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BabyMakes 3 · March 2013

Hi ladies. Only 9 here but I'm starting early and praying for a better night tonight. Had a mommy breakdown last night with 3 hrs sleep and swore off having anymore children. Funny now, but not so much last night. Anyhoo, Benjamin is eating now and I'm praying for one MOTN wake up call tonight. Hope everyone has a good night!

Kristen050 · March 2013

Yes, I hope you have a much better night. I've pulled one of those all nighters and it seriously makes you question your sanity.

It's almost 12:30 here. I was hoping this was a start with 5 or 6 hour thing but instead I got 4. I'm hoping for a few at least hours more. Fingers crossed.

This and that · March 2013

I'm gl to hear you're feeling better and hope you have s better night tonight.

11:35 here and he gave me a 4 hour stretch. I already unswaddled Jim cause I couldn't get hin back to sleep so I put him in the swing. Now he's eating. I wish he was still swaddled so I could try the crib again, but I'm prob just gonna put him in the swing so I can get rest and sleep off this mastitis.

CurlyQ284 · March 2013

Its just before 2 here, LO STTN last night but not tonight I guess. Its snowing but not sticking to the patio and no updates on the daycares website about closing yet. Not sure if I want a snow day or not but it'll be cool for LO to see snow for the first time. Also our bulldog LOVES snow so I'm looking forward to playing with her in the morning, she will freak.

jLeigh0709 · March 2013

2:00 here. M slept for 6 hours. I'm trying to wean him off his one feeding but he's very insistent lol. He's over 17 lbs now so I don't think he really needs it, but he always latches on ferociously and stays awake to have a full feeding.

So I read today that we should be trying to put LO to bed 10 minutes earlier everyday this week to help them adjust to daylight savings this weekend. I have a feeling that's going to throw off our schedule. Oh well, keeps life interesting!

ZoeMay06 · March 2013

I'm here too, it's 12:30 and Kalista has been asleep since 8 but I'm just going to bed. Hopefully she'll let me have at least a couple of hours of sleep before she wakes up to nurse.

Gargita · March 2013

BabyMakes 3, I hope you have a seriously better night tonight.

TnT, I'm sorry to hear about your mastitis situation. I hope it resolves quickly!

2:40 here. H's sleeping has been all over the board for the past few days. I'm pretty sure I just fed him but didn't really need to. He was a little too Don Juan and not enough Shark Week, if that makes sense. Hoping to get more than 3 or 4 hours of sleep tonight, so I'm going to shut up and go back to bed.

Sweet dreams, y'all.

Gargita · March 2013

jLeigh0709:
2:00 here. M slept for 6 hours. I'm trying to wean him off his one feeding but he's very insistent lol. He's over 17 lbs now so I don't think he really needs it, but he always latches on ferociously and stays awake to have a full feeding.

So I read today that we should be trying to put LO to bed 10 minutes earlier everyday this week to help them adjust to daylight savings this weekend. I have a feeling that's going to throw off our schedule. Oh well, keeps life interesting!

Hey, I was thinking about the whole daylight savings thing earlier this week. Good tip! We'll see if it works.

BabyMakes 3 · March 2013

Benjamin was up at 12:30. So we got 3 hours. This is just so abnormal! We were getting a MINIMUM of 5... Anyways, I tried not feeding him for about a half hour but it wasn't going to fly. So we are nursing now. How do you all feel about night feedings? Too young to try to CIO? They are hungry and know they are, so feed them? If they've STTN before, they should be doing that every night? I'm curious because there are so many opinions, books, methods, etc and it can be so overwhelming. I'm curious what everyone here thinks since all our LO are roughly the same age.
Hope everyone is doing good. I expect to check back in in a few hours but maybe he'll surprise me!

Kristen050 · March 2013

BabyMakes 3:
Benjamin was up at 12:30. So we got 3 hours. This is just so abnormal! We were getting a MINIMUM of 5... Anyways, I tried not feeding him for about a half hour but it wasn't going to fly. So we are nursing now. How do you all feel about night feedings? Too young to try to CIO? They are hungry and know they are, so feed them? If they've STTN before, they should be doing that every night? I'm curious because there are so many opinions, books, methods, etc and it can be so overwhelming. I'm curious what everyone here thinks since all our LO are roughly the same age.
Hope everyone is doing good. I expect to check back in in a few hours but maybe he'll surprise me!

I am in the exact same boat and was going to ask the same thing. The hard part is after the first "long" stretch he's up every 1.5 to 2 hours and that I can't handle. I don't think he's truly hungry at those times. The first time tonight that he did it I had DH go in and soothe him. He rocked him with the paci. It took a little but he then slept another 1.5 hours. The second time he got up after less than 1.5 hours and DH tried but no luck so now I'm feeding him. He is barely sucking do I think it's a comfort thing.

I really hate to CIO this young but I'm not going to lie it may get to that point. We did it at less than 3 months with DS1 for bedtime and it worked after 2 nights. It's hard because DS2s crying wakes DS1. I may try to hold out a few more weeks and see if it gets better on its own and if not then he will be at least 4 months. Good luck to you, I hope they just grow out of it own their own soon!

Gargita · March 2013

BabyMakes 3:
Benjamin was up at 12:30. So we got 3 hours. This is just so abnormal! We were getting a MINIMUM of 5... Anyways, I tried not feeding him for about a half hour but it wasn't going to fly. So we are nursing now. How do you all feel about night feedings? Too young to try to CIO? They are hungry and know they are, so feed them? If they've STTN before, they should be doing that every night? I'm curious because there are so many opinions, books, methods, etc and it can be so overwhelming. I'm curious what everyone here thinks since all our LO are roughly the same age.
Hope everyone is doing good. I expect to check back in in a few hours but maybe he'll surprise me!

My plan is to not use CIO. I think if he's hungry, he should eat. If he needs to be soothed, I want to soothe him. I know there's a lot of talk about bad sleep habits, but everyone is different. I mean, as adults, we don't all have the same sleep needs or tendencies. I'm not a very good sleeper, and I don't need as much sleep to function as, say, DH. According to my parents, I was the same way as a baby. It might just be how we're wired.

So that was really rambling. I guess my point is, I'm not worried that cuddling and feeding him at night is going to create a situation where he's 12 years old and still needs my boob in his mouth in the MOTN. I'm sure others will disagree with me, but that's what makes life interesting.

And if one more person at work tells me I should let him cry, I might not be responsible for my actions!

jLeigh0709 · March 2013

Gargita:
BabyMakes 3:
Benjamin was up at 12:30. So we got 3 hours. This is just so abnormal! We were getting a MINIMUM of 5... Anyways, I tried not feeding him for about a half hour but it wasn't going to fly. So we are nursing now. How do you all feel about night feedings? Too young to try to CIO? They are hungry and know they are, so feed them? If they've STTN before, they should be doing that every night? I'm curious because there are so many opinions, books, methods, etc and it can be so overwhelming. I'm curious what everyone here thinks since all our LO are roughly the same age.
Hope everyone is doing good. I expect to check back in in a few hours but maybe he'll surprise me!

My plan is to not use CIO. I think if he's hungry, he should eat. If he needs to be soothed, I want to soothe him. I know there's a lot of talk about bad sleep habits, but everyone is different. I mean, as adults, we don't all have the same sleep needs or tendencies. I'm not a very good sleeper, and I don't need as much sleep to function as, say, DH. According to my parents, I was the same way as a baby. It might just be how we're wired.

So that was really rambling. I guess my point is, I'm not worried that cuddling and feeding him at night is going to create a situation where he's 12 years old and still needs my boob in his mouth in the MOTN. I'm sure others will disagree with me, but that's what makes life interesting.

And if one more person at work tells me I should let him cry, I might not be responsible for my actions!

All I've been trying is giving M his paci when he wakes up. If he's hungry he usually spits it out and wakes up in 5 minutes. If he's not he usually goes back to sleep. I keep reading different opinions too. M is pretty chunky and is at least 17 lbs at 16 weeks. I've read that babies over 14 lbs don't need a night feeding. He seems hungry when I do feed him but then I worry about over feeding? I'm not a big fan of CIO either so ill probably just keep doing the paci trick or feeding if he doesn't want that.

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