I'm pretty ready to try. I might try it out tonight in fact since I have tomorrow off and little one goes to daycare so I'd it's a rough night I can just bring him to school then come home and sleep. I'll keep you guys posted. Thanks so much for the advice!
We've also had lots of luck with baby massage. It really seems to calm him down. We originally were only doing it on bath night, but he sleeps so much better I do it every night now. B isn't a perfect sleeper by any means, but it seems to help him calm down
Dumb question, but you massage his back? Or body in general? I can't wrap my mind around a baby massage and them liking it.
We've also had lots of luck with baby massage. It really seems to calm him down. We originally were only doing it on bath night, but he sleeps so much better I do it every night now. B isn't a perfect sleeper by any means, but it seems to help him calm down
Dumb question, but you massage his back? Or body in general? I can't wrap my mind around a baby massage and them liking it.
lol! I'm not sure how other people do it, but I "massage" with lotion. I lightly squeeze & flex each arm and leg. On his tummy and chest i just make circular motions, pressing lightly. Then I twist him side to side and run my fingers down each side of his back. It's much more fluid than an adult massage.
Dumb question, but you massage his back? Or body in general? I can't wrap my mind around a baby massage and them liking it.
lol! I'm not sure how other people do it, but I "massage" with lotion. I lightly squeeze & flex each arm and leg. On his tummy and chest i just make circular motions, pressing lightly. Then I twist him side to side and run my fingers down each side of his back. It's much more fluid than an adult massage.
I need to try this. Also, got some of the bedtime bath soap by Johnson&Johnson which I meant to try tonight but forgot. Will try tomorrow. Any one had good luck with that? The bottle says it can help them sleep better and I'm such a sucker I totally bought it. It's prob just the bath that helps them sleep, but we already do that...
DD was up coughing all night. We just got back from the doctor and she has RSV. Noooooooooo! I just had to whine about this somewhere. Thankfully she doesn't have a wheezy sounding cough and I'm hoping the breathing treatments will keep it at bay.
Do you guys ever lose track of time when putting LO to bed after a middle of night wake up? Ali had her shots today and she also has a stuffed nose so she isn't herself tonight. She threw up twice before bedtime then went down easy but then woke at 1030 and I tried to put her in the crib 7 times and she was asleep but making this high pitched noise and then it progressed to crying each time. Ugh. Now it's 1230 and I'm still in here trying to get her in her crib 2 hours later!
We've also had lots of luck with baby massage. It really seems to calm him down. We originally were only doing it on bath night, but he sleeps so much better I do it every night now. B isn't a perfect sleeper by any means, but it seems to help him calm down
Dumb question, but you massage his back? Or body in general? I can't wrap my mind around a baby massage and them liking it.
I don't put him on his tummy because it stimulates B rather than relaxes him. I usually sit down with him in our rocker and rub his back with him laying chest to chest with me. We use the johnsons sleepytime wash and lotion. He definitely sleeps better on nights we do it vs. nights we dont
DD was up coughing all night. We just got back from the doctor and she has RSV. Noooooooooo! I just had to whine about this somewhere. Thankfully she doesn't have a wheezy sounding cough and I'm hoping the breathing treatments will keep it at bay.
Poor baby! I hope she feels better soon and you got some rest!
@poppyc8, hope your LO was able to settle down and sleep after a rough start to the night.
3:30 on is hell. Have a bottle, then he only sleeps in spurts and then fusses and wakes himself up again. Slept on me, to the swing, back to me, nothing could get him back in a deep sleep.
Do you guys ever lose track of time when putting LO to bed after a middle of night wake up? Ali had her shots today and she also has a stuffed nose so she isn't herself tonight. She threw up twice before bedtime then went down easy but then woke at 1030 and I tried to put her in the crib 7 times and she was asleep but making this high pitched noise and then it progressed to crying each time. Ugh. Now it's 1230 and I'm still in here trying to get her in her crib 2 hours later!
Did she get the oral rotavirus vaccine? DS got that yesterday and had diarrhea 2x overnight and was way fussier than usual and up every hour :/
Do you guys ever lose track of time when putting LO to bed after a middle of night wake up? Ali had her shots today and she also has a stuffed nose so she isn't herself tonight. She threw up twice before bedtime then went down easy but then woke at 1030 and I tried to put her in the crib 7 times and she was asleep but making this high pitched noise and then it progressed to crying each time. Ugh. Now it's 1230 and I'm still in here trying to get her in her crib 2 hours later!
Did she get the oral rotavirus vaccine? DS got that yesterday and had diarrhea 2x overnight and was way fussier than usual and up every hour :/
Yes she had the rotavirus plus 2 other shots. During the day she was super easy going then after 4pm she started to get super fussy and it went downhill from there
DD was up coughing all night. We just got back from the doctor and she has RSV. Noooooooooo! I just had to whine about this somewhere. Thankfully she doesn't have a wheezy sounding cough and I'm hoping the breathing treatments will keep it at bay.
Poor baby! I hope she feels better soon and you got some rest!
@poppyc8, hope your LO was able to settle down and sleep after a rough start to the night.
3:30 on is hell. Have a bottle, then he only sleeps in spurts and then fusses and wakes himself up again. Slept on me, to the swing, back to me, nothing could get him back in a deep sleep.
330 on has always been hell for us too. She is so hard to resettle after the MOTN feed.
Did she get the oral rotavirus vaccine? DS got that yesterday and had diarrhea 2x overnight and was way fussier than usual and up every hour :/
Yes she had the rotavirus plus 2 other shots. During the day she was super easy going then after 4pm she started to get super fussy and it went downhill from there
Please tell me this ends soon. He hasn't slept all day, I've been trying to put him to bed for 5.5 hours now and he's so tired but will not drop off. He's feeding every 45 mins and screaming blue murder in between. SO left the house at 7am, just got back in at midnight and is out cold after sayinf hed help.I'm so tired and am desperately trying to get rid of a cold but looks like that's not happening. I'm just going to be tired and sick forever
I'd take a couple advil and drink a glass of wine before his next feed. Seriously.
Aaaand now it's 10 minutes later and she's crying again. Fml
I did the same thing a couple weeks ago but it was nap time. We let him cry way too long because he "couldn't be" hungry again. Then I finally tried feeding him and he gulped it down.
You're not a bad parent and you didn't scar her for life, don't worry! Hope she goes back down now. Probably letting her cry will do the trick this time since she has a full belly.
As to why she's needing fed more often lately, these babies are crazy!
My husband is the least helpful person in the morning, I swear. He can hear her rnp moving when she wakes up from downstairs apparently. She was stirring and I intercepted her with a pacifier and next thing I know he's bounding up the stairs and opening the door with the bright hallway light on. I shoo him away and he shuts the door, then thirty seconds later the door is open and he's propping it open! Ugh. I really shooed him away then and I think he was mad. I'm sure I'll hear "I just wanted to see my baby!" since he's working a long day. Well, I just wanted to sleep!
Add me to the DD has her first cold coinciding with immunizations and regression and teething... Boo I feel so awful for her. We can't even lay her on her back because her nose stuffs up and she hates it. Lots and lots of cuddles and BFing happening here all day yesterday and last night. We finally had a decent weekend of sleep too and then she woke up with a cold yesterday of course.
Oh yay, I was going to pick her up after she fell asleep nursing and got rewarded with a handful of spit up. Of course, wiping it off her face and my hand woke her up. I'm hoping she's drowsy enough to go back to sleep without further intervention...
Another rough night. Baby colds blow. She went to sleep at 730 then woke up so far at 830, 930 and 1030. The last wake up i couldn't get her down in her crib at all so gave up and she is sleeping in the RNP. I feel like I'm losing my mind.
Aww guys I'm sorry, it totally sucks. @poppyc8 its been going on a little while for you, correct? Here's to hoping you've had your fair share and its on its way out
Night in summary - train wreck 7-1, sleep 1-430. Pumping and stuffing my face with milk and cookies now. Costco cookies are amazing. Dreading tomorrow's 4 month needles and appt so can't get back to sleep.
Thank you guys. The whole night was disaster. She was up every hour the entire night! It's been going on for 3 nights now. Really wanting her cold to end asap to she can breathe and sleep!
Another rough night. Baby colds blow. She went to sleep at 730 then woke up so far at 830, 930 and 1030. The last wake up i couldn't get her down in her crib at all so gave up and she is sleeping in the RNP. I feel like I'm losing my mind.
So sorry, this is how our nights have been for a while because of V's cold.. I end up just bringing him in bed with me because the only way he will settle is to be held. I hope you were able to get a little bit of sleep and that she was too. Hope she feels better soon!
I tried bringing her to bed but she wakes up and screams. So I end up just holding her and semi sleeping in our glider chair all night.
Read your latest post- I'm glad you had a better night last night!
Post by holliberry28 on Oct 15, 2015 13:46:19 GMT -5
@imapenguin, is the book you were referring to about the eating less frequently called "The 12 hours sleep by 12 weeks old?" It says you should feed 4 times every 4 hours and thats it. Apparently, the French do this as well for their babies, according to the author of "Bringing up Bebe"
The author of "Happy Sleeper" says to start the 5 minute (Cry-it-out) after 5 months, but that some 4 month olds are ready too. I couldn't take the 3, and 4, and 5, and 6 wakeups so we started this two days ago.
M slept in his crib from 7:30 to 11:30, woke up crying. We waited for 5 min, came in said we loved him and gave him the paci, and he went back to sleep til 1:15. Cue crying for 45 minutes so that means I went in every 5 minutes, 9 times? He finally only fell asleep for 5 minutes or so, so I fed him at 2:15. Then he passed out til 5:45. Woke up and put him in the swing and he slept for another hour. That's the most he's every slept in the crib though so that's one good thing.
I was waiting to feed him for his 3 am wakeup but he never had one. In retrospect, I should have fed him at 1:15 when he woke up, but I thought that would just lead to the continued wakeups every hour.
He's nowhere close to eating every 4 hours.
And it doesnt help that my cat starting meowing at 5 am when I couldve still gotten another 45 min of uninteruppted sleep. Mattthew at 1:15: wah, wah, finds finger, silence....Maggie (the cat) Meow. Pause. Meow. Cue Matthew screaming for 5 minutes, pacifier, silence...Maggie: Meow. Pause. Meow. DH and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Post by carolyngrace on Oct 15, 2015 14:45:46 GMT -5
holliberry28 why didn't you feed him at 11:30 since that was 4 hours? It seems like it was the right thing since he then slept almost 2 more hours but I'm curious.
holliberry28 why didn't you feed him at 11:30 since that was 4 hours? It seems like it was the right thing since he then slept almost 2 more hours but I'm curious.
@caroylngrace, I'm not following the 4 hour rule yet, but when I start to gradual increase the 3 hours to 4, it'll be for daytime.
I didn't feed him at 11:15 bc he used to sleep til 3 am, which turned to 1 am and 12 am, so I know he's capable of sleeping at least 6 hours for his first stretch. Basically think the 11:15 was out of habit or some other reason than hunger. He's also been eating close to 25 oz during the day so i don't see a physical need for him to have more than 1 motn feed. I hope I'm not abusing my child! I just want to teach him to self soothe.
That's the one holliberry28! She's doing well with eatig every 4 hours, but we were already going 3 so it wasn't a huge stretch. I'm going to give it another couple of days and then start step 2 with is eliminating night time feedings. I expect that to be much tougher since she's currently eating 3 times a night. I like the gradual approach though, so hopefully it won't be awful.
I haven't read the book, so I figured I'd tackle MOTN feeds before increasing the size and time of the meals. Does she provide a rational for increasing the 4 hours/4 times a day before getting rid of nighttime feedings?
holliberry28 why didn't you feed him at 11:30 since that was 4 hours? It seems like it was the right thing since he then slept almost 2 more hours but I'm curious.
@caroylngrace, I'm not following the 4 hour rule yet, but when I start to gradual increase the 3 hours to 4, it'll be for daytime.
I didn't feed him at 11:15 bc he used to sleep til 3 am, which turned to 1 am and 12 am, so I know he's capable of sleeping at least 6 hours for his first stretch. Basically think the 11:15 was out of habit or some other reason than hunger. He's also been eating close to 25 oz during the day so i don't see a physical need for him to have more than 1 motn feed. I hope I'm not abusing my child! I just want to teach him to self soothe.
That makes sense! Sounds like you're on the right track. Oscars "typical" has been 11:30/3:30/up at 7 though each night is slightly different. I don't think he needs that first feed either but he doesn't take a paci and will scream bloody murder if I don't feed him. Will probably do CIO after 6 months if he doesn't drop a feeding but I'm hoping he will naturally.
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