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erbear
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OMFG Help me!
erbear
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I am going insane.
We have been in the same pattern for more than a week now and I'm going insane. C will eat, be up and happy for about 30 minutes, then start to look tired (normal for a 6 week old). I'll then spend the next 1-2 hours trying to get her to nap. Sometimes, she'll fall asleep for 10-20 minutes then wake up screaming and refuse to go back down. Other times, she'll just scream and scream. This goes on all afternoon, including the 20 minutes in the car to and from school to pick up my older daughter. We'll try to put her down for the night at 8, she'll refuse, and the screaming continues until she passes out somewhere around 9:30-10. She's up again at 11:30-12, eats, then (thankfully) down for the night (from 12-4ish, then up every 2 to eat).
It's maddening. I don't get it. I'm getting her before she gets overly tired and she STILL.WON'T.SLEEP and she won't stop screaming. She hates the car. She hates to be walked around. I try her in the carrier. I don't know what else to do. She's clearly tired (she's in there screaming again) because she's not been up for 3 hours, but I've been trying for the last 2 to get her down.
Any ideas!?
"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies. God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Re: OMFG Help me!
What techniques are you trying to get her to nap? Holding/bouncing, white noise (radio static, running the shower), dark room, swaddling, giving her something to suck on (nipple, pacifier or finger), turning her on her side? What about running the vacuum or a hairdryer or other loud noise (it would have to be loud for her to hear over her own screaming)?
Good luck - that sounds very frustrating. If it gets too stressful, just put her someplace safe for a few minutes and give yourself a break.
Do you swaddle? The swaddle and gripe water are my 2 best friends.
its the age. my ds did it from 5-8wks then stopped. that 6 wk growth spurt is a doozy.
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Glad to hear someone else is going through a similar situation. we have figured out that DS sleeps better on his tummy. He has always been a gassy baby and while gas drops and the Dr Brown bottles (we previously used Tommee Tippee) help, sleeping on his back made it too hard for him to pass gas. He would finally fall asleep only to wake himself up crying in pain within 30 mins or so. Once we started letting him sleep on his tummy he has started napping closer to 3-4 hours instead of 30min-2hours. We still have a very fussy evening from about 7-8:30 that we are still trying to work through. So far I think he is just overstimulated, but we shall see.
Also we use the angelcare monitor with the motion sensor which is the only thing that has made me comfortable with him sleeping on his tummy even though he has great head control and has no problem turning his head from side to side.
Er, could it be reflux? I'd probably call the pedi at this point. That's exactly what Andrew was like and we waited until 4 months to fine out he needed to be on meds.
We had this same exact issue last week.
I got a miracle blanket and it seems to have done the trick. He loves to be swaddled and startles very easy. My pedi also recommended letting him sleep on his belly, but only during the day when we were awake. He now is a completely different baby and sleeps great during the day and during the night.