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Moms - advice on sleeping....
So Allyson turned one month yesterday and is obviously not sleeping through the night at this point, she's up about every 2 1/2 to 3 hours, occasionally will go a 4 hour stretch. I'm finding that i'm having a hard time getting her back to sleep after a feeding so she'll get up at 1, i'll feed her and not get her back to sleep til 2:30 then she's back up again by 3:30.....any advice? also, i can not seem to sleep during the day when she sleeps so i'm absolutely exhausted, how did you get through this? i'm having a really hard time with her because i'm so tired. And she's extremely fussy at night when we're really tired so that makes it even harder. any advice is greatly appreciated! When did your little ones sleep through the night?
Re: Moms - advice on sleeping....
Hmm...I think it might have been around 2 months or so when Austin started STTN, maybe it was 2.5 months, I can't remember - that is sleeping 6-8 hours stretches at night...he still either gets up once or twice during the night to eat, just remember every baby is different and my pedi told me at our 3 month check-up that we were lucky to have Austin be sleeping so well at his age....it sounds like Allyson's pattern is pretty average, sleeping in 2.5 - 3 hour stretches...she's still very young...and as she ages she'll sleep longer and longer for you...
What I did with Austin, is when I would get up at night to feed him, I would side-nurse him (don't know if you are BFing), I also had a 15 watt bulb in my nightstand lamp so the room was VERY dimly lit, I wouldn't talk to him or anything or make eye contact...I'd feed him, burp him, change his diaper then put him back down and he was good to go usually...but I would certainly hear him in his bassinet grunting, and moving around and making all sorts of noises...eventually he'd doze off...
The only thing I can think of that might be waking her up is gas - does she have a burp or she may have lower gas that is painful for her, resulting in her immediate wake up after putting her down...
I remember one night Austin was up every hour - that was horrible...could she be going through a growth spurt?
When Maddie was getting up at night, we'd get her up, change her, swaddle her, then feed and put her to bed. All the lights would be off or very low. We also started a bedtime routine around 4 weeks with a bath and massage. What time is she going to bed at night? Maddie also got fussy at 7 on the dot, so we started putting her down around then to combat that.?
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I'll come play with your newborn so you can get some sleep!!
I'd try the routine thing, it might help get her settled down. The other thing you can do is make two bottles of formula before you go to bed and feed her from those so you don't have to make them in the middle of the night.?
Recruit as much help as you can to help you deal with the lack of sleep, it could go on for awhile! Try to get the baby's longer stretches of sleep to fall at night by waking her up to eat every 3-4 hours during the day for right now. Also - keep the house lit and noisy during the day and at night keep any lights dim and the house quiet to help her fall into a normal rythym.....
I think Jakob was 11 weeks when he started STTN and, for a first child, that was pretty early from what I have heard in comparison to others.....expect it to be AT LEAST that long!
Good luck to you both!
Hey there! I have been thinking about you and glad you popped on. I am in the same boat as you. Brenna gets up 2-4x a night sometimes she is back down in 15 mins and sometimes it's 1.5 hours. If you aren't swaddling do that. I didn't think Brenna liked it, she kicked out and pushed her hands out too, but once I did it tighter and better, I really think it helps. Brady (my first) started STTN @ 11 weeks which is extremely early. I am hoping that Brenna does that too, but I am not counting on it. Please feel free to email me if you need someone to comiserate with!
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Connor has bee STTN since 1.5 months. We were so aggressive from the beginning with trying to get him on a schedule. It might have something to do with it but it might not. We always went to bed at the same time. We always keep it bright and noisy during the day (besides naps) then quiet everything down at night.
Also swaddle, swaddle, swaddle! Make sure its nice and tight! if you do it loose it wont have the same effect. We also only operate by a night light. He wakes up for food 1-2 times a night (he goes down at 7:15 then usually eats at 1:30 then 5:30) I keep him swaddled (smell through to see if he has done poops- if not I dont change him) I feed him while rocking, no talking or eye contact then I put him back down. He is good for 5-6 hours.
HTH!! Good luck!
Oops, you guys are using the 5 hour STTN definition? Sorry, I didn't realize that initially.
I need to revise my answer then and say that Jakob came home from the hospital at 1 week old STTN. At 11 weeks he had worked up to sleeping 8-10 hours (6-7pm to 4-5am), which was what I considered to be sleeping all night because he wasn't waking up to eat anymore.
And I won't talk about Caroline, because I'll proabably have people throwing things at me to stop bragging