No sleep and CIO not working:/ long post.

sanbry · July 2012

Some background-my daughter slept great til just about 4 months. She will be 6mo next week and it hasn't gotten better, and has actually gotten worse this past week. She had been swaddled and sleeping in her RNP in our room since she was born. Well she started fighting the swaddling so I started just doing it from the waist down 4 days ago. The first night was ok. She was still in the RNP and did 2 long stretches, and was awake for an hr in between. Then the next night she puked all over her RNP so I was forced to put her in her crib. The first 2 nights were ok, not good but not horrible, but last night was a nightmare. She woke up every 30 min and wouldn't go down unless fed or given her paci. I night weaned her at 3 mo so I know she shouldn't be hungry. My husband tried letting her cry for close to an hr last night(I felt awful about this) and all she did was drift off and wake up 5 min later to start all over again:( I realize we changed a lot in a short span of time, but I can't keep up with bad habits or it's just gonna be worse later on. And now I'm afraid we are establishing new bad habits and the small routine I had going is all thrown off and she's super cranky and clingy, understandably. Does anyone have any other methods besides CIO that have helped your LO? At this point I'll try anything, I'm exhausted and dreading bedtime every night.

namara5532 · July 2012

Is there any part of your old routine you could go back to? Perhaps the prebedtime parts (bath, book, etc.) could be reincorperated and help her feel more secure.

You could try a modified CIO like ferber. For that method, you go in to check on her in increasing intervals (3 min, 5 min, 7 min, 10 min) to let her know you're still there. You don't pick her up; you just make sure she's ok and tell her good night. I did this method with DS, and I admit it was hell at first. It took him a long time to get to sleep, and he had a couple nights where he woke me every hour. But we stuck it out, and now he's asleep within 15 minutes and wakes 3-4 times a night.

I will say for any sleep method you try next, you need to stick with it for at least a week to give it the chance to work. If you don't want to do CIO, you could look into some of the low cry methods, such as rocking to sleep. I know it's not where you ideally want to be in the end, but if it works, there's no harm in doing that for now.

sanbry · July 2012

I haven't changed anything about her bedtime routine except the swaddle and the crib. Everything else goes in the exact same order. I haven't ruled out teething or ear infection but she's been increasingly difficult to get to nap/sleep for almost 2 months now. She's very observant so I thought it could be overstimulation or just not wanting to miss anything but I'm not sure. I might try a little Tylenol and see how that goes. Thank you both:)

Sascha3 · July 2012

I don't know anything about night weaning, but is it possible she is having a growth spurt and is hungry?

sanbry · July 2012

Could be, the dr says if she wakes 5 hrs after a feed I need to feed her, but before that is just cycling through sleep. I caved and put her unswaddled in her rock n play in our room after she only slept 1.5 hrs in her crib and then I fought with her for an hr trying to soothe her back to sleep. I felt so awful, she was so exhausted she slept 10 hrs straight last night.

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