Baby slept 6:30 to 5am, ate, and back to sleep until 7:40 when I woke him up. Poor thing has a cold so I feel bad but we ignored him twice last night- and he went back to sleep within minutes. So we are going to continue ignoring and shutting off the monitor.
Baby slept 6:30 to 5am, ate, and back to sleep until 7:40 when I woke him up. Poor thing has a cold so I feel bad but we ignored him twice last night- and he went back to sleep within minutes. So we are going to continue ignoring and shutting off the monitor.
I've been doing the same thing -- baby woke up at some point last night talking and didn't have his paci. I just turned off the sound and went back to sleep -- figured dh would wake me up if he started yelling. Slept from 5:45-6:30!
Baby slept 6:30 to 5am, ate, and back to sleep until 7:40 when I woke him up. Poor thing has a cold so I feel bad but we ignored him twice last night- and he went back to sleep within minutes. So we are going to continue ignoring and shutting off the monitor.
Horrible cough here too... Doesn't help that we are in a temporary apartment while waiting to close on our new house and it is incredibly dry inside.
We had a rough couple weeks traveling with a time change and then with the initial move so I am incredibly happy that DS is back to waking just once per night again (I actually got 2 nights with zero wake ups!!). He had a couple random cry outs last night where he went back to sleep but that's probably the cold.. He is in a new daycare too and they are doing awesome with naps so I think that is helping a lot.
Yeah I'm worried he just doesn't feel good enough to fight it lol. But I can't keep gettingn woke up all night. I'm about to be done with the monitor completely. I'll hear him if he cries loudly that way but not otherwise.
Post by justforshow on Jan 15, 2015 13:56:18 GMT -5
Did any of you find a nap training method that worked? If I try Ferber, she'll end up missing the entire nap. We went 4 days without a damn nap last week, when she went to the babysitter's, she finally napped. Currently, I have to nurse her to sleep for a nap, and she will only nap in the rock 'n play. Night time sleep is finally falling into place though after a week (hoorah!). Did you all find once night sleep was better established, naps followed suit?
Did any of you find a nap training method that worked? If I try Ferber, she'll end up missing the entire nap. We went 4 days without a damn nap last week, when she went to the babysitter's, she finally napped. Currently, I have to nurse her to sleep for a nap, and she will only nap in the rock 'n play. Night time sleep is finally falling into place though after a week (hoorah!). Did you all find once night sleep was better established, naps followed suit?
I did Ferber for both nighttime and nap time. I did find that once nighttime sleep was well established, naps fell into place. Also, I really don't care how or where he naps, I care about nighttime sleep. So if necessary, I would do whatever's necessary for a nap, and just worry myself about nighttime sleep.
We do ferber for naps but honestly what helped was removing everything in his crib and room that could be distracting, make it very dark, lots of white noise, and put him on his belly to nap and pat him or rock the crib. Daycare does that and it works.
LO slept from 6-4 without eating last night. It's still hit or miss with that though but I've been working with her on waiting at least 8 hours. She woke up around 12 but went back to sleep on her own yay! Putting her to sleep this week for nap and bed have been awful though and she seems to need so much more comforting than normal. I think it's milestone related not sure!
Post by lissiehoya on Jan 16, 2015 10:35:31 GMT -5
I'm trying nap training again starting today. I'm going to follow Weissbluth's advice partly. For the morning and evening naps, at least, I'm going to nurse until sleepy, then put him in the crib, then leave for an hour--either he will fall asleep or then I'll come get him and we'll play until the next sleep period. Afternoon, weather permitting, we'll go for a walk and he'll fall asleep in the stroller. That way, he will at least get one nap in. If I can be consistent about this on the days that I care for him, maybe I can actually get him to nap in the crib. We'll see.
Post by lissiehoya on Jan 16, 2015 10:37:07 GMT -5
Also, someone posted a google doc on TB sleep training or sleep threads that had wakeful intervals by age in months. Anyone know who did that or where it is? I should've bookmarked it or printed it out but I didn't.
Also, someone posted a google doc on TB sleep training or sleep threads that had wakeful intervals by age in months. Anyone know who did that or where it is? I should've bookmarked it or printed it out but I didn't.
I don't remember seeing this, but I have this info.:
Also, someone posted a google doc on TB sleep training or sleep threads that had wakeful intervals by age in months. Anyone know who did that or where it is? I should've bookmarked it or printed it out but I didn't.
I don't remember seeing this, but I have this info.:
Here's a question: We had unbelievable success weaning him from 4 MOTN feedings and got him down to 2. Like, I was shocked it took less than a week. Well, a few days in now, he has started waking up earlier and earlier again. Last night, he was up 3 hours earlier than he had been. 3 hours is a ridiculous amount of time to wait at 1 am. So do you think I should start over with the 30 minutes? He's down to only 2 oz, so I don't have much to wean from. Or just throw in the towel? It would be nice to get him STTN, but I'm okay with 2 wake-ups. I'm just at a loss at this point.
Post by lissiehoya on Jan 17, 2015 11:40:50 GMT -5
Okay, so yesterday I was moderately successful with nap training. DS fell asleep for his morning nap after only 30 mins and then slept for an hour and a half. Then he had a 30 min nap in the stroller in the rarely afternoon and another 30 mins in my lap in the evening. Today has been harder so far. He's asleep in his crib again but it took 45 mins for him to fall asleep. An there are a million things I should be doing to take advantage of this time and instead I'm on here.
Also, someone posted a google doc on TB sleep training or sleep threads that had wakeful intervals by age in months. Anyone know who did that or where it is? I should've bookmarked it or printed it out but I didn't.
Here's a question: We had unbelievable success weaning him from 4 MOTN feedings and got him down to 2. Like, I was shocked it took less than a week. Well, a few days in now, he has started waking up earlier and earlier again. Last night, he was up 3 hours earlier than he had been. 3 hours is a ridiculous amount of time to wait at 1 am. So do you think I should start over with the 30 minutes? He's down to only 2 oz, so I don't have much to wean from. Or just throw in the towel? It would be nice to get him STTN, but I'm okay with 2 wake-ups. I'm just at a loss at this point.
I don't really have any advice, because it just kind of happened for us. We went from many, many MOTN feedings before sleep training to 2 (I would only feed at 11/12 and and again 4 hours later and then at 7:00). He recently started skipping the midnight feeding on his own. The first night, I thought it was a fluke, but it's been about a week now. I wonder if you may be experiencing the 8 month sleep regression that some of the others went through? I'm hoping we can dodge that one, but we'll see.
I'm wondering what you ladies would do in my situation. As I mentioned above, my little guy has recently started doing amazingly well overnight. He's been sleeping from 7pm to 5am. His official wakeup time is 7:00 am, which means that even if he's still asleep, we'll wake him up no later than 7:15. This gives us time for his morning routine before we have to start work and also protects his nap schedule the rest of the day. I keep doubting myself about what we should do at these 5am wakeups. He's usually just babbling. I've been giving him some time to go back down on his own, but sometimes he just babbles off an on for an hour or more. So, I find that I either have to get up and proactively feed him a small amount at 5 to try to encourage him to get an hour or so more of sleep (and possibly reinforcing this as a wakeup/feed time) or risk him being up from 5 to his 1st nap at 9. Any ideas?
Here's a question: We had unbelievable success weaning him from 4 MOTN feedings and got him down to 2. Like, I was shocked it took less than a week. Well, a few days in now, he has started waking up earlier and earlier again. Last night, he was up 3 hours earlier than he had been. 3 hours is a ridiculous amount of time to wait at 1 am. So do you think I should start over with the 30 minutes? He's down to only 2 oz, so I don't have much to wean from. Or just throw in the towel? It would be nice to get him STTN, but I'm okay with 2 wake-ups. I'm just at a loss at this point.
I don't really have any advice, because it just kind of happened for us. We went from many, many MOTN feedings before sleep training to 2 (I would only feed at 11/12 and and again 4 hours later and then at 7:00). He recently started skipping the midnight feeding on his own. The first night, I thought it was a fluke, but it's been about a week now. I wonder if you may be experiencing the 8 month sleep regression that some of the others went through? I'm hoping we can dodge that one, but we'll see.
We have to be. We were up at 9, 9:45, 10:30, 11:50, 1:15, 2:20, 4:20, 5:50, and up for the day at 7. Every time he was in hysterics. I swear we got more sleep when he was a newborn. I'm giving up for now.
I'm wondering what you ladies would do in my situation. As I mentioned above, my little guy has recently started doing amazingly well overnight. He's been sleeping from 7pm to 5am. His official wakeup time is 7:00 am, which means that even if he's still asleep, we'll wake him up no later than 7:15. This gives us time for his morning routine before we have to start work and also protects his nap schedule the rest of the day. I keep doubting myself about what we should do at these 5am wakeups. He's usually just babbling. I've been giving him some time to go back down on his own, but sometimes he just babbles off an on for an hour or more. So, I find that I either have to get up and proactively feed him a small amount at 5 to try to encourage him to get an hour or so more of sleep (and possibly reinforcing this as a wakeup/feed time) or risk him being up from 5 to his 1st nap at 9. Any ideas?
When we were doing well with minimal wake-ups, LO changed his schedule completely. Every day for a week was different, and he also started wanting to eat-sleep-play instead of eat-play-sleep. We just waited it out, went with it, and now he's back to normal (with the exception of our horrible night last night).
Also, someone posted a google doc on TB sleep training or sleep threads that had wakeful intervals by age in months. Anyone know who did that or where it is? I should've bookmarked it or printed it out but I didn't.
Look up the wee be dreaming blog on 8 month sleep regression.
I always wonder when I read articles like this - do people actually have schedules that are so set that they can actually push a nap back 5 or 15 minutes one day versus another? This is a sort of serious question since we've been in daycare since 12 weeks. DS is on a loose schedule to nap in the morning and afternoon but it has never been the same time each day - with his new center I gave them a range of about an hour for the first one and rough timing for the second depending on the first nap of the day.
We do have a very set bedtime of 7pm that DS is definitely ready for each night so I guess it would be something like that throughout that day?
Look up the wee be dreaming blog on 8 month sleep regression.
I always wonder when I read articles like this - do people actually have schedules that are so set that they can actually push a nap back 5 or 15 minutes one day versus another? This is a sort of serious question since we've been in daycare since 12 weeks. DS is on a loose schedule to nap in the morning and afternoon but it has never been the same time each day - with his new center I gave them a range of about an hour for the first one and rough timing for the second depending on the first nap of the day.
We do have a very set bedtime of 7pm that DS is definitely ready for each night so I guess it would be something like that throughout that day?
We're on a very set schedule. The only times it varies are if we're out running errands, or on a play date or something. But since DS stays home with me, I can get away with this kind of schedule.
Look up the wee be dreaming blog on 8 month sleep regression.
I always wonder when I read articles like this - do people actually have schedules that are so set that they can actually push a nap back 5 or 15 minutes one day versus another? This is a sort of serious question since we've been in daycare since 12 weeks. DS is on a loose schedule to nap in the morning and afternoon but it has never been the same time each day - with his new center I gave them a range of about an hour for the first one and rough timing for the second depending on the first nap of the day.
We do have a very set bedtime of 7pm that DS is definitely ready for each night so I guess it would be something like that throughout that day?
Even my daycare has a pretty set schedule, and we try to stick to it on the weekend. But I don't think you have to go by the times as much as the hours between naps and bed. Every kid is different but when I started to hit Los magic nap and bedtime his sleep improved dramatically. For us, it's naps around 9:30, or 10 and 2-3, set bed time at 6:30. When the naps get stretched later, we can move the bedtime a bit. Try a strict schedule for a week, adjust the times up or back a little. See if it helps.
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