Hi all,
This is my first post here, and I hope it's the appropriate place! We have a 7 month old boy (our first) who is not sleeping really much at all, and I'm not sure if it's his health issue, something we've done or it's normal for this age...so any advice would be greatly appreciated because my husband really wants to CIO esp since cosleeping isn't working.
First, we struggled with breastfeeding, and in my ignorance and listening to others advice, he cried and we were up with him trying to "bounce" him to sleep and hold him when I should have probably been breastfeeding him. Not long after that, he was diagnosed with a hemangioma on his face and has been on steriods (orapred) and a reflux medicine (prevacid) since he was 6 weeks old. We started out at a very high dose and they told us to expect lots of fussiness and basically being wound up. He was. So, another several months of really not sleeping and creating sleep associations for him. No naps (sometimes maybe a half hour) still bouncing him to sleep and holding him with most of the time being swaddled. We might have gotten a couple hours in a row at that point.
Fast forward to now. We are on a much lower dose of steriods, but he still isn't sleeping. And by that I mean, waking every 1.5-2 hours and only napping about 1/2 hour at a time. We have some serious sleep depravation going on, back to when he was born. I'm afraid my husband is going to have a breakdown. It's alot of stress for us right now (not just the sleep, but normal life as well
and we have trouble functioning on some days.
So what could be going on? I started back to work two months ago, he's at the sitter part time (M,W,R). Developmentally, we started solids about a month ago, he's sitting up and rolling places, almost crawling, has his two bottom teeth...we started cosleeping a couple weeks ago to see if that would help....but it hasn't. Except it's easier for me to breastfeed, which I am loving (yes, I got up to feed him at night for over 6 months-I just didn't know...).
It's hard for me to even guess what could be going on, is it the steriods affecting his stomach (he does seem to suffer from gas esp at night)? Still winding him up even at the very low does? Teething? Developmental?
It seems to me he would need much more sleep than he's getting....any advice would be great! Thanks so much!!
This is my first post here, and I hope it's the appropriate place! We have a 7 month old boy (our first) who is not sleeping really much at all, and I'm not sure if it's his health issue, something we've done or it's normal for this age...so any advice would be greatly appreciated because my husband really wants to CIO esp since cosleeping isn't working.
First, we struggled with breastfeeding, and in my ignorance and listening to others advice, he cried and we were up with him trying to "bounce" him to sleep and hold him when I should have probably been breastfeeding him. Not long after that, he was diagnosed with a hemangioma on his face and has been on steriods (orapred) and a reflux medicine (prevacid) since he was 6 weeks old. We started out at a very high dose and they told us to expect lots of fussiness and basically being wound up. He was. So, another several months of really not sleeping and creating sleep associations for him. No naps (sometimes maybe a half hour) still bouncing him to sleep and holding him with most of the time being swaddled. We might have gotten a couple hours in a row at that point.
Fast forward to now. We are on a much lower dose of steriods, but he still isn't sleeping. And by that I mean, waking every 1.5-2 hours and only napping about 1/2 hour at a time. We have some serious sleep depravation going on, back to when he was born. I'm afraid my husband is going to have a breakdown. It's alot of stress for us right now (not just the sleep, but normal life as well
and we have trouble functioning on some days.So what could be going on? I started back to work two months ago, he's at the sitter part time (M,W,R). Developmentally, we started solids about a month ago, he's sitting up and rolling places, almost crawling, has his two bottom teeth...we started cosleeping a couple weeks ago to see if that would help....but it hasn't. Except it's easier for me to breastfeed, which I am loving (yes, I got up to feed him at night for over 6 months-I just didn't know...).
It's hard for me to even guess what could be going on, is it the steriods affecting his stomach (he does seem to suffer from gas esp at night)? Still winding him up even at the very low does? Teething? Developmental?
It seems to me he would need much more sleep than he's getting....any advice would be great! Thanks so much!!
mama, it sounds like you guys have had a rough go of it! That said, what you are describing sleep-wise is pretty normal at 7 months old. How many hours total is he getting? My DS woke every hour or more every night for the first year or so. If it wasn't for cosleeping, I would've lost my mind! I suggest continueing and nursing laying down through the night. Also, blackout curtains and white noise helped us tremendously! Maybe let hubby sleep in another room for a little while.
