Sleep?? Anyone getting any?
At 6 months (4 adj) my sweet little boy is getting up every 3 hours to eat at night some nights, other nights can go 6 hours. Doctor says put him in the crib between 8-10 at night and don't even go to him until 5 or 6 in the AM, that he is "playing" me and once again exhibiting his "persistent personality." Ahem. (deeeep breath). I know he is 17 lbs, I know he has shown me he can go longer at night, but there is no way I can abandon him at night. So tell me, should he be sleeping more at night than he is? What methods do you/did you use to help your little one sleep longer? I know that crying it out MAY be something we have to go to eventually, but in my mind it's a last resort. I just don't know what to really be expecting from him as far as sleep... Thanks Mamas!
Re: Sleep?? Anyone getting any?
We'll miss you sweet Debbie Girl (4.21.12) and sweet Cindy Girl (8.9.12)
We'll miss you sweet Debbie Girl (4.21.12) and sweet Cindy Girl (8.9.12)
I guess some people sleep train at 4 mo, but IMO that's whack. You're not comfortable with it so don't do something just because your pedi said to - not when it comes to that. They should be neutral and tell you a few options.
Anyywayyy - I read every sleep book I could get my hands on and I learned that I have a bad sleeper. He's older now so when he's mad about having to go to sleep I let him cry but it's just a grumpy mad-at-this cry not the cry of a 4-8 mo old. KWIM?
He's still a wretched sleeper but he has an amazingly happy temerment - he can hang out for hours, fusses rarely, etc. Sleep is just his blah area...not surprising, his parents are bad sleepers. Anyway, I've felt like I was losing my mind at times - and it's only been the last two weeks that he's been STTN for his age 10-11 straight - he mostly skipped the 5 hr stretches. It was 1-3 hours every night for months
I keep a daily log - every day for two months now. Wish I'd started sooner but it helps me track these things.
My sons are 7 months/3.5 adjusted and they usually go 8-8 without waking...sometimes they will get up between 5 and 7 for a bottle, and then go back down until 9ish (which happened this morning). Should your baby be sleeping longer stretches? To be quite honest, I don't know. Every baby is different, just like every adult is different. When one baby wakes in the middle of the night we don't rush to his side. Sometimes he falls back asleep after talking to himself for a bit, sometimes he needs a bottle. Sometimes he cries out and we let it go for a few minutes. We don't go in unless we know it is a real cry. We feel it out. If you aren't happy with your pedi, I would change doctors. I've read that some babies aren't really hungry and are just used to those middle of the night bottles.
We didn't use any methods to get them to sleep longer stretches. They just started dropping middle of night feeds on their own (once we got the ok to stop waking to feed).