My daughter will be 8 months next week and the last 2 weeks have been absolutely horrible. We have some not so great habits (only napping while being bounced or worn in a Tula) that I came here with advice to break but it's gotten worse. She won't sleep! Some days are better than others but we get about 3 hours of nap sleep and 7-9 hours during the night. We start the bedtime routine around 8 at night. (Bath, massage, story) and she used to nurse or bounce to sleep. So lately, she'll fall asleep around 9, and then wake up randomly from 10-1030ish and have this obnoxious amount of energy and not want to go to sleep at all. With hours of nursing, bouncing, and rocking, we finally get her to sleep around 12-1 in the morning. This morning she woke up for the day at 6, other days it's around 8. It just doesn't seem like enough sleep! I bought the no cry nap solution book in hopes that better naps will lead to better night time sleep and I understand her sleep cues/cycles. I just don't know what to do!! It brings me to tears sometimes because I'm so frustrated! Is this just a phase? Any advice to help? I don't have the heart to let her cry but it's come so close to being my only option. She's just fighting sleep...you can tell she's tired. She sleeps in bed with me every night so that hasn't changed, nor has anything else in our routine. She doesn't seem to be teething either. I'm so sorry this is so long...
Re: Sleep deprived!! (Kinda long)
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Also, from 8-10m was our WORST sleep regression. It also coincided with teething. It was brutal, but when it passed, it really passed, and she started sleeping longer and longer stretches. The NCSS stuff didn't really work for us at 8m, but at 11m, it worked like a dream.
She typically takes 2-3 naps a day depending on what time she wakes up.
Her usual wake up time is around 8-830. Her first nap is around 10-11 and last about 2-2.5 hours. Then she'll nap again and be up around 5-6 bath time is always just before 8. Sometimes if her naps are shorter, the day is a little shifted so she'll sneak in a 3rd nap and be up by 7. It doesn't bother me *too* much right now that she's not STTN. I know it'll happen when she's ready, and to be honest I like the extra cuddle time I get when she nurses back to sleep. My husband will occasionally look stuff up online and say "she should be able to STTN by now" which although I know some babies are able to, not every baby will lol I just want her to sleep! My husband is a firefighter so he's gone for 2-3 days and nights at a time and dealing with a cranky baby who doesn't sleep is making me crazy!! Haha
Maybe we'll try a cut off time for napping in the evening. Her bedtime has usually been around 9. I'm not much of an early bird.
Oh, also, if you do want to check out NCSS, I got it used on Amazon for (literally) 2 cents, so it's not too much of an investment