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Sleep issues
My boys are 7 months, 5 months adjusted. They are not STTN. They get up a few times a night needing pacifiers (which is ok) and at least once around 3 or 4 am to eat a small bottle. Then they are up again at 5 or 6 for a full size bottle. Then usually asleep for another hour or two. As the parent, you're pretty much up with one or the other from 4 am till bedtime.
DD was a champ sleeper and was STTN way earlier, we used to joke we'd have twins who didn't sleep as payback for her.
Naps arent' much better. They will not overlap for more then 15 minutes. We put them in seperate rooms for nap time so they don't wake each other crying. I've tried CIO but I hit my limit and they didn't hit theirs. We do stick to a schedule but I can't find out the right time for naps for them. I need to run errands in the morning and basically if they fall asleep while we're out they won't go down for a nap till late. And then it takes forever for them to fall asleep.
Why does it seem like everyone else's kids are sleeping and mine aren't?!?
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Re: Sleep issues
Ugh, I'm sorry. It's rough when that type of schedule havoc is going on. My guys didn't really STTN until they were 11ish months old. I thought I was going to go insane!
*hugs* Just keep trying to keep them on the same schedule as much as you can. I would also wager that they're actual physical, adjusted age has a lot to do with it as well. Once you add in the fact that I'd bet money they really do need to eat at night and you have a recipe for craptastic sleeping. Hang in there, it will get better!
My girls are getting into a good sleep and nap groove, although sometimes still they sleep on completely different schedules during the day. We got the nighttime sleep pretty much down after a very rough few months.
Nighttime: What helped us was a routine, at the same time every day we do bath - feeding - book, and way earlier than I thought (we start at around 5 PM). The girls sometimes protest, but only for 20 minutes tops. We go in and soothe them every few minutes, no holding though. Occasionally they wake up during the night, and I evaluate whether it's a "want" or a "need" based on the cry. They wake up at 5-6 AM, within a half an hour of each other.
During the day, I lay them down every two hours or so. One thing that helped us was to save errands for late in the day. That way they get more sleep, since they sleep better in the morning than in the afternoon, and when they're cranky later in the day they like going out and being stimulated. So for some reason they get better naps and feel better when it comes closer to bedtime.
Hope it works for you!
We already do the bedtime routine, it helps them go to sleep but they won't stay asleep past 3 am.
I need to try the errands in the afternoon, I think they might do better with an early nap in the daytime.