Okay... I think someone posted about a 2 month sleep "regression" a few weeks ago but I have baby brain. It seems silly to even call it a "regression" since we were only almost to a good place with the sleeping to begin with! But over the past week or so, things have really fallen apart and I am struggling. Already working hard to overcome my PPD, this extra lack of sleep sucks!
She had been doing great - sleeping by 8pm, a little wakeup at 9, back to sleep till somewhere between 12-3 when she would get up for a nurse, sometimes another one a few hours later, then waking up at 6 or 7, then short naps all morning long and throughout the day. We started doing a bedtime routine at 7ish (bath, story, swaddle and cuddle) a few weeks ago and it helped a lot.
Then about 2 weeks ago her naps got worse and worse - shorter and WAY harder to wind her down. I would do the same stuff for naps as for bedtime - swaddle, nurse, darkness, noise machine. And she would go down for 30-45 minutes or so.
Now... she is going to sleep at 8ish, but when she wakes up around 9pm, she just will NOT go back to sleep. Last night she was up till after 11:30, and only fell asleep when I brought her in bed with me (she had been doing well in her crib on her own for over a month). Then I moved her to the cosleeper, nursed her once or twice in the night, and brought her back next to me at 5ish when she started grunting, thrashing, squirming. She kept that up for TWO HOURS until I finally unswaddled her... then she flailed around in her sleep for another half an hour before waking up, pooping, getting changed, getting reswaddled, and going back to sleep. For a half hour. And repeat.
Now it's 10 and she's still obvious exhausted, sort of falling asleep in her swing. But, as she was doing last night and all freakin morning, she'll fall asleep for maybe 3 minutes and then wake up, excited and interested but obviously still exhausted.
I am feeling WAY touched out and at my wit's end from having to be attached 24/7. My mom has been helping a few hours a day, and DH in the evenings, but she so wants to be connected to me at all times that it's burning me out even faster than before.
I am hoping that once she can reliably find her hands to her mouth even when she's tired (that's half her problem and explains a lot of the thrashing right there), she'll be able to sleep more and can be left unswaddled. I've heard about various stages where there is just too much going on, developmentally, for them to sleep well, but I'm surprised it's happening so early. And for naps too! Argh!
I've tried everything, but any advice or commiseration or even telling me that she'll definitely grow out of it would be great!
She had been doing great - sleeping by 8pm, a little wakeup at 9, back to sleep till somewhere between 12-3 when she would get up for a nurse, sometimes another one a few hours later, then waking up at 6 or 7, then short naps all morning long and throughout the day. We started doing a bedtime routine at 7ish (bath, story, swaddle and cuddle) a few weeks ago and it helped a lot.
Then about 2 weeks ago her naps got worse and worse - shorter and WAY harder to wind her down. I would do the same stuff for naps as for bedtime - swaddle, nurse, darkness, noise machine. And she would go down for 30-45 minutes or so.
Now... she is going to sleep at 8ish, but when she wakes up around 9pm, she just will NOT go back to sleep. Last night she was up till after 11:30, and only fell asleep when I brought her in bed with me (she had been doing well in her crib on her own for over a month). Then I moved her to the cosleeper, nursed her once or twice in the night, and brought her back next to me at 5ish when she started grunting, thrashing, squirming. She kept that up for TWO HOURS until I finally unswaddled her... then she flailed around in her sleep for another half an hour before waking up, pooping, getting changed, getting reswaddled, and going back to sleep. For a half hour. And repeat.
Now it's 10 and she's still obvious exhausted, sort of falling asleep in her swing. But, as she was doing last night and all freakin morning, she'll fall asleep for maybe 3 minutes and then wake up, excited and interested but obviously still exhausted.
I am feeling WAY touched out and at my wit's end from having to be attached 24/7. My mom has been helping a few hours a day, and DH in the evenings, but she so wants to be connected to me at all times that it's burning me out even faster than before.
I am hoping that once she can reliably find her hands to her mouth even when she's tired (that's half her problem and explains a lot of the thrashing right there), she'll be able to sleep more and can be left unswaddled. I've heard about various stages where there is just too much going on, developmentally, for them to sleep well, but I'm surprised it's happening so early. And for naps too! Argh!
I've tried everything, but any advice or commiseration or even telling me that she'll definitely grow out of it would be great!
