namasteak, I will just echo what everyone else is saying. Your DS is totally normal. My DD was breastfed and didn't start sleeping in longer stretches until 5 months old. A sleep consultant sounds like a waste of time and money. He's just doing what babies do. Every baby is different, so even with what the pediatrician said, I would just give it time. He will sleep longer eventually.
Thank you for the concern & advice. I'm so tired & the pedi got me worried
Not a doctor, but you should not be worried AT ALL. he sounds like a perfectly normal 15 weeker.
Also my advice, since I am such an expert lol, for anyone with babies younger then 5 months is that there are no bad habits forming during this time. So if you are doing something with his sleep right now it is not going to impact how he sleeps at 6, 9, 12 months. It is all about survival right now. Worry about the other stuff later on.
As for the bottles, I would try offering the same one for a few days/ a week at a time as well, so he has a chance to get used to it, the nipple feel/flow, etc. EVERY bottle at BRU is a lot, so it might just take some repetition for him to get used to it. I polled a mom's group I'm part of of FB, and more than half of them said their baby was up every 2-3 hours at 15 weeks. some ever more often than that.
Thank you for the concern & advice. I'm so tired & the pedi got me worried
If he has good neck control put him on his stomach. I did with a at 2 mths, I know really early, but it saved me, and he started sleeping longer stretches. Also I started doing oatmeal at 4 months and that's when he started sleeping through the night. A is big and the pedi recommended it. He also doesn't do bottles or pacis. I've tried them all. He does take bm from a sippy cup now though.
We had a great weekend. Our housewarming was a blast. I made SO MUCH FOOD. I sent several people home not only with moonshine and cookies, but racks of ribs. LOL. The jumper was a pretty big hit, too, I'm only disappointed I didn't get to spend more time in it! Sunday we were both exhausted, my H actually took 2 naps.
This week I go to Seattle/Portland. Only about 9 days away from vacation! The countdown is on!
How long have you let your DH try to soothe him? I always felt like I was listening to my kids cry forever and I would just rush in there and it would really have only been 5 minutes. I eventually had to go outside where I couldn't hear it and let him try for 20 minutes.
Does he take a paci?
10min
No
I'm so sorry. It is normal. Sleep deprivation is torture and I would have wanted to punch anyone in the face that told me there was nothing that I could do back when I was there. I promise it will get better.
Isn't it pretty typical for babies this age to be waking up several times a night still? We got lucky with a good sleeper early on (don't worry, that's not still the case), but I have several friends whose children are 6-9 months who still wake up several times in the night to eat... like more than 2-3 times per night, so every 2 hours doesn't seem out of the realm of normal for a 15 week old.
Can you and your H alternate feedings, so that you get at least a 4 hour stretch of sleep? i don't know if you are BF or formula feeding, but can you pump if you're bf-ing, so that your H can feed the baby and you can sleep?
Both pedis we've seen said he should be doing 3 hour stretches consistently by now. He will do then occasionally and has even done a few 5 hour stretches so we know he can.
DH has tried calming DS MOTN but it doesn't work Multiple people have tried several kinds of bottles and DS Refuses (I think he's taken part of 3 his whole life).
I know you said you've read all the books, but have you read the Sleep Easy Solution? This is what we used with Will and I *loved* it, because it broke it down by age, what developmental milestones will interfere with sleep, how to help the kid at each age, etc.
Also, someone posted on here the other day when you were talking about the baby not taking a bottle, and IDK if you saw the response or not, but it was kind of brilliant - she said the only way the baby would take a bottle was if her H was shirtless and held the bottle under his arm. Have you tried doing that? Sometimes the skin-to-skin will help.
I got to spend the morning using a fake fb profile to do some research for work. I rather enjoy getting paid to be on fb.
I'm so sleepy. I was having bizarre dreams last night and kept waking up. All I can remember is that one of them involved strawberries growing up like flowers instead of out on vines, then popping off the stems like popcorn. So, so random and so, so weird.
Dd is trying to ride her bike without training wheels finally. She's such a prissy weenie...she was riding it in the grass at my il's yesterday because that would be better to fall on even though it's harder to peddle and stay balanced in grass then it is on concrete.
Ds and the concrete in our driveway are now on not so friendly terms. My poor baby!
Post by firedancer49 on Apr 21, 2014 14:59:22 GMT -5
I'm exhausted today. Had a great weekend but I barely slept. We were driving home last night from my parents and had to stop 3 times b/c dd was getting sick. She coughs so hard she pukes. Finally get home and get her settled in bed. Wake up this morning to her saying her head was itchy and hurts and I find a fucking tick embedded behind her ear. We pull it out and don't get the head. We have to wait for her dr to open and get an appt to bring her in. Luckily they got some of it, but not all. They also said it was a dog tick and it was on her for less than 24 hours so not to worry about lyme.