^i just read the 4 month regression can start as early as three months. I wish I'd known that.
And after hearing it here, will strongly advocate for reading Dr. Sears' Sleep Book if you're struggling with either naps or nighttime. I'm halfway through it after one evening with it, and it's changing how I approach all sleep. It's very baby-led and he's not a believer in Cry It Out, but is a believer in helping baby learn to sleep while helping parents get more sleep. My local library had the book.
After another terrible terrible night, LO vomited into my mouth this morning. I'm losing it, y'all. Screw leap 4. And the 4 month sleep regression. I need a vacation.
This sleep regression mess is for the birds. DH was getting mad at me last week for putting her in the bed with us after the 3am feeding, so I started waking him up to try. Let's just say she was in the bed this morning. Doesn't help that she's rolling over when she lays down asleep and wakes up screaming... Anyone else have this with LO?
BUT I did buy a "Tiny Love" mobile on Amazon this week. This things the bomb. Laid her down for bedtime & she LOVED it.
@dancegurl1118 hope she feels better soon! That sucks for all involved. I used to be really nice but now the baby gets all my nice that used to be saved for poor DH.
Last night was night 3 in the crib. He was out by 8:00. He stirred every 2-3 hours but went back to sleep with a belly rub and music in a few minutes. I did pick him up and feed him at 1:30ish because he started screaming. We'll see how tonight goes...
This sleep regression mess is for the birds. DH was getting mad at me last week for putting her in the bed with us after the 3am feeding, so I started waking him up to try. Let's just say she was in the bed this morning. Doesn't help that she's rolling over when she lays down asleep and wakes up screaming... Anyone else have this with LO?
BUT I did buy a "Tiny Love" mobile on Amazon this week. This things the bomb. Laid her down for bedtime & she LOVED it.
Yes! She rolls over and startles herself awake and then can't get back to sleep. I also end up sleeping with her around 3 AM. She just won't let me put her back down in the crib. She was wide awake, smiling, and petting my face last night. Ugh.
Question- on the weekends do you let your LO keep sleeping past their normal wake up time or do you stir them up? I've read waking up at a consistent time is more important than the time going to sleep. It's 7:23 and she should be awake at 6:30.
And she's not 4 months but I swear she's hitting the regression early. Past four nights have been awful.
Our LO wakes up like its a work day but somehow so far (and I'm terrified to jinx it) is pretty easily convinced she should go back to sleep for a few hours after that. It's like getting rewarded with a hefty nap right away! This morning we slept until 8:30. Sometimes it's 9. But there are certainly weekend days that it's been 7 or earlier Personally, I am too selfish and love my weekend sleep too much to keep her awake like its a weekday, especially since she seems sleepy and willing to lay back down. If I'm starting a terrible habit, please no one tell me. Lol
First night with the crib & already up. I want LO to be soothed & comforted but I'm also tired & I have to work tomorrow. I'm hoping for the best. She is so used to the RNP. I'm sure the openness of the crib is quite foreign to her. She'll sleep next to me in bed but I don't sleep well. Will see what the night brings.
LO is sick. I thought she was getting over this cold but I think it is getting worse. She's been up every hour since 7. She's so congested I feel terrible for her. The only way she'll sleep is on my chest. But she's so raspy I can't sleep. Now I'm worried about RSV. And my alarm is going to go off in 4 hours. It's going to be one hell of a Monday.
LO's cold is still going strong. She sounds less congested but the coughing fits keep waking her up. It was better yesterday than it was Saturday and we almost got a normal night out of her last night until the 430 am coughing fit woke her up enough for her to realize she was hungry. At least she had the decency to get really bad while I'm taking a 4 day weekend. I'd be in trouble if I was going to work today.
Night 2 in the crib was awful. Was up from 12-3 and then said forget it and put LO in bed with me where he wiggled for an hour. I keep going back and forth with Merlin and zipadee zip. He got hot in the Merlin so went to the zipadee but then he thrashes about in it. And I hate nursing him in the Merlin. I feel like he's in some strange device(bc he is) and can't cuddle. I don't know what to do. Hoping tonight is better. 1 week until I go back to work and he needs to sleep!
@jesshrou I have found side-lying is the best way to feed while in the merlin. It doesn't work if I'm sitting up. It also took us a few nights for the merlin to work its magic, but now she is only getting up once a night around 4 and then going right back to sleep. So much better than the swaddle or squirrel suits.
@jesshrou I have found side-lying is the best way to feed while in the merlin. It doesn't work if I'm sitting up. It also took us a few nights for the merlin to work its magic, but now she is only getting up once a night around 4 and then going right back to sleep. So much better than the swaddle or squirrel suits.
I stay in his nursery when I nurse him at night so it is definitely awkward sitting up. I'll give it another go but will just dress him in a onsie so he doesn't get hot.
How big is the Merlin sleep suit? I just looked in Amazon and it says 3-6 months. Just worried because my little guy is huge so it might be too small. He's in 6 month onesies and can fit into 12 month pants.
I need something to work. Last night was night 4 in the crib. He was up at 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, and I put him in bed with me at 5. He did great Saturday night and Friday was even better than last night. I need a miracle worker!
Last night was horrific. Bed at 7, up at 8:30, 10:00, 10:30, 12:00, 1:00, 1:30, then slept with me til 5:00. I couldn't sleep, so moved LO back to his PnP and he woke up. So back up between 5:00 and 8:45. Poor LO cannot function today. We are all exhausted and at wit's end.
Insult to injury, I read "Bringing Up Bebe" before bed last night, and the chapter about how French babies STTN by two months. Made me so mad and feel so inadequate that there was "one extreme example of sleep dysfunction, in which a four month old nursed around the clock every two hours." Yeah? F YOU, FRANCE!!
Today he gets his 4 month shots and tonight we are moving him to his own room. Maybe a bad combo, but this lack of sleep is affecting us all too much.
@amccoy129 I have the 3-6m suit, it says on the tag it fits from 12-18 pounds. My guy is smaller, he is probably just at 12#, and last measured at 23.25 inches. He can still fit some 0-3m clothes, and some 3-6m clothes fit too big yet. The sleep suit is biggish on him. His hands come out the arms just barely, but his feet don't make it out of the legs. They are just up in there. The torso part has some room for him to be fatter, but he's not swimming in it. I posted a photo in hdbd of him in it.
How big is the Merlin sleep suit? I just looked in Amazon and it says 3-6 months. Just worried because my little guy is huge so it might be too small. He's in 6 month onesies and can fit into 12 month pants.
I need something to work. Last night was night 4 in the crib. He was up at 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, and I put him in bed with me at 5. He did great Saturday night and Friday was even better than last night. I need a miracle worker!
My LO is 13 pounds (2 weeks ago) and 25 inches at 12 weeks. It's hard to get his arms thru. I got the 3-6 month.
Last night was horrific. Bed at 7, up at 8:30, 10:00, 10:30, 12:00, 1:00, 1:30, then slept with me til 5:00. I couldn't sleep, so moved LO back to his PnP and he woke up. So back up between 5:00 and 8:45. Poor LO cannot function today. We are all exhausted and at wit's end.
Insult to injury, I read "Bringing Up Bebe" before bed last night, and the chapter about how French babies STTN by two months. Made me so mad and feel so inadequate that there was "one extreme example of sleep dysfunction, in which a four month old nursed around the clock every two hours." Yeah? F YOU, FRANCE!!
Today he gets his 4 month shots and tonight we are moving him to his own room. Maybe a bad combo, but this lack of sleep is affecting us all too much.
BAAAAHHHHH!!!!
I never liked France anyway...apparently I have a baby with a sleep dysfunction too. LO went down at 6:30, woke up at 7:15 then back down at 8:30. Up again at 12, 2, 3, and I brought her to bed at 4:45. She nursed for a bit, made a huge mess of milk dribbles/puddles so we went back to her room, but she was up and ready to party. I gave up at 5:45 and came downstairs. It sucks when feeling tired is your new norm. At least I have you awesome ladies to commiserate with.
Insult to injury, I read "Bringing Up Bebe" before bed last night, and the chapter about how French babies STTN by two months.
My baby slept through the night at 2 months. . .then 2 weeks later was like, "nope, I hate this, I'm going great to get up all night everynight." Maybe that's the next chapter.
Thanks y'all! I kept a blog when I taught in Korea, and had a lot of fun with it. But that was 10 years ago...
LO is officially in his own room for the first time tonight! Fingers crossed this will be the start of positive change.
And for all my blah blah about not having a schedule... After reading the Dr. Sears book, I've been taking notes about LO's sleep throughout the day and night. He's fallen asleep at 6:55 pm, exactly, for the past three nights. I'm so excited to have this figured out (for now)!
Thanks, also! I've heard that before, too, that I should 'write'. But what about, I dunno. @virginiaunicorn11 I just recently started to track when LO seems to crash out for the evening, and it's also been fairly consistent. Not as consistent as yours, but usually within a half hour. I'm beginning to try and revamp his feeding schedule to meet his sleep deadline, but I'm still working on it. Good luck with baby in his room tonight! I'm hoping he will be one of those babies that just start to do SO much better in their own room.
I just ordered a fancy crib mobile in the hopes it will help soothe LO so we can start putting her in her crib awake. I'm absolutely desperate for sleep. I wish Amazon had 1 day shipping. Anyone else just starting to try and put their babies to sleep awake?
@virginiaunicorn11 French babies don't sleep though the night, French people just shut the door! That's my theory anyway. I read that book when i was pregnant the first time. It did nothing helpful, just made me feel like a big fat American failure.
I was previously bitching about LO being up every 1-1.5 hours. He must have been offended by my complaining so last night he just stayed up all night. I'd kill for a solo hour of sleep tonight.
Honestly I read every sleep book with DS1, tried the suits etc. Nothing worked. This time I vowed to embrace nights. I was doing well until last week. I am going to let myself have a pity party until Friday, then no more complaining, back to embracing.
I put mine down sleepy but awake. I notice her eyes start to fall when I'm reading and rocking her, so I lay her down then. She sometimes wiggles for 15 minutes but usually falls asleep quickly.
^^^ drowsy but awake worked great for 4.5 months. Now its a joke. I really hope your baby keeps it up. My first reaction was bitter hatred but then my foggy brain realized that baby sleep is not a zero sum game. I might need to get a sitter from 9-11pm so I can grade papers and prep lesson plans. This is not working.
Sleep regression or effects of her cold? After a 2 hour fight, went down at 830, up at midnight and 1 and 2. Screamed from 2-230. Sleeping on my chest now. WHAT IS THIS.
Putting LO in his own room was off to a great start. Bed at 6:55, feeding at 10:30 and 2:30.
It's 3:45 and we've been going in every 15 minutes since 2:30. Biggest problem is this STUPID F'ING DOG that barks and howls constantly. And pees everywhere, so we can't let it out of its crate/room.
So close, yet so far...
ETA: how my mother had a dog for 12 years and never bothered to train it is beyond me.
Baby had 4 month vaccines. Woke up to a loud cry and a fever. I'm in the middle of a move and I'm spending the night at my sisters who had a two month old. I feel bad my LO woke him up
Putting LO in his own room was off to a great start. Bed at 6:55, feeding at 10:30 and 2:30.
It's 3:45 and we've been going in every 15 minutes since 2:30. Biggest problem is this STUPID F'ING DOG that barks and howls constantly. And pees everywhere, so we can't let it out of its crate/room.
So close, yet so far...
ETA: how my mother had a dog for 12 years and never bothered to train it is beyond me.
Wut. I thought the dog was 'fine' in its crate, according to your mom. Jeezum, so sorry gal. I just... I'm really mad at the sleep gods for you
Night number two that LO is up and wide awake at 4:45. I fed her and then she just wanted to growl at me and play with her new discovery as of yesterday....her feet. So I'm downstairs again. She is nursing and falling asleep. Wth?
Night number two that LO is up and wide awake at 4:45. I fed her and then she just wanted to growl at me and play with her new discovery as of yesterday....her feet. So I'm downstairs again. She is nursing and falling asleep. Wth?
Mine was up at 4 the past two days too and sooooo wiggly. So tired. I don't know what happened. I used to be able to put LO down drowsy and he'd fall asleep. Nope not anymore. Each nighttime wake is a 30-45 minute process.
Well other than the 2 hour wake period due to the dog, LO slept in 2 - 3.5 hour intervals in his own room last night! Here's hoping it wasn't a fluke from the vaccinations. We got the monitor set up today, so we can keep the bedroom doors shut, and let the dog stay out - so the little beast won't howl and bark all night again.
I'm way too optimistic and excited... Hoping I don't jinx myself!
^^^hope is how I get through the day. glad you had longer stretches last night. I broke down and co slept last night. DH was sleeping in DS's room after DS had a bad dream so I took the opportunity to get some extra sleep. She nursed and the I hopped over to DH side to sleep. Every little bit helps.
@virginiaunicorn11 So glad it's going well! Isn't it nice to have your room back too?? I wish we had made the switch sooner.
However, the 4 month sleep regression and Leap 4 have really put a damper on it. She was up 6 times last night. I'm starting to see glimmers of my old baby again though today. Little smiles and laughs and chatting. She had pretty much stopped chatting for the last two weeks and cried all day. Maybe she's coming out of it!
Re: Nighttime still sucks........
And after hearing it here, will strongly advocate for reading Dr. Sears' Sleep Book if you're struggling with either naps or nighttime. I'm halfway through it after one evening with it, and it's changing how I approach all sleep. It's very baby-led and he's not a believer in Cry It Out, but is a believer in helping baby learn to sleep while helping parents get more sleep.
My local library had the book.
BUT I did buy a "Tiny Love" mobile on Amazon this week. This things the bomb. Laid her down for bedtime & she LOVED it.
Last night was night 3 in the crib. He was out by 8:00. He stirred every 2-3 hours but went back to sleep with a belly rub and music in a few minutes. I did pick him up and feed him at 1:30ish because he started screaming. We'll see how tonight goes...
I need something to work. Last night was night 4 in the crib. He was up at 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, and I put him in bed with me at 5. He did great Saturday night and Friday was even better than last night. I need a miracle worker!
Insult to injury, I read "Bringing Up Bebe" before bed last night, and the chapter about how French babies STTN by two months. Made me so mad and feel so inadequate that there was "one extreme example of sleep dysfunction, in which a four month old nursed around the clock every two hours." Yeah? F YOU, FRANCE!!
Today he gets his 4 month shots and tonight we are moving him to his own room. Maybe a bad combo, but this lack of sleep is affecting us all too much.
BAAAAHHHHH!!!!
PS I also think you should start your own blog!
@virginiaunicorn11 I'd totally follow a blog by you or @mellymar. Y'all should start one in all your spare time (hahaha-another joke).
LO is officially in his own room for the first time tonight! Fingers crossed this will be the start of positive change.
And for all my blah blah about not having a schedule... After reading the Dr. Sears book, I've been taking notes about LO's sleep throughout the day and night. He's fallen asleep at 6:55 pm, exactly, for the past three nights. I'm so excited to have this figured out (for now)!
@virginiaunicorn11 I just recently started to track when LO seems to crash out for the evening, and it's also been fairly consistent. Not as consistent as yours, but usually within a half hour. I'm beginning to try and revamp his feeding schedule to meet his sleep deadline, but I'm still working on it.
Good luck with baby in his room tonight! I'm hoping he will be one of those babies that just start to do SO much better in their own room.
I was previously bitching about LO being up every 1-1.5 hours. He must have been offended by my complaining so last night he just stayed up all night. I'd kill for a solo hour of sleep tonight.
Honestly I read every sleep book with DS1, tried the suits etc. Nothing worked. This time I vowed to embrace nights. I was doing well until last week. I am going to let myself have a pity party until Friday, then no more complaining, back to embracing.
It's 3:45 and we've been going in every 15 minutes since 2:30. Biggest problem is this STUPID F'ING DOG that barks and howls constantly. And pees everywhere, so we can't let it out of its crate/room.
So close, yet so far...
ETA: how my mother had a dog for 12 years and never bothered to train it is beyond me.
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I don't know what happened. I used to be able to put LO down drowsy and he'd fall asleep. Nope not anymore. Each nighttime wake is a 30-45 minute process.
We got the monitor set up today, so we can keep the bedroom doors shut, and let the dog stay out - so the little beast won't howl and bark all night again.
I'm way too optimistic and excited... Hoping I don't jinx myself!
However, the 4 month sleep regression and Leap 4 have really put a damper on it. She was up 6 times last night. I'm starting to see glimmers of my old baby again though today. Little smiles and laughs and chatting. She had pretty much stopped chatting for the last two weeks and cried all day. Maybe she's coming out of it!