How loud do you have the monitor?
I am having a hard time sleeping at night. I am a light sleeper and even more so now that DD is here. Right now DD is sleeping for different amounts of times so I can't predict when she will be getting up next. Usually I like to anticipate when she will be hungry so I can make a bottle before she starts wailing.
But last night I heard her stirring on the monitor and checked the video monitor and she was moving a good amount so I thought she was waking up, this was about 3.5 hours since she fell asleep. By the time I made the bottle she was back asleep having never fully woken up. She didn't wake up to eat until 1.5 hours later. In that 1.5 hours though I was constantly waking up to check on her.
I am thinking I should turn down the monitor so I will only hear her if she is screaming, but I kind of hate to do this. I love that she is sleeping for longer periods of time, but it would be nice if I could sleep for these same stretches now that I am back to work.
What do you ladies do?
Re: How loud do you have the monitor?
Our dd is directly across the hall so I do have our monitors on low, but I sleep on my back so both of my ears are up.
The other night dd slept forever...I woke up at about 4 thinking she would wake up any minute, by 4:30 I decided I would just pump. The silly girl slept till 5:30...I was so proud of her, but I wish I could get a memo when these long sleep patterns turn up.
I completely understand this. Our baby sleeps in our room and for the past 3 nights I have slept on the couch in the living room because she stirs so much. And you know what? I've slept much better and so has she!
I turn the monitor on loud enough so that I can hear full-out crying, but soft enough that I cannot hear the whimpers and strains. She sleeps better b/c I'm not constantly standing over her to see if she's "really" awake.
Babies make so many noises I was unaware of - I think it's just a matter of getting comfortable enough to know when they really need us.