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Mama meltdown in progress

juniper75juniper75 member
in April 2014 Moms
LO and I spend a lot of time sleeping in her rocking chair. She is one of the crap sleepers with reflux etc... Last night while we were both asleep in the chair she rolled out of my arms. Luckily it woke me up and I managed to grab ahold of her sleep sack as she rolled off the nursing pillow. I can not get the image of her dangling by this fist full of fabric face first towards the floor.

I have been up for hours terrified she would fall again. I don't know what I am going to do at night now since 80% of what little sleep get was in that chair. I moved a bed into her room a few weeks ago and have tried bed sharing but it isn't working well so far.

Any suggestions on where to go from here? Is sleep training the only option we have left? I don't think she's ready but I don't know what else to do now that the only thing that worked isn't safe anymore....

Sorry for another sleep post - I am just so freaked out right now
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Re: Mama meltdown in progress

  • juniper75juniper75 member
    Thanks - she is in her crib but she wakes up every 1hr at first and then every 2hrs. The only thing that gets her back down is nursing and then with her reflux I keep her on an angle in my arms for half an hour after she eats - this is where we wind up falling asleep in the chair.... I guess I am just going to have to stop holding her after and hope the reflux doesn't bother her...
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  • juniper75juniper75 member
    I actually did use Ferber with my first when she was 10 months old. Worked great with very little crying. I am just feeling like it won't work so well with LO. She is very high needs and I think she is going to scream her bloody head off and make her reflux worse - not to mention wake her sister. I guess we are going to have to find out.

    She didn't use to wake so often - it started around mid July and just never got better. I don't think its hunger getting her up - I think she just wants mommy and is nursing for comfort. I know we need to break it, I was just trying to wait until she was older... Guess its time to rip the bandaid off.

    She is on Zantac but the doctor gave me a prescription for Prevacid yesterday - he is hoping that will help her sleep better. Me too....
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  • juniper75juniper75 member
    @Vinny424. I recently bought a crib wedge and she is sleeping on it (until she rolls off). Maybe I don't need to hold her anymore with the wedge... It just seems like anytime I put her down without having held her for the half hour, she wakes up within 15 min.

    I think she is too big for an RNP now and I am in Canada and not sure we can get them or the day dream sleeper here.
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  • hlm184hlm184 member
    I've heard some people have success with putting a sleep sheep right next to LO in the crib.  With the hearbeat sound it's close enough to mama for LO to sleep.
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  • JessimaxJessimax member
    If I put LO in her crib sound asleep she is up within the hour. She has to be slightly awake and fall asleep herself. Maybe try feeding her half an hour or so before bedtime so she has some time to digest. That being said she had been in her crib since birth so is not new to her.
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  • speechie517speechie517 member
    See if you can get your Dr. to write a Rx for a reflux sling? It will keep an infant secure, but also at an angle. 

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  • zazu13zazu13 member
    I'm sorry, mama! You need to get some sleep!

    I vote gentle sleep training. We did it to transition from RnP to crib and first for nights only (I read that babies treat day and night sleep differently so one doesn't affect the other in terms of what helps them get to sleep.) We did it for three nights with the intervaled soothing (after 5 min, 10 min, etc.) I was SHOCKED how fast it worked. By night 3 there was zero crying at bedtime and both my girls go to bed easily between 7 and 8 pm every night and sleep 11-12 hours (sometimes with one wake up to eat.) The first night wasn't even that bad. I did twins together and it took 2.5 hours for both to be asleep, but it wasn't straight crying/protesting. There was some crying, some whimpering, dozing off, waking up then they were waking each other up. If it had been one baby it would have been less time. Good luck!

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