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Difficulty sleeping for a 6 month old
knottie8afbba65a3f49e7b
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I hope someone has some tips to help with sleep! Since around 4 months, my little guy has started having a lot of trouble sleeping, and majority of the time refuses naps. I know around this time sleep regression is normal and can take weeks to get back to normal. I figured the napping issue was mostly because mybwondermy husband "got him on a nap schedule" by driving him several days a week afternoon went back to work.
We moved just before 4 months and the problems started. He will have one or two good night's of sleep followed by up to a week or so where he'll be up every hour. I've wondered if it's possible it's just from teething,boe could it be something else. I'm typing this going on the day two of horrible sleep.
I just don't know what to do. I got in trouble by my husband for holding him and crying. I'm so frustrated andntired, getting two or three hours of sleep a night is taking it's toll on me physically and mentally and spouse can't be bothered to help. He apparently did his share of the night time care the first two weeks he brought our boy home. I love my son, but i just don't know what to do to help him.
The only thing that's worked in the past is nursing and rocking him to sleep, but half the time he will start screaming when I out him down, or he'll be up shortly after. He will lay there screaming and crying if I put him down awake. I try a mobile or the musical crib box thing we have, don't seem to make much of a difference.
Recently have been trying to give him a teething ring before bed, again not much of a difference. For the times when he's been crying out in pain, I've tried tyenol. He has been waking up and wanting to stay up earlier and earlier it seems. We've gone from getting up between 7-8 am to 6-7, then sometimes even earlier m this had started before daylight savings too. I know he gets super crabby during the day too because he's so tired. I try to get him down for a nap in the morning at least two hours after he's gotten up, and before he gets overly tired. That still doesn't help. He will occasionally nap, like he did two days on a row for over an hour once a day.
His pediatrician recommend leaving him in his crib and shutting the door. Sometimes will work, and sometimes not. I don't expect him to sleep all night every night. I just wamw this kiddo to get some better sleep so I can too! I'm sorry for the long post, I'm so tired and frustrated, and feel like a failure.
We moved just before 4 months and the problems started. He will have one or two good night's of sleep followed by up to a week or so where he'll be up every hour. I've wondered if it's possible it's just from teething,boe could it be something else. I'm typing this going on the day two of horrible sleep.
I just don't know what to do. I got in trouble by my husband for holding him and crying. I'm so frustrated andntired, getting two or three hours of sleep a night is taking it's toll on me physically and mentally and spouse can't be bothered to help. He apparently did his share of the night time care the first two weeks he brought our boy home. I love my son, but i just don't know what to do to help him.
The only thing that's worked in the past is nursing and rocking him to sleep, but half the time he will start screaming when I out him down, or he'll be up shortly after. He will lay there screaming and crying if I put him down awake. I try a mobile or the musical crib box thing we have, don't seem to make much of a difference.
Recently have been trying to give him a teething ring before bed, again not much of a difference. For the times when he's been crying out in pain, I've tried tyenol. He has been waking up and wanting to stay up earlier and earlier it seems. We've gone from getting up between 7-8 am to 6-7, then sometimes even earlier m this had started before daylight savings too. I know he gets super crabby during the day too because he's so tired. I try to get him down for a nap in the morning at least two hours after he's gotten up, and before he gets overly tired. That still doesn't help. He will occasionally nap, like he did two days on a row for over an hour once a day.
His pediatrician recommend leaving him in his crib and shutting the door. Sometimes will work, and sometimes not. I don't expect him to sleep all night every night. I just wamw this kiddo to get some better sleep so I can too! I'm sorry for the long post, I'm so tired and frustrated, and feel like a failure.