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I can't help it!

Athena0809Athena0809 member
in May 2011 Moms
But LO is still not sleeping for more than 2 hours at the time at night (sometimes he sleeps only half hour!). 8 weeks of this is really catching up with me, so lately when he wakes up and I have to do the whole routine, change, feed, put back to bed, I can't hardly stay awake so I have opted for putting him in bed with me. The mornings are rough for me, it's when i feel the most drained, so when DH leaves (around 8am) I put LO in bed I nurse him in bed and we both fall asleep. He keeps waking up and feeding almost every hour but at least I'm able to stay in bed until around noon. I'm afraid he'll get used to it but I can't help it. If I don't do this I wouldn't be able to function at all....Tongue Tied
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Re: I can't help it!

  • CallidryasCallidryas member

    Is he eating every hour or soothing?  Are you giving him a chance to soothe himself, giving a paci or letting him suck his hands?  Or picking him up at the first whimper?  Let him fuss a bit, if after a little while he hasn't stopped, then feed him. 

    If it isn't that, I know I may get flamed for this, but maybe pump a bottle of about 3-4 oz and feed him around 10-11pm and put him to bed right away.  Then you go to bed, too. Maybe a full tummy is all he needs.

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  • jreese14jreese14
    imageCallidryas:

    Is he eating every hour or soothing?  Are you giving him a chance to soothe himself, giving a paci or letting him suck his hands?  Or picking him up at the first whimper?  Let him fuss a bit, if after a little while he hasn't stopped, then feed him. 

    If it isn't that, I know I may get flamed for this, but maybe pump a bottle of about 3-4 oz and feed him around 10-11pm and put him to bed right away.  Then you go to bed, too. Maybe a full tummy is all he needs.

    No flame here! That is exactly how we got Xander sleeping 6-7 hours. We went about 2 weeks changing, using bedtime lotion, and a swaddle blanket and then I would sit in his room in the dark with the music on and feed him a 4-5 ounce bottle. he would drink the whole thing and be really drousy so I didn't burp him or anything I'd put him straight down and he would sleep only 3 maybe 4 hours the first couple nights but then it got to be longer because I would hear him wake up after a couple hours and know he couldn't be ready to eat again so I let him fuss and eventually he would get his hand out of the swaddle and soothe himself back to sleep. Now at two months old he no longer gets a bottle just the changing, lotion, and swaddle, then both breast and he sleeps the same. Next we will cut out the swaddle and see how he does. I would definitely try a bottle with a little extra in it and see if that doesn't help you get at least one good 3-5 hour stretch.

     

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  • kacellekacelle member
    I don't see a problem with letting your LO sleep in bed with you in order to get more rest if you're being safe about it.  DD has been sleeping a 7.5 hour stretch when we first put her to bed, and I bring her to bed with us after she wakes up (around 4 or 5).  It's just easier to nurse and let her sleep there rather than trying to move her back to her bassinet, which always wakes her up.
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  • Athena0809Athena0809 member
    imagejreese14:
    imageCallidryas:

    Is he eating every hour or soothing?  Are you giving him a chance to soothe himself, giving a paci or letting him suck his hands?  Or picking him up at the first whimper?  Let him fuss a bit, if after a little while he hasn't stopped, then feed him. 

    If it isn't that, I know I may get flamed for this, but maybe pump a bottle of about 3-4 oz and feed him around 10-11pm and put him to bed right away.  Then you go to bed, too. Maybe a full tummy is all he needs.

    No flame here! That is exactly how we got Xander sleeping 6-7 hours. We went about 2 weeks changing, using bedtime lotion, and a swaddle blanket and then I would sit in his room in the dark with the music on and feed him a 4-5 ounce bottle. he would drink the whole thing and be really drousy so I didn't burp him or anything I'd put him straight down and he would sleep only 3 maybe 4 hours the first couple nights but then it got to be longer because I would hear him wake up after a couple hours and know he couldn't be ready to eat again so I let him fuss and eventually he would get his hand out of the swaddle and soothe himself back to sleep. Now at two months old he no longer gets a bottle just the changing, lotion, and swaddle, then both breast and he sleeps the same. Next we will cut out the swaddle and see how he does. I would definitely try a bottle with a little extra in it and see if that doesn't help you get at least one good 3-5 hour stretch.

     

     

    I think some of it is for soothing because he only nurses for 10 minutes. but he is swaddled so no hand, and he refuses to take a paci. What I've been dooing when he wakes up and it hasn't been 2 full hours is a shake the pnp gently and shush him back to sleep and sometimes it works. I guess it's all a matter or being constant.

    As far as pumping and giving him a bottle before bed, I'd like to try that but I'm pumping to build a stash for when I go back to work and since he eats on demand I have almost no chance to pump during the day. I get about 4oz a day and I've been freezing that, but it's worth a try!

     

    Thanks all for your suggestions!

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