Baby is sleeping but his movement monitor keeps going off. For some reason tonight, the night before our big party and the day I have a million things to do it won't stay on his diaper.
New sleep thread? Cause omg, she just pulled off a 9:30-4:3 stretch! It would've been 8-4:30, but she kept waking up in her pack n play and 9:30 was when we gave in.
Post by holliberry28 on Oct 31, 2015 6:57:32 GMT -5
I'm so mad at this morning. We didn't do the cry and console aka ferber for a few days bc M had his 4 month shots and was teething in pain. Last night he fell asleep during his last bottle at 645 and slept til 11:30. I was already sleeping since 9 and DH announces were doing extinction and not giving him the pacifier bc it's a negative sleep association. He cried for 1 hour and 50 minutes. By the time I wanted to go in, I felt it was too late and didn't want to teach him he needed to get so worked up every time to get a response, so we waited it out.
He doesn't read shit, just because the pediatrician said her baby only CIO for 45 min night 1 doesn't mean same for us. I wish I wasn't half asleep when he decided this shit because I wouldn't have agreed.
He fell asleep at 2, we fed him at 4, and up for the day at 6:30. Same shit as if we didn't let him cry. I'm so mad. Now He's exhausted and yawning an hour after waking up so I have him in the swing with his pacifier because I feel so guilty.
I've been up all night. DD has a fever and won't lie down for more than an hour. The few times that it has woken MH up he just sighs really loud and the one time I asked him to help he tapped out after 30 minutes. I want to turn on all the lights.
I'm sorry @imapenguin. I hope she feels better and you can take a long nap today.
What are you doing for the transition, @bubbs119? LO hates the pnp. We have tried putting the newborn napper in there (flat), angling it, & warming the pnp with a rice sock and she wakes up screaming. I'm going to try to wrap myself in the pnp sheet today so she gets my smell.
budders I am so sad for your sleep. My pediatrician kept reminding me yesterday that all this sleep stuff is a phase and eventually it will get better.
I've been trying to transition Owen back to sleeping only in the crib. The first stretch is always 2-3 hours. I've slept probably an hour at that point and stumble through the feeding and lazily put him in the swing. He then sleeps 4-6 hours. After that stretch last night I tried to put him in the crib. He played for 45 minutes. He was happy but tired and not sleeping. I put him in the swing and he was asleep in 5 minutes. So his sleep was 830-1045, 1115-415, 530-8.
I don't know what to do to get him to fall back asleep. He's usually super drowsy or asleep when I put him down. He likes watching his mobile but when it stops he starts playing. If I go back to wind it he sees me and gets super excited.
I'm going to try naps in the crib this weekend, too. I know it's about consistency but he's been sleeping so swell. I don't want to mess it up.
Tl;dr - trying to transition Owen back into crib from swing. Dnw to because sleep has been nice but it needs to happen.
budders I am so sad for your sleep. My pediatrician kept reminding me yesterday that all this sleep stuff is a phase and eventually it will get better.
I've been trying to transition Owen back to sleeping only in the crib. The first stretch is always 2-3 hours. I've slept probably an hour at that point and stumble through the feeding and lazily put him in the swing. He then sleeps 4-6 hours. After that stretch last night I tried to put him in the crib. He played for 45 minutes. He was happy but tired and not sleeping. I put him in the swing and he was asleep in 5 minutes. So his sleep was 830-1045, 1115-415, 530-8.
I don't know what to do to get him to fall back asleep. He's usually super drowsy or asleep when I put him down. He likes watching his mobile but when it stops he starts playing. If I go back to wind it he sees me and gets super excited.
I'm going to try naps in the crib this weekend, too. I know it's about consistency but he's been sleeping so swell. I don't want to mess it up.
Tl;dr - trying to transition Owen back into crib from swing. Dnw to because sleep has been nice but it needs to happen.
Thank you, His teething is out of control, so I'm just impressed that he actually managed to sleep for four hours without waking up. I will say though, it wasn't quite as terrible last night just because I'm home today and didn't have to get up for work. That makes such a difference. And, at least the Mets won!
As for your crib dilemma, I would definitely try to do some naps in there. We had slowly acclimated V to the crib over time. I also bought that little Einstein's crib toy, and sometimes I'll put him in there and turn that on for "positive associations" with the crib. I do also think that sleeping in bed with me has made him prefer the crib mattress over the PnP, though I don't necessarily recommend that strategy.
He's been crap napping recently during weekends so there have been more naps with me in my bed. Not going to lie, I love napping with him. I wish I could do it more. I'd been thinking it might help the transition. I also realized his swing can be reclined to an almost lying down position so he'll be using it like that from now on.
Post by carolyngrace on Oct 31, 2015 10:18:58 GMT -5
Is anyone else doing the swaddle transition anytime soon? We started yesterday with one arm out. He had great naps that way. So we did it again last night.
He did pretty well! Three wake ups, which is one more than last night but not nearly as bad as I anticipated.
Is anyone else doing the swaddle transition anytime soon? We started yesterday with one arm out. He had great naps that way. So we did it again last night.
He did pretty well! Three wake ups, which is one more than last night but not nearly as bad as I anticipated.
Zero advice, as we stopped swaddling after a month or so. He just gets warm jammies or a sleep sack. But good luck!
Post by wegrowsheep on Oct 31, 2015 23:30:21 GMT -5
Fx that tonight is better. T fell asleep right after I posted last night, on DH's chest. Apparently, he gave him to me at 3ish to nurse. I woke up with him in my lap at 5am, fed him (again) and put him in his pnp. That lasted about 30 minutes, and then DH rocked him to sleep on the recliner and passed out til 7.
So tired.
And why will my children not sleep!? I didn't even let them eat a ton of candy! OMG STOP ASKING ME QUESTIONS AND WHINING AND TALKING. YOU CANNOT SLEEP WITH BALLOONS OR CANDY.
Post by littlemissgrump on Nov 1, 2015 4:05:24 GMT -5
Joolschweets I hope you feel better soon. FFSC I used to think hairpats, when typed hairpets, were little creatures that lived in hair. Fake or real doesn't matter, just pets in hair.
I made it all the way until the fall back now I'm dream feeding the babe so he'll hopefully give me a good stretch. It wasn't a good idea to stay up so late.
Swing to crib transition night 2 went better than night 1. 8-1030 in crib, 1115-130 in crib, 1-415 in swing, 5-630 in swing. So only 1/2 the night in the swing not 3/4. But there was an extra wake up and his soothing skills still suck. When I crawled back into bed around 2 and told DH that I put him in the swing with hopes of 4 hours in a row he said "At least we get an extra hour of sleep tonight." I shouted "NO I DON'T, I'M A MOM."
So it's 7:09, I've had 2 fun size Milky Ways and a cupcake.
Jude doesn't give a shit about daylight savings. He went to bed around 9, so I expected a 2ish wake up, as his normal is 3am. Nope. He slept an extra hour before his motn feeding. My boobs were rock hard. But I can't complain too much. He woke up at 5:45 and then dozed after his feeding until H came in and set up the pump for me. Fingers crossed its the same tonight. Work is going to suck tomorrow if he suddenly decides that the time change has thrown him off.
We got another awesome stretch from ~10-3:30 (after an hour trying to get her to stay in the pack n play) and then she slept until 7! It took her a half hour to fall asleep after her 3:30 wake up so h got up with her and he's been up since 4:30, oops. I slept until 8, so I'm feeling pretty amazing right now.
Post by holliberry28 on Nov 2, 2015 7:54:13 GMT -5
I'm sorry budders that V isn't feeling well again. Poor little guy.
After worrying that M would fall asleep at 6 last night was happy we got him to stay up til 7. Still woke up at 11:15 and DH decided to feed him ( I wanted to let him cry for 1-2 5 min stretches to see if he was really hungry and push the motn feeding back later.
After that he was up at 12.1,2,3 am he put him in the swing and left it ON and i went in 20 min later to shut it off. Crying again at 4:30 but managed to hold him/sleep with him on the daybed in his room til 6:30.
I think it's teething but how do ppl sleep train if their babies are teething every night?
Also whenever we soothe him it's always worse the rest of the night- but how do you not if you aren't sure if they're in pain??
holliberry28 Owen sleeps in his swing with it running for hours. We're working out way back to the crib at night but his longest stretch in the swing had been 5 hours.
Post by seannemairi on Nov 2, 2015 15:13:58 GMT -5
mother of god. After 2.5 weeks of a cold that kept getting worse I took her to the Dr. and she has a double ear infection and a sinus infection so she's been on antibiotics since last Tuesday. she's still stuffy so she's been waking up several times a night after sleeping well even while sick. Now she's decided to roll over onto her belly in the rock n play in the middle of the night so needless to say we've had to retire it. NOW she refuses to be laid flat so the pack n play and crib are going to be a fight every night until she gives in to one of them. It's seriously one thing after another. She's also refusing to nap during the day since Saturday. My poor sister is watching her while I'm at work and she hasn't slept a wink all day and has been screaming the whole time. I'm so defeated.
holliberry28 Owen sleeps in his swing with it running for hours. We're working out way back to the crib at night but his longest stretch in the swing had been 5 hours.
Do you leave the swing on high? We were all transitioned to the crib- he used to sleep in the swing all night up until a month ago- but we had turned it off after he fell asleep.
holliberry28 Owen sleeps in his swing with it running for hours. We're working out way back to the crib at night but his longest stretch in the swing had been 5 hours.
Do you leave the swing on high? We were all transitioned to the crib- he used to sleep in the swing all night up until a month ago- but we had turned it off after he fell asleep.
It's on the slowest setting. If it stops he wakes up. We've almost made it back to just crib at night. I had a 3 day weekend so I was willing to lose some sleep. Hopefully my resolve will stay strong throughout the week and we can be done with it soon.
Naps are still in the swing. I figure once he has soothing skills at night time we'll work on the daytime ones.
Post by holliberry28 on Nov 2, 2015 20:09:46 GMT -5
I know the general consensus here is if your LO turns on their belly too leave them, but M turns on his belly over his fists which he proceeds to shove in his mouth. He hasn't seemed to learn to turn his head to the side when on his belly, without his hands in front of his face. Should I worry about that? He's not consistently rolling all the time, it seems really random.
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