@DachshundMomma I feel for you momma. I definitely got spoiled with him sttn early on, so this is rough! I didn't end up getting to sleep until 4am and he still ended up sleeping on the couch with me again. Plus he's gotten into this habit of grabbing my face when he gets sleepy and he pinches HARD with all his fingers, so last night my face got clawed up with his little baby razors that I can't keep up with and he just about ripped off a tiny mole that I have by my lip so I'm standing there trying to rock him to sleep and my face is getting beat up!
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I have given up hope of any teeth cutting through. We've had such crap sleep the last couple nights. Friday she slept in our bed and was attached to me all night. Last night we were up every 2 hours. Sleep is my least favorite thing right now.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who has had crappy sleep recently. LO had three nights last week where he woke up between 2-3am and was wide awake, yapping and babbling. Hope I don't jinx it, but it appears to be over. Saturday night he slept from 8-3:30 and then 4-7:30am and last night he slept from 8ish to 4:30am and then 5-7am (when I woke him up).
Anybody have any advice to help LO fall asleep faster once he is in his crib? We started sleep training almost a month ago...started with the Ferber method which didn't work so well for us, so now we are just doing a solid bedtime routine with some CIO. He does put himself to sleep and sttn, BUT it's still taking him a half hour-40 minutes of crying & whining before he finally goes down. I go in and comfort him after 20 minutes so I normally only have to go back in once; when I was comforting him more frequently during Ferber it just seemed to end up making him more worked up. Not sure what to do to try and help him fall asleep faster because I KNOW he's tired when I put him in there.
@jjtruffles I don't have advice, but when we transferred E to her crib it'd take maybe an hour for her to cry herself to sleep. We started that around Christmas. Maybe two weeks ago, she consistently takes 5 minutes or less all of a sudden. The last couple nights have been bad, but I think we're dealing with something else (hopefully a tooth?) but otherwise she seemed to figure it out within a month or so.
I will add, she also doesn't STTN, but at least she can get herself to sleep.
@jjtruffles Do you use a sound machine? Not sure he value in those...but we've always used one. Most days it's a pain free put down. Every now and then she fights it a little longer. She's also really connected with her lovey we started putting in there. I think that's helped. The second I lay her down inhand her the lovey.
@schaze I keep hoping it will just kinda click for C one of these nights too. We've come a long way from where we started, I just hate to hear him cry and fuss for as long as he still does.
@TiffRox81 I do use a white noise machine, I remember mine being a comfort thing for me when I was little so I knew I wanted to use one with him. What do give her as her lovey? I'm so paranoid to put anything in the crib with him.
@jjtruffles We started sleep training just before Christmas and it took a while for him to get the hang of it. Now he fusses when we DONT put him down and he's asleep in under 3 minutes. We also have just started giving him a lovey. I use a really soft stuffed Mickey toy/rattle. Our pediatrician said as long as he can move around really easily (roll over, push himself around...) a blanket and or lovey is fine.
While I'm still struggling with getting DD to stay asleep when I put her down (most nights she still wakes up around an hour after I lay her down and will play that game 2 or 3 times)...I think I have discovered why she has been waking up +/- 2AM when she used to sleep until around 4...I thought her room was a comfy 70-72 degrees...as that is what the thermostat is set at and my room is comfy...i looked at the temperature on her monitor and it has been 77-78 degrees in her room by the middle of the night!!! I shut her door at night for noise control and it is trapping heat in there and she is waking up because she is hot!
That may or may not be something for other struggling mommas to check...she slept so much longer last night (after i got her to stay asleep...) because I kept it cooler and put her in cotton jams instead of fleece...
We've been sucking it up and doing a very gentle CIO, (go in after 20 minutes to comfort) and it's been working! She definitely cries, but she's been falling asleep. It's a step. She still gets up 2-3x a night and ends up in our bed. But Rome wasn't built in a day.
@LDSJM123 that is exactly what I started doing a few nights ago! My mom came in last night after a whopping 4 minutes to tell me she thought she was crying from gas pains...i was like nope, definitely not...she is just pissed (confirmed by going in and the crying stopping immediately when i picked her up...). I think it will do the trick with time...Glad its working for you as well! I figure she will never learn to put herself to sleep if I never give her the opportunity to try by always getting her when she cries.
Celebrating a victory tonight...P fell asleep in his crib all by himself!!!!!!! I just set him down and kissed him goodnight and left, and he rolled around and played for a few minutes (I watched him on the monitor) and then just fell asleep without a fuss. It's a miracle you guys. Is the sleep regression on its way out?!!!
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This is the 2nd night in a row that William screams bloody murder if I put him down. I think I've had 3 hours total in the last 48 that I slept horizontal in my bed without a baby in my arms. The rest has been in our glider, on the couch, propped up in bed...he must have my boob in his mouth and mom be as uncomfortable as possible for him to sleep apparently.
@jjtruffles we also tried a ferber method which didn't work. She got angrier when we went in and comforted her. I was completely against the CIO method but decided to try it after a few weeks of ferber not working. The first night she cried (hard) and was asleep after about 2.5hrs of off and on crying. We started this a month and a half ago and she still cries when I put her down in the crib sometimes for 30 seconds before falling asleep and sometimes for 20 minutes of and on before falling asleep - even though she's clearly tired. I found what worked for us was not going in unless I knew something was wrong (like pooping herself) - which before trying it and having success with only this method I was against We had her sleeping on me for every nap and through the night for 6 months and tried so many different ways to try and get her to sleep. My best advice is stick with it. It took a good month before it took less than 45 minutes to get her to fall asleep.
Last month C stopped sleeping through the night and we blamed it on teething, but now teething is done and she is still getting up 1 to 2 times a night to eat and we know she can sleep a straight 12 hours. DH and I are trying to get rid of the 1 am feeding by slowing decreasing the amount of milk she is receiving at night? Has anyone else done this? Did it work? By what increment did you decrease the amount of the bottle? Any other suggestions are welcome too!
@adough27 Baby J had this happen right at her 6 month birthday. We had teething, growth spurt and vaccines all at once which threw her sleep off. I resleep trained her and a week later she's back to normal! It took about 3 weeks before going back to her old self. I read somewhere that theres also a 6 month sleep regression because they wake up and miss you. I think this was our case. We just waited it out and now it been a week back to normal. Felt like the longest 3 weeks ever, but i survived.
I've been slowly and gently letting M cry it out in the middle of the night when she wakes up. She nursed at 10:30 and I HAD TO WAKE HER UP this morning. She did cry around 2, but not long. I think we're making some progress!
we have completely regressed again She was up 6 times last night. last weekend I had the mindset of seriously starting sleep training and being consistent and of course she slept like an angel...during the week she has slept like poo.
Anybody else doing sleep training in an apartment? E is still up 4-5 times a night, but we hate to let her cry for more than a few minutes because we have neighbors above and on both sides. We already let her CIO to get to sleep (we are down to 45 minutes!) so we feel like we can't let her cry too long overnight since they've already listened to her earlier in the evening for a long time.
@LDSJM123 we are doing something similar. AJ doesn't really cry unless he really needs something, so I've been waiting to hear him actually cry-cry instead of getting up with him if he is fussy. I've been trying that since Monday night and last night he woke up once fussing for like 2-3minutes and put himself to sleep. He slept almost 11 hours straight!!
@schaze We are! I feel the same way about the night time. She's been pretty good. I only really let her CIO for like 20 mins though. Plus my downstairs neighbors got a puppy who yaps all freaking night so if someone said something I'd be pissed.
DS keeps sleeping face down which equates to this nervous momma waking up all night checking on him. I reposition him for my own sanity but he puts it right back...
@DachshundMomma DS does the same thing!! Immediately turns face down. I check on him regularly too. I figure it's the first of many choices he'll make that will scare me to death.
Yes yes yes! L sleeps on his stomach, face plants right into the mattress sometimes or if he stays on his back he has his stuffie blanket drapped over his face and it scares the crap out of me!
I am so glad others are in the same boat. I wake up all night and check to make sure he's breathing. Fortunately we cosleep so I don't have to get out of bed but it makes for a restless night regardless lol.
OMG Baby J just started doing the sleeping on her stomach thing this week. The first few nights she would fuss until she rolled back in her sleep or we would do it. My hubby freaks out but a week in I'm like she's fine!!!
That's so interesting that everyone seems to be getting tummy sleepers at the same time! P has been sleeping so much better since he started doing that about a week ago. Is it pretty common around this age for them to flip like that?
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Field started sleeping on his stomach about 6 weeks ago and I think he can put himself back to sleep that way more easily than on his back.
Right now we're doing a fleece sleep sack over pjs. Are many people doing blankets yet? He's really small but I'm thinking about when he gets too long for the sack...
We are doing no blankets until 1 year old. Sleep sacks are made in bigger sizes. We used sleepsacks with DD1 until she was 18 months old because she wouldn't keep blankets on.
DD2 also loves to sleep on her stomach! She started that just before she turned 6 months old.
When I started our gentle sleep training a month ago, a blanket is the only thing that seemed to make M happy. And we live in an old house and the upstairs runs 3-5 degrees cooler than the thermostat. So it's both for comfort and warmth for us.
Night 1 of sleeping in his PNP was a success. I brought in his favorite blanket from his crib and he slept really well. Up 3 times to nurse, one of which turned into a 30 min conversation with his binky before dozing back to sleep. He slept face down all night too. I guess that's the key to sleep success lol.
I've done blankets in the day when I can watch her. Usually at night we do sleep sacks. Now that she's rolling over, I've just done her pjs. She has trouble rolling back over. We tried a blanket and she pulled it over her face in the middle of the night. She ended up waking up screaming so we're going to wait until later to do blankets at night.
We do a blanket because it gets cold in his room and he likes having his feet free, so swaddling and sleep sacks were tossed out pretty early on. He hasn't had any issues with them, but I still keep an eye on him and usually keep his arms uncovered when I put him down so he doesn't automatically cover his face when he moves his arms around.
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Re: Sleep Regressions/Sleep Help
I will add, she also doesn't STTN, but at least she can get herself to sleep.
@TiffRox81 I do use a white noise machine, I remember mine being a comfort thing for me when I was little so I knew I wanted to use one with him. What do give her as her lovey? I'm so paranoid to put anything in the crib with him.
That may or may not be something for other struggling mommas to check...she slept so much longer last night (after i got her to stay asleep...) because I kept it cooler and put her in cotton jams instead of fleece...
This ish is getting really effing old.
Speaking of, this is her currently.
Right now we're doing a fleece sleep sack over pjs. Are many people doing blankets yet? He's really small but I'm thinking about when he gets too long for the sack...
DD2 also loves to sleep on her stomach! She started that just before she turned 6 months old.
We are going to start blankets at 1.