My babies like to sleep, like a lot. My husband jokes that they waste the first months of life sleeping it away.
People like to ask me what's my 'secret', what kind of advice do I have for them. I'm not one to give out tons of advice. No, I'm not the Baby Whisperer... It's just that I let them sleep in their (insert gasp) car seat. (Please, tell me I'm not the only one.)
(and go ahead, google 'kids sleeping in car seats' - you'll find the phrase bad mommy on the first page.)
but you know what, I've decided with the third child,
I just don't care. I'm not going to worry so much, it always works itself out.
That's my secret.
Even better, that's my *newest* best advice.
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I was engaged by TheMotherhood.com and AVENT to participate in a talk regarding Motherly Advice, you can find more (inspiring and informative) here. It was fun... thanks for allowing me to be an 'expert' (snicker, snicker...)
People like to ask me what's my 'secret', what kind of advice do I have for them. I'm not one to give out tons of advice. No, I'm not the Baby Whisperer... It's just that I let them sleep in their (insert gasp) car seat. (Please, tell me I'm not the only one.)
(and go ahead, google 'kids sleeping in car seats' - you'll find the phrase bad mommy on the first page.)
but you know what, I've decided with the third child,
I just don't care. I'm not going to worry so much, it always works itself out.
That's my secret.
Even better, that's my *newest* best advice.
*
I was engaged by TheMotherhood.com and AVENT to participate in a talk regarding Motherly Advice, you can find more (inspiring and informative) here. It was fun... thanks for allowing me to be an 'expert' (snicker, snicker...)
19 comments:
Since my son has bad reflux we often do this too just so he won't spit everything up. And hey, who really wants to move and possible wake up a sleeping baby
Will only (and I mean ONLY) would sleep in his car seat...so that's just what we did, because it worked. Gotta do what works. Just like Benji will only sleep on the couch (for the most part) so we let him...
For the first 18 months of my son's life he did not sleep through the night. Most of those beginning month's he either slept in a swing or in a seat like that. I would sleep on the couch right next to him. He's 16 now and sleeps like a rock and is hard to wake up!
My mom has a daycare and she does this often with little babies. You're just an experienced mama! :)
I don't think it is a big deal. I have a car seat that inserts into a swing base so that you can take your sleeping babe from the car and put them on something still moving so they can continue sleeping. My little guy always slept in that.
I never did it with Corey (em... he was born so long ago, the carrier was a new-fangled and way too expensive item I'd never even heard of before. You'd die laughing if you saw the thing we put him in.)
Mad *loved* her car seat after the first couple of weeks. It rocks, too, so I'd just give her a push with my foot if she squirmed.
Fynn? She couldn't hate it more. She teased me a couple of weeks ago with quiet car rides, but that's over. Now I find myself just pulling her directly out of the car seat instead of carrying her into the house in it. *HATES it* Yeah, I'm jealous.
Yup- my little guy was a carseat sleeper as well!!! No shame mama, no shame at all.
I know lots of people who leave their babies sleeping in the car seat. There is no problem with that at all, as long as you keep an eye on the baby! I did it all the time, too. I loved when my baby would be sleeping in his infant carrier - I could shop with no distractions! ;)
I mean seriously...think about all the husbands who fall asleep on the couch. And they are perfectly content. We don't worry about them; why should we worry about the babies?
Eli didn't sleep in his carseat regularly, but there were many times when we would leave him in the carseat for the night. Its better than spending two or three hours trying to get them back to sleep!
Sometimes I would put that car seat IN the co-sleeper so she would sleep.
Aren't you the worst?
The girls napped terribly at daycare, and would pass out on the way home...where they stayed in their carseat (in the house) until they woke up to be fed.
you are so not the only one.
and gasp - mine sometime sleeps in the car seat on top of the dryer!!
i know i know. wild.
Right on mom! Avery slept in her car seat all the time. Whatever works!
First and foremost. That is the most precious looking baby girl I have ever seen! Well, ok. Aside from mine. :)
Second...you're so not alone. Mine used to sleep in her carseat. In her swing. And *gasp* on her belly as a newborn!
She is now 2 and is doing a-ok thankyouverymuch! :)
Great advice!
You are not alone in this one :) We actually had a doctor tell us to put our oldest in the carseat to sleep when he had an upper respiratory infection!!
I have four kids. The second, third, and fourth slept, not in their car seats...in their swings!!!! Like all night! And guess what? they're still alive and now they've graduated to beds!
I don't think you're a bad mommy at all. I love that you are honest!
And come on, that baby is effin cute! She can sleep wherever and whenever she wants (I hope it was a she...?...if not, sowwwy!)
So, do you put her to sleep in the seat when she normally wouldn't be in her seat? What I mean is, if we have Walt in his carseat in the car and he falls asleep, we let him finish his nap there. We haven't put him to sleep in his carseat when he's not going for a car ride, though. Is that what you do with Edy? If so, what's the difference between that and having your baby nap in a swing? I know that's not ideal, but don't we all do it? If it works, what's wrong with it? Did I miss some kind of mommy warning or something?
I wish my kids slept a lot.
I recall Natalie cried most of the first months of her life.
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