I'm exhausted

Jbosarge85

I need some suggestions. My LO is almost 5 months old has co slept since 2 weeks old. Lately she will nurse, fall asleep but when I lay us both on the bed and in about 5 minutes she'll wake up fussing or crying. So I have to get up, sometimes she will fall right asleep rocking her sometimes I have to nurse her again, but she always falls right back to sleep. But when I go to lay down with her she wakes up again and it starts all over, I'm up at hours at a time trying to lay down with her. I wait after she falls asleep to make sure she's deeply asleep but I guess it's not working. I don't know what to do, I tried putting her in her crib where she talked to herself for about 5 minutes and tried rolling over and then started crying again. She goes to bed at 8:30pm I'm wondering if I should try a later time or what to do. Thanks. Oh side note, We recently started not swaddling at night but that was two weeks ago and this wakeful thing just started two nights ago. We also just got back about a week ago from a trip out west so a 3 hour time difference.

ckk8584

What position/where are you nursing?  I nurse my LO in bed with us both laying down (i'm on my side) --so he just unlatches & falls asleep.  It's much easier than nursing him to sleep sitting up in bed or in a chair & then having to move him and worry about waking him up.  After he falls asleep, I gently slide out of the bed to do the rest of my nighttime routine & then return when it's my bedtime.

Your little one should be old enough to  nurse laying down now.  Mine's been doing that since about 3 or 4 months.  It's a little difficult to master the position at first, but now it's automatic.  It's been a lifesaver for us!!!  Hang in there momma.

twoitalians

I'm normally a lurker, but could she possibly be starting to make the object permanence association? She could be falling asleep the one way and then your movement to lay her down wakes her and she freaks out because things are slightly different than when she fell asleep.

gingerbabe

ckk8584:

What position/where are you nursing?  I nurse my LO in bed with us both laying down (i'm on my side) --so he just unlatches & falls asleep.  It's much easier than nursing him to sleep sitting up in bed or in a chair & then having to move him and worry about waking him up.  After he falls asleep, I gently slide out of the bed to do the rest of my nighttime routine & then return when it's my bedtime.

Your little one should be old enough to  nurse laying down now.  Mine's been doing that since about 3 or 4 months.  It's a little difficult to master the position at first, but now it's automatic.  It's been a lifesaver for us!!!  Hang in there momma.

Same here. Nursing him to sleep, in the laying down position is the only way my DS will go to sleep. Every time he wakes up during the night I nurse him laying down and we both go right back to sleep.

I would definitely not put your Baby to bed later, if anything I'd do earlier. When my DS is over exhausted he is way harder to get to sleep and stay asleep. The earlier he goes to bed, the better he sleeps, and the later he sleeps in. With babies more sleep=more sleep.