I cannot get my baby to sleep. Ever! OK well eventually he goes to sleep but I feel like I might go crazy if I have to spend one more minute ni the bedroom trying to get him to fall asleep. He is 9 months by the way.
This is how it works. He gets tired so we go in the room, turn out the lights, turn on the fan, get cozy in the room and we rock and rock and rock. Most times he ends up just popping back awake. Some days I actually spend about five hours in there. He is like this for DH too.
By the way, no he isn't overtired. No this isn't a regression. It has pretty much always been like this minus some brief phases of rocking to sleep very easily and even falling asleep on his own consistenly for a couple weeks. ANd he sleeps very well once he's down, usually napping for two hours.
This isn't healthy for me. The amount of stress and anger I feel taking him back into the bedroom over and over all day. I'm frustrated and losing my temper and find myself snapping at my toddler. We need a change.
This is especially frustrating I think because I know how long this can last. My older son was almost as hard to get to sleep but not quite. I'm also frustrated because I feel like there is probably an easy solution. I had so many problems with my older DS and read Sleepless in America and now things are so much better. I just can't seem to really apply it to DS2.
TIA if you read this. Sorry if it's whiny, I feel especially bitter right now as I will be trying to get DS2 down for the fifth time any minute.
This is how it works. He gets tired so we go in the room, turn out the lights, turn on the fan, get cozy in the room and we rock and rock and rock. Most times he ends up just popping back awake. Some days I actually spend about five hours in there. He is like this for DH too.
By the way, no he isn't overtired. No this isn't a regression. It has pretty much always been like this minus some brief phases of rocking to sleep very easily and even falling asleep on his own consistenly for a couple weeks. ANd he sleeps very well once he's down, usually napping for two hours.
This isn't healthy for me. The amount of stress and anger I feel taking him back into the bedroom over and over all day. I'm frustrated and losing my temper and find myself snapping at my toddler. We need a change.
This is especially frustrating I think because I know how long this can last. My older son was almost as hard to get to sleep but not quite. I'm also frustrated because I feel like there is probably an easy solution. I had so many problems with my older DS and read Sleepless in America and now things are so much better. I just can't seem to really apply it to DS2.
TIA if you read this. Sorry if it's whiny, I feel especially bitter right now as I will be trying to get DS2 down for the fifth time any minute.
I just want to cry. I can't do this for another 9 months.
my DS has always been a sleep fighter too. Maybe try transitioning him to one nap a day? When I did this around 9-10 months old (he would wake up around 5-6 for the day, nap at 10, bedtime at 7) he stopped fighting it so badly.
