Last night I was pretty much at my wits end with my sleeping situation. It was as follows:
10:30 p.m. Went to sleep
12:00 a.m. Wake up to feed baby, because Ryan was at his wits end with trying to get her to go to sleep.
12:50ish a.m. Go back to sleep
1:15 a.m. Wake up for reasons unknown
2:15ish a.m. Finally get back to sleep
3:30 a.m. Wake up for feeding, AGAIN!
5:00 a.m. About to explode out of frustration with trying to get the baby to go to sleep! I take the baby into Ryan.
8:15 a.m. Wake up for feeding.
After this schedule last night I have decided that next weekend is the time when we are going to start the whole letting Addy cry it out in her crib thing. (Which I'm sure our upstairs neighbor will really appreciate!) Up to this point we have been putting her in her crib when she's totally asleep, which I'm totally aware we're not supposed to do! It's really not working out for me to have to wake up and feed her every 3-4 hours and spend like 30 minutes trying to get her to fall fast asleep after she's done eating. Anyway, I'm really not looking forward to it, but I know it will pay off in the end!
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Dang, I'm lucky. Max sleeps from about 11pm until 7am. Maybe she is just going through a little phase? Just do what works for you and makes all of you happy. Might take a while. If I were closer I'd come bounce her to sleep so you can catch some zzzz's. Maybe try going for a 3am car ride? Good luck with that little stinker! Can't wait to see her again.
My advice would be to read "Babywise", not that you were asking. I had Nathan and Timothy sleeping 8 hours at 6 weeks and 12 hours at three months. I felt it was because of the that book. My friends that read that book say the same. Good luck with that.
That little bum! It's really hard to listen to your baby cry--but you have to tell yourself it's really for her own good and for your sanity as well! It might take a few nights of torture listening to her cry, but she'll eventually learn to settle down by herself.
With my first baby, I never let her cry. It just broke my heart but as a result, she came into my room every night until she was 3! When Rylee was born, I was not going to let what happened to Bryn happen to her, so as soon as Rylee was 12 pounds (which is what I had heard they could sleep through the night without eating) I shut her door and turned off the baby monitor. After 3 nights of doing this, I turned the baby monitor back on and left the door open and she was sleeping through the night. I knew that if I had heard her, I would go get her, so I had to do it that way. It worked so I was happy. Good Luck!
Juli, you shouldn't be telling me things like that! That makes me sad! There has never been a time since Addy was born that she's slept for any longer than like 6 hours at a time.
If she's fed and changed and you are both worn out, I would recommend just laying her down and she'll wear herself out. It's hard to do, but it works eventually. You don't want an 8-year-old sleeping in your bed with you (not that I would know what that is like). Part of the problem is that our mom was there recently and I'm sure she was an "enabler" for your child by holding her a lot.
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I read "Babywise", and decided that depending on someone's current methods it can be considered brilliant advice, or for some it's common sense. I considered it merely good advice.
Zarina eats about 7 or 7:30pm and then gets put in bed about 8:30 and sleeps until 7:30am. I don't have enough experience with kids to know if I am just lucky, or if it's the babywise method.
I can email you our technique, or we could try to talk on the phone to compare notes.
I actually like the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child by Marc Weissbluth. I liked it better than Babywise. Good luck, the training process is hard but it is sooo worth it in the end :)
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