Sleep Boot Camp! Who's with me??? - Page 3

[Mis Trae]

Good news on this end.

I put DS down around 7:30 last night. Then, 30 minutes later, I heard him stirring. In the past, this would mean crying, me picking him up, giving him a bottle, etc...I thought, "oh no, here we go again." However, this time he played with his blanket/lovie on and off for about 2 hours (dozing in between) before he finally went to sleep! He never even cried once during that time...This is big for us!  We still woke up once screaming but compared to how it's been, once is better than 3-4 times. I'm hoping that as he continues to feel better, the ability to soothe himself will get better.

[Terrilein]

I refuse to believe that everyone's babies magically started sttn this spring. Or is there a new thread and I missed it?

We are still sleeping horribly over here. I think I might be on to something though: I think when he's getting all wiggly at 3 am it's because he might need to pee and just can't sleep until he finally does pee. I've put this out in the EC forum and they agree that this is common behavior. So, I find that I'm just WAAAAY too groggy to get up and put my baby on a potty. I've resorted to putting him in pampers for the night and he's still sleeping poorly, but he actually slept once from 1 am to I think 7 am in his own bed. Soooo, maybe there's hope??? Also, I think we needs to drop his morning nap in hopes of getting a better afternoon nap and better sleep in the evening. He's been pushing his nap into midday which messes up my schedule a bit, so I want to see how we do if I encourage him to stay awake and nap after lunch. Otherwise, our evening schedule is still chaotic and not very conducive to sleep. Still trying to get my oldest to bed at an early enough hour that she doesn't rebel and still allows ds time to nurse down so I get some me time is almost impossible. But we're working on it. Bad part is lately ds has taken to waking up at 5 am and not want to really go back down at all. I'm so wiped out here, ladies!!!

[expat-mama]

Hey Terri...

Well we were doing better for a week or two. Now, not so much.

We have good nights (on these, DS sleeps well from 7-11 then has a few wake-ups till 5 when he is up for the day) and bad nights (on these, DS has multiple wake-ups from when he goes down at 7 and then often wakes up earlier than his normal awful early wake up at 5). We've had lots of bad nights this week. I'm pulling my hair out. It's gotten so bad that we are seriously talking about nightweaning. I don't know if I can bring myself to do it. I'll be leaving in 2 weeks with DS to go overseas for our long summer holiday. I'm just bummed because I soo wanted him to be sleeping better by this point. Holiday shmoliday...it will be a continuation of my exhausted existence.

[ContentMama]

Haha, no not sttn here, I have just accepted that I will be woken up all night long and let chaos reign. For a while, I totally dropped all routine and let him lead the way. It was crazy for me but more peaceful in many ways as I just accepted it. Then, he started showing signs of wanting to go to bed earlier so we started to do that. We had a great couple of weeks up until recently! He was sleeping long chunks and when he would wake would nurse right back to sleep. He also decided he doesn't like our routine of bathing before bed so I've nixed that.

For the last few days, he has been waking up several times, sitting up in the bed and MOANING! Literally for 1-3 hours. I try and nurse, comfort,etc sometimes it helps him go back to sleep, other times he'll just roll over and sit back up. I'm thinking it has to be teeth. I am going to try baby Tylenol even though I don't like using meds. I'll try it and if that helps at least I'll know the pain is the issue.

[LittleBirdy]

I never enrolled in the boot camp even though I had a poor sleeper, but if it makes you feel better no, my DS is by no means STTN either.

We tried a new rule: no nursing between his bedtime and mine.  He still wakes up at least once in that 2 hour time frame.  It's really demoralizing.  And he's having a really hard time staying asleep in the morning - if I move an inch he wakes up.  I have been late for work every day this week because I am laying in bed with my son trying to keep him asleep.

In t-minus three months he will be spending the night with my SIL and I am terrified.