Post by spanikopita on Feb 15, 2014 20:26:27 GMT -5
I'll start the thread in hopes that this will be my only post. LOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLL.
DD is killing me with her inability to go to bed for the night. It's like baby hot potato from 7pm until midnight …. set her down, sleep for 10, she cries, we pick her up. Set her down, cry, pick her up. We even tried letting her cry & did intervals 3 nights but DH caves at the 60-90 minute mark (as do I) and I nurse her back down to sleep. Last night, from 12 to 6, I was up every 2 hrs. She's 4 mos. and I feel like I'm going insane.
However, she took a 3 hr nap in her crib today, so there's that.
Seriously? What kind of baby naps like a dream but can't manage to sleep at bedtime? Answer: my baby.
She's been down 30 minutes so far.
ETA - clarification, I did not let her cry for 60 minutes straight. It was constant checking.
AJ went to bed later too, by half an hour or so. We went to dinner with my parents and then to Kohls and since he didn't nap before dinner he crashed HARD in the 10 mins it took us to get back home...I think he was asleep in under 5 minutes. So I nursed him and put him his crib and haven't heard a peep since. He was awake from roughly 3am-330am today(I think he woke up when J got home from work which he doesn't usually) but he just rolled around in his crib and sucked his thumb, we barely heard a peep out of him. So we'll see if tonight's the same way...
Post by dukesilver on Feb 15, 2014 21:23:55 GMT -5
Trying to get DD down for the night. After two rough nights, I'm nervous about how tonight will go. She napped better today than she has in weeks so I'm hoping the whole sleep begets sleep thing will work out for us. spanikopita baby hot potato has been how the past two nights have been for us. She goes down easily for her first stretch, then won't go back down in the bassinet after her first wake up. It's so frustrating.
I'll start the thread in hopes that this will be my only post. LOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLL.
DD is killing me with her inability to go to bed for the night. It's like baby hot potato from 7pm until midnight …. set her down, sleep for 10, she cries, we pick her up. Set her down, cry, pick her up. We even tried letting her cry & did intervals 3 nights but DH caves at the 60-90 minute mark (as do I) and I nurse her back down to sleep. Last night, from 12 to 6, I was up every 2 hrs. She's 4 mos. and I feel like I'm going insane.
However, she took a 3 hr nap in her crib today, so there's that.
Seriously? What kind of baby naps like a dream but can't manage to sleep at bedtime? Answer: my baby.
She's been down 30 minutes so far.
ETA - clarification, I did not let her cry for 60 minutes straight. It was constant checking.
This is probably not what you wanted to hear, but DD was a lot like that after the 4MW. She would take these great naps (most of the time), then sleep like crap overnight. Some of it was reverse cycling, the rest, who knows? I think she started every night in her swing until 5 or 6 months, then I also had to nurse her to sleep, then very carefully transfer her to her crib. There was definitely no "drowsy but awake" going on! We tried Ferber a few times, but it didn't really get better until I night weaned, then Ferberized. Sorry. Hope you figure out a way to get better sleep than I did.
I locked my 2.5 year old in her room. We both sobbed, but she's been sleeping in our bed for a month, and H's sleep is really getting awful because of it...as in he wants to nap every day. I say fuck that. So...she's asleep in her room for the first time in a month. We will see how that goes.
But that means I moved DD2 (7 mo tomorrow) back to the pnp in our room, so her sleep will probably suffer.
We just got back from a family wedding. I'm exhausted but it was fun. C had a blast running around after the big kids on the dance floor. He was great except when he yelled "oh no!" during the vows because he had just dropped his animal cracker.
I'll start the thread in hopes that this will be my only post. LOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLL.
DD is killing me with her inability to go to bed for the night. It's like baby hot potato from 7pm until midnight …. set her down, sleep for 10, she cries, we pick her up. Set her down, cry, pick her up. We even tried letting her cry & did intervals 3 nights but DH caves at the 60-90 minute mark (as do I) and I nurse her back down to sleep. Last night, from 12 to 6, I was up every 2 hrs. She's 4 mos. and I feel like I'm going insane.
However, she took a 3 hr nap in her crib today, so there's that.
Seriously? What kind of baby naps like a dream but can't manage to sleep at bedtime? Answer: my baby.
She's been down 30 minutes so far.
ETA - clarification, I did not let her cry for 60 minutes straight. It was constant checking.
Good luck! How old is your DD? We played hot potato from newborn to 5 months and then one day she decided that she wanted to go to bed at 6:30. Bedtime is a dream now every single night. So, there is a light at the end of the tunnel hopefully! I hope yours gets into her groove soon.
Crib transition night two. Night one featured a long for bedtime, but short for a nap cryfest, followed by a horrible wakeup when we went to bed, followed by a 4am wakeup that never really ended.
The four in the morning thing seems unavoidable these days. I am just hoping we don't rudely awaken him when we go to sleep.
Post by turtlegirl on Feb 15, 2014 23:09:35 GMT -5
I'm staying with the kids at my parents cabin while DH is OOT for work.
DS2 was down with just a few mins of fussing at 7pm. I left DS1 in a pile of blankets on the floor in the room in staying with about 20 mins ago. He hasn't come out, so I'm hoping he's asleep. I'm mad I forgot my earplugs since room sharing with a snoring 3 year old who talks in his sleep is always fun.
I expect very little sleep on my part this weekend even of my kids sleep well. But at least my parents pretty much play with them all day so I can be lazy. Better than solo parenting at home all weekend.
Post by AlpineSlide on Feb 15, 2014 23:44:30 GMT -5
It is dh's only night at home and he's on the couch. He really needs to do something about his snoring. It is insane.
Ds and I are in the bedroom and I've got him in the PNP instead of the bassinet bc I think he's getting too big for it. The PNP is positioned weirdly and it's harder to put ds in it. Oh well, he went down pretty easily at 10. Will he wake up at 1 or 4? we shall see.
We had a pretty rough night last night (4 month wakeful?). She went down fairly easily at 7, right on schedule, and I'm dream feeding her now with high hopes not to have to be back for a good, long while. I am trying an overnight diaper tonight. It's rather sad how much hope I have in this magic diaper
I miss my mostly decent sleeper. Not sure if this is the beginning of the FMW or if he's still not feeling well, but he's waking more often than he did as a newborn. As a result, I'm exhausted and have started to get sick. Please be nice to me, kiddo!
Second wakeup. I got a 2.5 hr stretch this time so not bad. I would love for 4hrs but I don't think that will happen again until I wean or he isn't getting most of his calories from me.
Wakeup #1 here...AJ woke up not pleased. Could be tooth pain (one is in the process of coming thru and one is about to), could just be him being a stinker. Who knows? If he can't settle on his own we'll probably try Tylenol.
Ok, my kid has always gone right back to sleep during MOTN wake ups. Usually he'll nurse back to sleep or with a little rocking, falls asleep.
Kid currently thinks it is time to party. Like awake, smiling, cooing, looking at the amazement that is his hands. What do you do when it's party time but it is NOT FUCKING PARTY TIME? I don't mind wake ups, but the not going back to sleep thing is making me lose my mind. I'm trying not to engage in the smiles or interact at all, but he's pissed when in trying to rock him.
Wake up number 1 after a 5.5 hour stretch. This is when things have gotten shitty the last few nights. Will she let me put her back down in the bassinet after I finish feeding her? I doubt it, lol, but we'll see. I might just be up for the day.
Post by Stingyshark on Feb 16, 2014 4:24:14 GMT -5
P has been asleep for 8 hours !!!!!
She didn't get to nap much today; MIL came over and just had to hold dd the entire time. She will sleep while being held, but not well. Then we went out to dinner at hooters (lol) and it was super packed and loud. She melted down while we were there. I took her out to the truck and nursed her until DH finished up. We were with my family so I didn't rush him out of the restaurant.
She passed out cold within 10 min of being home.
Now I'm pumping in the a dark so she doesn't wake up.
Well, she went back down in her bassinet for about an hour. Of course I was just barely asleep when she woke up again. Now she's laying on me, asleep again, but I'm sure she'll wake up if I try to put her down.
Wakeup #2 here and he woke up pretty pissed, so I'm blaming teeth. As a result he got a dose of Tylenol and is nursing again, hope he goes back dowm easy again.
Post by Velar Fricative on Feb 16, 2014 5:57:00 GMT -5
Night two of the crib, and we were definitely spoiled after a good night 1. On wakeup #4, ugh. But I don't think the crib is the problem; since the 4MW my baby has been so inconsistent with sleep. This is the first bad night in a while, but we never know what the night will bring since over the last week, she has woken up anywhere from 0 to 4 times.
Also, I am so annoyed with the crappy battery on our Motorola monitor. Yet again the battery hasn't lasted a full night.
DD just fell asleep in my arms so I hope the transfer works and we can all sleep a bit more.
Post by winemaker06 on Feb 16, 2014 6:35:23 GMT -5
Still waking DS every 3 hours to eat and the sleep deprivation is catching up with me. And his latch is so horrible that I end up crying every time. We try to relatch a dozen times, which just makes me hurt worse. Every single time we see a lactation consultant (we're up to 3 of them now), he latches well at least once. Just can't get it right at home very often. Plus the poor guy has a yeast diaper rash. Not sure if it's bothering him, or just making more work for us.
Also, I am so annoyed with the crappy battery on our Motorola monitor. Yet again the battery hasn't lasted a full night.
Ours never lasts a full night so we have to leave it plugged in. Do you let the screen turn off? We wonder if we just need to not turn the screen on to look at it so much, but haven't been willing to test it for another full night in case it dies early Again.
Jack woke up at 6, and it took me a half hour to get him back asleep. Then our freaking cat started meowing her head off and woke him up again. I refuse to be up at 6 for the day, so H is up with him now and I'm going back to bed.
Ds was up for an hour and a half from 1:30-3ish. I made dh take that one from the start. For some reason he refused to give ds any Tylenol when diaper and water clearly weren't the issue. He insisted ds was not in pain. I dunno dude, ds a) woke up motn and b) cried for over an hour. Seems to me like somethings wrong.. Whatever, wasn't my problem.