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June 2011 Moms
KevsLove
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xp: Want to curl up and cry
KevsLove
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I love my DD, I really do. I love (almost) everything about her... What I absolutely HATE is that almost every night she is up, often for hours at a time, for no reason.
This is an example of what I our routine looks like (most nights):
7/7:30pm - Bathtime
7:30/8 - Wind-down time with Daddy (read, hang-out in our bed, prayers, sing)
9ish - Bed (sometimes makes awhile due to crying/fussing - try putting her down earlier results in a freakout)
11ish - Nurse
Anytime after 11 though I generally lie in bed dreading hearing her voice come across the monitor. Tonight she went down like a dream, with nary a peep and slept till 1:05am and now as I type this she is playing with her Sophie The Giraffe in her pack n play down stairs. I really feel as if I have come to the end of my tether. We're presently weaning her down off a high dose of prednisone (due to infantile spasms) but I can;t imagine this being the problem. She has never slept well and this just seems to be my reality. Thankfully I have a great DH who takes her when she wakes up in the am so I can catch up on sleep but that usually means mt sleep schedule is messed up as well as hers.
I could really use some advice.
TIA!~*~
Plumpynut loving on Baby Brother E
~*~
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Re: xp: Want to curl up and cry
Sorry nighttime is rough for you. I have no advice, but I get up at least twice every night. It's rare that M wakes up and wants to stay awake (and boy are those rare occasions draining) but I do sometimes have a hard time getting her to fall back into a deep enough sleep that I can lay her in her crib. And if you saw my post from the other night- our sleep training is not going well at all.
I, too, dread the sound of her waking and crying. Last night after I put her back down I was convinced I was hearing her- not a loud cry, but a whimper, like she was about to wake up. Even after I checked her room and saw that she was quietly sleeping, I still thought I was hearing it. I had to force myself to be rational so I could fall back asleep.
Hopefully someone else will have advice, I can only commiserate.
I've felt the same way over DD's sleep before so I know how draining and miserable it is. But, and I apologize, but I had a hard time picking out what exactly is happening with your LO.
Is she waking up multiple times a night and needing your help falling asleep? Or is she waking up at some point and wanting to stay awake to play for a long time instead? Or maybe both? How long has it been as bad as it is right now? Is she waking all on her own after less than 2 hours sleep and wanting to nurse? Where is she sleeping?
If it's the first, you may benefit from some sort of sleep training so she learns how to put herself back to sleep when she wakes in the middle of the night. There are many different options out there and you can also combine ideas to suit your family best. If it's the second and hasn't been going on for long, she may having a growth spurt. There has been more than one chunk of time when my DD has done that. They're learning something new and want to "practice" it all the time, even when they should be sleeping. If things have gotten drastically worse since you started weaning her off the medicine, it could be a result and you should discuss it with your LO's doctor. Maybe she's having a harder time than usual getting off of it. It's also possible that it's time to adjust her sleep schedule - cut out a nap (if she's still having 2), make bed time earlier, wean her off the 11pm nursing - just for some ideas. If you're bed sharing, it may work out to everyone's benefit if you move her to her own bed. So, those are just some ideas I have. I hope you figure something out soon, I truly know how hard it is to be getting such terrible sleep.
Don't have much advice, but I agree with PPs who said to let her CIO. It sounds like she is relying on you and dh to put her sleep every time she goes to bed and wakes up in the night. We had to let dd CIO around 6 months old because she couldn't put herself back to sleep. Now, she sleeps like a champ and never wakes up in the night (but if she EVER does on a very rare occasion, she puts herself back down). It might seem harsh at first, but you're actually helping her! She needs rest and so does Mama! GL
Oh, and fwiw, we did straight CIO, not any modified version. Once we did our bedtime routine in her room with her, we kisses her, said night night, and then closed the door. It only took a few nights for her to realize that we weren't going to come back in, so she might as well lay down and sleep. GL!
Ok first thing first. How long has your daughter been on prednisone? Now that you are weaning how long will it take for her to be off of it? Have any of her Doctors bother to tell you that prednisone will make her wired for sound?
I can tell you from experience that while on prednisone I could not sleep, I had so much energy I painted the entire kitchen, cabinets included in 2 days by myself. I also still made supper, clean the rest of the house and did some shopping.
So until she is off the prednisone please do not do any type of sleep training, and don't be so hard on yourself. If you can hang on just a bit longer get the Prednisone out of her system then go ahead and pick a type of sleep training. You may even get lucky and she figures it out on her own (at least we can pray she does).