Okay, so, after what was a terrible day yesterday and a terrible night last night sleeping-wise for Cody, I am breaking down and asking for ADVICE. It has been over a year now (a year, because the constant urge to pee 5,000 times at night had pretty much kicked in about this time last year) that I slept even 7 hours straight. I would say 6, but I may have gotten 6 straight hours of sleep once or twice. And, you know, I could probably handle that if I didn't constantly hear just about every other day about other, younger babies already sleeping through the night. I am bombarded with comments like, "oh ya, my 4 month old always sleeps from about 9:30 at night to 7:30 in the morning", or "oh ya, I have my 6 month old on a schedule, he/she sleeps from at least 8:30 at night to 8:30 the next morning. Sometimes I even have to WAKE THEM UP." (emphasis added). What the crap!! My almost 9 month old doesn't even come close to sleeping that long. I am lucky if I can get him to go until 5 am without a feeding. Usually it hits around 3-4, if not earlier. And sometimes (as was the case last night) the little bottomless pit wakes up twice! You heard me, my 9 month old is still waking up to eat twice sometimes!! Am I the only one here who is so tired I can barely keep up with a normal conversation during the day, let alone chase an extremely active little boy around all day!?! I swear, sometimes I think I should be put in a rubber room. (: Okay, just kidding. But seriously, some advice would be nice. Even some similar stories would be nice cause, you know, misery loves company. (: Oh, and by the way...the advice of, "just let them cry it out, they need to learn to comfort themselves", although that is advice that tends to work within just a couple minutes during the day, doesn't seem to work even in the slightest at night. There have been a few times where I'll attempt to let him "just cry it out" and an hour later I finally just give in. So there goes at least 40 minutes of sleep I could have gotten had I just fed him right away. Anyway, as you can see, I'm a bit frazzled, so...advice please!
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Ok so I started writing some ideas for you that worked for me but it was taking up so much room. Just call me and I can give you some ideas. I was never good at letting him cry it out. I really liked the book baby wise but I wasn't as strict as they are and I couldn't let him cry it out. Sorry I know how sleeplesness sucks. Brody is sick and I haven't been sleeping.
Advice, no. Sympathy, TONS. Tyler didn't sleep through the night until he was almost TWO. The problem is that there are a billion methods out there, and you have to find the one that lines up with your parenting style and you child's needs at the same time, and sometimes I don't know if that exists. For Tyler, he just suddenly grew out of it. And I spent most of the first two years distraught that I was doing things wrong, trying every method people told me, and just plain freaking out in sleep-deprived form. I have to say I am more relaxed with Kaitlyn- now that one is sleeping through the night, I know that it will indeed end SOMEDAY, so it is much easier to cope with. But you have all my sympathy in the world!
By the way, we SO need to see you guys soon! It has been forever! And I served your Portobello sandwich tonight and it was heavenly!
I am so sorry, I know how hard life is when you get no sleep, I have had a headache since Holden was born because of the lack of sleep. Dallin was sleeping through the night at eight weeks old, but with all my problems, he was a formula fed baby. My girls never slept through the night until I was done nursing them. I have heard that formula fed babies tend to sleep better, something about how it takes longer to digest the formula or something. With Hadley I mastered the laying down while nursing, and I usually just slept with her next to me so she could eat when she wanted without waking me. The only thing I would suggest trying is somethig you probably don't want to do and that is maybe give him a bottle right before bedtime and pump if you want and just see if it works. If you do try that, it might take a weed or so for him to get on a schedule where he won't wake up just because he is used to it. By the way, I am not one who believes in letting them cry it out, that kills me, especially when you know they need something.
Hey I feel your pain I am right there with you girl. Maggie doesn't sleep through the night. In fact it sounds like she and Cody are on the same schedule. Lars started to sleep through the night at two weeks and Hailey at about 3 months. I am totally stumped. I do know that it is more of a comfort thing though. The doc said that they do not need to be fed at night for nutritional purpose after they are about 10 lbs. Well for Maggie that was at about 1 month. I think they just like the nice warm snack in the middle of the night. After all who doesn't! Anyway good luck with it all and I'll be thinking of you at 3am tonight when I am up feeding Maggie.
I found your blog so I have to comment about this!! Izzy is still not sleeping through the night. I tried the crying it out thing--didn't work for us. She cried for 5 hours one night, it was miserable. Good luck!! I am still trying to figure it out so I don't have any advice!! Sorry!!
It's like they say every pregnancy is different, so is every baby so what might work for someone won't work for you. Mckinley didn't sleep through the night until she was over two and Brayden slept through the night at 2 months. I didn't do anything different, it was just their personalities. One thing that gave me a little more sleep with Mckinley was when she went to solid foods I gave her a fruit or some cream of wheat at night and that seemed to hold her off for a couple more hours.
Sorry I know that isn't good advice but hang in there it does get better. Although now they wake up because of nightmares (not every night though)!!!
I to feel the pain. that is why I have three spaced 3 and 4 years apart. I still have one that sleeps with us because I got so tired I resorted to putting them in bed with me! I know that is a big no no....but I get sleep and I function. I know that is I had not relied upon the Lord to sustain me through EACH AND EVERY day as I was at the end of all ropes...I couldn't have made it! Melissa it does get better. Becasue soo it will only be three then tow and then one day they are 12 and you will, in some insane way, miss the days they need you in thier world at all times. I remeber people saying"Just let them cry through the night!" My thought always turned to these words "then they would know that i may not always be their for them when they need me!" So I put up with the sleeplessnes and was hteir for them everytime...They are my everything and I don't regret it a moment!
I have much sympathy...not much advice. Carter has never been a good sleeper (I tried crying it out, baby wise, music, laying in bed with him, etc)and nothing worked. He still ends up in our bed most nights (he gets sneaky and climbs in without us even knowing!) Bad habit, but as our doctor put it, "you don't see many 16 year old sleeping with their parents!" I'm still struggling with his sleep habits and now I get to start over with a newborn! Hopefully she's a better sleeper, but I'm not getting my hopes up!
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