Post by countthestars on Jan 24, 2016 22:28:00 GMT -5
Guys, I am so tired. I don't know what is going on with DS and it's getting worse.
He used to wake up 2, maybe 3 times per night, typically with a 4-5 hour stretch at first. He is 3.5 months. He is suddenly getting up every hour, maybe two hours all night long. He mostly only naps on me or in a moving car. He is sleeping swaddled overnight in an auto rocking rnp but more often than not he is sleeping on me because it is the only way to get any sleep.
He is not always eating when he wakes - sometimes he just needs a paci and a cuddle. We have tried moving bedtime earlier, not swaddling, keeping the room cooler or hotter, waiting until he spits the paci before falling asleep, etc etc.
Any resources, thoughts, commiseration? I go back to work next week and would like to be at least somewhat functioning. This doesn't strike me as "4 month wakeful" because he is not just up in the middle of the night, I think it's that he doesn't know how to connect sleep cycles.
Not 'knowing how to connect sleep cycles' is exactly what the 4 month wakeful is about. P was never up in the middle of the night during hers. She'd just wake up more and need to cuddle/be rocked or nursed back to sleep. If his sleep was better before, hopefully it will trend that way. *hugs*
I am offering commiseration because ds2 did this from 3 months until we sleep trained at 4 months. We moved him to a crib in his own room. He still had the box fan for white noise but went to the merlin sleep suit instead of a swaddle.
Post by humpforfree on Jan 24, 2016 23:26:30 GMT -5
This is us, word for word. I've decided it's the 4 month wakeful? L never was affected by it, but we have been a mess. She turns 4 months tomorrow and I think we are going to sleep train next weekend. I can't keep going like this.
This is us. E was only waking once, maybe twice, between 6 and 14 weeks. Then he turned 3.5 months, and started waking 2x/night, then 3, then 4, then 5-6x/night. Now he's 6 months old and I'm on night 2 of CIO because it never got better. That's why I'm up now, E has been crying off and in for an hour.
No advice, just commiseration.
Others say their babies were fine after the sleep regression, that it only lasted a couple weeks. I wish that had been my case.
We had 2 nights of this last week, but they were paired with a feeding frenzy, so I chalked it up to a growth spurt.
She definitely has transition issues at the beginning of the night and wakes up shrieking an hour after she goes down. I'm trying to make sure she sleeps during the day and never gets overtired. I feel like my entire day is spent trying to get her to nap.
We are going through this right now also. For those of you that did or are planning on sleep training around 4 months, did you still feed the baby in the middle of the night? I know C can sleep through the night without eating, he just hasn't been doing that for the last month or so.
We are going through this right now also. For those of you that did or are planning on sleep training around 4 months, did you still feed the baby in the middle of the night? I know C can sleep through the night without eating, he just hasn't been doing that for the last month or so.
For sleep training and MOTN feedings, I decided on a set time (10 mins) and if she woke up in the MOTN I'd give her 10 mins to put herself back to sleep and if she didn't then I would go in and feed her.
We got down to just 1 night feeding pretty quickly and for a while she was even sttn completley. But we've all been a little sick this past week and she's taken to waking up and pooping MOTN now. Boo!
Post by Velar Fricative on Jan 25, 2016 10:24:56 GMT -5
Could still be the 4-month wakeful. It started for us at 3.5 months and she couldn't connect sleep cycles either, so she was up every 45-60 minutes. I waited it out as long as possible but reached my breaking point at 5.5 months and did Ferber successfully at that point. There was no sign of progress during those 2 months or else we would have waited it out longer.
Is he sleeping in your room right now? We did switch to the crib at 4.5 months in hopes that that would help, but it didn't. It might work for you though?
We are going through this right now also. For those of you that did or are planning on sleep training around 4 months, did you still feed the baby in the middle of the night? I know C can sleep through the night without eating, he just hasn't been doing that for the last month or so.
E is 6 months and I'm willing to feed him twice a night (which is better than the 5-6x he has been doing). So my plan is this (although I'm still seeing what works): if it's been less than 4 hours since his last feeding, he has to CIO. If it has been 4 hours or more, I'm giving him 5+ minutes to see if he'll settle himself, then going in and feeding him.
Post by countthestars on Jan 25, 2016 14:12:57 GMT -5
Thanks everyone!
Velar Fricative - he is in our room, but I'm thinking about moving him to his room. I'm trying to decide if I should keep him in the rnp or move him to the crib (and if crib, in the Merlin suit?!).
Velar Fricative - he is in our room, but I'm thinking about moving him to his room. I'm trying to decide if I should keep him in the rnp or move him to the crib (and if crib, in the Merlin suit?!).
We did straight to the crib (from a bassinet in our room) at 3 months. She still naps in the RNP. I admit to only moving her because she completely outgrew the bassinet, but it has been a pretty smooth transition up to this point.