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Shamlet123
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So Weird-Babysitting Q
Shamlet123
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So MIL is 3 for 3. Every time she watches him he wakes up in the middle of the night, but with me he always STTN. I asked her if he was napping with her and she said "a little" with me he naps like 4 or 5 times over the course of the day (even if its only for 15 min). I have a suspicion that they are sitting around coo-ing at him all day and not letting him sleep, lol.
Which leads me to my question, does less sleep=less sleep? I want to figure out what's going on so she can keep watching him and I don't have to worry about him waking up every time.
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Re: So Weird-Babysitting Q
DH and I have discussed this too...he thinks less sleep during the day = more sleep at night, but that's based on how HE feels after napping too long, no evidence from LO's schedules. If anything we've gotten the best sleep out of DD after traveling. I don't know if it was the extra stimulation or the extra sleep (long car rides), but I loved it! Twice I've visited a friend who lives about an hour's drive away, and both times she slept great that night, even after naps to and from their house as well as during the visit. Makes me want to go more often :-)
There's another post right now about STTN that has people recommending to keep LO up more during the day, so the advice is definitely all over the place! I guess we all just need to experiment to see what works best.
You know I was just wondering this same thing!
For the past week DD has been up more throughout the day and at night going still every 3 hrs with sleep and then waking to eat.
Yesterday she took more naps that were 3-3.5 hours a piece (about 3 of them) and last night she slept 5.5 hours.
But I know times when she has has 2 good naps and played the rest of the day and slept 6 and 7 hours a night.
For us, less sleep = less sleep. I'm sure there's a point that's not true (switching days and night). But I think as long as that's not happening, for us a baby without good naps equals a fussy baby and a rocky night. Which happened when my in-laws visited because we were lax on our routine so they could hold LO more. Not doing that again! Just made her seem like a fussy baby, which she isn't.
yikes! you weren't kidding, I think that's the hardest part about learning how to be a mom, everyone has a different opinion and it makes it so hard to figure stuff out sometimes. I guess I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing and maybe have MIL come over for the day to "watch" him to see what she's doing and then try to talk her out of it.
sleep begets sleep. it is TRUE. the less sleep during the day, the less at night. the more during the day the better sleep at night.
infants should sleep about 14-16 hours during the day. Up for a total of 9 hours during the day with 2 naps. it really works!
i lived by the 2-3-4 rule with my son and he is the best sleeper. Now that I am pushing it more with my daughter she is sleeping better as well. Wake in the morning, up no more than 2 hours. At the first yawn, start the nap routine to put them down. the 2 hours should include the routine and baby should be asleep BY the 2 hour mark. same for 3 and 4 hours. This helped my son and daughter sleep through the night. It gives them enough time to eat during the day, play and develop. Then sleep a good amount over night.
I'm a bit late with my reply, but I wanted to say that sleep begets sleep. When babies are overtired they don't sleep well and it takes them longer to fall asleep.
However, I'm just wondering you said your baby sleeps 4 or 5 times a day for you, but sometimes it's only 15 minutes. If I was your baby sitter and you asked me about his sleep and he slept for only 15 minutes at a time I would probably respond the same way your MIL responded ("a little"). Did you ask her specifically? Because maybe he's not sleeping that much less for her, it's just what you consider sleeping. Just a thought.
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