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Post by bootsorhearts1 on Mar 17, 2018 23:41:20 GMT -6
thechickencoop those constant wake ups are infuriating. Have you tried letting him fuss a little to see if he goes back to sleep? That works for us like one time out of 10. Worth it when it does work! Sending sleep vibes your way too. When will these babies get the memo? Mommies need sleep!
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Post by thechickencoop on Mar 18, 2018 0:33:19 GMT -6
thechickencoop those constant wake ups are infuriating. Have you tried letting him fuss a little to see if he goes back to sleep? That works for us like one time out of 10. Worth it when it does work! Sending sleep vibes your way too. When will these babies get the memo? Mommies need sleep! I'll let him go for usually 5 minutes but it just escalates 😕 and we keep our bedroom doors open for heat in the winter so I can only let him get so loud before it would wake DS1 or H up. ::yawn::
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Post by bootsorhearts1 on Mar 19, 2018 10:26:48 GMT -6
Where are my magic merlin suit users? Our sleep consultant said kiddo is too old for it (she's almost 6 months) and that it's not safe if they can roll over. I'm like Technically she's only rolled over a few times anyway. I want to try it again and see if it helps.
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Post by cythe on Mar 19, 2018 10:34:26 GMT -6
Where are my magic merlin suit users? Our sleep consultant said kiddo is too old for it (she's almost 6 months) and that it's not safe if they can roll over. I'm like Technically she's only rolled over a few times anyway. I want to try it again and see if it helps. Uhhh, well fuck me if that's true. Ev isn't rolling back to front at all yet so I'm in no hurry to get rid of it. She also has access to her hands and feet, altho I can see it would be harder for her to get them under her if needed.
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Post by trinitrotoluene on Mar 19, 2018 11:12:39 GMT -6
I'm dying. Last Tuesday he slept from 8:45-5:00, then until 8. Since then he has had one stretch that was more than 3.5 hours, and i had to wake up for the day an hour before he got up from that one. DH wanted to have sex last night, and i had to be careful not to close my eyes at any point because it was so hard to open them again, and i didn't want to fall asleep during sex. I feel like I'm walking around in a fog.
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Post by versed on Mar 19, 2018 13:28:17 GMT -6
We were bedsharing last night and I was as wearing a sleep bra that’s too big (I sometimes pop out when I’m on my side). Well, I guess DS woke up to an “open bar,” helped himself, and went back to sleep. Cool - works for me! I forgot about this stage of bedsharing. I am all for it if we both sleep more. I think the bar will be remaining open each night, at least until we get through whatever sleep regression we’re in the middle of.
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Post by doodlemommy on Mar 19, 2018 14:58:26 GMT -6
So this morning DS took a crappy 30 minute nap and I couldn’t get him back down. He has now been napping on his own, in his crib, for 2 HOURS! I don’t know what is going on but I’ll take it! I’m unsure how this is going to impact the rest of our days schedule since it’s 3 pm already and he goes to bed at 7...not sure if/when nap 3 will happen...
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Post by cythe on Mar 19, 2018 15:11:01 GMT -6
So this morning DS took a crappy 30 minute nap and I couldn’t get him back down. He has now been napping on his own, in his crib, for 2 HOURS! I don’t know what is going on but I’ll take it! I’m unsure how this is going to impact the rest of our days schedule since it’s 3 pm already and he goes to bed at 7...not sure if/when nap 3 will happen... This was me yesterday, you don't want to know how it ended haha. I was so torn on being happy she took long naps or sad because the evening/bedtime was now fubar
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Post by doodlemommy on Mar 19, 2018 17:37:02 GMT -6
So this morning DS took a crappy 30 minute nap and I couldn’t get him back down. He has now been napping on his own, in his crib, for 2 HOURS! I don’t know what is going on but I’ll take it! I’m unsure how this is going to impact the rest of our days schedule since it’s 3 pm already and he goes to bed at 7...not sure if/when nap 3 will happen... This was me yesterday, you don't want to know how it ended haha. I was so torn on being happy she took long naps or sad because the evening/bedtime was now fubar Lalalalalala can’t hear you 😉 Edit - we skipped nap 3 but did bedtime routine a bit early and he is down for the count. Not bad overall! Plus he did get 3 hours of naps today so 🤷♀️
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Post by danvers on Mar 26, 2018 23:22:14 GMT -6
We let them sleep on their side or tummy if they roll that way on their own - yes? Or maybe that’s just my daycares random policy.... I know some of us figures out we have some tummy sleepers already but for the rest, do we leave them? Roll them? Check the baby monitor 100+ times?
I feel slike I remember hearing this with DD1 but she could be placed on her back at at 8pm and didn’t so much as twitch till morning. DD2 however is quite the wiggler and roller.
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Post by doodlemommy on Mar 27, 2018 8:53:58 GMT -6
I now put DS down on his tummy but I am confident he can roll and be safe lifting himself etc. I did watch like a hawk the first couple times. I think if they can roll both ways let them sleep however they want...but both my kids are tummy sleepers so what do I know? 🤷♀️
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Post by danvers on Mar 27, 2018 9:24:17 GMT -6
I now put DS down on his tummy but I am confident he can roll and be safe lifting himself etc. I did watch like a hawk the first couple times. I think if they can roll both ways let them sleep however they want...but both my kids are tummy sleepers so what do I know? 🤷♀️ DD2 seems bound and determined to be on her tummy. The second she is down on red back she flips so I’m thinking she may be a tummy or side sleeper. She was on her side for a good part of last night and actually had her longest stretch. She can roll both ways so I’m going to try to chill about it because = sleep. Sometimes I swear this was easier the first go around when I was much more clueless to everything in the world.
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Post by chitownsully on Mar 27, 2018 10:16:01 GMT -6
I now put DS down on his tummy but I am confident he can roll and be safe lifting himself etc. I did watch like a hawk the first couple times. I think if they can roll both ways let them sleep however they want...but both my kids are tummy sleepers so what do I know? 🤷♀️ DD2 seems bound and determined to be on her tummy. The second she is down on red back she flips so I’m thinking she may be a tummy or side sleeper. She was on her side for a good part of last night and actually had her longest stretch. She can roll both ways so I’m going to try to chill about it because = sleep. Sometimes I swear this was easier the first go around when I was much more clueless to everything in the world. DS is a tummy sleeper and has been for the last 1.5 months. We put him down on his back and he immediately rolls. He's pretty strong though so while I worried about it at first, it is what it is now.
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Post by doodlemommy on Mar 27, 2018 10:43:33 GMT -6
My kid slept like crap last night. He was up so. Many. Times. And wouldn’t stay in his own bed. And his morning nap went like this: 35 min, 25 min to put back to sleep, 45 min. Super. Luckily my only plans for today were to work out and do laundry so I should still be able to accomplish that. Of course he spat up all over my clean sheets this morning too, so add another load of laundry to the list 🙄
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Post by thechickencoop on Mar 28, 2018 20:08:50 GMT -6
We let them sleep on their side or tummy if they roll that way on their own - yes? Or maybe that’s just my daycares random policy.... I know some of us figures out we have some tummy sleepers already but for the rest, do we leave them? Roll them? Check the baby monitor 100+ times? I feel slike I remember hearing this with DD1 but she could be placed on her back at at 8pm and didn’t so much as twitch till morning. DD2 however is quite the wiggler and roller. Yes. When DS1 learned to roll he spent an entire week up all night because he would roll to his belly in his sleep, wake himself up, scream because he couldn't roll back. 😡 After a week of that he realized that he actually looooved sleeping on his belly and slept much better! DS2 has been a belly sleeper from the start. He's super roly poly now so he's usually in his belly, sometimes side, sometimes back but it's rare. But he's all over the place and an expert roller/contortionist so ::shrug::
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Post by cythe on Apr 10, 2018 19:10:52 GMT -6
Sleep training. Who is thinking about doing it? And how do you know when to start?
Our nighttimes are exhausting for me, and I'm 99% sure it's part baby/part stress keeping me up. The last few nights, E hasn't fallen back asleep while eating motn, I've had to rock her so my total time awake is back to about 30-45 minutes each time. We do this twice a night.
I want her to sleep, it feels good to sleep (me and her!) but I never know if she's crying because she's hungry, habit, scared or what. I can't think she still needs to eat twice a night but whatever.
Any thoughts?
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Post by doodlemommy on Apr 10, 2018 20:28:07 GMT -6
DS still eats twice a night too but he’s little (20th percentile) so I don’t feel comfortable night weaning anytime soon. I’m hoping to get him down to 1 night feeding rather than 2 by adding extra calories during the day with solids etc. We did the no cry sleep solution with DD around 9 months and it worked great. DS goes to sleep for me easily (but I am rocking) and sleeps decently but eventually I will need him to put himself to sleep so it’s not hard for my mom/mil to put him down for naps when I go back to work. So yes, we will sleep train at some point but not now.
Also, DS went through a phase of being awake post eating motn for about a week. It sucked majorly but he is over it and back to normal, so there is hope!
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Post by chitownsully on Apr 11, 2018 8:38:24 GMT -6
Sleep training. Who is thinking about doing it? And how do you know when to start? Our nighttimes are exhausting for me, and I'm 99% sure it's part baby/part stress keeping me up. The last few nights, E hasn't fallen back asleep while eating motn, I've had to rock her so my total time awake is back to about 30-45 minutes each time. We do this twice a night. I want her to sleep, it feels good to sleep (me and her!) but I never know if she's crying because she's hungry, habit, scared or what. I can't think she still needs to eat twice a night but whatever. Any thoughts? We did sleep training with DD at 5 months. We went with the Sleep Easy solution. It involved crying, but with check-ins, if you're comfortable with that. We'll do the same thing with DS. I would love to do it now but since we are moving in 6 weeks, I don't see the point. We'll sleep train once we get into the new house. I don't *think* they get scared at this age? So it's probably just a habit. She's probably actually hungry but only because you've been feeding her 2x per night - she's expecting it and counts on it for calories. Sleep Easy essentially weans the night feeds (so feed her for 30 minutes on night one, 25 minutes night two, etc.). I got DD down to one night feed at 5 months and we kept that one (mostly because one wake up didn't bother me) until she was 9 months. Then DH took over MOTN with bottles and she weaned night feeds altogether.
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Post by danvers on Apr 11, 2018 15:03:25 GMT -6
cythe We did extinction CIO with DD1 at 8 months. It sucked but mostly because we decided to do it at like 1am when we we’re both fed up and she screamed for like 2 hours and it was awful. She barely cried at night again after that. I night weaned when I felt DD1 wasn’t actually nursing, just sucking for a few minutes and then trying to use me to fall back asleep again. I think that was around a year? We will do CIO again with this LO when she is healthy again. I’ll stop night nursing when I feel like she’s not really eating but using me as a crutch too. Do you have a video monitor? I wish we would have with DD1 because I could have seen if there was a real reason she woke up at night crying or just a “want momma to rock me back to sleep reason” because going in for her just ticked her off more (hence why we did extinction). At 6 months, I think you’d be fine to sleep train and night wean if your pedi has no concerns regarding weight and growth. The uninterrupted bouts of sleep and ability to put E down without hours of rocking is worth the effort (to me) to sleep train.
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Post by cythe on Apr 11, 2018 19:44:58 GMT -6
At 6 months, I think you’d be fine to sleep train and night wean if your pedi has no concerns regarding weight and growth. At 5 months, she was at 100% for weight 😐 so I'm fairly confident we could night wean. I wouldn't mind continuing with 1 night feeding but the fight to get her back to sleep is killing me.
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Post by cythe on Apr 11, 2018 19:47:13 GMT -6
Related, and since I'm here, E just woke up after 3 hours asleep - which according to Huckleberry is our all night trend - and I'm not going in. She hasn't eaten at 10 pm in months so I'm not going in to rock her (nor feeding).
She is making the saddest little crying sounds. Y u no sleep, child?
*Jk I'm going in. Since apparently she can cry for hours.
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Post by trinitrotoluene on Apr 11, 2018 21:54:27 GMT -6
Related, and since I'm here, E just woke up after 3 hours asleep - which according to Huckleberry is our all night trend - and I'm not going in. She hasn't eaten at 10 pm in months so I'm not going in to rock her (nor feeding). She is making the saddest little crying sounds. Y u no sleep, child? *Jk I'm going in. Since apparently she can cry for hours. DS1 did and does cry for hours if he wants cuddles and we don't go in. DH hates it, and says the toddler has me trained, but it isn't all the time, and 15 minutes of cuddles is so much better than 2 hours of screaming.
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Post by CoachTsWife on Apr 21, 2018 8:22:22 GMT -6
We are.....struggling. LO wants to be held all night long. He will cry for hours in his crib if we let him.
He is not rolling either way but is sitting up great and tries to sit up from a reclined position and can pull himself to sitting up when he's in the bouncy seat. :/ Basically, he is strong.
Last night (well 5am.....☹😭😪 ) out of desperation I put him in his belly, patted him, and he passed out. Tried laying him on his back for nap just now and he flipped out the second I laid him down so I rolled him over and he's passed out.
He has always hated tummy time so we are floored that he's sleeping on his belly. But we are also zombies (ZOMBIES) right now.
Can we do this? Can we put him down on his tummy if he isn't rolling either way? He's 19+ lbs and super strong and can lift his head and chest while on his tummy. DS1 learned to roll much earlier and so we just let him roll to his belly. This kid though...we're losing our minds.
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Post by cythe on Apr 21, 2018 9:34:50 GMT -6
We are.....struggling. LO wants to be held all night long. He will cry for hours in his crib if we let him. He is not rolling either way but is sitting up great and tries to sit up from a reclined position and can pull himself to sitting up when he's in the bouncy seat. :/ Basically, he is strong. Last night (well 5am.....☹😭😪 ) out of desperation I put him in his belly, patted him, and he passed out. Tried laying him on his back for nap just now and he flipped out the second I laid him down so I rolled him over and he's passed out. He has always hated tummy time so we are floored that he's sleeping on his belly. But we are also zombies (ZOMBIES) right now. Can we do this? Can we put him down on his tummy if he isn't rolling either way? He's 19+ lbs and super strong and can lift his head and chest while on his tummy. DS1 learned to roll much earlier and so we just let him roll to his belly. This kid though...we're losing our minds. I know the general rule is once they can put themselves there, then they can stay - but - coming from a mom whose kid is #doingtheleast I say yes. I know E *can* roll each way, she just chooses not to. He can hold his head up 90° and move from side to side yes? I vote let the kid sleep. Maybe just naps until you feel comfortable.
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Post by curmudgeon on Apr 21, 2018 12:38:14 GMT -6
^ agree. I’d let him sleep on his stomach. I imagine he has the neck strength to move his head if needed. I’d test it all day at nap times for peace of mind.
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Post by danvers on Apr 21, 2018 12:58:29 GMT -6
DD2 is a belly sleeper. It still makes me nervous. But I’m getting sleep and a well rested mama (and dad!) is so important too. I second doing it at naps and watching like a hawk to see how he does with turning his head. I tried to give DD2 lots of tummy time too since at first she wasn’t great about rolling belly to back.
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Post by thechickencoop on Apr 21, 2018 17:14:11 GMT -6
CoachTsWife yes. I 100% would. DS2 has slept on his belly from day 1. Anytime we put him on his back, even at an incline, he would scream. SCREAM. I don't know if it was possibly reflux or what, but it was miserable. He coslept with us until he was about 4 months and was rolling. Then he went in his crib where he can put himself however he feels like it. {{hugs}} sleep just....ugh. why can't they understand how AWESOME sleep is??!!!
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Post by duskymonkey on Apr 21, 2018 17:25:06 GMT -6
CoachTsWife This is why we have the angel care movement monitor so we can sleep without being nervous and anxious. You and baby need sleep at the end of the day. I 2nd everyone’s thoughts that at his age he knows to move his head when needed.
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Post by duskymonkey on Apr 21, 2018 17:31:36 GMT -6
We had a rough night last night understandably so as we unswaddled in the crib for the first time. I’m hoping it gets better. Lil fella also has the sniffles too 😩 @trinitrotoulene I agree 15 mins of snuggling is heaps better than 1 hour of crying and screaming
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