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February 2012 Moms
lancyjo
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*Jen0204* (and others that are working on night wakings)
lancyjo
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Maybe I should have called this "Night Waking Check-In"?
How'd it go this weekend?
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Re: *Jen0204* (and others that are working on night wakings)
Maybe this is a fluke, but this is going better than expected!
Saturday night, Aria was asleep in her crib by 8:30. She woke up at 11, and nothing but a bottle would settle her. I gave her a couple of ounces of formula (1 scoop of powder made with 3 ounces of water) and put her back in her crib. She was awake, and not very happy that I didn't let her keep liesurely eating like she wanted to. She fussed around for about 5 minutes, and then slept until 8:15.
Last night, she went down about 9. (she had taken a late nap, so we let her stay up an extra half hour... this happens sometimes) She slept until 2:45, and woke up SCREAMING. It wasn't her usual "I might go back to sleep if you let me be for a minute" fuss, so I went right in. I could hear her stomach growling! So I let her eat a regular bottle... she sucked down 6 ounces in less than 10 minutes. (which means she was starving!) She slept until I had to get her up and take her to my Mom's, which is 7:30.
I have noticed that, for now, MOTN CIO isn't working for us. Honestly, if we get back to one consistent MOTN waking, I won't be too upset. I'll still try for sleeping straight through, but getting to snuggle Aria once a night (when she never snuggles any other time) is pretty nice.
How'd it go for everyone else?
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It actually went fairly well! Friday night they were up at 2:30. Natalia wouldn't drink water or diluted formula, so she just had 2 ounces of formula and went to bed. H fed Olivia the 3 ounces of diluted formula and she went to bed. Saturday night they were up at 3:30 and Natalia still wouldn't drink formula but had 3 ounces of diluted formula (I put in 3 ounces of water and one scoop) and Olivia had 2 ounces of water. Sunday night they each drank the same as the night before, but got up at 4:30. So each night they slept an extra hour. Upon waking up I've been giving them water in a sippy cup and some Cheerios to tide them over until their normal breakfast routine, which seems to be working fine. I don't want to give them a bottle of formula upon waking up because I feel like that would screw with their whole daily schedule.
They did get up around 12:30 I think last night. I heard them both crying but H was still up. I went out to check on them and he was getting ready for bed and I went into their room because one of them was still crying. They both started screaming as soon as they saw me. H was PISSED. He said that I made it worse (which I did) and that the doctor suggested trying some CIO for their extra wakings and I need to do that. I left the room with them crying and within 3 minutes they were out. They were crying a little after he put them down at 4:30 and I got up to use the bathroom and he said "you better not go in there!" and by the time I was out of the bathroom they were already asleep again. I know he's right because even if I go in and rock them to sleep the second I lay them down their eyes pop open and they're crying again, so I do need to let them figure it out on their own because they do worse when I interfere. But I hate hearing them cry!
So it hasn't been easy with Natalia since she won't drink water, but it's gone pretty well. Bottle time keeps getting pushed back, and while they are waking up on occasion at other points they never cry more then 3 minutes before they're out again and aren't keeping each other up. Their normal wake-up time for the day is between 6-6:30. If they get up tonight around 5:30 - keeping up the pattern of pushing back an hour - would you give them water, put in a pacifier and see if they cry for a few minutes and pass back out, or just get them up for the day?
How did it go for you?
This is a tough one. Do you have to deal with DST? If so, that means that after this coming Sunday, that 5:30 wake-up time will be 4:30... so I would try this: let them cry for a few minutes and see if they conk back out. If not, I'd give them some diluted formula/water and let them go back to sleep that way. Maybe this will even end up in the girls not getting up until 7:30 normally? (and who doesn't need an extra hour of sleep?!)
I just realized that I have completely terrible timing with this... trying to fix the night wakeups when we'll be changing time altogether on Sunday. Gah! At least we're used to sleepless nights, eh?
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Crap, I forgot about DST. And of course H leaves to go to visit a friend in San Francisco next Tuesday so not only will I be alone with the girls for 5 days, but it will be right after DST. He better come back well rested because I'm locking myself in our room and passing out when he gets home.
I would love, love, love for them to sleep later. We have to leave for daycare around 7:15, so ideally I would get them up at 7, get them dressed, and head out. Right now they're up around 6 or so and my entire routine for getting myself ready is done with one or two babies attached to my leg and crying to be picked up (or they're in the play yard crying that they're not with me). It's not a fun way to start the day. I would love if they would stay up until 8:30ish so that we could get extra time with them, but pushing bed time back an hour doesn't make them sleep any later, so they just get an hour less sleep and I feel like that would be really selfish of me to do.
Hm... I might have to try this. I'm worried that would be screaming because she was hungry, but if she was really starving (belly growling, like it was this morning) then she'd just not stop, you think? It's worth a shot!
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This weekend actually went really well! Audra is no longer eating over night, not even water. She's normally asleep between 7:45PM-8:30PM. She has her big wake up at 3AM where she needs to be helped to go back to sleep. Apparently she loves waking up at this time. All 3 nights she was asleep within 1/2 hour. I belive on Fri/Sat she was rocked but last night all I did was put her back on her belly with her paci and pat her butt and it worked. I was so surprised that I didn't have to pick her up! For the other times she woke up she would fuss and I would watch her on the monitor. She was still on her belly so she wasn't completely awake. I'd get ready to go in her room and she'd fall back to sleep. I am so proud of her! I'm wondering if it has anything to do with her all of a sudden eating a whole 6oz Stage 3 jar for dinner now plus getting formula before bed. I hope this trend keeps up!
It's been about a week now since she hasn't come in to our room overnight. It was a bad habit that I started to nurse and sleep at the same time. She did wake up again today at 5AM but I told DH to just bring her in our bed since I get up at 6AM. It wouldn't be worth it to work on getting her to sleep for 1/2 hour just to sleep for the same amount of time. She snuggled right in to me and slept until 5:55AM. Close enough for me!
Um, yeah... color me jealous.
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It's kind of crazy how we stress and worry and do research about things like this, then go and do it and it turns out to be no big deal. We haven't been as successful as Bella but never in a million years would I have thought that they would just not need a full bottle at night this quickly. I expected them to be up a ton and screaming for more.
I know what you mean. I just last week went from nursing Audra overnight to trying the bottle so I thought it was going to be a huge castastrophe!