Post by meritsamomma on Jan 16, 2015 7:52:18 GMT -5
Ready to kill DH right now. K had been sleeping well in her crib, usually waking only once around 3 or 4 and I'd get her down and that was that. Started letting her CIO just before Xmas at advice from Dr and desire to myself sleep through the night. Then she got her first cold and couldn't breathe. She'd only sleep on my chest. This was fine for a week or so until she wasn't sick anymore. Now here we are three weeks later and she's still wanting to sleep on me. I can get her back to sleep easily enough until I put her down and she instantly starts crying again. I was letting her CIO just now and DH starts saying I need to go get her, she's been crying an hour (actually 10 min) and I need to let her sleep on me. I said she needs to sleep in her crib. He's now in there letting her sleep on him. I am so pissed at him. Vent over.
Is this just sleep easy or can I commiserate about how my baby stopped sleeping and I'm too scared to let her CIO? She nurses approximately 4-5 times between 12 and 6. Until a month ago she STTN, and its gone downhill since then. I'm so tired.
meritsamomma Getting sick throws them off so much! Sometimes it seems like babies always get sick right when the sleep schedule has started going well. I'm sorry your DH didn't respect your wishes about sleeping.
Is this just sleep easy or can I commiserate about how my baby stopped sleeping and I'm too scared to let her CIO? She nurses approximately 4-5 times between 12 and 6. Until a month ago she STTN, and its gone downhill since then. I'm so tired.
I was wondering this too. I don't follow sleep easy but had a question of how the hell to get Easton to sleep in his freaking crib? He is in an arms reach co sleeper right now but he's getting to mobile and big for it but as soon as he is put in the crib he freaks. We are trying to just let him play in there during the day now to get used to it, but wasn't sure if anyone else had any thoughts.
Btw, sjdihle, E was STTN too until about three weeks ago and is now up numerous times. I read somewhere it was because of developmental leap at six months or so but not sure. All I know is I'm tired!
marsinvestigations- According to the app its a little early for a "leap" but she exhibits all the signs... Especially "nagging" for the boob. I swear when I'm with her she wants to nurse every 30 minutes.
Post by meritsamomma on Jan 16, 2015 12:56:58 GMT -5
sjdihle and marsinvestigations I was never part of the Sleep Easy board because I've honestly been winging it and don't really follow a method. I figured just a "Sleep Thread" would cover it for everyone and if the Sleep Easy crew comes over they can start that thread up again? As for transitioning to crib... we did it at about two and a half months. The biggest success came from having K take her naps in the crib. It seemed to ease the transition for her since naps are generally a lot shorter than night cycles. At our last appt (6m) the ped said that there was no longer any nutritional need for MOTN feeds and that it was a good time to let her CIO. She said basically we should do it when we were ready but to keep in mind the older she gets the harder the transition will be. She also said we'd be in for a week of hell but after that it would be done... we got through 4 nights before she got sick and it all went out the window! I think teething is our biggest enemy right now as well as the fact that miss sassy pants has gone from crawling to pulling herself up to cruising and trying to walk in a matter of 4 weeks and her little body isn't ready for it yet. She was 3 weeks early! She falls a decent amount and she's super tired and cranky all day on top of her gums. It's been a blast. ashanne88 TY! I told DH this morning that I am going to let her CIO and that it's up to him if he wants to go in to her but that I'm not doing it anymore. I'm exhausted and she was making such good progress. I don't want to let the regression get any worse!
marsinvestigations- According to the app its a little early for a "leap" but she exhibits all the signs... Especially "nagging" for the boob. I swear when I'm with her she wants to nurse every 30 minutes.
I have the wonder weeks book but I keep forgetting to read it and see when next leap is!
Post by marsinvestigations on Jan 16, 2015 15:35:19 GMT -5
Good luck meritsamomma. Hopefully YH will get on board and help establish a sleep routine that works for you guys. It's exhausting and frustrating.
Unfortunately E is at my moms during the day while I am at work so the only time we can have naps in crib are on the weekends, but I think we will try starting tomorrow.
Oh man, we aren't the only ones! It sucks, but somehow that makes me feel better. LO is 6 months and 1 week so a little younger than most on the board since she was 2 weeks late. Her weight is now up to the 25th percentile from the 10th at her 4 month apt. She has only STTN once and it was New Years so a bit of a waste for me. Since then though and turning 6 months she has started waking every 2-4 hours. Up until now I haven't really tried weaning her too much because her weight was low. Pediatrician said she shouldn't need to during the night and let her lead when she wants to eat. But since that advice she has started waking more and more. She's up at 10 and 2 most nights and also 12 and 4 other nights. We did the Ferber method for her bedtime sleep and naps which has worked wonderfully. I don't want to go through that again during the night. Boo, I just want her to sleep so I don't have to make the decision to cut her off. meritsamomma it's so hard if everyone isn't on the same page
@charsam meritsamomma The reason LO is still in our room is that we can't get on the same page to move her. One of us will make the suggestion and the other one will end up freaking out and saying no. I don't wanna make about a joke about her going to college and sleeping by herself for the first time because my husbands cousin legit slept on a cot in his parents room until he left for college.
sjdihle and marsinvestigations I was never part of the Sleep Easy board because I've honestly been winging it and don't really follow a method. I figured just a "Sleep Thread" would cover it for everyone and if the Sleep Easy crew comes over they can start that thread up again? As for transitioning to crib... we did it at about two and a half months. The biggest success came from having K take her naps in the crib. It seemed to ease the transition for her since naps are generally a lot shorter than night cycles. At our last appt (6m) the ped said that there was no longer any nutritional need for MOTN feeds and that it was a good time to let her CIO. She said basically we should do it when we were ready but to keep in mind the older she gets the harder the transition will be. She also said we'd be in for a week of hell but after that it would be done... we got through 4 nights before she got sick and it all went out the window! I think teething is our biggest enemy right now as well as the fact that miss sassy pants has gone from crawling to pulling herself up to cruising and trying to walk in a matter of 4 weeks and her little body isn't ready for it yet. She was 3 weeks early! She falls a decent amount and she's super tired and cranky all day on top of her gums. It's been a blast. ashanne88 TY! I told DH this morning that I am going to let her CIO and that it's up to him if he wants to go in to her but that I'm not doing it anymore. I'm exhausted and she was making such good progress. I don't want to let the regression get any worse!
Our pedi said something similar - that at 6 months they should be able to STTN. But she said that since DS's weight gain has been slowing way down, she would continue to do a MOTN feeding as long as I was still up for it. I have been able to get DS to sleep through the night recently by waking up and feeding him before he wakes up hungry. I dreamfeed him around 2 and he can make it to 6am now. I know without the dreamfeed he wouldn't make it through the night.
I've been doing my own kind of version of SleepEasy and it's gone pretty well (in the week I've been doing it - I really hope I didn't just jinx myself). We'll see how that changes though when DS gets sick again or starts teething.
I also say naps in the crib to help LO adjust to it. I've been putting DS in his crib to nap on weekends since November, although taking naps doesn't really happen for us at home, which is it's own problem. He seemed a little confused the first night he was put in there but transitioned alright. I think he recognized his surroundings.
sjdihle I know the struggle you're going through! It took us forever to put DS in his own room. I'm still sad about it.
marsinvestigations Have you tried moving the co-sleeper to E's room? When we transitioned DS from the RnP to crib, we had him sleep in the RnP in his room for two weeks. Then we moved him to the crib. He needed to get used to sleeping actually IN his room first.
Thanks! For some reason this has never crossed my mind - I blame sleep deprivation. He has actually never slept a wink in his own room so I'm sure it would freak him out to go straight to a new bed in a new room. Tonight is the night for the switch out of our bedroom. I had MH bring the air mattress up so I can sleep in There for the first few nights. I think I might be over thinking this.
Post by marsinvestigations on Jan 17, 2015 20:22:24 GMT -5
So E is currently asleep in the co sleeper in his own room. He kind of flipped out during the bedtime routine but for now he is sleeping. We will see how long it last.
Well she has suddenly decided she likes to roll in her crib and is now rolling all over it and screaming because she can't sleep. I put her onto her back one time and I've been doing check-ins. This sucks. I've seen her on the monitor go onto her back but she goes right back onto her belly and just keeps crying and she bumped her head on the crib bars a couple of times. Thankfully these have the breathable bumpers on them. Please tell me she'll get over this...quickly. It's so hard to watch her be so upset
Post by meritsamomma on Jan 21, 2015 17:54:38 GMT -5
@charsam I agree with @nunzchucks. When K started rolling I just took her to the floor whenever we were home and let her get used to the new movement. I was also putting her down for naps on her tummy (I figured I was awake and watching her in person or via monitor) so she was used to sleeping in either position (she still gets put down on back at night) I've read in other threads that putting some babies down on their side works well too. Either way, she'll get used to her new reality and ability soon, and though they seem so fragile, as a more experience mom friend of mine told me, soon enough they'll be walking and falling all over the place including on pavement and cement and 9 out of 10 times they bounce right back. (doesn't stop my heart palpitations, but maybe it's comfort to you!)
@nunzchucks and meritsamomma thanks. We usually do lots of floor time but today we were out and about and just didn't get to it. She spent her whole third nap rolling and reverse crawling which she thought was fun for the first half hour, but it turned sour the second half hour. She has fallen asleep no problem tonight with an earlier bedtime and no rolling. Hopefully she relaxes a little tonight and we can work on it tomorrow. She's been sleeping terribly the last little while so I guess this was coming?
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