How often does she feed during the day? Is she awake often?
every two to three hours'
some days more than others, upp all yesterday and half the night, sleep the other half she'll fall asleep and then as soon as i put her down she is awake and screaming and wont stop til i pickh er up and then she is wide awake
Sounds like you're doing everything right. The only thing I can think of is that it takes babies 20 minutes to go into a deep sleep, so waiting a while longer to set her down could help. I'm sure it's not fun when you're exhausted and just want to sleep, but maybe it could help in the long run. I second swaddling as well - I'm in love with the A&A easy swaddles.
Post by missjenniebean on Jun 20, 2015 14:31:58 GMT -5
dogmama22, budders, she is normally swaddled because it does seem to helpp...I was thinking the incline thing as well because I try and put her in her crib and she doesn't seem to like being flat...she seems to spit up a lot when laid flat, even after burping....I'll have to try waiting longer than I normally do.
dogmama22, budders, she is normally swaddled because it does seem to helpp...I was thinking the incline thing as well because I try and put her in her crib and she doesn't seem to like being flat...she seems to spit up a lot when laid flat, even after burping....I'll have to try waiting longer than I normally do.
Thanks ladies!
Tips for nighttime sleep
-swaddling
-When you lay the baby down in the crib swaddled leave one hand firmly pressed on their chest for over a minute. It makes them think you are still holding them
- with the other hand press down on the crib mattress gently over and over for a minute to create a bouncing motion. again this makes them think they are still being held long enough to put them back in deep sleep.
-white noise in the nursery or your room since babies usually don't like silence at all.
-complete darkness can scare them so I'm assuming you have a nightlight?
- experiment w different pjs. Maybe your baby is too hot or cold. Mine prefers wearing long sleeve cotton pjs but with no footie and then swaddled. With the footie she was too hot.
dogmama22, budders, she is normally swaddled because it does seem to helpp...I was thinking the incline thing as well because I try and put her in her crib and she doesn't seem to like being flat...she seems to spit up a lot when laid flat, even after burping....I'll have to try waiting longer than I normally do.
Thanks ladies!
Tips for nighttime sleep
-swaddling
-When you lay the baby down in the crib swaddled leave one hand firmly pressed on their chest for over a minute. It makes them think you are still holding them
- with the other hand press down on the crib mattress gently over and over for a minute to create a bouncing motion. again this makes them think they are still being held long enough to put them back in deep sleep.
-white noise in the nursery or your room since babies usually don't like silence at all.
-complete darkness can scare them so I'm assuming you have a nightlight?
- experiment w different pjs. Maybe your baby is too hot or cold. Mine prefers wearing long sleeve cotton pjs but with no footie and then swaddled. With the footie she was too hot.
Post by carolyngrace on Jun 21, 2015 1:18:19 GMT -5
I hate DH right now. I knew it would be hard for him to adjust to life with a baby, but staying up until 2am two nights in a row on the weekend is just fucking stupid. So great, I have to get up anyway every 3 hours to feed this baby. And he is being hard to put down so I'm up for at least a half hour each time. So I'll feel like shit tomorrow morning and he'll be dead asleep because he chose to hang out doing nothing until the middle of the night. I know we need to talk about this head on but I'm feeling like being a huge passive aggressive bitch right now.
Staying at my IL tonight. I accidentally left my glass of water on the dresser and now there's a water mark on it. I feel terrible! That has never happened with any of my furniture at home! Also, I have no idea when DH is supposed to show up tomorrow because he decided to go fishing and camping. He originally told me a week ago that he was only going to go fishing. I'm royally ticked and no longer feel bad about not having anything special planned for his first Father's Day.
Ugh... end rant. At least baby has been good tonight!
Barely survived the last few days, that second night about killed my nipples. We finally get to leave the hospital today! Baby girl has been on a bili blanket for the last day so hopefully her bilirubin levels have gone down. My BP is still just as high as it was when I was pregnant so I have yet to be discharged as well. Looks like I'll be getting BP meds. Hoping that baby girl won't need the biliblanket anymore. Also, my breastmilk came in this morning! Yay! (:
things that worked for our son was a white noise machine/sleep sheep. Also a light up/musical fish tank that you attached to crib.
Unfortunately though the best thing for my son was to sleep on his tummy. We started with letting him sleep like that during nap time fully supervised (he would fall asleep on blanket on floor). Then at 10 weeks we let him sleep like that at night.
I'm hoping this kiddo prefers sleeping on his back!
Good luck I hope you find something that works for you
DS preferred to sleep on tummy too. As soon as he could roll over I think at 3 months the sleep got so much better when we stopped swaddling and let him roll over to his tummy for sleeping.
Post by carolyngrace on Jun 22, 2015 2:48:20 GMT -5
Had two great stretches of sleep: 8-11pm and 1130-3am. Now of course I have wide awake and cluster feeding. Why at 4am does sleep sound like the best thing in the whole world? Why didn't I go right to sleep at 8pm with DB?
Post by baytosa2013 on Jun 22, 2015 2:48:26 GMT -5
I'm sitting in DD's nursery feeding her for the first time. DH goes back to work tomorrow so I didn't want to wake him as much as possible. She only took one ounce and is passed out. She slept 4 hours before this so she's going to be a hungry girl the next go around. I got both pooped and peed on yesterday..in the same diaper change. All DH and I could do was laugh hysterically.
Post by pghtruelove on Jun 22, 2015 2:52:47 GMT -5
J is feeding so well! She has latched everytime so far(probably jinxing myself but I'm so proud!!) just finished on one boob and waiting out the hiccups! For as much as she had them in the womb Im sure she'll get them a lot now! I am so happy here holding her.
Post by carolyngrace on Jun 22, 2015 3:47:04 GMT -5
Almost 5am.. He's got to be tired by now... Right? My bed sounds soooo good! I just scarfed down some cereal while he cried, then started the entire diaper/nurse/rock/attempt to lay down routine over again. Not sure why I just don't bring him to bed. I might if this time doesn't work.
I hate DH right now. I knew it would be hard for him to adjust to life with a baby, but staying up until 2am two nights in a row on the weekend is just fucking stupid. So great, I have to get up anyway every 3 hours to feed this baby. And he is being hard to put down so I'm up for at least a half hour each time. So I'll feel like shit tomorrow morning and he'll be dead asleep because he chose to hang out doing nothing until the middle of the night. I know we need to talk about this head on but I'm feeling like being a huge passive aggressive bitch right now.
I'm sorry you are going through this carolyngrace. This was my situation with hubby while we adjusted to baby #1. My irritation and resentment built up to the point that after a year our relationship really started to struggle. We sought counseling, and DH decided he needed to continue it on his own for a few months to deal with his issues adjusting to life as a parent after 40 plus glorious years of doing whatever he pleased. I had to put in serious work journaling about my feelings that had built up in order to let go of the resentment and restore our relationship. My husband admits that it really helped him to have a male counselor who was a father give him a reality check about the situation too and he realized he was being overly selfish about wanting his freedom. Seeing how much more he appreciates his family post counseling has been heartwarming and I cannot recommend enough good communication starting now! Thoughts are with you.
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