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Losing my mind

crystalraincrystalrain
in July 2012 Moms
I need to vent about LO's lack of sleep and MY lack of sleep. Last night she woke up literally every.freaking.hour. Sometimes even after 45 minutes!! This has happened twice now, last night and last week. Other nights she might sleep for 3 hours and wake up every two. She has always been a horrible sleeper at night. She's only done one 6 hour stretch and that was a month ago. Since then we're lucky to have a three or four hour stretch. She naps during the day, for 30 mins to an hour at most.

How much longer can I do this! My DH is in medical school and studying for the boards. So he's sleeping in another room since he has to study the entire day and has to be alert. Therefore I'm in charge of LO night and day. I feel like there's no relief in sight because even after his test, which is in 3 more weeks, then he'll be flying for residency interviews and will be gone all the time. Yesterday he told me that I'm not myself and he hates seeing me so exhausted.. No kidding!!!!! I'm losing it, I hate talking about LO's sleep issues with mom or motherinlaw who say "she's still so little" or "maybe she was hungry, cold, etc" and it's none of those things!!!! She's just awake!

As far as how she's sleeping... she's in her crib in our room which has has been for awhile so it's not because its a new thing. She sleeps swaddled ad unswaddled, I've done both and it makes no difference. White noise has never helped. I check her to see if she's hot or cold and she's not. She sleeps in cotton pjs and a large blanket that I swaddle her in or swaddle to her underarms. When she wakes up I see if its time to feed her, I BF. If it is she goes right back to sleep. If not then I gave her the paci and then she will go back to sleep. So she is not up for very long, five to ten minutes at most, but WHY is she up constantly!!!! It is not hunger anymore and I'm out of ideas. I hate who I am during the day. A zombie.

Thanks for reading this far.
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  • danieliza1127danieliza1127 member

    Are you having to soothe her back to sleep or does she go back to sleep on her own?  Have you tried just waiting and seeing if she goes back to sleep on her own?  Maybe she needs a hand free to suck on to soothe, or a pacifier, have you tried either of those?

    I'm wondering how awake she is and if she can soothe herself because if she was waking up and soothing herself back to sleep in another room you would never even know it was happening.  If that's the case, is moving her to her own room an option?

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  • traveltheworldtraveltheworld member

    Like a PP said, have you tried waiting and see if she could put herself back to sleep?  DS has never been a good sleeper either, but it became pretty bad after his 12 week growth spur.  He was up every hour!  I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I was so exhausted that I ended up letting him CIO.  I told myself that unless it has been at least 3 hours since he last ate, I wouldn't go get him unless he cries for longer than 10 minutes; and I'd say out of the 4 or 5 nights I did this, I only had to go get him a few times.  After a few nights of this, he no longer woke up every hour.  He still only sleeps about 3 - 4.5 hours at a time, but at least it's not every hour.

    I should add that I EBF and DS is 14 lbs.  He eats every 3 - 3.5 hours during the day; so I know that when he woke up crying every hour at night it was not because he was hungry.

    That said, I'm still pretty exhausted, so I can only imagine how you feel. 

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