Working Moms
anyone's LO still wake up every 2 hours each night?
For about a month, DS would have at least one 4-5 hour stretch, but he's back to AT LEAST nursing every two hours. My mom tells me it's time to let him CIO. Anyone going to work everyday with a child that still is up like a newborn?!
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Re: anyone's LO still wake up every 2 hours each night?
Mine does every 3 hours, so it's a little better than yours, but yeah before I went back to work she was sleeping one 5-6 hour stretch but changed her routine (reverse cycling).
I'm thinking about asking the pedi about letting her CIO at her 6month appt. She's pretty tiny for her age so I don't want to stop feeding her at night without my pedi's approval.
I asked my pedi the same thing, and he said I can let him cry for a little while because he may just be in the habit of nursing. I also suspect he's teething. My LO is huge (95th percentile) so I think he can go the distance at night haha. Good luck with your LO!
I suspect mine is teething too (or else she has a cold) but it hasn't changed her sleep. We have her 6 month appt in 3 weeks so I think I can hold off on the CIO until then. We've been letting her CIO to put herself to sleep and it's been working, but I feel mean letting her cry when she wakes up too (especially because it'll be harder to ignore her), at least until she gets the hang of putting herself to sleep at night and maybe after she's feeling better. She hasn't been sleeping well at daycare this week, I guess because of teething or whatever is going on that is making her fussy/stuffy/irritable.
She's somewhere in the 10-25% percentile (she's about 13lbs) so she might need to gain a couple more pounds before she can make it through the night.
Yep. We are in the process of sleep training. A 20 pound 6 month old does not need to nurse every 2 hours at night, which is the habit we got into (partly my fault - it was just the easiest way for us to both go back to sleep). My goal is for him to sleep from 7:30 - 7 waking up just once to nurse.
Sleep training is exhausting though. I'm more tired now than I was when I woke up every couple of hours. Probably because I just took him into bed with me to nurse and fell back asleep
This is exactly what is going on with us. I am trying to get him to sleep in his own crib, but it is so exhausting going back and forth that I end up just taking him into our bed every night. What are you doing for sleep training?
We're doing ferber, but I must admit we're not following it exactly. We check in on him every 5 minutes when crying, not longer. And if he's slept for a good 6 hour stretch when he wakes, I'll nurse him.
If you breastfeed though and do any type of crying sleep training, my advice is to have your DH do most of the checks if he's willing to. I tried to do them at first, but they never work for me. I think because if it's me, he wants to nurse. If it's DH, that option isn't there for him and he calms down and goes back to sleep faster than with me.
Oh, and we cut out the paci cold turkey. That was another reason he kept waking up. It was easy to just pop it back in, but disrupting everyone's sleep. His sleep is improving though and he is also finally napping more than 40 minutes at a time during the day!
That's really good advice! I find we have many problems as a result of that paci too. If it falls out at night, he wakes up and screams until he gets it back in his mouth. We have had so many issues with napping too.
My son is 15 months old and is still up 2-4 times a night to nurse. The only way I can function at work is to let him sleep in our bed. Eventually he will sleep through the night, at least I keep telling myself that.