Sleep?

happy_un-bride · March 2014

Just curious, are anyone's LO still up in the middle of the night?

Ds goes down at 8pm and has been waking at like 3 and 5-6 am. It's trying on me, but even worse is my dhs reaction. If ds is up after 6am I give him to dh since I have to leave for work. Dh whines because this wakes him up an hour early (I don't feel sorry for him at all). He made a sarcastic comment that it's only our baby that won't go back to sleep and then blamed me for how I've handled all the past times I've been up with ds in the night (dh has never gotten up in the night with ds) and that I've caused the problem.

My husband is a jerk when he's half asleep, but before I get into with him later, I would live to hear about how your lo sleeps and what u do to get them back to bed.

colinsfebmommy · March 2014

Mine only wakes when he has teeth coming in as they are breaking through. Which right now he has 6.....wtf.... It sucks lol

Puck1182 · March 2014

Mine does if she's teething. @MonicaMerkel - we are right there with you, except it's 8 teeth! We still occasionally get a nice, 8-9.5 hour stretch of sleep, but lately DD has been waking for 1-2 hours in the middle of the night screaming her head off because her gums are bothering her.

Last night was a battle of wills, because after I picked her up, she calmed down a little bit, then pinched my nipple HARD, so I removed her hand, which resulted in a 40-minute-long temper tantrum. I wasn't about to nurse her as a reward for her tantrum, so I just held her until she calmed down enough to ask to nurse nicely instead of screaming in my face. It sucked, because I felt bad for her, but I am absolutely not going to set a precedent of getting what she wants by throwing tantrums, even if she's teething. It might have been different if she wasn't capable of verbally asking for what she wants, but "nurse" ("nur") is in her vocabulary, and my rule is that if she knows how to say it, she has to use her words to get it. Even if she's teething. Even if it's the middle of the night. :-P

DublinMama · March 2014

Mine wakes up once a night about once a week. We give him a four oz. bottle and he goes right back to bed with no issue. I have zero idea what we are going to do once we totally kick bottles, though,because I do think that's main reason he goes back easily. He only gets them for naps and bedtime, and takes a sippy without issue during the day. We just have such a great bedtime thing going that I'm so reticent to mess with any part of it.

SidraJedi · March 2014

DD nurses all night but she "STTN" (since She can root and I can nurse her without waking up) unless she is teething or working on a big new skill.

She's had a language explosion and is working on tooth number 9 for a while. Over the past month or two she'll have a cluster of a few nights of wake ups and then go back to normal.

When she wakes up I just let her go play while I lay in bed awake and wait for her to come back and nurse to sleep. I'll ty to encourage her to come back and nurse back to sleep and sometimes it works. If I am really sleep deprived I wil persuade DH to lie in wake for her while she plays and help her to lie down and nurse when she is ready.

jesuisfatiguee · March 2014

DS wakes up or at least stirs to nurse multiple times a night. He has never slept longer than 4 consecutive hours.

Drea926 · March 2014

DS sleeps from 6:45/7 - 6:30ish. He sleeps through, but will cry out occasionally in the night. If he's teething, he might wake several times. He almost always settles himself though. If he cries in the MOTN, we have a 5 minute wait rule. We've only had to intervene a couple of times due to sickness.

He takes a binky though - and that's a huge part of him being able to self soothe. I'm scared to take it away!

kelly321 · March 2014

DD2 is usually up 1-2 x/ night. Did your DH really think that having a kid means you can regularly sleep in?

FWIW, I also have a rule that no one gets to get out of bed until 6am.

sjames2 · March 2014

DD still wakes 2-3 times a night. I let her nurse 1-2 times. The rest of the time she's just fussing and can put herself back to sleep. We also still rock her to sleep most of the time. I know bad habits but it's what works for us.

Linds619 · March 2014

DD wakes twice a night every night. She slept through the night (meaning she went to bed at 8:30 and woke a bit after 5am) only once in over her 13 months. My DS (3) still has sleep issues meaning we have to lay with him in order for him to fall asleep and he's up for the day at least by 5:30 a.m. I work full-time and this lack of sleep does affect me; however, I honestly don't remember what life was like when I was able to sleep all night. Someday my kids will sleep through the night, right?

happy_un-bride · March 2014

DH apologized yesterday, he did backhandedly blame me still, but more for nursing ds to sleep, since he doesn't self sooth well. Tho he had to google all day to figure that out, I knew it might be a problem eventually, but I like nursing him to sleep. So we took steps to change our bedtime routine, I nurse him earlier, and things already went well last night. He was only up nice and wanted to be bf. then I heard him wake once more and fix himself. He was still asleep when I left this morning, first time this week.

mediaperuana · March 2014

DS was STTN most nights before whatever is currently going on--teeth, presumably. earlier this week he was treating us to 2 hour cry fests in the middle of the night. last night he was all over the place: up at 11, up on and off between 1 and 2, and up at 5:30, refusing to go back to sleep.

as nice as it would be if babies started STTN and never looked back, i haven't talked to a single person that's happened to.

DS and i are on our own together 11 hours a day, plus i'm pg--if DH refused to get up with him in the night, i think i'd make him sleep in the crib with him. he's pretty good about it though, and has dealt with most of the night wakeups since DS stopped nursing.

jdilorenzo · March 2014

My daughter wakes 2-3 times a night normally. She sleeps with us so I can normally nurse her back to sleep.

tamarar5 · March 2014

I don't know what is going on, but E has gotten up in the middle of the night every night this week! ~X(

light52 · March 2014

DS3 still sleeps in our bed despite trying everything under the sun to get him in his crib. He wakes up all night long, screams, rolls over, latches on to me and goes back to sleep. I counted Sat and he did this 18 times, Monday he did it 11 times, I quit counting after that. I'm beyond exhausted as I haven't slept in over a year.

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