Here’s THE technique for putting a sleeping baby to bed (and without waking him up)

If you have just had an heir and he is still very small, you know to what extent the fact that he sleeps all the time without waking up is your objective in your new life. But, like many toothless people, your precious little one loves to fall asleep in your arms—arms that you wish you had back to do things, like go to the bathroom or even, are we crazy, eat something. What an ambition!

Let a child rest in his cot without waking him up

The problem is that the baby doesn’t want to sleep anywhere but in your warm arms, and as soon as you put him back in his bed while he’s having his best nap, he wakes up. . Do you want a technique to make the armrest/bed transition? Follow the video advice of Fanny Lacoste, nurse.

On Instagram, the latter shares a technique that would work for many children. It consists of placing the baby in the crib in several stages:

• Prepare the heir’s bed, removing duvets, blankets, kitchen knives or anything else
• Warm the bed before placing the mass by placing a hot water bottle on it
• Position your bottom first, your back and then your head
• Keep pressure on his body
• Roll him onto his side and pat him on the back continuously
• Hop, place him on his back while continuing to tap
• Gradually reduce the thrusts, then leave your hand on him, still.
• Go pee and pour yourself some more coffee, with both arms free, yay!

So yes, we hear them, the great babywearing enthusiasts who will be able to say: “with the baby in the baby carrier, you can continue to use your arms, there is no need for the baby to sleep in his cot! “. Yes, why not, but there are still interesting things to do without Jean-Raymond pressing against you, and it’s nice to sometimes see him sleeping in a different place than you.

And as Fanny Lacoste points out in her post: this technique doesn’t necessarily work the first time; Depending on the child, it may take some time to adjust for the transition to occur. There are many reasons why a newborn has difficulty sleeping in their own bed. Of note, this little squatter had settled into a warm, cozy womb for 9 months, only to find himself in a cold, itchy world.

Remember that there is no silver bullet in parenting. There are a lot of factors that make some techniques work and others not, ranging from you and your baby’s sensitivity, your and your baby’s fatigue levels, the alignment of the planets, Mercury retrograde, or whatever other bullshit.

But when you have something that might work, you might as well go for it, right?

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