I don't go here but may I join in? Slowly going crazy with my non sleeper and reading your posts have made me feel better. Misery loves company?
DD was born 7/22 and since the 4 month regression we don't sleep. We have a good 1 or 2 nights a week followed by bad ones. Last two nights have been 3-4 wake ups between 12-7am. I just finally have her going down at 830/9 instead of 10. She also doesn't nap anywhere but on me. I feel like I spend everyday trying to understand her sleep. She's currently enjoying a two hour nap on me after getting up at 6:00am.
koritto of course you can join in, feel free to chat with us on any of the other threads as well! Sorry to hear your DD is giving you so much trouble with sleeping. My DS became a crap sleeper right after he turned three months old and is still up 3-4 times a night as well, it's no fun! I hope that your little one starts sleeping better soon. Have you tried any sort of sleep training yet (if that's your thing)? I know a few of the ladies on here have had some success with it.
Post by jewelsofthenile on Jan 20, 2017 13:16:13 GMT -5
My kid has somehow went from sleeping like a champ to up to every two hours and only wants to be held when sleeping transfer him to a crib and he wakes up immediately... How has my 6 month old become a newborn sleep wise 😢 boo!
katelou your H needs to know that working outside the home is not an excuse for not helping MOTN. I work every day in an office and as a single parent I have to do all wakeups and bedtime and after work care too. I'm sorry but I'm very "cry me a fucking river" to all fathers who whine if they are asked to help MOTN.
And as others have said, you are still working your ass off at home. To me, being a SAHM is much harder than an office job, and I say that after going back to an office job. Being home all day is far more taxing. I wish working dads (sounds sexist but it's the majority) would walk a week in a SAHMs shoes before bitching about helping after work or MOTN.
mcktymck thanks for the welcome. Trying to find home base here and since my DD was born in July I decided to check you guys out and suddenly found out I wasn't alone in my sleep troubles. No sleep training yet. I'm not opposed to it but she's still in our room and I haven't ready to move her. Maybe that's half our problem. Hope you get some sleep soon too
ellebelle everyday I think today's going to be the day haha
melody330 I can only imagine how exhausted you must feel
I only work Saturday mornings (6:30am-12:30) and she knows. Friday nights are the worst so I'm already mentally preparing for the exhausting tomorrow
koritto good luck tonight. Hope you get a good stretch!
Both boys were asleep by 7:40 tonight. DS1 didn't take a nap at school and was a hot mess all afternoon. Tomorrow we have his birthday party, I'm so excited for him!
thanks ladies. To be honest I don't even care if he helps, I'm used to doing it all. What burns me is that he doesn't help, AND he complains about the way I'm doing it. You only get to have an opinion if you help if you help, if not, you have to live with the way I'm doing it, KWIM? Grr. Here's hoping for a better night for everyone.
willow, it is good to see you on here! I hope your new job is going well.
My kid has somehow went from sleeping like a champ to up to every two hours and only wants to be held when sleeping transfer him to a crib and he wakes up immediately... How has my 6 month old become a newborn sleep wise 😢 boo!
I think that's pretty common. At 6 months, babies are just so much more aware of life, and the crib transfer gets harder and harder. I've started putting E down awake. It involves some crying (so basically sleep training if you're comfortable with that), but it's helped a lot. We never had a regression bc sleep was never good to begin with, but putting down awake has helped when things were really bad. Hope you're able to get your LO back on track.
Welcome koritto! Sleep has been pretty crappy since day 1 for us, but we are slowly improving (son born 7/28) after sleep training. Join us here. Best of luck getting your daughter on track!
YOU GUYS!!! M just slept all night!!!!! I'm so excited. We had her 6 month shots yesterday, so I'm guessing they knocked her out so it may have been a fluke but I don't even care!! Of course I still had to get up 330 to pump because my boobs were rocks, but that was still some much needed glorious sleep.
We had a great night too. B went down at 7:15, and only woke up at 1, went right back down after nursing and then woke up for the day at 6:15. I'll take it!
He's been only eating for 3-4 minutes MOTN so maybe he's getting ready to drop that feeding too? Or he just likes to throw me a curve ball every now and then ;-)
YOU GUYS!!! M just slept all night!!!!! I'm so excited. We had her 6 month shots yesterday, so I'm guessing they knocked her out so it may have been a fluke but I don't even care!! Of course I still had to get up 330 to pump because my boobs were rocks, but that was still some much needed glorious sleep.
I hope you all had better nights too!!
Awesome! My M had his shots yesterday and was up maybe four times? Hopefully this is a turning point!
We were up 3x last night. DD1 started STTN at 8.5 months so I just keep telling myself only 2.5 more months of this but watch this one won't follow in her sister's footsteps.
Post by rungirlrun on Jan 21, 2017 15:59:24 GMT -5
Yay for everyone who slept well last night! We were up 3x. I've said this before, but tonight I really am starting to limit night feedings. He only eats for a few minutes so it has to be out of habit. Maybe he eats out of boredom like his mama.
We had friends who had good success with sleep training by slowly limiting night feedings (taking a minute off each feeding each night). I hope that works rungirlrun!
Irene is ravenous when she wakes up at night so I'm really afraid to try to force her to drop night feedings. And I feed her all day when I'm home and daycare gives her 4 oz every 2 hours when she's there!
Irene has been awake for an hour and 45 minutes and won't go back to sleep. I've nursed her multiple times, changed her, rocked her, given her Tylenol, and finally I have just given up. She is in her crib screaming right now because I am so angry about this I can't put myself near her right now safely. Five minute breather and then I'll go back in.
Big hugs ellebelle. B gets like that every now and then. It's a little silly, but when he won't stop screaming sometimes I'll take him outside for a minute. Just opening the front door and standing on the steps for a second seems to calm him for some strange reason. Then about 90% of the time he will let me nurse him to sleep after that.
FX Irene gives it up and passes out quickly. You're a rockstar!
She's still up. DH is with her now. He's turned on all the lights and I'm pretty sure he's going to just watch tv with her. I told him I hate this approach because she now things it's playtime at 4am but whatever. He can't be convinced otherwise. And I'm so pissed about it that I can't sleep. Not that it matters anyway because I'm sure he'll be in here in 20 minutes saying she needs to eat anyway. Shoot me now.
ellebelle I'm sorry. What a nightmare. Good for you for stepping away. I've never been able to sleep when DH takes her because I know it'll last 10 minutes maybe 15. I hope you get to bed soon.
So he took her downstairs and played with her and she passed out at 5 on the couch and slept for an hour. Then he brought her to me for feeding. So I'm feeding her and maybe she'll go back to sleep? I have no idea what to expect today as far as schedule now. I'm so tired though. Coffee is on my agenda.
We had an okay night. Add me to the "annoyed with h" list. His friends were over until 2am, and at 6:30 I asked H to get up and help DS1 go to the bathroom. Since B was still sleeping and DS1 was playing in his room I asked H to put the monitor on his side of the bed so I could snooze for a few more minutes before B woke up too. He's all annoyed because he only got 4.5 hours of sleep. DUDE NO. You had friends over by choice, slept a solid stretch longer than I did all night, and I didn't ask you to get up with B once. No way man.
hugs ellebelle, I hope you got some rest today. I am also of the mind that I want to tough it out and not give in to whatever she wants MOTN (playtime, unnecessary nursing, whatever) whereas H gives in and wants to do whatever's easiest.
melody330, big TP to your H. Just no. Nobody feels sorry for that.
Welp. Friday night was most definitely a fluke. Back to multiple wake ups, needing to nurse to go back to sleep. And today she decided that 5:40am was a perfectly acceptable up-for-the-day time. My poor DH today. Very curious what her day will be like.
However, I think she's just about ready to drop her third nap. Saturday she took two long naps and woke from the second at 3:30. We dropped the third nap and just got her to bed closer to 6:30. Same thing yesterday, but she ended up taking a 20 minute cat nap on me around 5:00. I think that might be why her night time was a little messed up both nights. Hoping maybe we're making that change and everything sorts out quickly!
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