Well he fell asleep at 7:45 only to wake up screaming bloody murder 20 min ago. I tried everything and he wouldn't stop crying. Finally I was able to hold him just right I guess and he calmed down, all this was happening with his eyes closed and he wouldn't even let me take him out of the crib at first. He just rolled around screaming. After a few minutes he cried a little again the farted, now he's sleeping peacefully.....
Ugh so irritated!!!!! Preston skipped his afternoon nap today for Lord knows why. DH took him for a job in the stroller to give him fresh air in hopes it will keep him from getting cranky and stay awake, nope, 5 min before they got home he passed out and DH couldn't wake him. We figured we'd quickly change him and nurse right to sleep for the night since it was already 6. Well, he woke up while we tried to out his PJs on but I nursed anyway and tried to out him down. Again, nope, he cried and fussed the whole time, clearly tired but couldn't fall asleep. We are also still working on some sleep training of getting him used to us leaving the room but that obviously wasn't ok with him today. DH saw I was getting super upset cause it's the second time today I had to deal with a crying Preston (which is a negative trigger for me) and suggested we start over and let him burn some energy while watching his Beethoven dvd and try again in 30 min. Hopefully that works cause i just don't have the energy.
We've definitely had to do "restarts" with Damien periodically. I've told our sitter to do that too if he's giving her trouble going down. I hope this passes quickly and Preston back to sleeping well.
We're still getting used to Damien being a bit cranky when we get home from daycare. He's tired but we can't put him down for a nap since we get home close to 5:30pm, sometimes he gets a catnap in the car though. It's getting better with time.
I knew I should have dropped the nighttime feeding ages ago, the past couple of nights have not been fun. He gets so riled up if I even go in to comfort him that I think I may have to do the CIO method.
If he usually wakes between 4-5:30 for it, is it a bad idea to gradually push it to a later time. He usually wakes to start his day at 7/7:30am. Is waiting to 6am to give him the bottle and doing that for a few days, then shifting to 6:15 or 6:30 and so on a good idea? Maybe just toughing it out and drop it cold turkey is the best. Hmmmmm.
@vintagevix2016 When I dropped the 2am feed I had a lot of success with gradually decreasing the amount I fed her each night (bfing so each night I fed for 1 minute less). I offset that by trying to make up the feeding during the daytime and feeding her right before putting her down. I haven't been motivated enough to drop the 5am feed but recently she's been sleeping through it so she might drop it on her own.
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@vintagevix2016 I second the slow decrease in amount. I did that for Preston's 5am feeding. I knew he was ready to drop it because he'd feed at 5 but not want to feed at 7-7:30 when he woke up. He was simply eating out of habit because his body was so used to getting calories at that time. I breastfeed so I decreased minutes spent nursing since I can't count ounces. It worked great. Eventually he stopped waking at that time since he was getting all his calories during the day.
He ended up falling asleep on his own and sleeping until 8am. Friday night and Saturday night were pretty easy since he only fussed for a little bit and then fell back to sleep. Last night was the worst thus far. He usually gets a bottle right before he goes down for bed. I think the nighttime feeding was more of a comfort/habit than anything else.
Anyone else seeing signs of dropping the morning nap? Everything I'm told says they don't drop till 15-18 months but Preston has always been early, he dropped the evening nap at 6 months vs the 9month mark that the sleep consultant said he would.
Anyone else seeing signs of dropping the morning nap? Everything I'm told says they don't drop till 15-18 months but Preston has always been early, he dropped the evening nap at 6 months vs the 9month mark that the sleep consultant said he would.
Since like 9 months cam has only taken one nap it's usually like 2-3 hours at least so I can usually get a few things accomplished.
Anyone else seeing signs of dropping the morning nap? Everything I'm told says they don't drop till 15-18 months but Preston has always been early, he dropped the evening nap at 6 months vs the 9month mark that the sleep consultant said he would.
Since like 9 months cam has only taken one nap it's usually like 2-3 hours at least so I can usually get a few things accomplished.
That's my hope. Lol when he took 2 naps they were only an hour each but on days where he takes 1 it's more like 1.5 hours. Hopefully they will get longer as he gets used to the new schedule.
At daycare S consistently only takes one nap, usually around 2 hours. He's been doing that for a couple of months now. The weekends vary a little more. Depending on the length of naps and what we're doing, he often still takes two.
Anyone else seeing signs of dropping the morning nap? Everything I'm told says they don't drop till 15-18 months but Preston has always been early, he dropped the evening nap at 6 months vs the 9month mark that the sleep consultant said he would.
Damien usually does 2 naps at daycare (typically ranging from 1-1.5hrs, I'm told) but he sometimes only has 1 and is fine too. On the weekends he almost always takes 2 naps and both range between 2-3hrs each, it's pretty nice!
I'm not sure what his day schedule is with my mom exactly, but I know she still tries to get Miles to take 2 naps. At home here he normally takes two, but they're getting pushed back so late I'm considering switching him to 1 to see if that helps. On the other hand, today he actually asked for a nap at 9:30 after being up since 7:15. That was weird
Me: 32 DH: 31 *The old lady by 5 whole weeks* Married: 11/2013 M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
I'm not sure what his day schedule is with my mom exactly, but I know she still tries to get Miles to take 2 naps. At home here he normally takes two, but they're getting pushed back so late I'm considering switching him to 1 to see if that helps. On the other hand, today he actually asked for a nap at 9:30 after being up since 7:15. That was weird
Stuck:. Preston started doing that but didn't want to nap, instead he wanted to cuddle and relax for 30 min then he jumps up and goes off to play.
For those who are already down to one long nap a day or those with older kids, how long after dropping the morning nap did that nap get longer. Preston will take at least an hour nap but I know he needs more like 2 since when he did two naps a day he did over an hour each. We just dropped the morning nap this week and most of the naps have been 1.5 hours but today was just an hour.
For those who are already down to one long nap a day or those with older kids, how long after dropping the morning nap did that nap get longer. Preston will take at least an hour nap but I know he needs more like 2 since when he did two naps a day he did over an hour each. We just dropped the morning nap this week and most of the naps have been 1.5 hours but today was just an hour.
I think it was within a couple of weeks. At first after he dropped the morning nap, he would still take a normal afternoon nap at daycare and then doze on the drive home. But pretty quickly his afternoon nap stretched so that it's now at least 2 hours most days, and he rarely falls asleep in the car in the way home.
I wake Damien up at 7am Mon-Fri and let him sleep in on Sat and Sun. He will wakes up between 7:30am and 8:30am on the weekend but it's also not uncommon for him to wake up closer to 7am.
Savannah is 5am every morning to nurse. On weekends she will go back to sleep for awhile she she doesn't have to go to daycare.
Yep yep yep, but I don't even have to leave until 7:30. Miles has some internal clock that sets him whining and signing for milk and more and slapping my chest at 5 am, every day. It makes me a little mean some days
Me: 32 DH: 31 *The old lady by 5 whole weeks* Married: 11/2013 M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
LOL sorry if my LO irritates me with a 7:15am wake up. He used to be in daycare and we'd have to wake him up at 7am everyday so I can bolt out the door by 7:10am. Hubs and I are both teachers so the school year is over but I'm doing summer school and hubs is not. Therefore, LO is staying at home but because he drives me crazy but just to let him have a day with his daycare friends, we send him to daycare on Friday's. During the year, he would wake up at 9:30 on weekends due to sheer exhaustion.
I wake up naturally at 6:30am these days; weekdays and weekends, so if Damien wakes up at 7am on the weekends I don't mind too much. I love my weekend morning naps though! I joke about making a napping nook under my desk. George Costanza had the right idea!
Savannah is 5am every morning to nurse. On weekends she will go back to sleep for awhile she she doesn't have to go to daycare.
Yep yep yep, but I don't even have to leave until 7:30. Miles has some internal clock that sets him whining and signing for milk and more and slapping my chest at 5 am, every day. It makes me a little mean some days
Do any of your all's babies still cry at bedtime? Mine wasn't like that before, but since 11 months, he now cries and wails hard for like 5 minutes before he drifts off. It's so annoying
So nap transition is going well, it would be even better if our schedule hasn't been so nuts but starting the end of this week we should be home the whole time. His naps are now at almost 2 hours and we even had a 2.5 hour day which was nice. It just sucks that we have those off days where he has to nap earlier. Yesterday I wasn't paying attention while I was on a walk with my friend and I guess he was so comfy that he fell asleep. Hes never had to nap in a stroller since he was like 6 months so of course he woke after only an hour so that meant an early bedtime. Another issue we have is that if for whatever reason he falls asleep while nursing, he always and I mean always wakes up crying 45 min later and needs me to come and out a hand on him to let him know he's safe. If he goes down drowsy but awake in his crib or he'll just even if was asleep just not at the boob, he won't wake up. Odd
Damien was doing so well with sleeping through the night but that's gone out the window since Thursday night. He keeps waking up (never at the same time) crying. Nit the usual fussy cry either, hard cry. I've tried just rubbing his back or even holding him for a little bit and he just cries harder until I give him a bottle. I also tried just giving him slightly warmed water (he hates cold water at night) and he wanted nothing to do with it. He did have ine night on Sunday evening in which he STTN. He is super congested right now thanks to yet another cold so I know that's part of the issue since he needs his nose sucked out. I'm hoping this is just a short phase he's going through and he goes back to STTN without needing sleep training again.
Damien was doing so well with sleeping through the night but that's gone out the window since Thursday night. He keeps waking up (never at the same time) crying. Nit the usual fussy cry either, hard cry. I've tried just rubbing his back or even holding him for a little bit and he just cries harder until I give him a bottle. I also tried just giving him slightly warmed water (he hates cold water at night) and he wanted nothing to do with it. He did have ine night on Sunday evening in which he STTN. He is super congested right now thanks to yet another cold so I know that's part of the issue since he needs his nose sucked out. I'm hoping this is just a short phase he's going through and he goes back to STTN without needing sleep training again.
Stuck:. Preston does this when he's overtired. When it's really bad I offer the boob but he is often too distressed to take it. As it turns out that's a good thing cause you don't want his body to start waking him up cause he's used to eating at that time. So I just cuddle him and reassure him that he's ok and I'm with him, eventually he calms down. This
Damien's swim classes are done until the Fall so we weren't sure how his nap schedule would go today. He went down at 9:30am for his morning nap....and he's still sleeping (12:45pm). I suppose I could have woken him up at 11:30am to keep him on schedule but I hate waking him from his naps unless I absolutely have to do so.
Damien's swim classes are done until the Fall so we weren't sure how his nap schedule would go today. He went down at 9:30am for his morning nap....and he's still sleeping (12:45pm). I suppose I could have woken him up at 11:30am to keep him on schedule but I hate waking him from his naps unless I absolutely have to do so.
Damien's swim classes are done until the Fall so we weren't sure how his nap schedule would go today. He went down at 9:30am for his morning nap....and he's still sleeping (12:45pm). I suppose I could have woken him up at 11:30am to keep him on schedule but I hate waking him from his naps unless I absolutely have to do so.
Wow, me thinks that will be his only nap today.
He just went down for a second nap.
Edit: He finally woke up from his last nap at 1:30pm
Is there a 13 month sleep regression/growth spurt? Jackie has been acting tired in the afternoon/evenings and waking up a couple times a night when she was sleeping until we got up for daycare at 6:30. She has a leap coming up, but we honestly haven't noticed much change in her sleep habits for them.
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Is there a 13 month sleep regression/growth spurt? Jackie has been acting tired in the afternoon/evenings and waking up a couple times a night when she was sleeping until we got up for daycare at 6:30. She has a leap coming up, but we honestly haven't noticed much change in her sleep habits for them.
No regression or growth spurt but that leaps can really be different as the kiddos get older. Preston will be entering a leap in the next week or two and his sleep is a little affected too. The last leap was one of the worst because he became extremely clingy and his sleep was super random and disrupted which has never happened for a leap before then. I have the wonder weeks book and it's totally common for leap behavior to change once they become toddlers. When is she due to start the leap and has she ever started then early?
Is there a 13 month sleep regression/growth spurt? Jackie has been acting tired in the afternoon/evenings and waking up a couple times a night when she was sleeping until we got up for daycare at 6:30. She has a leap coming up, but we honestly haven't noticed much change in her sleep habits for them.
No regression or growth spurt but that leaps can really be different as the kiddos get older. Preston will be entering a leap in the next week or two and his sleep is a little affected too. The last leap was one of the worst because he became extremely clingy and his sleep was super random and disrupted which has never happened for a leap before then. I have the wonder weeks book and it's totally common for leap behavior to change once they become toddlers. When is she due to start the leap and has she ever started then early?
I've honestly never noticed too much difference when she takes a leap, so I don't know if she normally starts them early. I know they're due date linked and she was born almost 2 weeks late. She's due to start in 18 days.
DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
Is there a 13 month sleep regression/growth spurt? Jackie has been acting tired in the afternoon/evenings and waking up a couple times a night when she was sleeping until we got up for daycare at 6:30. She has a leap coming up, but we honestly haven't noticed much change in her sleep habits for them.
No regression or growth spurt but that leaps can really be different as the kiddos get older. Preston will be entering a leap in the next week or two and his sleep is a little affected too. The last leap was one of the worst because he became extremely clingy and his sleep was super random and disrupted which has never happened for a leap before then. I have the wonder weeks book and it's totally common for leap behavior to change once they become toddlers. When is she due to start the leap and has she ever started then early?
I've honestly never noticed too much difference when she takes a leap, so I don't know if she normally starts them early. I know they're due date linked and she was born almost 2 weeks late. She's due to start in 18 days.
Hmm might be too soon then. Could just be a good ol fashioned ohase. Lol
Is there a 13 month sleep regression/growth spurt? Jackie has been acting tired in the afternoon/evenings and waking up a couple times a night when she was sleeping until we got up for daycare at 6:30. She has a leap coming up, but we honestly haven't noticed much change in her sleep habits for them.
I was wondering the same thing, cam has been up anywhere between 2-5, yes, 5 times a night the last couple weeks. It's getting pretty old quick! I wasn't sure if it has just become habbit, was due to the teeth he is cutting, or was a developmental phase. I never downloaded the leap app so I'm not sure about any of that.
Anybody have really gentle sleep training methods? That's probably a dream, right? We've tried weekends of cry it out before, but after 30 minutes of pure screaming, not crying/sobbing/fussing, and a DH about to have a nervous break down, I usually give in. We've been rocking to sleep now every night and if he was still sleeping through the night, then fine sure, I'd let it go on, but just like your littles, he's starting to get up multiple times again. Tried a modified pick up, put down last night where I picked him up as soon as he cried, but unfortunately that's immediately, most of the time before he even hits the mattress. After the third pick up, he didn't even trust me to let go anymore, he was clinging and crying and reaching for the rocking chair where we sit. So I put him down in the crib and walked out so that he knew I wasn't playing around anymore and it was bedtime. Out the door for 45 seconds and he screamed so hard he choked himself and started throwing up. After that I couldn't even walk away while DH held him so that I could brush my teeth, even though he could still see me and I was 15 feet away. I feel like I'm going crazy.
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@art+lea2013 I did sort of something in between. I did our bedtime routine (quick, less than 30 minutes) and then lay Jackie down. Then she gets 10 minutes to work it out herself before I go in and calm her down. I try not to let her fall asleep, just rock her enough that she catches her breath and is quiet. Then I lay her back down and the timer goes to 15 minutes. We've practiced putting her down drowsy, but not asleep since she was little and she usually doesn't end up crying for more than 30 minutes straight. I find during night wakings that if I go in too soon she wakes up more when she realizes I'm there when she would have otherwise fallen back to sleep on her own, given time.
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@art+lea2013 I did sort of something in between. I did our bedtime routine (quick, less than 30 minutes) and then lay Jackie down. Then she gets 10 minutes to work it out herself before I go in and calm her down. I try not to let her fall asleep, just rock her enough that she catches her breath and is quiet. Then I lay her back down and the timer goes to 15 minutes. We've practiced putting her down drowsy, but not asleep since she was little and she usually doesn't end up crying for more than 30 minutes straight. I find during night wakings that if I go in too soon she wakes up more when she realizes I'm there when she would have otherwise fallen back to sleep on her own, given time.
I'll have to try to give it more time overnight. Then he's usually just crying then, though he's always sitting up and crying by the time I get to him. If it was just crying when I put him down for the night, I could probably deal better. But seriously, he was laid down for less than a minute and he threw up. Although he doesn't lay, as soon as I put him down, he stands up. Usually flips over and stretches his arms and legs out in front of him when I try to lay him down so that he doesn't even get to the bed.
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Re: Baby Sleep Questions
We're still getting used to Damien being a bit cranky when we get home from daycare. He's tired but we can't put him down for a nap since we get home close to 5:30pm, sometimes he gets a catnap in the car though. It's getting better with time.
If he usually wakes between 4-5:30 for it, is it a bad idea to gradually push it to a later time. He usually wakes to start his day at 7/7:30am. Is waiting to 6am to give him the bottle and doing that for a few days, then shifting to 6:15 or 6:30 and so on a good idea? Maybe just toughing it out and drop it cold turkey is the best. Hmmmmm.
That's my hope. Lol when he took 2 naps they were only an hour each but on days where he takes 1 it's more like 1.5 hours. Hopefully they will get longer as he gets used to the new schedule.
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
Baby #2 Due 3/7/20
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
During the year, he would wake up at 9:30 on weekends due to sheer exhaustion.
Baby #2 Due 3/7/20
Edit: He finally woke up from his last nap at 1:30pm
No regression or growth spurt but that leaps can really be different as the kiddos get older. Preston will be entering a leap in the next week or two and his sleep is a little affected too. The last leap was one of the worst because he became extremely clingy and his sleep was super random and disrupted which has never happened for a leap before then. I have the wonder weeks book and it's totally common for leap behavior to change once they become toddlers. When is she due to start the leap and has she ever started then early?
Hmm might be too soon then. Could just be a good ol fashioned ohase. Lol
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018