Oh. My. God. Savannah just slept through the night! I put her down in her bassinet last night, and I just woke up to my alarm at 5:30. I am literally in shock!! She normally wakes up 2-3x to eat.
Crossing all of my fingers and toes that this lasts!
Oh. My. God. Savannah just slept through the night! I put her down in her bassinet last night, and I just woke up to my alarm at 5:30. I am literally in shock!! She normally wakes up 2-3x to eat.
Crossing all of my fingers and toes that this lasts!
Bennett has been sleeping on his side for the last few nights now that he is out of his sleepsuit. Well, tonight he decided to sleep on his stomach. I know it's okay since he was able to roll onto his stomach, but it still makes me super nervous! I feel like I won't get much sleep because I will constantly be checking the monitor.
We also have him sleeping in his crib in our room, and we were planning on moving him to his room tomorrow night. Now I feel like I don't want to do that now! Urgh.
Damien's been having trouble staying asleep at night lately (as I've mentioned), he wakes up about 4-5 times and then finally falls asleep for the night. I didn't really know why since everything on the checklist was a-okay. Tonight my husband brought up the eczema that the ped noted under his chin on Tuesday and said he could see on the monitor that he was scratching. I went in and apply a fresh coat of the Aquaphor cream the ped recommended and as I rubbed the area, he instantly calmed down and closed his eyes. Well...it didn't help. I didn't realize that it wouldn't help with the itching. I then applied Sudocrem and within minutes he was fast asleep.
His eczema is caused by his excessive drooling so we are using Aquaphor to help moisturize the skin and create a barrier, he wears a bib all the time, and I do my best to keep the area dry. Sudocrem looks like it will help with the itching.
I just feel so bad that I didn't catch the itching before tonight (thanks to my observant hubby!), hopefully this makes bedtime easier.
(I'm posting this on the ailments thread too, in case it is useful for other people.)
Oh. My. God. Savannah just slept through the night! I put her down in her bassinet last night, and I just woke up to my alarm at 5:30. I am literally in shock!! She normally wakes up 2-3x to eat.
Crossing all of my fingers and toes that this lasts!
So how has Savannah's sleep been with the holiday madness? Still up multiple times here. It's now devolved into Miles refusing to be comforted by daddy when he wakes up. He cries, yells, and lunges for me until I take him
Me: 32 DH: 31 *The old lady by 5 whole weeks* Married: 11/2013 M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
Is there a 6 month regression/growth spurt I don't know about? Jackie used to sleep up to 8 hours at night but lately it's been exactly 4. Last night it was 2-3 hours. Generally she only wakes to eat but I can't imagine she's still hungry and she'll just kind of lazily eat. So tired...
DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
Is there a 6 month regression/growth spurt I don't know about? Jackie used to sleep up to 8 hours at night but lately it's been exactly 4. Last night it was 2-3 hours. Generally she only wakes to eat but I can't imagine she's still hungry and she'll just kind of lazily eat. So tired...
There actually is a 6 month growth spurt so that could be it.
Oh. My. God. Savannah just slept through the night! I put her down in her bassinet last night, and I just woke up to my alarm at 5:30. I am literally in shock!! She normally wakes up 2-3x to eat.
Crossing all of my fingers and toes that this lasts!
So how has Savannah's sleep been with the holiday madness? Still up multiple times here. It's now devolved into Miles refusing to be comforted by daddy when he wakes up. He cries, yells, and lunges for me until I take him
Damien started rolling to his tummy at night again a few nights ago. This time around though he just continues sleeping. I'm shocked since he used to immediately wake up and cry until we rolled him over. He does wake and cry when he tries to change positions but can't but at least he isn't stirring until his normal wake-up times. He still hates tummy time in general.
Damien started rolling to his tummy at night again a few nights ago. This time around though he just continues sleeping. I'm shocked since he used to immediately wake up and cry until we rolled him over. He does wake and cry when he tries to change positions but can't but at least he isn't stirring until his normal wake-up times. He still hates tummy time in general.
Tonight has been the worst night thus far with the rolling. He was put down at 7pm. At some point he rolled to his tummy and then womr at 11pm crying. I flipped him over and he fell asleep 15mins later...then rolled again. Guys, he wakes and cries every 15-20mins now because he rolls while he is falling asleep and then wakes a few minutes later. My husband still doesn't want to do anything to stop him from rolling so here I am...still awake.
Damien started rolling to his tummy at night again a few nights ago. This time around though he just continues sleeping. I'm shocked since he used to immediately wake up and cry until we rolled him over. He does wake and cry when he tries to change positions but can't but at least he isn't stirring until his normal wake-up times. He still hates tummy time in general.
Tonight has been the worst night thus far with the rolling. He was put down at 7pm. At some point he rolled to his tummy and then womr at 11pm crying. I flipped him over and he fell asleep 15mins later...then rolled again. Guys, he wakes and cries every 15-20mins now because he rolls while he is falling asleep and then wakes a few minutes later. My husband still doesn't want to do anything to stop him from rolling so here I am...still awake.
Does Damien roll both ways? Might sound ridiculous but if your husband is against putting anything in the crib to stop the rolling, you could just try using the crib itself. If he typically rolls one way, you could place him close to the rails on that side. As long as you don't have a traditional bumper pad, that might stop him from getting over without posing extra risk. Maybe?
Me: 32 DH: 31 *The old lady by 5 whole weeks* Married: 11/2013 M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
Damien started rolling to his tummy at night again a few nights ago. This time around though he just continues sleeping. I'm shocked since he used to immediately wake up and cry until we rolled him over. He does wake and cry when he tries to change positions but can't but at least he isn't stirring until his normal wake-up times. He still hates tummy time in general.
Tonight has been the worst night thus far with the rolling. He was put down at 7pm. At some point he rolled to his tummy and then womr at 11pm crying. I flipped him over and he fell asleep 15mins later...then rolled again. Guys, he wakes and cries every 15-20mins now because he rolls while he is falling asleep and then wakes a few minutes later. My husband still doesn't want to do anything to stop him from rolling so here I am...still awake.
Does Damien roll both ways? Might sound ridiculous but if your husband is against putting anything in the crib to stop the rolling, you could just try using the crib itself. If he typically rolls one way, you could place him close to the rails on that side. As long as you don't have a traditional bumper pad, that might stop him from getting over without posing extra risk. Maybe?
When we first had this issue about a month or two ago, I was able to do that since he only rolled to his left. He can roll both way now and he has also figured out how to push himself away from the rails so he has the room he needs to roll. The only reason my husband doesn't want anything in the crib is he believes that the rolling is necessary and he needs to learn how to roll back to his back on his own. Not entirely wrong but I think learning that outside the crib is just fine. If he had it his way tho, he would just left Damien CIO. That's never worked since Damien eventually cries so hard that he hyperventilates and neither of us like to let him reach that point. I've had about 3hrs of sleep at this point.
@vintagevix2016 That sucks. I feel like this is another one of the everyone is right, everyone is wrong details of parenting. You're probably totally right that putting a sleep positioner in the crib right now will help him sleep, but then your husband is probably right that he might just continue to have this problem in the positioner becomes a sleep crutch. I thought we had a sleep crutch with the curved bassinet, and we might, but now Miles just doesn't sleep at all, sooooo....
I ended up rolling a towel and putting it in a U shape between the fitted sheet and mattress. Damien had the best night's rest he has had in awhile. He slept soundly from 7:30pm to 7am. He can still roll but only if he is fully awake and willing to put in the extra effort it requires due to the rolled towel. He usually just sticks to his side. This is obviously a temp solution and I will continue to work with him during the day on the rolling.
I ended up rolling a towel and putting it in a U shape between the fitted sheet and mattress. Damien had the best night's rest he has had in awhile. He slept soundly from 7:30pm to 7am. He can still roll but only if he is fully awake and willing to put in the extra effort it requires due to the rolled towel. He usually just sticks to his side. This is obviously a temp solution and I will continue to work with him during the day on the rolling.
Stuck: Yay! I'm glad you found something that worked, even as a temporary solution.
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Ugh. Since getting home from the hospital, Preston has been waking up crying every morning at about 5:30. I nursed him back to sleep cause at first he had the ear infection and I didn't want to make it worse but now that's all healed and we have a problem. It's hard for him to settle with sleep training during that time cause we don't use sleep training at any other point. He goes down for naps and bedtime all by himself so he doesn't need it. It's just the early morning wakeup that's giving us issues. Sleep consultant says we don't have many options. Preston gets more riled up if he know we are in the room so it's either keep giving him the sleep association or CIO. I was even playing with the idea of trying to reintroduce the pacifier but seeing as he already sucks his thumb to sleep, that probably won't work anyway. Over the next two weeks we were just gonna keep nursing him cause things have been a little crazy at the house so I'm hoping that as things calm down that it would stop on its own. In this time I'm gonna try and have him snuggle his lovey at feedings so he associates that with the comfort of nursing.
Ugh. Since getting home from the hospital, Preston has been waking up crying every morning at about 5:30. I nursed him back to sleep cause at first he had the ear infection and I didn't want to make it worse but now that's all healed and we have a problem. It's hard for him to settle with sleep training during that time cause we don't use sleep training at any other point. He goes down for naps and bedtime all by himself so he doesn't need it. It's just the early morning wakeup that's giving us issues. Sleep consultant says we don't have many options. Preston gets more riled up if he know we are in the room so it's either keep giving him the sleep association or CIO. I was even playing with the idea of trying to reintroduce the pacifier but seeing as he already sucks his thumb to sleep, that probably won't work anyway. Over the next two weeks we were just gonna keep nursing him cause things have been a little crazy at the house so I'm hoping that as things calm down that it would stop on its own. In this time I'm gonna try and have him snuggle his lovey at feedings so he associates that with the comfort of nursing.
Ugh, sorry to hear you're struggling with this. We tend to have a lot of early morning wake-ups as well. They're tricky because by the time we get S settled back down to sleep I have to get ready for work. I, like you, have often been nursing him at that time because it's the easiest way to lull him back to sleep. I've just been telling myself (whether it's true or not that as long as we otherwise maintain good sleep habits, eventually he will grow out of this early morning wake up.
Ugh. Since getting home from the hospital, Preston has been waking up crying every morning at about 5:30. I nursed him back to sleep cause at first he had the ear infection and I didn't want to make it worse but now that's all healed and we have a problem. It's hard for him to settle with sleep training during that time cause we don't use sleep training at any other point. He goes down for naps and bedtime all by himself so he doesn't need it. It's just the early morning wakeup that's giving us issues. Sleep consultant says we don't have many options. Preston gets more riled up if he know we are in the room so it's either keep giving him the sleep association or CIO. I was even playing with the idea of trying to reintroduce the pacifier but seeing as he already sucks his thumb to sleep, that probably won't work anyway. Over the next two weeks we were just gonna keep nursing him cause things have been a little crazy at the house so I'm hoping that as things calm down that it would stop on its own. In this time I'm gonna try and have him snuggle his lovey at feedings so he associates that with the comfort of nursing.
Ugh, sorry to hear you're struggling with this. We tend to have a lot of early morning wake-ups as well. They're tricky because by the time we get S settled back down to sleep I have to get ready for work. I, like you, have often been nursing him at that time because it's the easiest way to lull him back to sleep. I've just been telling myself (whether it's true or not that as long as we otherwise maintain good sleep habits, eventually he will grow out of this early morning wake up.
I think that's the attitude I'm gonna have to take cause he literally is perfect in every way for sleep except this one time. He puts himself down for naps and bed and sleeps great. He doesn't cry during the day like ever and even if he's tired he just gets ansty. I feel like this wake up shouldn't bother me as much as it does.
We've finally lowered the crib mattress all the way down since Ethan decided it was fun to crawl around and sit up in the crib the morning. Lol. I just put him down for a nap and now he's exploring his newly lowered mattress instead of napping. Hopefully he wears himself out and falls asleep.
So I'm on a FB group with local mommies and many of them love to brag how their child sleeps from like 10-11pm to 3-4pm or 11am, 1pm, etc. They're saying their babies slept like that since 2 months, etc. These are stay at home moms. I'm thinking, this can't be good sleep habits for the child. My LO is in bed 7pm-8pm and wakes around 7:30-8:30am. I imagine this is a better sleep schedule being that one day these children will go to school and are going to have a hell of a time at nap time, etc.
@Delitachan I just can't imagine the 11 o'clock bedtime. Although, I'm an "early to bed, early to rise" person. Our sleep schedule is like yours (7ish until 7ish). I used to teach first grade and there were always kids that had super late bedtimes and the poor things were like zombies in the morning.
I'm jealous of anyone whose baby sleeps through the night no matter when they go to bed! My LO still wakes up 2-3 times per night no matter when we put her down, what we feed her, etc.
So I'm on a FB group with local mommies and many of them love to brag how their child sleeps from like 10-11pm to 3-4pm or 11am, 1pm, etc. They're saying their babies slept like that since 2 months, etc. These are stay at home moms. I'm thinking, this can't be good sleep habits for the child. My LO is in bed 7pm-8pm and wakes around 7:30-8:30am. I imagine this is a better sleep schedule being that one day these children will go to school and are going to have a hell of a time at nap time, etc.
I can't imagine being trapped in the house until the afternoon. It's bad enough that her two naps seem to coincide with every baby class and play group offered at our local library.
DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
Apparently there is a sleep regression sometime between 8-10months. I have a feeling that's what Damien is starting to go through. Just in time for our 2-week trip. I don't know how I'm going to do the drive if I'm this exhausted.
Apparently there is a sleep regression sometime between 8-10months. I have a feeling that's what Damien is starting to go through. Just in time for our 2-week trip. I don't know how I'm going to do the drive if I'm this exhausted.
What kind of regression? We currently have him fighting sleep cause of separation and standing plus he's fighting the wind down process for naps. Thankfully, even with the tooth pushing through, he slept through the night last night.
It sounds similar to the 4-month sleep regression. Basically because our babies are developing so much mentally (language skills, investigation, etc.), physically (growing, sitting, crawling, walking), AND a lot of babies start their sleep transition (dropping a nap) around this time, it causes problems with sleep in general (nap and nighttime). WHereas is used to only take 10min to get our babies down, it can take 60min now. When our lovely kiddos wake during the night, instead of going back to sleep fairly quickly, now they want to stay up for an hour or two.
Just spent an hour putting Jackie down for her first nap. It's been a weird sleep day. She woke at 2 and was awake/crying until 3:30. Then slept until 7 when I fed her and put her back in her crib with some toys. I was expecting her to just play until she cried to be up for the day, but she fell asleep on her own and slept until almost 9. Thinking I'd hit the jackpot I left the toys in her crib when she went down for her first nap. She played for a bit, but instead of just falling asleep again, there was standing in the crib, screaming and crying for almost an hour. She only just fell asleep.
I know we're coming up on a leap, but we've never really had a huge change in sleep/mood before. And she's 7m 1week so I don't think it's the 8 month sleep regression. I had been blaming it on teething, but both her bottoms are fully in and some nights she'll sleep like normal. It's just frustrating because we finally night weaned and by the time I could sleep through the night without being engorged, we start dealing with this shit!
DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
I'm hesitant to blame the regression for Damien's bad sleeps the past few days but I wouldn't write it off completely either. I guess I'm just hoping he hits it early and gets it over with. That said, I think since the regression is linked to their physical developments like standing and crawling, some of our babies could hit it before 8 months.
I'm hesitant to blame the regression for Damien's bad sleeps the past few days but I wouldn't write it off completely either. I guess I'm just hoping he hits it early and gets it over with. That said, I think since the regression is linked to their physical developments like standing and crawling, some of our babies could hit it before 8 months.
Yeah, Jackie is 7m, but crawling well and pulling herself up to stand. We're also 4 days away from leap 6 and she's pouring snot, so she might be coming down with her first cold. So many factors. I just want it over with. I never know how to handle it. Does she need a cuddle because she doesn't feel well or should she cry it out a little to self soothe? Is she in pain from teething or hungry from a growth spurt? And I'm always worried about back tracking and teaching bad habits because her habits have been so good. Sigh.
DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
I'm hesitant to blame the regression for Damien's bad sleeps the past few days but I wouldn't write it off completely either. I guess I'm just hoping he hits it early and gets it over with. That said, I think since the regression is linked to their physical developments like standing and crawling, some of our babies could hit it before 8 months.
Yeah, Jackie is 7m, but crawling well and pulling herself up to stand. We're also 4 days away from leap 6 and she's pouring snot, so she might be coming down with her first cold. So many factors. I just want it over with. I never know how to handle it. Does she need a cuddle because she doesn't feel well or should she cry it out a little to self soothe? Is she in pain from teething or hungry from a growth spurt? And I'm always worried about back tracking and teaching bad habits because her habits have been so good. Sigh.
Sounds like you hit the jackpot! Damien will start leap 6 in a few days too so I'm sure that isn't helping the situation. I'm always guessing what could be going on and lately I never feel like I'm right.
I didn't know there was an 8-month sleep regression. LO just turned 8 months today but for the past few days has been whining around 6am or so, then falling asleep 10 min later and then whining again at 7. Then sleep and wake up around 8:30am-9am. He normally sleeps all the way until 8. I usually have to wake him up around 7am to get him ready for daycare, but he's usually awake before whining these days. Like I said, he usually goes back to sleep, but it's weird. He'd been sleeping until at least 8am.
Preston is already into the fussy phase of leap 6 and just like all the other leaps, he needs extra cuddles and help to sleep and I've always had the same fear that we'd mess up his good habits but even with a month long of bad sleep habits during leap 5, he went back to good sleep once it was over.
OK so the novelty of standing is starting to not be so bad in the crib and he has even put himself to sleep the last two days. The last two weeksish I've had to rock him to sleep before setting him down. I still have to go in and lie him down once he stands but I only did it for like 15 min and he got the hint without getting too mad. He is also starting to take longer naps again. I feel this is the calm before the storm because the leap is gonna peak this coming week and I vaugly remember this happening before the hell week of leap 5. I hope it's not the case. His tooth did break through bthe surface too so that might be helping.
I hope Jackie figures that out soon. She started doing the standing thing too and only when she's too tired to pull herself up will she fall asleep. Otherwise I have to go in and lay her back down.
Here's hoping the calm last long enough for you to recover some sleep before the leap starts.
DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
Venting here. So we did the pick-up/put-down with DD starting at 4 months, and after hundreds of hours of hard work and torturous crying had gotten her down to 1-3 wake ups per night. She was also able to fall asleep without intervention for the most part, but she'd often cry for a while still. Not STTN-great, but a big improvement and livable.
Fast so forward to last week. Poor DD got bronchiolitis with retractions (I.e., was having to work really hard to breathe by using accessory muscles) and had a low blood oxygen level (~90%). Her doctor warned us that if she got too tired to keep working so hard to breathe, or if her oxygen levels dropped any further, we'd have to rush her to the ER. This means that we have to try to keep her from crying too much, which means we've had to pull out all the stops and go back to rocking her to sleep. And I've been sleeping on her floor so I can check on her a million times a night. This whole situation has been totally terrifying and so stressful (especially when I couldn't stop her from crying -- crying is stressful enough without worrying that the crying itself might kill your baby).
Yesterday and today DD finally seems to be improving, which is such a huge relief; I'm so grateful. But she's now also completely dependent on being rocked to sleep again. I feel terrible for caring about this, because I'm so happy that she's doing better, but I'm mourning all those good sleep habits that we'd worked so hard on. All those hours! Those long months! All gone. Plus, now she's kind of aged out of the period when the PUPD is most effective so we're probably going to have to do CIO after all, which we were hoping to avoid. I know we did what we had to do but I feel so defeated about this Even though I'm so happy that she's getting better.
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Crossing all of my fingers and toes that this lasts!
Baby #2 Due 3/7/20
We also have him sleeping in his crib in our room, and we were planning on moving him to his room tomorrow night. Now I feel like I don't want to do that now! Urgh.
His eczema is caused by his excessive drooling so we are using Aquaphor to help moisturize the skin and create a barrier, he wears a bib all the time, and I do my best to keep the area dry. Sudocrem looks like it will help with the itching.
I just feel so bad that I didn't catch the itching before tonight (thanks to my observant hubby!), hopefully this makes bedtime easier.
(I'm posting this on the ailments thread too, in case it is useful for other people.)
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
Baby #2 Due 3/7/20
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
@Delitachan hope your LO feels better soon!!
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
I think that's the attitude I'm gonna have to take cause he literally is perfect in every way for sleep except this one time. He puts himself down for naps and bed and sleeps great. He doesn't cry during the day like ever and even if he's tired he just gets ansty. I feel like this wake up shouldn't bother me as much as it does.
I'm thinking, this can't be good sleep habits for the child. My LO is in bed 7pm-8pm and wakes around 7:30-8:30am. I imagine this is a better sleep schedule being that one day these children will go to school and are going to have a hell of a time at nap time, etc.
Baby #2 Due 3/7/20
KellyMom had a post about it but now I can't find it. Here is another post about it though: https://www.weebeedreaming.com/my-blog/8/10-month-sleep-regression
I know we're coming up on a leap, but we've never really had a huge change in sleep/mood before. And she's 7m 1week so I don't think it's the 8 month sleep regression. I had been blaming it on teething, but both her bottoms are fully in and some nights she'll sleep like normal. It's just frustrating because we finally night weaned and by the time I could sleep through the night without being engorged, we start dealing with this shit!
Here's hoping the calm last long enough for you to recover some sleep before the leap starts.
Fast so forward to last week. Poor DD got bronchiolitis with retractions (I.e., was having to work really hard to breathe by using accessory muscles) and had a low blood oxygen level (~90%). Her doctor warned us that if she got too tired to keep working so hard to breathe, or if her oxygen levels dropped any further, we'd have to rush her to the ER. This means that we have to try to keep her from crying too much, which means we've had to pull out all the stops and go back to rocking her to sleep. And I've been sleeping on her floor so I can check on her a million times a night. This whole situation has been totally terrifying and so stressful (especially when I couldn't stop her from crying -- crying is stressful enough without worrying that the crying itself might kill your baby).
Yesterday and today DD finally seems to be improving, which is such a huge relief; I'm so grateful. But she's now also completely dependent on being rocked to sleep again. I feel terrible for caring about this, because I'm so happy that she's doing better, but I'm mourning all those good sleep habits that we'd worked so hard on. All those hours! Those long months! All gone. Plus, now she's kind of aged out of the period when the PUPD is most effective so we're probably going to have to do CIO after all, which we were hoping to avoid. I know we did what we had to do but I feel so defeated about this
Ok, vent over. Thanks for listening