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help me fix my baby!!!

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sara has been STTN since she is 6 weeks old for 10 to 12 hours every night, eating well her bottles and solids and here come her idiotic parents to screw everything up...

we had the GREAT idea of going to cancun for 10 days with her and guess what there is a 6 hour time difference over there, well she adjusted in 1 day when we got there and behaved so well for the first 4-5 days...then she got her 1st tooth, a cold, a cough, an awful full body rash (from the heat/sea/ who knows) and the vacation was over, we couldn't even leave the room because of her rush...anyhow...the best is yet to come..

on our way back the 2nd freaking ash cloud delayed our flights and we ended up spending a night at the cancun airport floor and one (lucky) at a holland hotel...after 38 hours traveling we finally got home and I thought it was all over....

I was wrong...

now she thinks night is day and day is night...she refuses to eat during the day (yesterday she had ONE botlle) but eats 3 or 4 during the night...she takes an hour and a half nap at midnight and then falls asleep at 5 or 530 am!!!! yesterday she only slept til 730 after that! today she fell asleep at 530, woke up at 645 and the fell asleep again at 8 and woke up at 2 pm

please help me fix this, what should I do???? should I keep her awake during the day (which I think it's impossible) and if she goes to sleep at 5 wake her at 8???? should I just accept we are screw and hope she'll be back to her wonderful self on her own??

we are desperate I don't know how some of you guys do it! I want to cry!! I actually did last night! please help!

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  • dragonsmercydragonsmercy member
    She's suffering jetlag, just like you probably are, but SHE doesn't know that. You need to take a week or so and re-adjust her to normal time, so slowly keep trying to shift her schedule. It'll be rough, but you'll get there.
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    yes the jetlag is killing her!!!!

    and now us since because of her we aren't sleeping either

    but what can I do to switch her schedule!?? she is very stubborn!!

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  • dragonsmercydragonsmercy member
    Just SLOWLY try to push her schedule back to normal. Try to get her to wake up earlier and go to sleep earlier, an hour at a time. It's gonna take a while. She doesn't understand that she's supposed to go back to a normal schedule, and the travelling must've been pretty rough on her.
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    imagenuestra _boda:

    yes the jetlag is killing her!!!!

    and now us since because of her we aren't sleeping either

    but what can I do to switch her schedule!?? she is very stubborn!!

    I'd try some of the same things we are all told to do with newborns who have night/day confused. Keep nighttime boring and dark and quiet and daytime bright and lively. Don't tiptoe around during the day, go about your normal business and routine. At nighttime when she wakes up, keep the lights low and voices soft. Don't encourage her to be awake and playful. Do you try feeding her at the normal times throughout the day and she just refuses? Have you tried spacing out/eliminating the nighttime feeds?

    Sounds miserable, hope she gets back to her old routine soon! 

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    imagenuestra _boda:

    yes the jetlag is killing her!!!!

    and now us since because of her we aren't sleeping either

    but what can I do to switch her schedule!?? she is very stubborn!!

    I'd try some of the same things we are all told to do with newborns who have night/day confused. Keep nighttime boring and dark and quiet and daytime bright and lively. Don't tiptoe around during the day, go about your normal business and routine. At nighttime when she wakes up, keep the lights low and voices soft. Don't encourage her to be awake and playful. Do you try feeding her at the normal times throughout the day and she just refuses? Have you tried spacing out/eliminating the nighttime feeds?

    Sounds miserable, hope she gets back to her old routine soon! 

    thanks this is what I'm going to do! yes during daytime she pretty much refuses food (it's 643 pm and she has only had 3 oz of formula and half a jar of fruit) and du  ring the night she screams bloddy murder when she's hungry

    I've been doing some research online right now and it says to expose her to sunlight as much as possible but it has been raining since we go here, and to try to stick to your old schedule but she refuses food and her naps are all over the place

    I am going to stay with her in her room "if" she wakes up tonight with the light down and just play on the floor I guess...this past nights we were bringing her to our bed to play and watch cartoons wich I know wont help but at leats she amused herself and we could rest a little

    but not tonight, I'll be a good mommy and stay in the dark with her! I need this to end!

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    imagenuestra _boda:
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    imagenuestra _boda:

    yes the jetlag is killing her!!!!

    and now us since because of her we aren't sleeping either

    but what can I do to switch her schedule!?? she is very stubborn!!

    I'd try some of the same things we are all told to do with newborns who have night/day confused. Keep nighttime boring and dark and quiet and daytime bright and lively. Don't tiptoe around during the day, go about your normal business and routine. At nighttime when she wakes up, keep the lights low and voices soft. Don't encourage her to be awake and playful. Do you try feeding her at the normal times throughout the day and she just refuses? Have you tried spacing out/eliminating the nighttime feeds?

    Sounds miserable, hope she gets back to her old routine soon! 

    thanks this is what I'm going to do! yes during daytime she pretty much refuses food (it's 643 pm and she has only had 3 oz of formula and half a jar of fruit) and du  ring the night she screams bloddy murder when she's hungry

    I've been doing some research online right now and it says to expose her to sunlight as much as possible but it has been raining since we go here, and to try to stick to your old schedule but she refuses food and her naps are all over the place

    I am going to stay with her in her room "if" she wakes up tonight with the light down and just play on the floor I guess...this past nights we were bringing her to our bed to play and watch cartoons wich I know wont help but at leats she amused herself and we could rest a little

    but not tonight, I'll be a good mommy and stay in the dark with her! I need this to end!

    Yeah, the cartoons definitely wouldn't help. And I don't think I would play with her on the floor at night either - that doesn't let her know that she should be sleeping, ya know? It will probably be rough for a few nights, but when she's up at night, I would try to do things that clue her in its sleepy time - rocking, cradling her walking around in the dark, soft music, laying her down and patting her back, etc - things you would do to try to get her to sleep.

    Good luck! 

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