June 2016 Moms
HeartLikeMine3
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Describe your bedtime routine
HeartLikeMine3
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My LO is melting down wanting to sleep between 7:30-8 she is almost 6 weeks and does one 4 hr stretch so that's where I get my most sleep but I don't really want to go to bed that early. So my questions are do you go to bed when LO does or do you wake them up to eat again before you go to bed?
How old is your LO?
how often do they wake at night?
Bottle or breastfed? Just because I'm curious if the FF babies are sleeping better.
How old is your LO?
how often do they wake at night?
Bottle or breastfed? Just because I'm curious if the FF babies are sleeping better.
Re: Describe your bedtime routine
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I'm struggling a lot with sleep but hoping we get in a better pattern soon. She turned 1 month yesterday.
Our routine is as follows to try and keep her up a tad later: bath with just water every other day and soap the other nights because she loves them, swaddle, feed where she is sleeping (currently our room) while I read a story to her with white noise from my phone. She is usually almost instantly asleep when I put her to the boob and will sleep 4-5 hours from there. She also naps heavily in the afternoon, so I'm hoping this eventually shifts later and later so we get her long periods of sleep at night.
She's 5 weeks will be 6 on Friday.
She typically wakes once in the night between 4/5 and then it takes about an hour for to go back down and then she wakes between 7/8. 8 if I'm lucky usually 7. She goes down around 9 but sometimes, like tonight by 8. My first son was a terrible sleeper and didn't sleep for 5 hr stretches till he was 3 months so every baby is different. All my LOs have been EFF I don't think they sleep longer if EFF because of my experience with my first.
She is ready for bed at 8pm most nights, and there's no keeping her awake when she wants to sleep, haha. She gets a bottle right before she goes down, and will usually sleep for a good 6 hours before she wakes up to eat. Sometimes a little longer. She has a 3 hour stretch after that and sometimes goes back to sleep, but is sometimes up for the day at that point.
I stay up after she's in bed since that's the time my husband and I are both home and can spend time together. I like to be in bed by 10pm.
We DO start our routine at 7 with the goal to have everyone asleep by 9 ish. However its worth noting that DHs alarm goes off at 5:15am and i cannot sleep through his alarm clock and he cant wake up with out it. [I am just used to getting up then as we have been together for 10 years and DH and my dad have the same job, therefore its been that way my whole life. Sleeping past 7-8am has always only happened a small hand full of times a year on average.]
We start downstairs by turning the lights off and spending our remaining time down stairs with just natural light, i often remind DH at this time to try and lower his powerful man voice a bit, keeping the lights off we head upstairs and me and DD get into bed, DH usually comes a little bit later one we are well into our bed time feeding.
She is exclusively breastfed. Sometimes her last feeding of the ''day'' is a little long and a little fussy, so assuming we are all asleep by 8:30-9, but its often (and ideally.) earlier. She usually wakes approximately 11:30-12, then again about 2:30, then one of 2 things happens...sometime she lasts til 4:30 at which point i often just feed her and then get out of bed and spend a little time alone knowing DH will up soon. Sometimes her feeds are more like 2 and then 3:30 and in that case i do go back to sleep again. Usually either which way, she eats again around 6-6:30, which the vast majority of the time I am already totally up and awake for.
As i mentioned the last feeding she seems a bit extra fussy (she will eat, fall asleep, wake right back up and then repeat, sometimes for 2+ hours.), i am going to actually start trying to baby wear her a bit and try to wear her to sleep and see how that works out. It works during the day but for some reason i never do it at bed time which i think is worth trying.
My husband and I have a system down now where I take her the first part of the night and wake him up around 4 and he gives me 2 hours straight before he goes to work. I am exhausted most days though.
I wake him at 8pm if he is asleep and feed him/keep him up til 9pm. He usually sleeps til 12-1am, I feed/change him, he falls back to sleep usually within 45min. He will wake again anywhere between 330-430am. I usually start getting ready for work at 430am. I formula feed him at night bc I wasn't producing enough and on breast milk he would wake every hour.
I breast feed during the day or give him what I pumped at work.
Holy cow. 6 hours!? That's amazing. She doesn't leak out of her diaper? I don't let my son go more then 4 hours because I feel like it will leak! I'm curious: How many ounces of formula is she drinking each bottle?
she drinks 3oz each bottle, but I offer 4oz in her bedtime bottle. She usually only eats 3.5oz. Her diaper has never leaked at night
He wakes up around 12:30/1:00 and H gives him a pumped bottle then he's up at 4 and I BF. Then he usually sleeps until he's up at 7. I go to bed when he does so I can snag that 5-6 hour stretch of sleep.
We didn't really do anything to get into this routine. He just kind of fell into it, but it seems doable for now. I'd like to get him in bed around 7:30/8 eventually so I can have some time to relax, be productive or hang out with H, before I'm 100% exhausted.
This is already an improvement because usually when I would try to transfer her in to her crib she would fuss. She is sleeping well in the pnp right now but will likely be up to eat again soon. So we will see how successful I am at getting her fed and back to sleep.
Edited for update: she slept really well when she slept, which is an improvement. No snorting or jerking around or anything like that. She fell asleep at 10, up at midnight, up at 130, up at 430, and up at 6. So not much improvement in the sleep span but hopefully she got restful sleep and won't be so cranky today. Trying it all again tonight!