snowyowl
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Post by snowyowl on Mar 25, 2018 20:35:33 GMT -6
I almost forgot the best part of not being pregnant anymore... cocktails!
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aprilz81
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Post by aprilz81 on Mar 25, 2018 21:08:20 GMT -6
I've decided to put Faith to sleep in the nursery tonight but keep her in the RnP for a little longer to ease the transition. She is usually only waking up once after we go to bed (midnight-ish) and I'm hoping this will help me sleep better to not have her RIGHT THERE with all of her noises. Part of me wonders what time she would wake up if I didn't wake her up to feed her at midnight... Sometimes she is kinda waking up on her own but other times she is sound asleep, but I feel like if I don't wake her up she will wake up on her own within an hour of going to sleep based on when she last ate.
But mostly I feel like I don't have a clue what I need to be doing to encourage her to sleep longer and alone at night. We are starting to fall into a (what I think is a) bad habit of side lie nursing forever for comfort in the wee hours of the morning. I don't think she is really hungry but wants a boob in her mouth. The paci will work until it falls out, but then the crying starts all over again. We have had 3-4 nights in a row of at least one 4-5 hour stretch of sleep so I don't think we are doing too bad but I feel like such a newbie...
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Post by sunfrogger on Mar 25, 2018 21:22:11 GMT -6
aprilz81 honestly I let all the bad habits continue bc nursing was more important to me. I will nurse to sleep rock to sleep and wake up forever to achieve my nursing goals. They learn to sleep eventually. 🤷♀️ but you probably don't want to be like me. Lol. My dd1 didn't sttn until about 16/17 mo when I finally night weaned her so about this time last year.
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aprilz81
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Post by aprilz81 on Mar 25, 2018 21:30:27 GMT -6
aprilz81 honestly I let all the bad habits continue bc nursing was more important to me. I will nurse to sleep rock to sleep and wake up forever to achieve my nursing goals. They learn to sleep eventually. 🤷♀️ but you probably don't want to be like me. Lol. My dd1 didn't sttn until about 16/17 mo when I finally night weaned her so about this time last year. If she was actually NURSING I wouldn't mind so much but she is barely sucking and I think she just wants to suck.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2018 21:40:39 GMT -6
aprilz81 I totally moved DD2 to her own room around 6 weeks because she was such a noisy sleeper she was keeping me awake. I want badly to do the same with DD3 but am out of rooms 😂 no shame! You are still tending to her needs.
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dragonflyinn
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Post by dragonflyinn on Mar 26, 2018 1:59:49 GMT -6
aprilz81 I totally moved DD2 to her own room around 6 weeks because she was such a noisy sleeper she was keeping me awake. I want badly to do the same with DD3 but am out of rooms 😂 no shame! You are still tending to her needs. This is me haha when we move DS he will go into DDs room with her so I don’t think we’re quite there yet lol I’m dying for the day though! Soooo noisyyyy
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dragonflyinn
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Post by dragonflyinn on Mar 26, 2018 2:01:08 GMT -6
aprilz81 my daughter instantly slept better when we moved her to her own room. She was 8 or 9 weeks. We also nursed until she was 17mo so it didn’t hurt our BF relationship at all.
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Post by dragonflyinn on Mar 26, 2018 2:01:18 GMT -6
aprilz81 my daughter instantly slept better when we moved her to her own room. She was 8 or 9 weeks. We also nursed until she was 17mo so it didn’t hurt our BF relationship at all.
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Post by sarahh on Mar 26, 2018 3:20:18 GMT -6
Happy birthday amesie! We had a busy weekend and I’m just now catching up. DH got a new truck on Saturday so we were at the dealership forever and he had an awards banquet and dinner Saturday night so we had a sitter for 5 hours. I drank 4 ciders when we were there and felt like crap yesterday. We went to a home show yesterday to get some contacts. We are possibly going to do a pretty major addition so need to get an idea of price and design. When we got home I started boxing up DD2s little clothes and figuring out what I have for the next size up and summer. I feel like we didn’t really get to relax this weekend but that’s what every weekend feels like these days!
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Post by sunfrogger on Mar 26, 2018 12:04:57 GMT -6
aprilz81 honestly I let all the bad habits continue bc nursing was more important to me. I will nurse to sleep rock to sleep and wake up forever to achieve my nursing goals. They learn to sleep eventually. 🤷♀️ but you probably don't want to be like me. Lol. My dd1 didn't sttn until about 16/17 mo when I finally night weaned her so about this time last year. If she was actually NURSING I wouldn't mind so much but she is barely sucking and I think she just wants to suck. I definitely am including roping any and all human pacifier time into that "nursing" category- sorry to mislead a little! I don't think DD2 will have that tendency from what I can tell so far but DD1 was allllllll about it. :/
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