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October 2013 Moms
Sleep Sticky - Post here regarding Anything sleep related!!!
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Re: Sleep Sticky - Post here regarding Anything sleep related!!!
Dd was a decent sleeper up until about a month ago. She would get up once maybe twice during motn, now we are up every 2-3 hours. At first I blamed it on teething and a cold but I'm starting to wonder of this is our new normal and I need to pick a method to research and try.
May Siggy: Baby in disguise
Yay!
I haven't even tried cutting back on a few feeding yet ... I am still dreading this .
Thank you.
A few factors:
Here is what her day looks like
6.20A - Eat
6:45A - Leave for Day care
During Day Care she has 3 SHORT naps through out the day and gets 3 - 5OZ bottles of formula, she also gets solids twice during her time there.
5:50P - Pick up from day care, sometimes she takes a nap during the 25 minute drive
7:00P - 2OZ of solids while we eat dinner
7:45P - Bath
8/830P - Story and bottle as she winds down for sleep
8:30/9 - places in crib awake, Pat - shh routine as she drifts off...we leave er slightly awake, she fusses for about 10 minutes then eventually falls asleep.
11P - Fusses for about 10/15 we let her sooth herself back to sleep
1230/1A - Fusses we go in pat her and it sames she gets even more upset
230/3A - Fusses we go in and offer a bottle, takes the bottle but still upset, cries for about 20 minutes before drifting off
6:00 - Awake and want to play
This morning we were so frustrated that my husband brought her in the bed. But she still cries, I think its because of us removing that breastfeed from her. I even slept in another room
so she did not smell me and she still screamed. I am sure this will end at some point but I just want to know how long this will go on for. My husband and I both have to get up pearly for work and this is really wearing on us.
THANKS
BFP #1: Mother's Day 5/13/12...m/c Memorial Day Weekend 5/26/12
BFP #2: 2/16/13...Owen Ray born 6 weeks early 9/9/13
BFP #1: Mother's Day 5/13/12...m/c Memorial Day Weekend 5/26/12
BFP #2: 2/16/13...Owen Ray born 6 weeks early 9/9/13
LO then (2 days) and now (1 year)
Anyone else going thru the same? Any tips that doesn't involve CIO.
So here are some changes I've started for the past two nights:
So Monday night was OK . Last night was BAD.....however we put her down at 730 and she did not wake until 130. BUT we could not get her back down,
We fed her, changed her diaper because she was really wet, she did same really congested so we suctioned her. Up until 2:15 my hubby stayed with her until he thought she was down , but at 245 she was back at it again, she seemed like she was just awake cooing and playing so we let her be. But then at 315 she started to scream I went in and she was really warm so I gave her some Tylenol and brought her into our bed, and she still fussed for a good 15/20 minutes before going down. I had to wake her at 635 for daycare.
Maybe she's teething, I don't know :-(
BOOM. Back to square one. He woke up multiple times last night and this morning and is now refusing to nap in his crib. We are on our second nap attempt and he's in there just fussing and yelling at me.
He's not sick, nothing else has changed, I don't get it. It's almost like he realized that we had tricked him into being a great little sleeper and he's not having it!
Anyone else experience a total regression like this so soon? How did it turn out? Tips?
Ah, babies...slippery little buggers.
We will just keep on keeping on and hope he gets back with the program.
ok, I need some advice from experienced sleep trainers. We are starting Ferber next week. It is time. For awhile I thought they were getting better on their own and so we put it off, but now we're back to up every 60-90 minutes again. Shoot me in the head. Part of the problem is the pacis. They wake up without it and cry until it is replaced and then go back to sleep. They are perfectly capable of replacing their own pacis at this point, but I think they can't find them and also we are still swaddling, so they usually only have 1 arm free. Which is the other problem.
We use the Halo sleep sacks and they are just too big for them now. They are too long - their legs are so cramped in there and they flail their legs around wildly. We've been leaving one arm out for about a month now which they will tolerate. They just don't seem comfortable in them anymore. I was hoping to transition completely out of the swaddles but it is a disaster every time I try. I've tried cold turkey, I've tried leaving both arms out, I've tried unzipping the bottom so their legs have more room, but they were little messes all night each time. They really don't seem to like them, they fuss when we put them in the swaddles, but they can't seem to sleep without them now. The pedi told us to drop both the paci and the swaddle cold turkey when we sleep train but it seems a little harsh. I guess the pacis need to go. I wish there was a way I could get them to find and replace it by themselves.
What do you think - drop all the sleep crutches at once or should I get them sleeping better in the swaddles and then try to transition out of them slowly?
OK - tonight is the night. We are starting Ferber. I;'ve been ready for a couple weeks but DH wasn't ready yet and I really need his support for it. DH is finally on board with it. He got so frustrated last night with Lizzy, I came in and he was just sitting on the nursery floor with his head in his hands and Lizzy was screaming in the crib. (This is what I feel like most nights) So, he said he's ready, we're starting tonight. We'll keep the swaddles for now, leaving one arm out like we have been doing but I am not replacing any pacis tonight. We'll also keep the cribs in separate rooms for now, as they have been for the past month or so. DH and I will sleep in the spare bedroom until they are sleeping better. Then, hopefully we can move Haley's crib back into the nursery with Lizzy (its currently in our bedroom), and then try gradually getting rid of the swaddle somehow. I'm afraid that with each step (moving the crib and then the swaddle) we'll have to go through the crying all over again but it just seems like too much to do it all at once.
Wish me luck guise, I'm scrrrd.
Thanks @wedding06, @edaire, and @cdhaslag! I'm already getting nervous about tonight but I think it will be for the best. I know we will all be much happier if we could all just sleep a little better. I'm aiming for 1 waking/ feeding per night for now and then I'll try to phase that last bottle out later.
I've got a box of earplugs, a sound machine and my husband borrowed some noise cancelling headphones in case I start getting stressed out with all the crying. We've got a video monitor in one room that I can use without the sound and the other room has an audio monitor that I can turn off the sound and just use the lights. Also, if I need to, I am going to take tomorrow off from work or at least go in late. The nanny will be there to look after the girls. I think I will probably need a package of oreos too, right? And maybe some wine? Do oreos go with wine?