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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 5:41:07 GMT -6
Thanks ladies. He actually slept well in the Swaddle Up swaddle last night! The Halo swaddle is being delivered today. But we are still starting the schedule....I think the consistency will be good for my anxiety. I’ll keep you all updated on how it works.
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Post by Eames on Jun 25, 2019 8:30:41 GMT -6
How are everyone's babies sleeping at night? We just had a really rough one, up every 2 hours. I'm not sure if this is the start of the 4 month sleep regression or what.
We had a super busy day yesterday (legoland, then a bbq at a neighbor's with lots of people in their faces), so I think they were overstimulated too (and didn't nap well yesterday).
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Post by bex15 on Jun 25, 2019 9:30:59 GMT -6
Eames M had a rough start adjusting to daycare, last week it was up every 2 hours for most of the week but now he’s back to his normal schedule of one wake up at 2 or 3 and then at 6.
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Post by jacks on Jun 25, 2019 12:38:51 GMT -6
75% of the time she’ll sleep from about 9pm-6/7am. It’s the other 25% that I’m never sure what to do with. Sometimes I’ll feed her so she’ll go back to sleep faster, other times I just paci and get back in bed and hope for the best.
For daytime, we’re in a weird place with her schedule. Her awake time, nap time, and time between eating changes pretty much daily, so we are no longer on a good, predictable schedule. She also no longer likes sleeping in her car seat, which means I barely leave the house because it just messes with her whole day.
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Post by snickerdoodle on Jun 25, 2019 15:34:06 GMT -6
c is 11 weeks and sleeps pretty good. His sister was a terrible sleeper so I also have low standards. He usually goes to bed around 9pm, but that can vary and doesn’t change his next wake time too much, and wakes between 4-5pm. His next stretch is inconsistent. He may wake up again at 5:30 or sleep until 7:30 but he usually grunts so much I don’t get a lot of sleep after his first wake up. I am terrified of 4 month regression. DD started waking up every 1-2 hours and that lasted for months and she didn’t sleep through the night until over a year old and was always a really early riser, like 3-5:30 am.
During the day naps can be consistent if we try and he sleeps on me. But if there is lots of noise or we go out or try to put him down even in a swaddle I never know what will happen. He was taking some pretty good naps swaddled in pnp for a while then a few weeks ago he would wake up after like 10 minutes. So send any nap tips my way!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2019 6:26:23 GMT -6
Almost 11 weeks here. He's usually in bed around 8:00 pm, and wakes up between 3-4 am to eat. He'll go back down until around 7/7:30, although sometimes it's earlier. This morning it was 6:45.
I don't have nap advice. He hasn't settled into a true nap schedule. MH has been home with him and just tries to watch his sleepy cues. DD didn't start regulating her naps until she started daycare, and I expect the same for him.
ETA - I can't believe some of us have babies that are old enough to be hitting the 4-month sleep regression. DD skipped this, but had her regression at 6 months. It was...unpleasant.
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Post by jewelsofthenile on Jun 26, 2019 6:41:37 GMT -6
So N isnt quite as consistent as some of the other babies here. She is usually ready for bed by about 8:30 or 9. She will sleep 6 to 7 hours so up around 3 and then again 2 to 3 hours later around 5 or 6 to eat. With me going back to work she seems to be up more at night sometimes 11 or 1 am wake ups...😴. One thing she will do is sleep in right now if I feed her at 5 or 6 she will go back to sleep for usually 2 hrs.
Naps she is taking 1 hr naps about 5 times a day. She falls alseep more easily than her siblings ever did at this age which is good because if she needed me to walk her around for 20 minutes like my first she would spend a lot of time crying because I can't do that with the other 2 kids to care for.
I am hoping to transition her to napping in her crib soon.🤞Hopefully she does well with that.
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Post by Eames on Jun 26, 2019 8:48:39 GMT -6
I am jealous of most of you. We're still doing a 7 or 8 pm bedtime, up around midnight and 4 am, then back to sleep until 7 or so. Naps are not great either- they fall asleep but don't sleep long.
We are hopefully transitioning to cribs soon, and I ordered 2 nested bean sleep sacks since they like us to come rest a hand on them. Fingers crossed.
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Post by grover on Jun 26, 2019 18:32:09 GMT -6
Joey loves his sleep and sleeps til between 5 and 530 typically. L is about 50/50 on sttn too or 1-2 wake ups for food or dirty diaper. Last bottle at 7 p,. up to cribs after that.
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Post by grover on Jun 27, 2019 7:48:42 GMT -6
And, I jinxed myself... L was up at 3, and J at 3:30.
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Post by jewelsofthenile on Jun 27, 2019 12:37:47 GMT -6
And, I jinxed myself... L was up at 3, and J at 3:30. that always happens...say your kid is sleeping well and it guarantees they will wake more than normal....how they know I have no idea. Similarly if I stay out late my kids are up earlier than normal the next day....😴
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Post by Eames on Jun 28, 2019 21:05:58 GMT -6
grover, are you planning on doing the sleep training as outlined in MOC? Although yours already seem to be doing pretty well. We seem to be nowhere near STTN over here. DD did one wakeup up around 2 or 3 am until 10 months or so. I'd be fine with that, but lately they are up every 3 to 4 hours still. 😴😴😴 And they are big guys so I feel like they can be doing more. Tonight we are doing their first in the zen sack so fingers crossed it goes well!
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Post by Eames on Jun 28, 2019 21:08:07 GMT -6
And, I jinxed myself... L was up at 3, and J at 3:30. that always happens...say your kid is sleeping well and it guarantees they will wake more than normal....how they know I have no idea. Similarly if I stay out late my kids are up earlier than normal the next day....😴 Yup, it's like they have some sort of sensor about these things
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Post by Eames on Jun 28, 2019 21:52:35 GMT -6
Well, they've each been up like 3x in the last 4 hours, so this doesn't bode well...
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Post by grover on Jun 29, 2019 6:03:08 GMT -6
Eames, with DD we didn't do the door stays closed til 7 aspect. 1st because we have to be out the door for daycare by 7. But we did let her fuss for up to 10 mins before going in if she wasn't hysterical (same at bedtime- we'd put her down drowsy but awake). J is my slightly smaller guy who generally makes it til 5. Today he went til 6! L is my chubster, who keeps waking up bc he gets stuck on his arm trying to roll. He also wakes to eat at least once still. But he takes the bottle, sucks it dry, and goes right back down. For him i've been lowering the ounces in his MOTN bottle. We're down to 3 right now (tried 2 oz and he woke up more so back to 3 oz. gonna try upping all his daytime bottles to 7 oz- right now all but bedtime is 6 oz)
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Post by Eames on Jun 29, 2019 8:32:24 GMT -6
Thanks grover. At our 4 month checkup next week, I'm going to talk to our pediatrician about sleep training options. I'd prefer to do the graduated extinction, I think- where you go in but start to stretch it to every 3 minutes, 5 minutes, etc. I just think it will just be a longer process than the "closed door until 7" thing, which will suck. I'm generally more pro-sleep training than my husband, which surprises me because I feel like my personality as a parent is more... lenient? I don't know. But we've got to figure something out because we are running on fumes. Last night was horrible, I think our longest stretch was 2 hours. But it was their first night unswaddled. Our biggest problem is they knock out their pacifiers and want us to come put it back in. Does anyone else have that problem???
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Post by grover on Jun 29, 2019 13:43:22 GMT -6
So, on the worst nights or days with tons of screaming, I cried bc they don't take pacifiers no matter how much I try. Totally something that's not recommended but I do with L (and did with DD as well) is I let them sleep right now with a cloth diaper in one fist. It's his comfort item and he sleeps as long as it's there. Not there and he will scream til we give it to him. J doesn't sleep with one but only because he prefers his thumb.
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Post by jacks on Jun 30, 2019 20:39:38 GMT -6
Eames I have the same issue with knocking out the pacifier. I can’t wait until she’s older and can replace it herself.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2019 7:51:35 GMT -6
Eames, what kind of pacis do they use? We had an issue with DD but we started using the wubbie with the animal attached, and she was able to get it back into her mouth pretty early. With DS, I found that the paci was actually more trouble than it was worth, so he doesn't use it overnight anymore. Do they need them to fall asleep?
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Post by Eames on Jul 1, 2019 8:14:13 GMT -6
@ges, they have ones with animals but it's a different brand. The paci is more attached with a loop.
They also still sleep better swaddled, but I know we have to stop it soon. We tried one night with weighted sleep sacks and it was a disaster. We do have one guy with one arm out though. So their arms aren't really free to put pacis back in anyway.
....having typed that out, I think we just need to pull pacis and the swaddles at the same time. 😣
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Post by pambee on Jul 1, 2019 8:54:25 GMT -6
We put H down between 7:30/8 most days and he's up for the day between 7/8am, but the wake ups are not consistent at all. Most nights he wakes up 2 times, but there's no rhyme or reason as to when. A few nights ago he was up 4 times, and E was sick and I had to get up with her once, that was a rough night lol. But last night he only woke up once before 7. 🤷 Keeping me on my toes I guess, ha! E was sttn by the time I went back to work at 8 weeks so I can't say I'm not disappointed (lol) but it's not too bad because I nurse him and he immediately goes back to sleep every time, so I'm not up long.
Naps are another story, ugh. He only takes one a day, anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours. He almost always wakes up within an hour of being put down for nap and it's 50/50 on if I can get him to sleep again. Besides that it's an occasional cat nap in the car if we go somewhere, but I'm shocked that he won't sleep more during the day. He's happy and doesn't seem over tired though, so I guess it's alright! I've been thinking about moving bed time up to see if he gets more sleep that way but I haven't tried it yet.
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Post by pambee on Jul 1, 2019 8:59:01 GMT -6
So are you guys sleep training already? I thought with E it wasn't recommended until 6mos so I haven't put much thought into it yet. With her we did what you called graduated extinction, Eames, and it worked well for us. 1-2 nights of struggle and then she got it. She started sttn around 8 weeks but got a bad cold around 7 months and got in a terrible sleep schedule after that that we had to correct. For now if it hasn't been long since his previous wake up I'll try to just calm/give him a paci (which he basically won't take at all anymore and just pisses him off) and if that doesn't work I just feed him again. Since like I mentioned in my previous post his wake ups aren't at the same time every night I don't know when I should cut out a nursing session yet.
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Post by Eames on Jul 1, 2019 9:35:29 GMT -6
pambee at our 2 month appt our pedi said we could sleep train at 4 months if we wanted to. We have our 4 month checkup this week. We will probably hold off though, maybe until 6 months. I'm not sure.
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Post by grover on Jul 1, 2019 11:24:38 GMT -6
pambee , not until 4 months per my pedi. But I am giving only 4 oz at MOTN wakeups instead of the normal 6 ozs the take each daytime bottle eta, with 3u3 and only me, the babies occassionally have to fuss for a few minutes bc I just don't have enough hands. As a result, they're starting to self soothe
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Post by pambee on Jul 1, 2019 12:00:30 GMT -6
pambee , not until 4 months per my pedi. But I am giving only 4 oz at MOTN wakeups instead of the normal 6 ozs the take each daytime bottle eta, with 3u3 and only me, the babies occassionally have to fuss for a few minutes bc I just don't have enough hands. As a result, they're starting to self soothe Oh I definitely let him cry or fuss for a few minutes before going in, occasionally he just goes back to sleep. I just hadn't started actually sleep training yet. We had our 4mo appt last week and now I wish I had asked about it. I should go through the print out he sent home that I never read I guess 😂
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