45 minute intruder

[junebugjam]

Anyone else having trouble getting LO to sleep for very long? I noticed mine has been consistently waking from naps after 45 minutes and googled it. Has to do with trouble transitioning through sleep cycles. He'll sleep longer if someone holds him, but I don't think he slept more than 90 minutes in a row last night and it's just not realistic to hold him all night. My H has to work and I need some semblance of rest.

Anyway, I don't understand because he used to sleep longer so I feel like he's going backwards. Anyone have experience with this and how to help him sleep longer? When I pick him up he's right back to sleep, so I know he's still tired.

[krispy83]

Ugh, I remember this with DS! We swaddled at night (so it wasn't an issue then) but not for naps, so he wouldn't sleep more than 45 min unless he was held or worn. What worked for us was going in to his room at about the 35-40 min mark and soothing him at the very first signs of waking. Shushing, rubbing his back or tummy (depending on how he was sleeping) to settle him back to sleep and help him to transition between sleep cycles. He figured it out on his own pretty quickly.

[toadandbuggie]

Yes. My LO had no problem for his first few weeks of life and suddenly he stopped being able to sleep longer than 1/2 hour or so. Yesterday and today he's been able to sleep for a few hours though and I'm not doing anything different.

My only advice is to swaddle (since hand jerk movements startle them awake). But I feel Ya - hang in there it's rough.

[mommadozer]

LO does wake himself while napping but, he doesn't cry. He makes noises and will eventually go back to sleep.

[junebugjam]

We swaddle when he's fussy but not consistently. He gets out of the swaddle and then I worry about the blanket if we're also sleeping. But we never swaddled much and he used to sleep longer without it.

[aggiebug]

Do you have a white noise machine?

[2mrsks (mrs&mrsk)]

We are gonna need to try this again too. Dw had to call in sick today bc no sleep. We haven't been swaddling. The rnp and white noise had been working but we need to get back to swaddling- the ones that are premade are less scary

[angeldcf]

Yep. We turned down the volume on the baby monitor to solve the problem.


We swaddle. With DS, I went in at every little coo/noise and he was up every 2 hrs. With her, I wait until she's really fussing to get her. She'll make a lot of noises/kicks legs but usually goes back to sleep.

[junebugjam]

Yes to white noise machine. Doesn't seem to help. I swaddled him and he's sleeping now in the RNP. My H combined two RNPs so he's vibrating and rocking simultaneously. It's only been about 20 minutes, so we'll see. I do try to let him work it out before I pick him up, but he goes from 0 to 60 pretty fast usually.

My husband insisted we call the doctor (he's anxiety ridden) so we're waiting for a call back, but I don't see them telling us anything we're not doing.

Thanks for all the advice, ladies.

[PikoPiko]

I have the same issue with DS. I have the white noise maker, a mobile with music and micracle swaddle. Without fail, he'd wake up an hour after he falls asleep and needs patting or holding to get back to sleep. If he's held, he'd sleep for 3+ hours continuously without fussing.

I've seen a doctor and he wasn't of more help. Just that babies are like that, it's normal. Realistically, DS only sleeps for about 6 hours a day.

[babycfeb2015]

Mar 24, 2015 19:39:34 GMT -5 PikoPiko said:

I have the same issue with DS. I have the white noise maker, a mobile with music and micracle swaddle. Without fail, he'd wake up an hour after he falls asleep and needs patting or holding to get back to sleep. If he's held, he'd sleep for 3+ hours continuously without fussing.

I've seen a doctor and he wasn't of more help. Just that babies are like that, it's normal. Realistically, DS only sleeps for about 6 hours a day.

6 hours a day?! Thats horrible! You poor thing

[mishka29]

Mar 24, 2015 19:39:34 GMT -5 PikoPiko said:

I have the same issue with DS. I have the white noise maker, a mobile with music and micracle swaddle. Without fail, he'd wake up an hour after he falls asleep and needs patting or holding to get back to sleep. If he's held, he'd sleep for 3+ hours continuously without fussing.

I've seen a doctor and he wasn't of more help. Just that babies are like that, it's normal. Realistically, DS only sleeps for about 6 hours a day.

6 hours during the day or does that include night time sleep as well?