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January 2011 Moms
RHitch
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Moms of terrible sleepers.
RHitch
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What are you doing to maintain your sanity? DS still wakes up every 3 hours with no signs of changing anytime soon. I am back at work and I am barely functioning. DH sleeps soundly every night, because by the time I wake him up (fully) I can put DS back to sleep myself. What are you ladies doing? If you have a baby that STTN, can you please share some tricks? I am willing to try almost anything at this point.
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Re: Moms of terrible sleepers.
Garrett was sleeping really well for a couple of weeks (only waking up once, going back to sleep easily). But he's back to sleeping like crap this week and last week. He wakes up to eat probably at least 2-3 times a night.
My husband isn't here to help, he's in another state for training until the end of July, so it's just me. But it would probably just be me at those times anyway because I'm nursing.
Anyway, I never thought I would say this but we are basically co-sleeping. I swaddle, feed him, and give him gripe water, rock him to sleep and then put him in his pnp in our room around 8:30. Then the first time he wakes up (usually around 1), I bring him into bed with me, feed him and lay him down next to me and we go back to sleep. Repeat 2 more times, and then we are up at 5:30. I think I'm just so used to it now I can't even sleep through the night even if he let me.
Alex is a terrible napper. She'll only sleep for about 20-40 minutes at a time. Not only that, but she stopped STTN for some reason and is now getting up at 2am, 6am, and then 9am for the day.
I was so spoiled by my first baby, she was STTN at 6 weeks old and I've never had issues with her sleeping since.
mine has been sttn for forever. one thing that really makes or breaks it with her is having something close that smells that H & I. I throw my dirty pillowcase in with her when I change the sheets.
Also, make sure your kid is actually 'waking'... I know mine will sometimes have nightmares where she yells out a few times and keeps sleeping. If I go over and change her, she'll wake up and happily chow down, but if I don't she'll just stay asleep.
I know they go through a 4 month wakeful...I think that's why my LO is sleeping like crap at night. He's up more now than he ever was. I sometimes let him sleep in bed with me too - well, not really on purpose. I BF and fall asleep while he is nursing and he falls asleep too (side-lying sp?) - then I wake up an hour later and am like "Oh crap, did it again!" I mean, I've done it before on purpose but try not to any more.
As for napping, I get 20-40 mins at a pop too. Sucks. Not sure what to do here!
I know you've heard it all before, but try to keep it cool in the room, dark, and white noise. Our house is kept at 76 and LO just sleeps in a onsie and socks. We have black out curtains in the room and he has a white noise machine in the corner of the crib. Also don't run in there at every noise LO makes. S has very active sleep at least 4 times a night, wiggling around and all sorts of noise.
Lastly, I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but we let S sleep on his tummy. Its much easier for him to get back to sleep himself like that.
When my LO sleeps in his crib he wakes up ever 2 hours or less, the only way I get sleep is having him sleep in our bed. It's not very comfortable or the best idea, but it's the only way he and I sleep through the night.