So we had a huge day out that was outside and LO barely napped. She ate last at 7 and we feed her again at 10 before we go to bed. Well she is out cold and I can't even wake her up to eat. Should I just let her sleep and attempt to sleep myself or should I continue to try to wake her up?
DH is off from work tomorrow and is taking over tonight's feedings! I'm so excited!! Finally some semi-uninterrupted sleep. Although I'm still going to have to wake up to pump
We walked the neighborhoods all day today from 10 am to 4 with little breaks Inbetween........ He slept in his stroller the whole time when not eating. Hope I don't pay for it tonight. @katyertl I would wake up and feed because the minute you get to sleep that's when babe will wake up hungry lol
@HayesRN13 my LO is so noisy when she sleeps. She makes tons of noises, moves, makes little cries in her sleep, and it wakes me up. I have a noise machine just to keep me from hearing her little noises.
@klkonwi she just ate! Ugh it's so true! They have a sensor I swear that they know when you're about to fall asleep they wake up. @HayesRN13 I have a few apps on my phone with different noises that are awesome! Two of them have timers that automatically turn off. You could even have it on for as long as 12 hours lol I have a sound machine that turns off after 30 minutes. So annoying to have to keep turning it back on
They say always let them sleep, that if you disrupt their sleep they will sleep less/worse later... Hard to do when they sleep all day and you know you are going to be up all night with them... And yes I literally don't want to fall asleep because it's so hard waking up after, easier to stay awake and be a zombie
Our pre-bedtime struggle only lasted about 90 minutes and the first stretch of sleep was almost 4 hours...however now she's been changed and fed and instead of being back to sleep she is just staring at me. This doesn't seem good. Go to sleep baby. I need to transfer you to the bassinet and then pump, and I want to get back in bed asap. Sigh.
In laws come this weekend and MIL is awesome with the baby...I will definitely be taking advantage of that and getting some much needed sleep. Nana to the rescue!
Night two of no sleep. LO flipped her days and nights. Maybe I'm getting the 6 week spurt 2 weeks late (:| I broke down and put her in the bouncer. It's the third night of the crib transfer but I need to get her days and nights back to normal before doing this again. I guess it's back to square one with naps in the crib... :-<
After her long nap, LO was up from 7:30p-10:30p. Luckily, DH took over and put her to bed for the night as I got into bed at 9:30. LO just woke up at 2:30 to eat and is already back to sleep. After 5 hrs of sleep, I feel like a new woman.
LO will be 6 weeks tomorrow. Hopefully we've hit the mark of longer stretches of sleep overnight.
My dog re injured his tail yesterday and now is up all night again yelping. I feel bad but I'm leaving all day tomorrow so I don't have to deal with him. He's scared of the pain so he cries incessantly. Between that and a baby who cried most of the day yesterday and wouldn't eat I was about to lose it last night. This dang dog.
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The 30 extra minutes I have to keep LO Upright after feeding her are killing my sleep. And she sleeps in a rock n play and tons of women saying since it's an incline its considered upright. But LO spits up if she's put in it right away. So here I am rocking her while she's sleeping and I'm dead to the world
LO slept for two 4 hour stretches in the bassinet last night. Which means I slept for two three hour stretches in my bed. I pray to God this is a trend. I don't even care that I have to pump after these feeds. Sleeping in my bed for reasonable chunks of time is glorious.
About "this too shall pass"- what I tell myself in the middle of the night is "Six months by Christmas." I always feel like this last half of the year rushes by and Christmas is here before I know it. This year by Christmas the baby will be old enough to sleep train if we want to, going to bed with solid food in her belly, and just way better at sleeping and digesting and existing in general.
We had our worst night yet. I didn't even have one free hand to bump. While trying to calm myself, I was using "this too shall pass" and then realized it will be at least 3 months before we can sleep train. 3 months until I get a full night of sleep. And then I cried.
When people say to enjoy this stage because it doesn't last, I want to throat punch them. I didn't miss this stage with DS and he was a better sleeper than my current tyrant.
I'm miserable. Had a fight with DH and when I'm stressed I can't sleep. The worst is I put her down and she slept beautifully for three hours while I was wide awake and crying. Then it took forever to get her to sleep after the next feed. (Which it probably wasn't forever but felt like it) now it's daytime and she's wanting to nurse every hour again for 10 minutes to pass out and do it again.
If I have sleep all of this is manageable and I can keep a positive perspective. Without it, I feel totally unmanageable.
I broke down and put the baby in the bouncer. She went 8 hours between bottles and slept for 5. I'm not even disappointed anymore. We'll crib transfer when she's out of this fussy stage.
^^^^ lucky. Mine doesn't care what he sleeps in. It's still only 2 ish hours between feeds..... He fights sleep so bad. DH fed him at 930 last night and he fought sleep til 1230 Ain't nobody got time for this!!!!!!!!!!
@klkonwi I feel you. Mine ate at 9 last night and fought sleep until 11. What's the f-ing point? She was then up at 11:17 to eat and fought sleep for another hour. I'm waking her up every 90 min today so she doesn't get big blocks of sleep. And she's napping in the crib. At the rate we're going, nights won't be better until high school.
Yes.... Im confused because people keep saying to let them nap as long as they want during the day and don't wake them...... But others are saying wake them so they sleep at night better. Id love to know which is true.
I have no research but I have always let my newborns sleep as much as they want in the morning and midday and only worry about keeping them awake in the evening. I think night time is a crap shoot right now anyway and we just pretend that what we do makes any difference at all.
@klkonwi if it makes you feel any better, I was at 2.5 hour stretches until one day at about 5 weeks she decided to go four, and at 6 weeks she decided to go six. This is all as long as she's in the bouncer/swing. 6 weeks really was a magical turn-around for me.
I personally let her sleep however much she wants. I found that if I try to keep her up she's up all night anyway. I think it's pretty random at this stage how much she'll sleep at night. I just go with her flow, and I'll start messing with it in another 4 or so weeks at 3 mos.
I've always heard "sleep begets sleep" but that is not working for LO. Her daytime naps are 3-4 hours and probably would be longer if we weren't always on the go. At night, I'm lucky to get 3 hours, 2 is more typical. With DS we were seeing improvement with nighttime sleep by now, so I'm going to start limiting nap length. Interesting, DS never took long daytime naps, maybe 45 min to an hour but he always slept well at night and didn't fight being put down nearly as much. LO seems to have days and nights switched.
Sleep better beget sleep. Home girl has napped right after eating since 9am... I'm so tired from last night, I can't do anything today while she naps. Maybe I should nap... Duh. Mom life.
That sounds like every night for me or so it seems @katyertl . I can't even remember which night is which now having to hold my LO to keep her from spitting up after feeding. Now she screams whenever I put her down before she falls asleep. Love holding her but scared to death I'll fall asleep and drop her or have her roll over and smother. Three months right? We can finally maybe get more than four hours of sleep in a row? That even sounds golden right now.
I just had two wisdom teeth pulled with local and laughing gas. Was mad that the nurse kept talking to me to keep me from falling asleep. I was praying for a sweet little nap and I wonder if that twilight sleep I had counts as one.
First stretch is only ever 2.5 hrs but after that it's only ever an hour at a time and LO won't go back in crib after 5 am grrr frustrated mom over here
I am so excited! My DS slept last night in two hour increments! And a couple of them were even not in my arms. He has been sort of demanding that I hold him while dancing around lately. And when it's 2 am and your babe is screaming you do whatever it takes! I should add that he also will not sleep without the help from the Beastie Boys, AfroMan, Notorious BIG, Sir Mixalot, or other slightly offensive rap/hip hop artists... mother of the year here! I do enjoy the irony of no sleep till Brooklyn though! But yeah he still is up about every two hours to eat... Nighttime does suck and I thank all of you for letting me say it!
I really believe it's true... If you try to keep them awake during the day it's just messing with their cycles...they are growing/cells dividing at an incredible rate, they need to sleep a lot, let them because they need it. My daughter is 12 and she took two long naps plus 12 hours a night until she was 5.. Then she took one 2 hour nap and slept 14 hours a night. To this day she sleeps at least 13 hours a night.. My new lo sleeps at least 20 hours a day
Re: Nighttime sucks. That is all.
@katyertl I would wake up and feed because the minute you get to sleep that's when babe will wake up hungry lol
@HayesRN13 I have a few apps on my phone with different noises that are awesome! Two of them have timers that automatically turn off. You could even have it on for as long as 12 hours lol I have a sound machine that turns off after 30 minutes. So annoying to have to keep turning it back on
In laws come this weekend and MIL is awesome with the baby...I will definitely be taking advantage of that and getting some much needed sleep. Nana to the rescue!
LO will be 6 weeks tomorrow. Hopefully we've hit the mark of longer stretches of sleep overnight.
I know it's short and their not little long.
The days are long and the weeks are fast.
So yeah, six months by Christmas for all of us.
When people say to enjoy this stage because it doesn't last, I want to throat punch them. I didn't miss this stage with DS and he was a better sleeper than my current tyrant.
If I have sleep all of this is manageable and I can keep a positive perspective. Without it, I feel totally unmanageable.
My gosh.......
He fights sleep so bad.
DH fed him at 930 last night and he fought sleep til 1230
Ain't nobody got time for this!!!!!!!!!!
Id love to know which is true.
I personally let her sleep however much she wants. I found that if I try to keep her up she's up all night anyway. I think it's pretty random at this stage how much she'll sleep at night. I just go with her flow, and I'll start messing with it in another 4 or so weeks at 3 mos.
I just had two wisdom teeth pulled with local and laughing gas. Was mad that the nurse kept talking to me to keep me from falling asleep. I was praying for a sweet little nap and I wonder if that twilight sleep I had counts as one.