Also, is anybody else super nervous whenever LO decides to sleep on their tummy? I know he should be fine, he has great head control. But he doesn't roll much from front to back anymore. Doc said it was ok to leave him once he rolls to his stomach in sleep, but man does it make me nervous! (Common theme in my life.) I hate that SIDS is a thing.
I feel like I'm nervous any time my guy goes to sleep and I want to go to sleep too and no one will be watching him. I don't know why. However, tonight right after I got to work my husband texted me saying Nicholas was "freaking out" and spitting up everywhere and he couldn't calm him down. He finally did but then proceeds to let him sleep in the swing and is sleeping in a different room. So now I'm all sorts of nervous even though I'm sure it was just gas or something and he will be fine but ugh.
I've had S in a sleep sack so that she can't get her leg caught outside of the slats. I have legged sleepers, but I'm nervous about using them. Also, our bedroom is about 70 degrees (F) at night. I can't decide if cotton or flannel is best. I tend to be chilly at that temp while H runs hot.
LO wears cotton or fleece footies and usually a cotton sleep sack (the Halo brand with no arms). Our house is at 65. His hands are always cold, but his body is always really warm and he sleeps well at that temperature. I've worried it's too cold, but he seems to be hot most of the time when awake and in warmer places with less clothes. I also figure his sleep quality will let me know if he's too cold.
LO has been wearing a white onesie and footies/sleepers with a fleece sleep sack. I am in Wisconsin where it is a little colder. Yesterday was really nice so I just had her in a onesie and then the fleece sleep sack and she woke up more often. I think she likes to be warm at night. She takes after her dad. I hate being warm while sleeping.
Mine sleeps in whatever he wore home from daycare (usually a cotton or fleece sleeper) or a long sleeve onesie and then a fleece Halo swaddle. At first I was afraid he would get too hot in a fleece sleeper but the swaddle but he seems ok. I did get 2 cotton swaddles for when it gets warmer because air temps suck in his room so it's either too cold or too hot
@kvruns She kept breaking out of the swaddles so we were just swaddling under her arms and then she was sleeping pretty good so we decided to change it out because it seemed like her arms were getting cold and it's been fine ever since. We've probably been using them since she was 3 1/2 months.
I feel like I'm nervous any time my guy goes to sleep and I want to go to sleep too and no one will be watching him. I don't know why. However, tonight right after I got to work my husband texted me saying Nicholas was "freaking out" and spitting up everywhere and he couldn't calm him down. He finally did but then proceeds to let him sleep in the swing and is sleeping in a different room. So now I'm all sorts of nervous even though I'm sure it was just gas or something and he will be fine but ugh.
I'm the same way. I think it's just mommy anxiety.
Tried to ditch the DockATot ... it seems like it's getting too snug for her and she wants more freedom to move around. Well, it was a total fail lol. She woke up within a few minutes and is definitely enjoying the freedom to move ... she's wide awake playing with her feet and spinning in circles all over the crib *eye roll*
Also trying to ditch the dockatot for nighttime sleep... going on 3 nights now and she is having a lot more wake ups, I think because of the extra freedom to move and startle herself. I figure she'll eventually get used to sleeping without it, so just toughing it out until then. Although it is very tempting to put her back in it, she did sleep so much better...
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Ok. Freaking out about the stomach sleeping so @desoky01!! My LO has a helmet now tonight is he first night sleeping with it. He got way too warm in his Sleepsuit so I stripped him down to the onsie and he flipped over and is on his stomach now (after waking up 5 times in one hour). Freaking out here!!! I know he has good neck strength but can't yet move from back to front. It literally just moved from front to back in the past two days.
I'm pretty sure our worries will never really go away... with our first I would go in and check for breathing (heck I still do - she sleeps like a log) all the time. If LO is choosing to turnover in his sleep though and is not upset, he's more than likely going to be okay. Listen to your mommy instincts and try to get some sleep @desoky01 & @anne11716, those little boys are growing!
@Megz1902 Oh let me know it goes! I tried again the other night and she woke up after 30 minutes. I didn't have it in me to do that all night long so I put her back in. She still isn't sleeping great though, up every 2 hours so far tonight, so maybe I should just commit to doing it since we're not getting that great of sleep with it anymore anyway ...
@mrsmoose5 we caved and put her back in it the 4th night b/c i just can't do the every hour wake-ups and go to work... i figure when we move her to her own room we can transition her out of it, but for now, while she is still nursing at night, i need all the sleep I can get and will take it however I can. I think the dockatot is a bit of a crutch for her night sleep. She naps OK at daycare without it, but I did naps here at home without it also. Just at night she needs it to stay asleep longer.
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@Megz1902 Well I'm sort of glad to hear that someone else "caved" and went back to it lol. I really wanted to avoid sizing up to the grand, but it looks like we just might have to do it. Like you said, I need sleep and will get it however I can lol.
@mrsmoose5@Megz1902 I had no idea what a dockatot was so I googled it. I'm not sure if it'll help at all with the transition but in one of the pictures the dockatot was in the crib. Maybe that could help with starting to get your LOs used to being in the crib. I'm assuming you are using it to co sleep.
@Ladybug2821 We use ours in the crib and only to cosleep once or twice when she was sick or we were traveling. I was just hoping to transition her to the bare crib so we don't have to fork over $200+ for the larger size
I'm seriously going to go crazy. My little man has always been an amazing sleeper. Now this helmet he won't sleep for more then 30 minutes. Now he has a cold and it's just heartbreaking to watch. Finally we take the helmet off and he sleeps like a log because he's just exhausted. I don't know what to do.
@anne11716 Aww poor little guy . I'm sure every baby is different but did the doctor tell you about how long it usually takes for babies to get accustomed to sleeping with it? Maybe he can start the night off without it and then wear it after a MOTN feeding or vice versa.
S just keeps waking up earlier and earlier which also moved her bedtime earlier and earlier. In her newborn days she went to bed at 10pm and woke up at 10am. I don't even remember how we jumped from 9pm to 7pm. Now she's going to bed at 6:30pm and tries to wake up at 5am. My understanding is 5:30-7:30 are good bedtimes for this age but I hope she doesn't try to make it any earlier. I also need her to sleep past 5am. That's just too early.
@Ladybug720 that was happening with my LO, so I just let her have a 4th nap around 5-6 ish and put her to bed around 8-9 ish. She does much better with the later bed time.
@m6agua At first, did you have to wake her up from that late nap? I think if I did that she would just keep sleeping and then I would've created an even earlier bed time. What time does your LO wake up in the morning? Honestly I'm scared to even mess with it because she has started taking decent naps and has been able to put herself back to sleep when waking up.
I bought one of those Merlin suits a couple months ago but LO wasn't big enough for it yet and cried and cried. He's since been able to sleep swaddled with his arms out so I haven't tried the suit again now that he is big enough for it. Should I even bother trying it? He likes to sleep with his arms up by his head and in different positions and also likes to suck on his hands sometimes. I feel like this suit would restrict that movement, right?
It can't hurt to try @kvruns. The sleep suit doesn't so much restrict movement as it does the startle reflex. A is all about sucking her thumb and she can do it while on the suit. I think they can still do intentional movement, just not unintentional movement.
So I read "the sleep easy solution" on sleep training, made my plan and executed it last night. Holy hell, it was awed up last night. I read all your comment in the motn and has anyone started it at 4/5 months? S is 5 months and must've hit the 4 month sleep regression so I thought I needed to do this. she was waking up every hour to two hours and we are going on a cruise next month so I wanted her to get used to her pack n play as she sleeps in a swing right now. Honestly night one seemed worse. She cried for over an hour and I followed the rules to a T. Only checking first at 5 min, then 10, 15, and never touching her, just saying nice things for less than 30 seconds. Man, if I'd put her in the swing like every other night she would've been asleep in the first 5-10minutes with some crying. Then, a woke up pissed off literally every hour. At least in the swing she's wake up, but nothing like last night. I need her to be in the pack n play, she's also disliking her swing more and more. I'm not ready for her to go in her crib in the other room down the hall. Does it get better? There's no Q&A for last night in the book. #thissucks!
@camcbeth The book I read talked about how the first couple nights are dark, then it gets gray, then white...meaning it is going to suck for a bit. I know that isn't super encouraging when you're in the middle of it. For some reason my guy took to it pretty quickly and most of the wake ups and frustration was in the first couple hours after he went down but then he'd do well for overnight. That doesn't help I know
Did S sleep well prior to this, or has the sleep always been this way?
@camcbeth the book doesn't need to be followed religiously. Use your instincts and modify as you see best! When we sleep trained DD three years ago we did the same thing as far as checking in on her every 5 mins then 10 etc. BUT I would pat her on the back or butt or caress her face. If she was really worked up I would pick her up briefly to soothe her and then put her back down. I did try to keep my interactions quick but I felt that touching her and letting her know I was trying to help was important too. The first night was the worst, by night 4 she was falling asleep in 10 mins or less. Good luck!
@kvruns she slept fine the first 3 months and then month 4 (the last 3-4 weeks) she's been terrible with sleep. Waking often, getting mad at being in her swing, then we'd try the pack n play and shed cry even harder, then back to the swing and she would realize the swing was fine. She's just gotten so big it looks like she isn't comfortable and would like to stretch out. The only place she does well is when I put her in bed with us and I hate that. I'm so uncomfortable with cosleeping, I don't sleep well, but then she does. My husband doesnt mind it, but then he just falls back to sleep.
@rspalding001 the only reason I followed the plan so closely is I don't want to send mixed messages. Sleep is bad enough that I understand she needs to learn some sleep cues to fall back asleep. After the past month I don't think she does have those cues.
@camcbeth She is probably going through the 4 month sleep regression. Honestly I wouldn't sleep train this early. I would wait until she's 6 months and has gotten through the regression. I know people that sleep trained early only to have to do it again.
I know you all are are probably sick of hearing me talk about my LO and how's he's not sleeping in this damn helmet. However, he's currently been sleeping with it on for an hour. This is a big deal! Also he's not in his magic Sleepsuit, I put him in this zip a dee thing that's too small for him but I was desperate to try something new. Man alive I hope this little babe has figured it out!
I put S in her pack n play last night for sleep training night #2, she cried and cried (the crying doesn't bother me) but she recently had a cold and so all that snot and crying gave her a stuffy nose. So I picked her up and put her in her swing. She was asleep in 2 minutes and slept from 11pm to 3am! This is a mom win for sure. It's the longest she's slept in over a month. The only bad thing is we are going on a cruise in a month and she better start to come to terms with the pnp or it's going to be a long week on the boat.
S has started taking awesome naps. She's gone from 30 mins on the dot to taking a 2.5 hr nap today. But her nights have been crap. Last night she woke every hour starting at 1am until she woke up for the day at 5:30am. Also up until last night, if she did wake up within an hour or 2 after going down, I would let her cry and she would go back to sleep on her own. Last night and tonight she is not having it and crying super hard. Leap 5 maybe?? She did just learn to sit up on her own. When she woke up a little while ago she was rubbing her ear which I think may have been the reason she woke up. I don't think it's an ear infection though. I'm wondering if she got water/shampoo in her ear from her bath and its itching. I just laid her down on that side so hopefully if there is water in there it'll drain out.
The ear rubbing could be a slew of things, including teething. Our LO is going through some awful teething symptoms, one of which is pulling on his ears.
The ear rubbing could be a slew of things, including teething. Our LO is going through some awful teething symptoms, one of which is pulling on his ears.
LO likes sleeping on his tummy, which makes me nervous but he's sleeping very well. Even more nerve wracking is that he seems to like sleeping with his face burrowed into the mattress face down sometimes. I hate when I go to check on him and his face is smashed into the mattress!
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I've had S in a sleep sack so that she can't get her leg caught outside of the slats. I have legged sleepers, but I'm nervous about using them. Also, our bedroom is about 70 degrees (F) at night. I can't decide if cotton or flannel is best. I tend to be chilly at that temp while H runs hot.
These are the types of sleep sack we use:
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TTC#2 April 2019@kristah2 I would love it if I could put him down in just his clothes/sleeper. I've tried before when he is out cold but he instantly wakes up.
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Also trying to ditch the dockatot for nighttime sleep... going on 3 nights now and she is having a lot more wake ups, I think because of the extra freedom to move and startle herself. I figure she'll eventually get used to sleeping without it, so just toughing it out until then. Although it is very tempting to put her back in it, she did sleep so much better...
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Welcomed baby girl: 06.10.14
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TTC#2 April 2019Does it get better? There's no Q&A for last night in the book. #thissucks!
Did S sleep well prior to this, or has the sleep always been this way?
@rspalding001 the only reason I followed the plan so closely is I don't want to send mixed messages. Sleep is bad enough that I understand she needs to learn some sleep cues to fall back asleep. After the past month I don't think she does have those cues.
My my first kid slept so easy. Ugh.
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