At this age, I think 5 hours is considered sleeping through the night.
DD started giving us longer stretches around 2 months. Then it all went to crap around 3.5 months. She didn't do 12 hours with no wake ups until 9 months, and then she was back to eating once or twice a night around a year.
Some unicorn babies sleep 10-12 hours straight and keep doing it, but more often there's a lot of back and forth and many "regressions."
I've been pretty lucky in the sleep department. DD started sleeping 8-10 hours at 3 weeks. The flip side is she is a crap sleeper during the day and is therefore fussy because she is up too much
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Post by littlesthobo on Aug 24, 2016 8:51:50 GMT -5
rungirlrun I'm so glad he slept four hours! Woot! Sometimes what I do with L is feed him, swaddle him, then offer the bottle again and rock/bounce him until he falls asleep. I've woken him up before by trying to swaddle him.
I would do lots of things for more than 2 hours of sleep at a time. He hates sleeping during the day too. I hope he starts to give me longer stretches soon.
Ds started sttn at 4 months. It was glorious! But he's terrible at actually going to sleep. But once he's asleep, he's great!
This has always been my issue too. Getting DS and Finn to sleep is a fight, but once out they are all great. Evie is the champ at going down drowsy but awake. DS will be up until 10 pm sneaking and playing around. I'm tempted to install the video baby monitor in his room instead of the girls'.
Why doesn't MH understand how to be quiet? Comes barging in the room after I've been struggling to get the baby to sleep for 45 minutes. Opening drawers, turning on lights. Seriously if looks could kill right now. I think I really do need to move the baby to her own room soon. So anxious about it because she's been having more and more spit ups/vomiting and I worry about her vomiting at night. Today we had three projectile vomits during the day. The doctors office just said to make sure she doesn't have a temperature but unless she's dropping on her weight curves they won't treat her reflux. I hate wishing away this time but I just want her to be bigger and stronger now and not so fragile anymore.
ellebelle it's crazy how they don't understand how to be quiet! I had to "teach" h to close a door the other day. He wasn't turning the knob as he closed it, so he was essentially slamming the door every time. It was like I blew his mind.
How old is your LO? I think we are dealing with reflux as well, but he's gaining a ton of weight so I'm not sure the Pedi will do anything.
Post by icaughtfire on Aug 24, 2016 22:04:59 GMT -5
If my husband enters the room after I get the baby to sleep I just whisper to him "Shut the fuck up or I will legit murder you." That usually keeps him quiet.
I've been rocking E for awhile, to make sure he is 100000% out before I move him. This boy is like a damn furnace, I'm sweating.
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Post by rungirlrun on Aug 24, 2016 22:36:43 GMT -5
ellebelle we are dealing with reflux as well. Our ped gave a prescription for Zantac. I don't love medicating my kid, but it's a pretty mild drug and is helping a ton. I can't believe your ped won't do anything. E is gaining weight, but he was in so much pain every time he ate so it is necessary in my opinion.
Post by rungirlrun on Aug 24, 2016 22:46:40 GMT -5
Why won't my kid go to sleep? He just keeps messing around popping on and off the boob. And his brother is having a tantrum bc H won't give him a bandaid for his arm (arm is fine; he hurt his head falling off his bike today). Kids are exhausting. How was I ever tired pre kids?
On a side note, my H is bugging the crap out of me in general. I don't recall him being this annoying last time we had a newborn.
So since my shower I've cleaned up cat shit, cat puke, learned outside of diaper block the cascade of pee but doesn't soak it up, changed W's pjs because of said pee, dh finally came up and helped me change the sheets.
I don't know how some of you have been going without a decent amount of sleep because I am starting to feel at my wits end.
She's 5.5 weeks old melody330. We've had symptoms since she was 3 weeks old. Basically as soon as the jaundice cleared we got hit with reflux. Yayyyyy.
rungirlrun I agree with you, it's such a mild medication compared to they symptoms I'd rather treat. But I'm logging all her symptoms so hopefully at her next appt. I can get them to change their minds.
No waaaay!!!! I swear by this thing. I have three in the house just in case one breaks or we lose it. Why are you scared? No snot ever comes near your nose.
Ok if you promise there is no way don't will end up in my mouth I'll try it
I knew it. I jinxed myself posting about my good sleeper. It's 330, we have the hiccups and are wide eyed awake. No sign of drowsy eyes in sight (no pun intended)
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Ohhhh Sam is testing my patience tonight... the past few days I've ended up getting him to fall asleep around 10:40, and then he sleeps from 3-4 hours. It's been nice. Well last night he didn't finish nursing/pass out until 11:40, and was up screaming by 1:10. And now he's wide awake. Looks like mommy needs to pull out the book "Go the F*** to Sleep"!
No waaaay!!!! I swear by this thing. I have three in the house just in case one breaks or we lose it. Why are you scared? No snot ever comes near your nose.
Ok if you promise there is no way don't will end up in my mouth I'll try it
I don't understand why this 5am wake up is so hard for B. He eats, burps and swaddled within 20 minutes. I hold him upright and check for more burps for 10 minutes but get nothing. He's passed out. As soon as I put him in his crib and get downstairs he's grunting and groaning like he's shitting bricks. Every damn day.
Ds1 has been up all night too. I walked passed the coffee on my way back to my room and there's one pod left. And it's decaf. I don't even know how that bullshit got in my house to begin with. But it's mocking me.
Post by littlesthobo on Aug 25, 2016 4:47:51 GMT -5
So L was awake for 14 hours straight yesterday, with only 10 minute cat naps here and there. Dude just slept 7 hours straight! I woke up freaking out that he hadn't been up yet.
Don't know that the trade-off was worth it though, yesterday was rough.
So L was awake for 14 hours straight yesterday, with only 10 minute cat naps here and there. Dude just slept 7 hours straight! I woke up freaking out that he hadn't been up yet.
Don't know that the trade-off was worth it though, yesterday was rough.
This was my older son. With the exception of random car or stroller naps, he basically didn't nap until 15 months. We had many days where he slept for literally zero minutes. Yes nights were generally good unless it was teething season, but I lost my mind daily. I would have taken an extra night wake up to get a day nap in there.
L scared the fuck out of me. At 3:30 he let out a bloodcurdling scream and cry as if someone was stabbing him in his sleep. I shot out of bed like a canon--and so did the dogs lol. He let out one burp when I picked him up and fell back asleep.
Of course my heart rate was racing after that and he spent the next hour grunting so ugh.
{Click here to see more.} We got word at around 11 pm that a friend of mine found her almost one year old unresponsive and he wasn't responding to attempts to revive him by paramedics. At almost 1 am we got word that he passed away. I have been in tears any time I think about it. I've spent the entire night just praying and watching my babies sleep and struggling with why this shit happens. I just made her wedding cake earlier this year and we were planning to dedicate our kids at church in 2 months. And instead she's going through nothing a mother should ever have to face.
I'm glad I'm working today so I can stay reasonably distracted.
housecarder I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's son. No parent should ever have to go through that. She and her family/friends will be in my thoughts. Do they know what happened?
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