D slept from 9:30-6:30 without waking. I, however, drank way too much and stayed up past 2 a.m. so I'm dragging major ass this morning.
At some point I need to go out and get us champs shirts to wear to the parade tomorrow. I'm so, so excited. Since I moved to Boston in 2008 there have been 3 victory parades (Bruins 2011, Sox 2013, Pats 2014) and I had to miss all of them for one reason or another, but this time it's on!
We got home late last night but C slept from 12 to 7! Then he ate and fell back asleep for another hour. Now we're cuddling on the couch. I'm going to enjoy every second of these snuggles before he becomes too cool for mom.
I just watched Gaga's performance again since I wasn't paying much attention last night. She killed it!! I'm going to pull up the commercials next.
Nothing in the agenda today. H and I were going to go to the city to get some info on the lot we want to buy but H said work is pretty busy today so we'll go tomorrow if it's still available. The listing was removed from Zillow so he needs to call the owner again to find out what happened. I'll be pretty upset if someone swooped in and bought it.
What kind of tricks do you all do to get those long stretches?!?! E is consistently up 3x between 8pm- 7am. I am tired.
Has it been like this all along? AV was back to more frequent wake ups after giving us 9-10 hour stretches for a few weeks. It's starting to iron back out now. I forget, where is E sleeping? I've had luck the past few nights switching up my methods - I found a new white noise that conks her out immediately (sounds like tv static) and I put her in the RnP first half of the night (as opposed to staying on me), I think she was getting uncomfortable on mommy after all this time. As sad as I am, it's better for her so I am encouraging it. So RnP from like 7-10:30. Then back on me from 11-4am.
danib When it rains it pours. The good news about that is that you can't have the rainbow without a little rain - so hopefully today and this week is an amazing one for you, C, and H. I'm sorry H is scream-crying to sleep - sounds like ma girl Adeline - I wish I could mail you hugs and wine.
What kind of tricks do you all do to get those long stretches?!?! E is consistently up 3x between 8pm- 7am. I am tired.
It is soooo baby dependent so hugs friend. I have a friend who's baby woke up that much until she weekends him at a year and then BAM he slept through the night. Eventually you can sleep train but at this age it's kind of go with the flow.
The main tricks I think you can apply now is first and foremost, the pause. Don't pick up at first sound but see if they actually wake up or just squirm and settle back down, even if they wake up 10 minutes later it helps them learn to put themselves back to sleep. Also do you know and follow the 4 S's from happiest baby on the block? They can be helpful too.
But really I think 3 between 8-7 is still quite normal at this age. DS falls asleep on us at around 7 or 8, we all go to bed around 10 (sometimes we wake him up sometimes he wakes up on his own at that time) , he wakes up around 2, and again at 5 ish. Sometimes he sleeps until 3 and then he will make it to 7, so we are about where you are.
What kind of tricks do you all do to get those long stretches?!?! E is consistently up 3x between 8pm- 7am. I am tired.
No particular trick unfortunately. I think she's just a good sleeper and I got lucky.
But here's what we're doing: she has a bath at 9:00, then I sing to her in her dimly lit room while I do her lotion and pjs. After that I swaddle, turn on the white noise, and nurse her in the glider. The room is very dark at this point. I sing more songs (or sometimes shush her if she's really tired/upset) and when she finishes nursing I keep rocking her for a bit until she's deeply asleep. Then I set her down in the Rock and Play, tuck a blanket around her bottom half, and leave. She is asleep by 9:30, like clockwork.
Most nights she gives me until 3 or 4, but she frequently has done 9 or 10 hours straight through. I think the routine really speaks to her. We also started having more success once we moved her bedtime later. When we were trying to put her down around 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, she would wake up every 45 to 60 minutes until midnight.
Good Morning everyone! Omg what a game! I'll admit after the Falcons were up 28-3, I started getting ready to put L to bed! Then DH started yelling... such a nail biter! Sleep fairy was here last night thank goodness. L slept from after midnight to 5am and again from 5:40-9:30!?! Tonight starts my alone days as I'll be dropping DH off at the airport this afternoon.
Well, my big news is that I'm still sick. This is day 6. The last time I was sick like this was maybe 5 years ago, but probably more like 7 for the length of time and amount of congestion. Ugh.
DH took the car in since we picked up a screw this morning. It was too far to the side so we got a new tire. Our tire protection on our lease just paid for itself (and then some). This afternoon we are taking the cat to the vet. She's 15 and started to have blood in her urine. It took me a few days to figure out. I thought at first she cut her paw, that's how red the spots I saw were. But then she peed on the laundry room floor and it was pink so it's off to the vet. I hope it's just an infection, but I've read that blood that visible usually is from bladder stones, a bladder inflammation disorder, or cancer. Fun times.
But, hey, at least DH took today off to help me adult. So that's good. AND!!!! Lilah laughed for the first time today.
Post by jubilantsquirrel on Feb 6, 2017 12:00:49 GMT -5
The longest stretch this baby will sleep is 4 hours, although he usually only does 3 and then he's about every 1.5 hours after that.
So, 9:30 he falls asleep and I put him in the pnp. He's usually up at 12:30, but sometimes he'll sleep until 1:30. And from then on he's up pretty much every 1-1.5 hours. Every once in a while his 2nd stretch might be 2 hours, but that's rare.
I go back to work on the 1st and I'm so nervous he still won't be sleeping well. We're going to try to move him to his crib in the next week or so and see if that helps.
Post by goldenlove3 on Feb 6, 2017 12:19:41 GMT -5
I think what helped us was a later bedtime and sleeping in his crib. We tried doing an early 7pm bedtime but it just wasn't working for us. We were usually still eating dinner or cleaning up after dinner around that time and he would be up constantly while we were trying to relax. Honestly the later bedtime and crib transition happened during Christmas when we were out almost every night and coming home late. We'd just put him in his crib thinking he was going to wake up in a couple hours anyway, but he started sleeping better. Now we just keep him downstairs with us until he's ready for his last bottle of the night, usually between 7 and 9. Then we change him, feed him, swaddle him and use the shusher to put him to sleep. He usually wakes up around 3 for a bottle then we'll sleep a few more hours.
So I have a question.. do you guys have a set time that you feed for bedtime? And what do you do if they get hungry earlier than that?
danib, tit for striving for extra patience! I'm sorry you had a rough night, gl with that blizzard! We're due to be hit tomorrow night. hangry, we get a max of 4 or 5 hours! 8-10 in RnP in living room, 12-4/5, 6-9! Usually the 6-9 is on me, not in co-sleeper. I seconds the 5 S's from happiest baby book! dashook, I love your bedtime routine!
Post by shedreamsincolor on Feb 6, 2017 12:44:27 GMT -5
jubilantsquirrel - I'm convinced at this age (and just in general for that matter) that you generally get what you get when it comes to sleep. Obviously there are some things you can do to slightly improve or slightly worsen baby's sleep pattern but I'm super wary of anything that claims to magically make your baby sleep longer. As I've said before, when DS1 started SSTN it was just like a light switch. I hadn't changed a damn thing, he just got older and learned how to do it. If it makes you feel better we are still consistently up twice a night (although have had very rare nights of 6+ hours stretches).
jubilantsquirrel - I'm convinced at this age (and just in general for that matter) that you generally get what you get when it comes to sleep. Obviously there are some things you can do to slightly improve or slightly worsen baby's sleep pattern but I'm super wary of anything that claims to magically make your baby sleep longer. As I've said before, when DS1 started SSTN it was just like a light switch. I hadn't changed a damn thing, he just got older and learned how to do it. If it makes you feel better we are still consistently up twice a night (although have had very rare nights of 6+ hours stretches).
I know you're right. DS1 was a magical sleeper all on his own and I know DS2 will start sleeping longer stretches as he gets older. I'm just getting worried for when I go back to work. I start work at 6:30 and have to leave the house at 5:45. So I'll be working on very little sleep if things stay the same.
So I don't feel too far off from the mark, but here's a look into our routine.
She is exhausted and starting to get hungry by 630, so that's when I start bedtime routine. If I stretch it, she gets cranky or starts crying. So I clean up our room and get her ready and feed her in the glider. She usually falls asleep there and then i rock her after standing until I can put her down. Sometimes she stays asleep but usually she rouses and I have to shush or gently shake her while she's in the bassinet. If she doesn't settle and gets more worked up, I pick her up and start with swaying, shushing, etc. She is usually settled down and in her bassinet at our bedside by 730/8.
Her first wake is usually around 12 or 1 and then every 2-3 hours until waking for the day at 7. I do pause somewhat when she wakes up, but it almost always turns into something. So I feed her and put her back in the bassinet every time. Occasionally I'll take her into bed after the 430/5 am wake up. But O wakes up at 6am so I often don't fall back asleep after her last wake at 430/5 and am up for the day at 6 if h is starting work at the usual time.
Here are some of the potential challenges. We have a white noise machine in our room, but it's set much lower than what O has in his room. She's still in the bassinet, but probably outgrowing it and I'm not ready to put them in the same room yet. I guess I can pull up our pnp so she has more space.
We happened to have our 3 mo check up today and the doctor thinks I am letting her nap too long in the morning and that is messing with her. E's first nap usually starts at 830/9 when we drive to drop O off at daycare. And she will stay asleep often for 3 hours, sometimes more. My doc suggested waking her after an hour or two; that her longest nap should be mid day or afternoon.
So I'm going to make some of these changes and see what happens.
The silver lining with multiple MOTN feeds is that it should help with keeping my period away longer. I don't mind 1 or even 2 wakes up (had 1 wake with O for a year), but 3 is too many.
jubilantsquirrel - I'm convinced at this age (and just in general for that matter) that you generally get what you get when it comes to sleep. Obviously there are some things you can do to slightly improve or slightly worsen baby's sleep pattern but I'm super wary of anything that claims to magically make your baby sleep longer. As I've said before, when DS1 started SSTN it was just like a light switch. I hadn't changed a damn thing, he just got older and learned how to do it. If it makes you feel better we are still consistently up twice a night (although have had very rare nights of 6+ hours stretches).
I know you're right. DS1 was a magical sleeper all on his own and I know DS2 will start sleeping longer stretches as he gets older. I'm just getting worried for when I go back to work. I start work at 6:30 and have to leave the house at 5:45. So I'll be working on very little sleep if things stay the same.
In the same boat. I don't have to be up that early but I frequently am not in bed until very late (like 1 or 2 AM) if I work second shift. That's going to be a blast.
Post by shedreamsincolor on Feb 6, 2017 14:39:37 GMT -5
Holy hell I have both kids asleep at the same time for like the third time ever. I feel like I should drink or something but I think going to squeeze in a super quick workout instead!
Post by sophiegrace on Feb 6, 2017 23:02:07 GMT -5
M seems typical in that her longest stretch of sleep is the first half. Sometimes it's a 3 hour stretch to start and sometimes it's 5. After that she's up every two hours until 8-9 am. Gas seems to be the biggest culprit in waking her up.
We found that her witching hour, or the 8 o'clocksies as we called it, was really her telling us that she was spent. I feed her at 7:30, in bath between 7:45-8, baby massage, pjs, and squirrel suit (zipadee-zip). She has now started smiling when she gets her squirrel suit on because she knows it's sleepy time. From there I nurse her to sleep. Because she eats at 7:30 she no longer sucks to eat, but just latches and is out in less than a minutes. I would like to eventually cut that out. After snuggling her for about an hour she goes down in the dockatot without a peep. She could go in it sooner, but we have to adjust the dogs' bedtime schedule first because the run around like a herd of elephants when they realize it's bedtime treat time.
Don't ask about daytime sleep. It's bad. She was finally getting a schedule down pat the week before I started back up at work. Poor girl was asleep in her car seat before I pulled out of my parking spot this evening she was so exhausted.
Arg my husband makes RAGE tonight. He has ONE swaddle he is OK with ONE that we own. Except it's too small, and he keeps discussing how it's getting too small so I keep suggesting other swaddles we own the would still work, but nope there is something wrong with all of them in his eyes. Well guess who busted out tonight?L and woke up? And guess who is now downstairs with the kid? Yeah not my husband.
He is still in our room and still in a too small swaddle and I don't want any of it.
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