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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
A lurker with a question
Hi ladies,
This is my first post...well I guess second. I posted way back when I was in the first trimester and now have a beautiful baby girl. I am a lurker and have a question...more like I need suggestions.
My little one is 11 weeks and we are having a very difficult time at night. She has no problems going to sleep and if she had it her way she would be asleep by 7pm every night. Once she is asleep she will sleep for 3-4 hours which is great. Once she wakes she will eat and go back to sleep, but the problem is she will not sleep for longer than an hour. She than wakes on the hour...I mean every hour. She does not miss one..that is until she is up for the day at 7:30!! We have tried everything. We have put her to bed at 7, we have kept her up until 9 (which is brutal), we swaddle and have unswaddled (we have to swaddle though since she pulls on her ears on wakes her self up), we have put to bed sound asleep and dozy, with sound and no sound, we have tried the crib and bed sharing but nothing seems to work!!
This has been going on for over a week now and she an I have made a spot on the couch at night in order to avoid waking up the house.
A few side notes is that each time she wakes up she wants to eat. The pacifier does not tide her over. She does not eat much but will fuss and fuss until she gets the boob.
Also we moved to a new place/country 3 weeks ago. I know babies can get jet lag (16 hour time difference) but I figured if this was the case she would be over it by now. She was sleeping 4-6 hours in her crib at a time before we moved.
Do you ladies have any suggestions on what we can do to keep her asleep longer or at least so she does not wake up every hour? We are in need of some help please!!
TIA
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Re: A lurker with a question
Can you bedshare after the first waking? You might still be feeding her as often, but you drift off back to sleep as she's eating and not worry about getting out of bed.
Also, there is a growth spurt around 12 weeks. It was particularly brutal for us and lasted about 2 weeks.
Good luck! Try to nap when you can!
This and we had resorted to bedsharing... whatever works to get some sleep. My LO just turned 6 momths so over much agonizing we decided to do some modified sleep training and that has worked wonders in just a few days but I wouldn't suggest doing it with an 11 week old...
try the swing, try music in the room - out LO actually likes fast paced music vs lullabye music, maybe a lavendar pillow, introduce a lovey, leave a sports bra ora shirt you have work for a day or night (or both in my case) and leave it near LO in the crib (if you feel unsafe doing this put the scented item in an organza bag or something else that is safe and leave it in the crib or you can fold up your pillowcase (that you've slept on for a few days ) and do the same with it,
basically what's happening is your lo can't self sooth back to sleep at the end of every hour sleep cycle.... sometimes it just takes time.
Thanks ladies for all of your suggestions. We will definitely try some of them out. In the mean time we will continue to bed share and just be patient and hope that she will learn to self soothe herself back to sleep.
Who would have thought we would have had problems when the health nurse told us to rock her asleep and make sure she is right out before putting her in the crib. My goodness.