick 10-09-2005, 17:34 Music had the same effect on our lad too, Classic FM was his choice.
He will tune in to that channel himself now 11 years on :thumbsup:
Gentle facial massage too, one finger following lines of brow, cheek bones, allong nose (up) and accross hair line.
:thumbsup:
Draggletail 10-09-2005, 17:36 Originally posted by mitziwillow
[B]Richard and Judy had an 'expert' on their programme earlier this year whereby they swaddled the baby and had the baby facing outwards whilst gently rocking and swooshing in their ear - something like that anyway. The babies settled immediately. Babies like to be swaddled as it makes them feel safe.
:nod: we rocked, we swaddled, we swooshed :nod:
He seems to prefer the music :)
one of those helicopter things that hang from the ceiling and go round and round,drove me nuts it made more noise than the baby but worked every time for both kids:D
My little pickle used to like to sleep with classic f.m too when he was a babe in arms, he also likes foot massage sends him off every time :thumbsup:
Kristian 10-09-2005, 18:00 Originally posted by mitziwillow
Richard and Judy had an 'expert' on their programme earlier this year whereby they swaddled the baby and had the baby facing outwards whilst gently rocking and swooshing in their ear - something like that anyway. The babies settled immediately. Babies like to be swaddled as it makes them feel safe.
It might be an idea to look on R & J's website. Although it was several months since the programme was shown.
I remember seeing that episode and I was really amazed.
Draggle, did you play rock music much when Longshanks was pregnant? I seem to remember babies can hear music whilst in the womb, so maybe he just remembers it and it makes him feel safe?
I could be talking out of my bum, but either way it's a nice idea! :thumbsup:
K x
20 year old brother used to settle immediately after swaddling.
18 year old brother used to settle to U2's Joshua Tree - my favourite album at the time.
It may have been because my room was a little less 'tense' than the rest of the house after one of his screaming fits :suspect:, but eventually he began to associate the music with sleeping and it would work instantly
20 year old brother used to scream for over an hour if he heard anything by Phil Collins :hihi:
Draggletail 10-09-2005, 18:49 Originally posted by Kristian
Draggle, did you play rock music much when Longshanks was pregnant? I seem to remember babies can hear music whilst in the womb, so maybe he just remembers it and it makes him feel safe?
K x [/B]
:nod: Yes Kristian, we did play rock music when Longshanks was pregnant. That must be it!
We did also play 'ambient' music at that time in the hope that it would send him to sleep as a baby. It obviously wasn't loud enough to register :D
Honeyplanet, foot massage has worked once or twice. but not when he's in a real paddy :roll:
My lttle un still loves his feet rubed now, he will sit on the sofa with me and put his little foot in my hand bless...
Originally posted by Internetowl
Car fumes used to do it for the little un - 4 am every morning driving around the estate - been stopped by the Police on numerous occasions :( Worked for one of mine too.Even now hes a teenager he still falls asleep with in ten minutes of being in car.
dishwasher 10-09-2005, 20:21 When my two were younger I used to walk them miles in a buggy.
That always did the trick.
Good exercise, too, especially if you're going up hill.
happychick 10-09-2005, 20:45 The midwife told me to allways put some music on when getting my baby off to sleep. Or say, if the baby was asleep in the crib and alone in a room.
Apparantly , they can sense being alone and the background music helps to soothe them.
She also told me a baby can hear it's mothers voice, music, etc, etc, while in the womb, so silence is not something they are used to. Oh, and to make sure the room temperate wasn't too hot or stuffy as well.
May babies also liked me to stroke their little faces & eyebrows, it allways had them off to sleep in no time at all.
pete_fcs 10-09-2005, 20:52 Originally posted by Draggletail
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He particularly seems to like 'The Strokes' (A chip off the old block :D )
mine used to particularly like that well-known death-metal band "cradle of filth".... when he was two he used to ask ever so sweetly:
"put cradle of filth on!"
Internetowl 10-09-2005, 22:37 Originally posted by dee40
Worked for one of mine too.Even now hes a teenager he still falls asleep with in ten minutes of being in car.
Yep - 5 minutes out of Skeggie she's asleep as is her mother so I get to drive home talking to myself to the steady beat of zzzz's
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