DD is driving me nuts. She's up every two hours after having slept from 8:30 to 3:30 every night when she was younger. Last night, I ended up feeding her at 8, 9:30, 12, 2, 4, and 6. She wakes up around 6-7. At 4, DH went in briefly to give her a pacifier, but she ended up screaming through it. I have been subscribing to the "if she wakes up crying, she's hungry" line of thought, but now I'm not so sure. She eats, but not very vigorously.
Her bedroom is adjacent to ours. I sleep next to the wall that we share with her room. Should I turn the monitor off so that she fusses a while before I hear her? Or should I keep running to her every two hours?
Re: Turning off the monitor?
Ugh...I went through the same thing last night. She used to have at least a 4 hour stretch every night and often 5-6 hours. Last night her longest stretch was 2 hours! I don't even know how many times she was up.
You could try sleeping with the monitor off. That way, you won't notice when she fusses and she'll have a chance to soothe herself back to sleep. If she really cries, you'll still notice. Or you could turn down the volume a bit?
I am still responding to cries for now and she sleeps in our room. So it's hard for me to ignore. I want to wean her off the MOTN feedings when she is over 6 months.
Same here. I hate that she is in her own room but we're all sleeping much better this way.
If I randomly wake up in the night I can quickly turn it on and check on him. But our house is small and I can hear him when he really cries and needs something.
E has also begun doing this. I turned the monitor off ages ago because the angel care alarm sounded every single time she rolled to her side, which is primarily how she sleeps. Also, her bedroom is 15 ft away from mine, so I can still hear everything she says, I just don't need to hear everything she does.
With alll of that being said, she WAS STTN (9p-7a) until very recently...we go in and give her back her binky a couple of times and that usually takes care of it. If not, we feed her...If that doesn't work, it's swing time and that knocks her out cold.
Win.