Light sleepers - how do you sleep?

ldmw

after 8 weeks the sleep deprivation is finally hitting me hard. If you are a light sleeper, how do you sleep? Every movement and grunt my LO makes wakes me up. Once I'm woken up, I am up for at least an hour before I can fall back asleep. Then the cycle repeats all over again.

ftm0413

Is your LO in the room with you? We started with our LO in the room, but I finally had to move him to his crib in the nursery and turn the volume on the monitor all the way down. His grunts and sighs and giggles were keeping me up all night! Lucky he lets out a few warning yells before totally waking so I can still get to him before he starts crying. My husband is the opposite though. LO could be screaming in his ear and he still sleeps like the dead!

marijaa333

I find the sounds reassuring. It's when I don't hear sounds that I leap out of bed and run over to inspect if he's breathing. Husband just rolls his eyes at me (but I KNOW he secretly checks up on him all the time too!).

Perhaps you can think about the sounds as a *good* thing and that will let you ignore them?

Kye042

I was having this problem too. So we moved our DS into his own room and put the monitor on my DH side of the bed. That way I wouldn't hear every grunt and just the cry that he was wet or hungry.

agilber3

@marijaa333 this is me too! I freak out if I can't hear the slightest breath! Then as soon as I start deciding to sleep I wake myself up because what if he isn't breathing?! As annoying as the grunts are I also find them reassuring! Jack just had his first sleepover with his grandparents and while I missed him and still had to wake up every few hours to pump, the quiet sleep was glorious! It's ok to send them with someone else! You need to rest too!

AlwaysKnitting

I sleep with earplugs in, with my baby right next to me in a Rock n Play. The earplugs drown out the quieter grunts and squeaks, but I can hear when she is waking up and crying.

jmorneau09

I was this way with my first and it got to the point of me being so overly sleep deprived I think I was slightly insane. My mom made me move him to his own room. My hubby was out of town so she stayed and helped me be strong and not bring him back to my room. It was so good for both of us. We both started sleeping better. Because that went so well with our first, we moved this LO into his own room at 2 weeks. His room is right across the hall so we just leave the doors open and the monitor off this way I can hear him when he wakes but not every little sigh and grunt.

I won't lie the first night is tough because you are subconsciously listening for every little sound. But if your a light sleeper it might be what works for you. Good luck.

ldmw

She's still in room with us. I use light earplugs and felt bad about it but feel better now heading others do. DH and I have been taking turns with one of us sleeping in our room with her and the other in the guest bedroom so I can sleep. He sleeps through the grunts. Time for us to talk about moving her to her room and putting monitor on his side of the bed is a good idea. We have a snuza alarm on her so that helps me not worry as much about not breathing.