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More baby talk - sleep
Okay, I need thoughts, experiences, horror stories.
We have always been very routine with Andy's sleep. We never really had to sleep train when he was a baby. Since moving into the new house, he has started waking up at 11:30-12 screaming his head off. This was about a once a week occurance for the first month or so, but now with the holidays and his head cold, it is turning into nightly.
It has been easier to bring him into our bed, but he still kicks all night and tosses and turns, so we all don't sleep very well.
It got to the point where he wouldn't even go down in his room. He only wanted to be in our bed. Last week, we did CIO for three days. First night was 40 minutes, second was 20, third was 3, and the rest of the week was 0.
But now, for the past couple of nights, we are back to the 11:30-12 waking.
I have the Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child or whatever that one is called. I just started re-reading it last night, but didn't get very far.
I dread letting him cry in the middle of the night, but we might be getting there.
What are your thoughts? How do you handle middle of the night wakings? Am I setting my kid up to become a serial killer because mommy didn't love him enough?
Re: More baby talk - sleep
We just went through a period of 11:00/11:30 awakenings. Sometimes just replacing his blankets and rubbing his back helped, but more often he wanted to be held, and went right back to sleep as soon as you got in the rocker with him.
Last week we made his bedtime a half hour later after noticing that staying up a little later due to the holidays knocked the early awakenings out. It worked. However, he does still get up at 3:30 or so and we've always given him a diaper and a drink to get him back to sleep, so we're not exactly models you should follow.
Eventually we'll do Ferber if he doesn't grow out of wanting a drink during the night (I know he doesn't need one).
Your bed is probably like being in a hotel for him...so much more comfortable so ofcourse he fights going into his bed! I would just make sure you stay consistent with whatever you decide to do.
For night wakings I go in and put his soother back in and put his blanket back on him and rub his back. He usually cries/screams until I walk out the door and then he is fine and goes to sleep. I noticed this week that he wasn't though and the reason why he has decided that pooping at night is awesome. So he has been getting a crazy butt rash and it is painful. Until it clears up I change him if he wakes up and is poopy.
Will wakes up about once a week crying. Usually we just have to tuck him back in or help him find Mr. Lion and he goes right back to sleep. Every now and then he has a nightmare and it takes a really long time to calm him down.
I don't have any really good advice, as our issues with sleep are mainly with getting him to go to bed in the first place, but I hope he settles in to his new room and calms down soon.
Ha! Jerk. :P
In the past, it has always been better for us to just let him fuss when he would wake up at night. Going to him would make him cry. But these nights, he is screaming. Usually, I am at his crib before I even realize what I am doing.
I agree that consistency is the best practice. It's just going to suck. But, seeing as how I almost b*tch slapped my H this morning because he was whining due to the fact that Andy was favoring his side of the bed last night (rather than mine, which is usually the case), it is probably best we deal with this issue now, for the sake of the entire peace of our family.