The Sleep Chronicles...there's more
I know the horse is dead but I just can't help giving it another beating. Wednesday morning Little Miss woke up at 1:30 and refused to go back to sleep. He spent the next hour rocking and sssshhhhhing her. After that I went in and fed her. She dozed off. I put her in the crib and did some more rocking and ssssshhhhing. I gave up and left her alone to cry. We listened to her cry for at least 30 minutes. At 4:30, I brought her to our bed and let her use me as a human pacifier. She slept until 8:30 AM.
Seriously considering co-sleeping now. Is this a bad move? We have regressed so far that she's practically in the womb! We have never had her in the bed with us all night. Now it seems like the only option for a half way decent night of sleep.
If we co-sleep will it be harder down the line to get her to sleep on her own? Will she miraculously just learn to sleep on her own? Is something keeping her awake? Too cold? Hunger? Is she getting enough sleep? How am I suppose to make that happen?
What are your baby sleep stories? Did it come together for your children? Did you go with a particular sleep training method? Share and I promise not to mention sleep for at least a week!
What are your baby sleep stories? Did it come together for your children? Did you go with a particular sleep training method? Share and I promise not to mention sleep for at least a week!
Comments
some people will a stroke if u tell them that your baby sleeps with you and u will get lip from them but u have to do what u have to do so that everyone in the house is getting enough rest.
U just have to be committed to the fight when it;s time to move her to her crib.
This month were moving the girls to their room with thier own big girl beds but I put $5.00 on it that each night they will find away back in there with us. I don't mind, deep down inside I like it :-) they're only little once. Once they get to 5 , 6 they're going to be over me :-)
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We were big time swaddling back then, which helped keep her asleep, and then at 6 months, we had to wean her off of the swaddle, because she was breaking out of it anyway. We did the ferber method at that point, but we never let her cry longer than 10 minutes. A few nights of that, and we started getting big stretches (5-6 hours) with 1 feeding at night.
THEN we discovered that she didn't sleep well with us sleeping in the room with her, so we starting moving her into the living room (into her empty pack n play) to sleep, and she started sleeping through at that point, from about 8pm-4am. She was looking for a bottle at the 4am feeding, and we eventually weaned her from that (which is about the same time that we completely stopped breastfeeding, she about 8-9 months old), and now she sleeps from about about 8 or 9pm to 7 or 8am.