Pregnant and have a 14 month DS that wont sleep.. HELP

Re: Pregnant and have a 14 month DS that wont sleep.. HELP

• nopegoat member

  April 2014

  Absolutely!  

  Wife. Boy mom x6. Expecting #7. Wannabe homesteader.
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• allonsyalonso member

  April 2014

  Okay, so we didn't do CIO and we didn't really do any kind of formal sleep training, but DS has been STTN more or less since he was 6 weeks old. I think the term is 'watching.' When he'd wake up when he was a fresh baby, we'd watch him for a couple minutes - 5 tops - to see what he did. If he NEEDED something like to be fed or a new diaper, we learned that the type of crying was different compared to when he was crying due to a broken sleep cycle. As adults we still have sleep cycle breaks but we've learned how to connect them where newborns haven't learned that yet. If you disrupt them trying to sort that out, then they don't learn how to connect their cycles. Once we got the okay from the pediatrician we stopped with MOTN feedings as well.

  
  

  Now he's 12 months and we put him down for naps and bedtime awake. He fights it for 5-10 minutes and then soothes himself to sleep. Occasionally he wakes up in the MOTN, and we still use the 5 minute rule. If he cries for more than 5 minutes something isn't right, but usually he's asleep again in 4.

  
  

  I don't really subscribe to CIO, but I also don't think that at 14 months old you need to come running every time he cries.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• iloveac member

  April 2014

  I just want to say good luck! My 8 month old has STTN for the past 3 nights. I pray it sticks! Eventually your LO will. I hope for your sake it's sooner than later because I know how tired you are.

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• terimay1995 member

  April 2014

  My son is the same age , and I am 7 weeks pregnant . I was having this problem also and I too love in an apartment . I bought a you projector that looks like an elephant from walmart the projects different color lights and plays music I also bought him a vibrating pad that goes under his crib mattress , he sleeps like a log 10+ hours a night

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• Adoreb member

  April 2014

  terimay1995 said:

  My son is the same age , and I am 7 weeks pregnant . I was having this problem also and I too love in an apartment . I bought a you projector that looks like an elephant from walmart the projects different color lights and plays music I also bought him a vibrating pad that goes under his crib mattress , he sleeps like a log 10+ hours a night

  vibrating pad that goes under the mattress?? Tell me more! Where did you buy that from? DS would love that!
  

  

   

   

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