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June 2012 Moms
How is everyone sleeping???
Our little one is 3 1/2 weeks and a little pickle! She has amazing stretches of quiet alertness but when she wakes up from a nap, its always with screaming and grunting. She also grunts and moans in her sleep? We thought it was a constipation issue, but we changed up her food and she has been having 1-3 good poops a day now. But when she sleeps she still sounds like she is pushing? anyone else experience these noises?
Also about a week or so ago we started to do a bedtime routine around 6:30 and put her down upstairs. She has a bath, changed into pjs, swaddled, fed and gets a story. She grunts and whines on and off for about an hour but then will sleep anywherefrom 4-6 hours. But then she is up every hour after that. Just fussy! Not really hungry or wet or cold, just fussy.
Has anyone else tried sleep training this early? We didnt really mean to, as I know you cant schedule such a young baby, but it happend two nights in a row and we decided to sick it out. Now im wondering if for our sanity we should try to do the bedtime routine around 10 or 11 and see if she sleeps more at night, or should we just stick it out because eventually she will have anearlier bedtime?
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Re: How is everyone sleeping???
She's 3.5 weeks old, sleeping a 4 hour stretch is good. Consider yourself lucky. When I get a 4 hour stretch I think I've died and gone to heaven. I usually am up with her every 2-3 hours. Don't expect to get uninterrupted sleep for a while.
This is WAY too young for sleep training, however establishing a bedtime routine is not a bad practice. Just don't expect her to STN this young.
This.
And DD is a noisy sleeper - grunts, gasps, etc. It is normal.
Newborns are very noisy sleepers, that is why DD is in her own room.
We are very lucky here and both our girls have been really good sleepers. Lydia is a month old today. Right now she goes down around 9 and sleeps until 2 or 3 then is up around 5:30 then up for the day around 7:30 or 8.
DS is 6 weeks and lately has been going to bed around 9 or 10, and getting up to eat around 2, 5, and 8. It is a wonderful improvement over the every 2 hours thing he used to do. All routines are off during a growth spurt though.
before baby, dh and i went to bed at 11. dh still does, i go to bed when i can. most nights we get lucky and ds goes down at 11 or 11:30. he wakes to eat around 3 or 4 then goes right back to sleep until anywhere from 5:30 to 8. even when he's up at 5:30 i still consider it a good night.
if only he didn't constantly fight sleeping during the day...
This is almost exactly the times DD wakes. Except she goes down closer to 9 each night. I found giving her a bath every night really helps. We don't use soap every day, but just the act of the bath seems to soothe her and the nights she didn't get a bath she didn't sleep as well. She also grunts a lot and is a noisy sleeper.
we don't do a bedtime routine yet, but she cluster feeds from ~7-11 every night, then sleeps 4-6 hours. then she's up again around 3 hours after the first feed and then usually up for the day around 8 or so.
if i don't let her nurse as often as she wants at night (out at dinner or something), she's up every 3 hours, so i assume i'll be parked in bed nursing for at least those 4 hours.
i put her to bed later, since that's her longest stretch, and i'd rather get some uninterrupted sleep!
I'm with you, girls! My LO is so all over the place. Sometimes he sleeps 3 hours at a time; sometimes he's up every hour. I'm just going with the flow!
My little guy makes noises in his sleep too. I wouldn't be worried about it but if you're concerned you could always ask your pedi.
The noises are totally normal. Our little peanut made a noise the other night that sounded like a beached whale.
I found that the bedtime routine we had with her really started working after we gave her a bath then rubbed her down with baby lotion. Before she wouldn't settle down for an hour or two. Now, it's cry, cry, cry through the whole thing and immediately stops once the final snap or zipper on her nightie is done. After adding the lotion, it's like she has a off switch; she looks drowsy and falls deep asleep after 5-20 minutes.
At just over 4 weeks, my LO has some good nights and some hard nights. He spent about a week where he would cry and scream from 5:00 to 7:00 or 7:00 to 9:00, but he had a lot of painful gas and a rash, so we suspect it may have been a virus. We also found that we were overfeeding him b/c we thought he was screaming from hunger. Now we are on a stricter feeding schedule (2 oz every 2 hours until night time when we adjust for longer stretches of sleeping). If he is napping at chow time, I don't wake him now.
We don't have a good bedtime routine yet. (We did, but then the screaming mimi week started and I did everything short of standing on my head to get him to sleep.) What we did last night did seem to work, though. We bathed between his 5:00 and 7:00 feeding, and he actually didn't fuss about it too much. Fed him at 7:00, and he feel asleep in my arms afterward. He squirmed and grunted a lot, but I held him until 9:00 when he ate again. He was sleepy enough that he consented to a SwaddleMe, and I got him into his crib by 10:00. He slept till 2:00, and I was immensely thankful for that long stretch of sleep. Most nights so far, he hasn't been good and asleep until 11:00 and is then awake again at 2:00, 4:00, and 6:00. He then wants to be up for the day at 6:00. Since I am the only one who gets up with him, it has been grueling! Thank God for loving grandmothers who will share the load!