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Still in survival mode?

sarag0116sarag0116 member
in May 2014 Moms
I'm wondering why after 4.5 months, I still feel like I'm in survival mode with a newborn. DS can have decent nights and then flat out awful ones. I could have sworn we went through the 4 month wakeful already but the last 2 nights have been bad. He did have his 4 month shots Friday so maybe that is to blame? He ended up in his bouncer in our room from about 3 am to 6 am after holding him from 130 to 3. Ugh! Commiserate?
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Re: Still in survival mode?

  • waldothewiener1waldothewiener1 member
    I definitely still do whatever it takes to make DS happy, I'm not concerned yet about sleep training or creating bad habits. If he wants to sleep being worn or held or nurse to sleep so be it. For a couple months he was STTN not waking me up at all and for the past 2 or 3 weeks he's been waking up around 2-3am, which is fine, I know I'm very lucky. But we do what we gotta do for sleeps and no cries!
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  • hbird0723hbird0723 member
    I'm in the same boat! I think it's worse then when she was a newborn because I expected that but then I got used to the 6 hour stretches and now she's waking every 2 maybe 3 hours and last night every hour hour and a half. It's taking me forever to get her to sleep and then she'll be up in 5 or 10 minutes. Ugh! Ready for whatever this is to go away!
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    Hbird05 said:

    I'm in the same boat! I think it's worse then when she was a newborn because I expected that but then I got used to the 6 hour stretches and now she's waking every 2 maybe 3 hours and last night every hour hour and a half. It's taking me forever to get her to sleep and then she'll be up in 5 or 10 minutes. Ugh! Ready for whatever this is to go away!

    This!!! I think it feels harder now too after getting the tease of a few weeks of good sleeping.
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  • spinsoffresonancespinsoffresonance member
    Yeah 2U2 is constant survival mode. Some days I feel like I got this, and overall we have a pretty good daily "schedule" but a lot of our routines never evolved passed survival mode. I still let DD2 nurse to sleep and sleep in my armpit at night and it's biting me in the butt as she has zero self soothing ability and needs to suck on my boob almost all night long. So while I know I need to fix things and get her into better habits and routines, I just don't have the time or energy for it during the day due to the toddler requiring so much attention. Poor DD2, sucks being the second child!
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  • lrmrtnlrmrtn member
    DS was STTN. Then we tried transitioning to the crib and swaddling with arms out. He started waking up once a night which I could deal with. Then he got a cold and was up every hour. Then 4 month sleep regression. All while DH had some unexpected medical issues essentially making me a single parent while working f/t. DS only woke up twice last night but that's because we caved and swaddled him and put him in his swing. Yes, we are back in survival mode...
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  • sarag0116sarag0116 member
    Yeah he's up every hour. Eventually I put him in the bouncer in our room. DD slept through the night by this age 12 hours so this sucks! Also working and caring for 2 kids means no naps and constant lack of sleep.
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