How are the non-sleeping babies doing?

[TrudyCampbell]

Are you guys getting any more sleep?

ladybug
eav2c
creamsiclechica

Who am I forgetting? 

[laurack]

Dorothy Zbornak but she's off boozin while butterbaby suckles on his daddy's skin folds instead

[katfco]

I'm not sure if we count or not. He was getting up 2-3 times a night and for a few months would take an hour plus to get back down for at least one of the sessions. Now, he's down to 1-2 times a night and he's getting better at going back to sleep quickly.

Still won't go to sleep without a bottle and being held, though. I honestly have no idea how we're going to teach him to go to sleep on his own until we can get him his own room. I think he's just so used to us being in there.

[joyhart02]

Calista is still up two to three times a night and her new favorite thing is to be rocked/held to sleep. She also loves waking up at 4:45/5:00. I get up for work at 5:30, so my days have been starting very early.

[kkfeb04]

I'm always forgotten. Just kidding.

I'm in the no-sleep brigade. I don't know why the 3 year old comes into our bed up to 3 times a night for the past 3 weeks. I can't figure it out. When he's not up, the little one is. By 4 am, both are in our bed. Someone explain to me why toddlers feel the need move around in a circle while sleeping.

[jfh]

Kai's doing a lot better. He almost never STTN, but he also hardly ever gets up more than 3 times. I wish he wasn't such an early bird - he's usually up between 5:30 and 6:30 - but I also need to do a better job of getting myself to bed earlier so it's not so rough for me. Teething threw us for a loop, and I've been nursing him a lot at night, and I'm not sure how/when/if to cut that back again. Overall we're still pretty tired over here but we get to catch up once in awhile, which is great!

Thanks for asking :-)

[jfh]

And of course I have to shout out to spaghetticat and @chelsmonster

[Deleted]

We are still in the 1-4 wake ups a night category.
Blergh.

[silverjm]

We had one glorious week where he was only up twice a night, but then he started getting more teeth. He was up 6 times last night. I'm beginning to think I may never sleep again.

[raynes]

Owen seems to have settled into a 2-3 wake up pattern now that he's been in daycare for a few weeks. He naps there like a champ though. I can handle that nights when he's up twice, but 3 times leaves me a zombie, especially when that happens a few days in a row.

We're thinking we'll try night weaning in a few weekends. We have almost zero time when we're home, so it's hard.

Oh, and while we were away on Saturday night? He only woke up once for my MIL and SIL. So apparently it's me.

[laurack]

Matilda STTN two glorious nights in a row after a rough couple of weeks. Then last night she woke three times but once we didn't have to go in, the other two we took one "visit" to her each and it only took 5-10 minutes of soothing each time. No baby in the bed, no boob given = success

[laurack]

Also for several days in a row she been in bed 8ish to 8ish which is ludicrous! but amazing. I mean for hubby mostly since I have to get up at 6ish anyway. Though the weekend was glorious.

[devonpow]

I'm in the no sleep club due to DH being really stressed and therefore having vivid nightmares that wake me up every night. He flails, elbows me, and last night he FELL OFF THE BED. A 36 year old, 190 pound man falling off the bed and crashing into the nightstand causes some serious noise and a minor heart attack for the other person sleeping in the room.

He said the dream was about a blob-esque alien seeping through a lawn chair that he had to get away from. WTF?

[llamajockey]

We're part of this club too. She wakes about 4-6 times a night. She has to start sleeping through the night at some point right? 

[katie]

I'm back in this club too...one night over the weekend I think she STTN or at least settled herself without needing me to go in. Now she doesn't even want to go down to sleep. We had, I would say a couple months, maybe more that she went down easily sometimes even just drowsy. Now it's a meltdown when I put her in bed. Lots of crying. Usually if I get her at the 10 min cry mark, give her water, rock her to sleep she's been accepting that.

Last night she was up at 2. DH went in and she took about 5 mins of him in there. When he left she cried for just a couple minutes. Then up at 5, cried just for a minute, then up at 6 cried for a minute, then 6:45 up for the day. I have no idea what's going on with her. It's been like this for a few weeks now.

[dbe100408]

Eleanor had this fun time of STTN at about 4 months old, and quit somewhere around 5 months. It was like a horrible tease. She hasn't STTN since. She generally gets up anywhere between 2-4 times per night.

Someday I will sleep again.......

[irishsara]

All I can do is offer these: 

:beer: :drink: :beer: :drink:

And these:

(hug) (hug) (hug)

I'm sorry, girls!! 

Keep up the good fight! 

[thedahliharpa]

11:30, 2:30,3:30, up for today at 5:30. We joined the crappy sleep club late. The night before last I tested how long it would take her to go back to sleep without nursing if I just rocked and cuddled her. It took two hours. Ain't nobody got time for that!

[thedahliharpa]

Jun 4, 2013 8:30:27 GMT -5 devonpow said:

I'm in the no sleep club due to DH being really stressed and therefore having vivid nightmares that wake me up every night. He flails, elbows me, and last night he FELL OFF THE BED. A 36 year old, 190 pound man falling off the bed and crashing into the nightstand causes some serious noise and a minor heart attack for the other person sleeping in the room.

He said the dream was about a blob-esque alien seeping through a lawn chair that he had to get away from. WTF?

DH had punched me twice in his bed but falling off the bed is a new level of mid 30s male nightmares. Maybe you need to slip him a Benadryl before bed.

[monkeybabe]

Zoe only woke 3 times last night, so that was pretty awesome. She also slept until 7, instead of getting up at 4:30 like she had been doing. The last week she had been getting up so early.

[eav2c]

lol, short answer is no! Last night he woke up at 4 and rolled all over me. I guess my supply is going down (which has me seriously depressed) and he seems frustrated. He finally went back down at 5:30 and that was after 3 other wakeups. Only positive is we slept in till 930. Sleep sucks. I think it's time I leave him on the mattress alone (it's set up montessori style) because he seems to do better without me there but emotionally I'm really twisted right now and it's hard to not bedshare. Thanks for asking. I haven't read responses but I know there are quite a few others waking up a lot too.

rainbowchip
@kkfeb06

[creamsiclechica]

Well, with bed sharing, we're getting more overall sleep. But Matt and I have zero us time, lol. He takes her in to put her down, and I go in after they're asleep, otherwise she won't settle. So we don't even get to sit in the couch together anymore, which has been sucking. She'll get up still like 6 times a night, but it's so much easier to get her down this way, it's just what we have to do. Plus I love snuggling her, I must admit. I just have no idea how it's going to work in late pregnancy or with a newborn.

Solidarity for all my sisters in the struggle!

[monkeybabe]

I think we might try switching to a montessori style bed when Zoe can crawl back into bed with us. She's not a climber, so that could be a while. I love having her right there, but I wonder if she'll sleep better in her own space, plus two adults and a growing baby in a queen size bed is going to end up feeling cramped eventually.

[Faevantastic]

Our trip to Canada screwed us. He's gone from total STTN to night wake once a night since. Boohoo.

[monkeybabe]

Jun 4, 2013 8:12:21 GMT -5 kkfeb04 said:

I'm always forgotten. Just kidding.

I'm in the no-sleep brigade. I don't know why the 3 year old comes into our bed up to 3 times a night for the past 3 weeks. I can't figure it out. When he's not up, the little one is. By 4 am, both are in our bed. Someone explain to me why toddlers feel the need move around in a circle while sleeping.

Me too  .



I used to spin around in my sleep. I would wake up with my head at the foot of the bed every morning when I was little.

[bigapple]

After a lovely, hope-filled month of only waking up once per night, we're back to many, many wakings. One molar popped through and a couple are right there, so I suspect that's the culprit. DH's been working OOT the past two weeks, and I'm a lazy bitch, so C is back in bed with me. I know I shouldn't have allowed that again, but he was waking up hourly in his crib. In bed we're down to 3-4 screamy fits.

[Deleted]

Hey! Thanks for asking! To those who feel "forgotten" it's just because you don't complain as much as me

We started sleep training (again) 3 nights ago. It's going... okay. Haha

I didn't want to cut everything cold turkey so the first night I still nursed 12, 3 and 6. The last two nights only 3 and 6. I think tonight I will attempt to skip the 3. Then she sleeps until about 7/730.

Last night was pretty good for other wake ups. Only cried for 1 min at bedtime, 5 min at first wake up, 4 min at third then I nursed her the next two.

Soooo I hope she starts dropping those earlier wakes up tonight! This is the same pattern that it happened last time and she eventually slept 730-430 so I know she can do it.

Sorry for the long response!

[kkfeb04]

eav2c monkeybabe</a>

Enlighten me with this montessori bed thing?  What is this that you speak of?



I also agree a queen size bed is too small for two adults (one of us is larger than the other--- (huh))   and two growing children.  I yell at DH every time since he talked me out of the king bed...his reasoning was he didn't want me to sleep in another zip code.  Oh those were the days.......  Yes, I channeled my inner Edith, may she RIP.

[claralou]

She's still up 1-2 times per night, and wakes up between 5:00-5:30 daily. Given how bad the first 11.5 months were though, I'll absolutely take it! :-)

Hugs to all of you sleepy mamas! It's brutal....

[TrudyCampbell]

Sending all you ladies a very strong cocktail laced with ambien that may or may not transfer in small doses to your breastmilk. MAJOR HUGS to all of you!

This is easy for me to say because my baby usually sleeps BUT at times when I'm exhausted or the crankiness is off the charts I just think of how many people would give anything to be in my shoes. But even if that is true... I hope all these babies learn to love sleeping very, very soon!