Sleep Question/Advice Needed

Re: Sleep Question/Advice Needed

• kksquared member

  June 2016

  hbonwes said:

  Hey ladies.  My little one is 5.3weeks. She is still not sleeping through the night.  She wakes up at least 2x to feed (we are breastfeeding) and then she doesn't want to go back to her crib. The doctor seems to think she is just waking out of habit at this point and doesn't nutritionally need the feedings. I've tried giving her the paci but that just makes her even more angry...so I just end up feeding her.  
  
  Secondly, she refuses to nap anywhere besides my chest or the carseat.  How do I teach her to nap in her crib?
  
  
  

  Are you sure you add posting in the right group?  If she's 5.3 weeks old waking 2x a night isn't bad at all.  Until about 2-3 months naps are really hit or miss so I wouldn't stress too much. 

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• missphil member

  June 2016

  My personal opinion is that you should keep feeding on demand, even at night. Your baby is so young! Even if she weren't hungry, she is waking for comfort and cuddles. Those are also needs that she should have met.
  Arms and carseat kind of replicate the tightness of the womb. I recommend swaddling 

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• Mizuiro007 member

  June 2016

  @hbonwes At 5.3 weeks I would question any pedi saying a baby is waking from habit and doesn't need to be fed. They do so much growing in the first months and need the nutrition. I have a 6 month old who is breastfed and still wakes at least 2x per night to eat, her average is 5x. 
  
  The easiest way to tell is that hunger doesn't sooth. If the only way she'll settle is by nursing then she's most likely hungry.
  
  Babies spend months in a close environment, it takes time to adapt to so much space. Swaddling is used to help with this and may make a big difference. With both my little ones we also make the crib feel smaller by laying them sideways in the crib and tucking rolled up receiving blankets on each side on them underneath the fitted sheet.

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• hbonwes member

  June 2016

  Thank you so much, ladies! 

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• kdoak2015 member

  June 2016

  So confused was it really 5.3w? My DD is 28w and is up more through the night than she was at 5w

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• Gingermom15 member

  June 2016

  hbonwes said:

  Thank you so much, ladies! 

  Was your baby born in April? Here is the link to Apeil's birth month board. It's much more active and the users there have babies the same age as yours. 
  
  https://forums.thebump.com/categories/april-2016-moms
  

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• ashleyandjody member

  June 2016

  Lurker from Jan16...I think she meant 5 months 3 weeks. If you go look back at her older posts it says her DD was born December 28th

  
  
  

  

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• ATolentino89 member

  June 2016

  ashleyandjody said:

  Lurker from Jan16...I think she meant 5 months 3 weeks. If you go look back at her older posts it says her DD was born December 28th

  Investigative reporting... I like that. 

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• kdoak2015 member

  June 2016 edited June 2016

  That's what happens when you post once a year!!  Lol JK but good job investigating. 

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• ashleyandjody member

  June 2016

  @kdoak2015 LO was asleep in my arms so I had some free time lol

  
  
  

  

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• hbonwes member

  June 2016

  Yes, thank you for clarifying! My lo is 5 months and 3 weeks.  I don't post often,  only when questions arise! 

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• suchaglencoco member

  June 2016

  If you want her to start sleeping in the crib, then you need to let her sleep in the crib and not give up when she cries when put in there. Start with one nap for a few days, get her sleeping, set her in there, if she cries either let her cio or pick her up and start again. Then try a second nap a day. Then 3, then half a night, then a full night. We transitioned the twins at 3 months in under a week.
  At our twins' 6 month appt, the ped said she thought they were in a habit of eating twice nightly and gave us the OK to drop a feeding by putting them back to sleep when they'd wakeup after 4 hours. It was a couple nights of hell and then it got better and now it's only one feeding that we're hoping they'll drop soon on their own.
  You have to decide what you want for you and your baby. Then decide how much crying you're willing to put up with and then just do it.
  And if it makes you feel better most of the babies in this group are not sleeping through the night.

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• grkgdss00 member

  June 2016

  Does she have a mobile? Maybe you can start putting her in the crib during wake times so she starts getting used to it/positive feelings. Then start with a nap, and increase as PP said. If she's angry with the paci, then she really may be hungry! My LO still eats 1-2x per night and she's EBF.

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• Fdpolla92 member

  June 2016

  My baby is still up to eat 1-2 times per night. I didn't think it was that unusual at this age. 

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• groovylocks member

  July 2016

  Olive has never slept through the night and she's 7 months old now. There is no end in sight either. The best i ever get is two feedings a night. Often she's waking every hour or sometimes more. So any advice anybody has, I'm listening too
  
  I've tried the CIO in the crib. it's a lot harder than i expected it to be. Every time i've given up. It's just me and her  involved in the sleeping situation and I work full time so those few sleepless nights, when i'm already operating on almost no sleep, is awful. I've been thinking about getting the MIL to stay for a couple of nights to help out. Between the two of us, I think we could do it better and faster. 

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