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Sleeping question (BR)
Or rather, lack there of..
I know most of our LO's are having a hard time adjusting to the time change, but this thing with LB started with last Thursday night.
She woke up at midnight and would NOT go back to sleep. After an hour I gave up and brought her into bed with me.. (bad mistake)
It has been the same all week, except I haven't brought her in bed before 6am since then. Usually, she gets up once or twice a night. We let her cry for a few minutes, go in, give her her bink (that she chucks across the room) and pat her back to sleep. She goes to sleep immediately, however as soon as she sees we are not there anymore.. approx 5 minutes later, she is up screaming again.
Last night she was up every two hours and each time, patted her back to sleep just to have her wake up when we leave. It was just last week we were able to put her down and she would put herself to sleep~! This is new.
We tried tylenol one night, changing her diaper, changing the temp in the apartament.. it almost seems like she is afraid of something all of the sudden.
Any of you have experience with something like this? She has never done this for a growth spurt or a tooth before. I am sooo tired, any advice, stories?
Re: Sleeping question (BR)
everyone once in a while we will have 2-3 days of this.
We have a Sleep Sheep (white noise maker) and Twilght Turtle and for him we just have to reset them and stay in the room a little longer. Or depending on the temp of the house give him more water because he seems dry and then switch it up.
The time it was bad (Columbus weekend) he wound up sick on antibiotics because after 2 days of it I took him to doctor.
it goes in spurts for us - and has never been related to a time change.
she's at an age where she's learning new things and new movements and she's probably testing a lot of it out. does she make up some of this missed sleep during the day?
she's also conditioned to see you when she falls asleep. it's natural to have several wakenings at night - everyone does, kids and adults alike - and she can't get back to sleep because the conditions are not the same, ie - you being there.
we sleep train using the ferber method. we follow the book (it's not CIO) and base our responses off it. essentially, we teach her to fall asleep on her own and soothe herself so that she doesn't need us to get back to sleep when she wakes in the middle of the night.
also, the diaper change is probably stimulating. unless i smelled poop or if we were all bright-eyed at that point anyway, i'd leave her diaper alone.
what sucks is that you'll never know what's doing this. but on the bright side - it'll pass too.
hang in there and good luck!
Thanks laides. She has a sound machine which she loves. She was falling asleep on her own but it seems we must reteach her. I will look up ferber today because I really cant stand to listen to her cry for more than a couple of minutes.
Thanks again!
We also go thru this with A every so often. I know you mentioned above that you can't stand to let her cry for too long, but that's the only way we get through it with A. We've tried everything else and we know there's nothing wrong with her. I won't let her carry on for a REALLY long time, but I'll give her at least 15 minutes before I cave and go into her room. 9 times out of 10 she's back asleep within a few minutes. But as soon as I walk into her room it's game over (totally fine, stops crying) and she's awake once she see's me.
I would also suggest looking into the ferber method. We did it, and naptime and bedtime are so easy for her now. I put her in her crib, say goodnight, and walk out. She puts herself to sleep within 10 minutes usually.
We did ask the doctor about her holding her breath when crying and both he and his nurse said the worst that will happen is she passes out. Oh, thanks for that.
This exactly. we are in the middle of one of these now. K is waking up at 1am wide eyed and bushy tailed for the day.