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Repost: LONG Talk to me about your experiences with...
So I thought I would post here since you all have been through this
before. My LO is almost 7 mos and still does not STTN. He is pretty
consistent with his naps-and when he goes down at night-and he generally
does these two things very easily. We do our nighttime routine, put him
down with the binky and blanket and he falls asleep on his own. He just
started daycare 2 weeks ago (about 7 hours a day, M-F) and he is
napping great there as well. The problem we are having is two-fold. One
he has NEVER slept more than 8 pm until 3:30 am or 4:00 am. MOST nights
he is awake around 1:30...3:30, 4:30, 5:30, and so on. He finally gets
up around 7 am if he went down at 8. I do nurse him when he wakes and we
co-sleep. He either goes back into the pack and play next to me or in
bed with us. The only thing that has changed with daycare is that he is
eating LESS now during the day- in fact he is only averaging about 10-12
oz. while at daycare total (he last breastfeeds at 6:30 am before I
leave -but he gets dropped at daycare at 8:15 or so by DH-until 2:45 pm
when I pick him up). Sometimes he takes three bottles from them (DC)
sometimes two. So I feel like he is cluster breastfeeding during the
night to make up the calories. However its killing me getting up so much
and then getting up for the day at 4:30a m...because I have to be up at
5:00 to get ready for work. I guess I am just looking for someone to
tell me its ok-that he will eventually sttn...this has been his M.O.
before daycare its just now I dont want to wean or CIO in the night bc
he is eating less. Oh and he gets two solid meals a day and a sippy cup 2
x day where he prob. eats 1 oz. of BM at those times. Any advice
ladies? Should I just suck it up? Sorry so long! TIA~!
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Re: Repost: LONG Talk to me about your experiences with...
When I returned to work I was experiencing the same thing. DD wouldn't take the bottle all day so I would end up having to constantly nurse her at night. When she finally transitioned to solids she started taking more solids with my parent's to make up for the fact that she still wouldn't take milk from the bottle and that seemed to help lessen the night wakings.
Do you think he's waking up because you're co-sleeping? Maybe he needs it to be a lot quieter and putting him in his own room might help with that. Could he also be eating less at DC because of possible teething? Have you also considered an earlier bedtime? Once I moved DD's bedtime from 9 to 7:30 she's done much better too. If she isn't teething, going through a growth spurt, or something like that she can easily clock in 9 hours of sleep before waking up.
I'm probably not going to be much help here, but one thing stood out to me: you mentioned that LO started daycare recently and also that he is not eating as much during the day. I believe there is something called "reverse cycling" that occurs when the Momma goes back to work?
Just checked and here is something that may help?
https://www.kellymom.com/bf/normal/reverse-cycling.htmlMake a pregnancy ticker
I would die of happiness if DD waited until 3:30am for her first waking. We are at every two hours all. night. long. so I don't have a whole lot of great advice.
I will say that getting her out of our bed does help (at times). She was waking 8-10 times a night in our bed, but will sometimes only wake 3-4 times in her own crib. It's all messed up right now because she's teething, but I do think that we were disturbing her sleep when co-sleeping.
Never. It should be more of a relief for you to know you're not the only one out there.
Definitely look into the reverse cycling; my daughter did this when I went back to work. It was exhausting.
I will say this: we did bedsharing until DD was about 6 months old. Then we put the PNP in our room, started her out in that, then brought her into bed with us when she woke up at 4 or 5 am. I loved having her snuggled up with me. Well, we finally moved her into her crib in her nursery about a week ago. She has slept 8pm-7am straight through every night since. I wish I had done it sooner. I think she just needed the quiet room to herself.