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August 2011 Moms
Sleep Help
DD has been a horrible sleeper since day 1, this includes naps and bedtime. As I fix one issue another one gets worse.
The issue I am trying to fix now is that she wakes up between 1:30 -2:30 and cannot fall back asleep. I don't know how to teach her to fall back to sleep. DH is no help and never has been in the sleep department, his suggestion is to let her get out of bed and re-start her nighttime routine. I think she needs to stay in bed and learn to fall back to sleep.
I am beyond exhausted from being up for hours in the middle of the night. If I leave her in the crib she just screams till she throws up and/or holds her breath till I have to go in and get her to breathe or clean up throw up.
I have no idea how to fix this, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Sleep Help
How is she with the bedtime routine? Does she know bed time is approaching?
Does she just want to be awake at that time of night or do you think she needs something?
Maybe making her dinner later or make sure she has a snack before bed?
We just started Day 2 of Jayson's Great School of Sleep!!
Worked with DS1 who has been STTN in his own bed since 19 months. It's not impressive, I know, but we dealt with a lot of the same issues as you.
Otis is now entering into this phase. He's having a lot of issues falling to sleep on his own, and falling back to sleep once he wakes in the MOTN.
We have a very comfortable air mattress, and Jay begins by sleeping with the boy on the air mattress with him. This bed-sharing happens for any number of days or weeks depending on how severe the problem is.
Next, he transitions the boy from the shared bed into his big boy bed with the air mattress butted up to the big boy bed like a large family bed. If the boy wakes in the MOTN, Jay puts boy back to bed in the big boy bed. This goes on until boy successfully STTN in his bed all by himself.
As soon as the boy is STTN by himself, Jay starts the night in the room but leaves once boy is asleep.
If boy wakes, you go back in and lay in your separate beds until asleep. Leave again. Repeat as necessary, but at this time it shouldn't happen often unless sick or nightmares occur.
This whole process took us about 6 weeks. We didn't have to re-train when O came, we haven't had ANY nights where he's been up for prolonged periods since we did this. He occasionally ends up in our bed, but it's typically at 5 am and Jay's getting ready for work and I don't care at that point.
It's a LOT of work and it's tiring and it takes a TON of patience. But, if you think about it, 6-8 weeks in the grand scheme of things is nothing if you reach success.
This is just what worked for us. Jay wanted nothing to do with CIO because he said, "It doesn't feel right in my heart." I wasn't going to force him to do something that he was uncomfortable with, so this is the compromise we came up with.
I know it sounds weird with all the "boy" in there, but I'm sure you get the point.
Good luck... sleeplessness sucks!!
We have a pretty good sleep routine that we have been using since she was a newborn. She is my drama mama, she goes right to throwing up - By the time I hear her getting up till I get in her room she is gagging - I swear its a record.
She knows bedtime, with it being nice out and getting darker later I did push back her routine bc her room wasn't getting dark enough even with blackout shades.
When she wakes up sometimes she just wants to play, sometimes she wants me to hold her, and other times she wants to listen to lala (vacuum cleaner) if i let her listen to lala she cries when I have to turn it off, I tried a youtube video of vacuum cleaner noises and she cries bc its not her lala. If I do hold her and she falls asleep the second I put her down she wakes up crying.
I thought teeth, so I have tried advil, I thought being hungry so I started giving her cereal before bed, I have tried changing her diaper when she wakes up in case that was it. I don't think she is hot or cold, bc when she is hot she will undress herself.
Thanks for the support and ideas, and yes no sleep sucks!
We have also been having issues with DD's sleep in general. Specifically, she is also waking up in the night for 1-2 hours at a time. It's awful. I'm so tired.
How much sleep does she get during the day? I am working to shorten DD's afternoon nap. She was regularly napping for 3 straight hours every afternoon....but I think she was getting too much sleep? So I've been waking her up between the 2 and 2.5 hour mark. That is, on days that I can get her to take a nap. It sucks, she's a bear to wake up, but it has helped (somewhat) with improving chances that she'll sleep at night.