sleep update

orangegoggles · June 2013

I thought I'd give you an update on my DS's sleep. We were dealing with hour wakeups all night long for no apparent reason (teething, reflux, hunger, gas, etc) It seemed like he just couldn't get past each sleep cycle without our help.

I realized we needed to work on having him fall asleep on his own in the crib. I tried a modified Ferber approach and admittedly don't do it exactly how its done but its been working. The first two nights were bad...lots of crying and I even gave up the first night. However, the very first night he slept from 7:30-3:00 am and then ate and went back to sleep until 7. Thats when I knew we were on to something!

At this point, it is hit or miss if he cries or not. Some nights he will just roll around and go right to sleep. Other times I might need to go in there after 3 minutes or so but he's usually down within 15 minutes.

Most recently he's been sleeping great with one wakeup, usually around 2-3. Once in a while he will have two wake ups but this is a huge improvement! We go about 7-7:30. so its been great.

Naps are a little trickier so thats what we've been working on. The morning nap is usually no problem and he goes to sleep on his own and has been sleeping about 75 minutes. Afternoon naps is where he puts up a fight and has trouble falling asleep so we are working on that.

I just wanted to share our progress to all the exhausted moms dealing with 7 plus wakeups a night and half hour naps. For now, this seems to be working for us, though I thought we would never get here.

ProfessorPedals825 · June 2013

I'm glad to hear things are getting better! Keep up the good work Momma!

melly918 · June 2013

That is progress! DD had erratic sleep patterns until she finally rolled over a week ago. Since then, she STTN perfectly every night and naps well during the day.