Aren't babies supposed to get BETTER at sleeping as they get older?
It is hard to imagine but I SWEAR Aria has done nothing but get WORSE the last 4 weeks of her life. She is now 13 weeks today and I haven't slept more than 2.5 hours in a row since the beginning of October. And some nights, 2.5 hours would be GREAT!
I feel like I am losing my mind. I feel so exhausted that I worry she is going to slip right out of my arms cause I am too tired to hold her. And I am alone with her all night since dh works nights. She has been waking up basically as soon as I lie down with her (cosleeping is killing me but she won't go down alone either). And then she spends the night wiggling and if I just let her wiggle and don't pat her back or get her her pacifier she starts to really wake up, picking her head up everywhere and finally crying. But she can't hold her pacifier when she is asleep so she loses it like every minute, sometimes more sometimes less, and then wakes up searching for it. When dh does get home to take her (or is home for the holiday like the past two nights) she makes him walk her around or else she starts to cry. Probably cause she is wondering why she isn't with me. And so the MOST sleep I get in a row when he takes her is an hour. I thought I could get through Aria's CONSTANT bad sleeping that she has had since birth because I thought it would start to get a little better after 3 months and I was doing ok with 3 hour stretches at once. But things just keep getting WORSE as she gets older not better and I can NOT function on 2-1 hour intervals of sleep.
I have now tried Mylecon, Gripe Water (which will sometimes give me the 2.5 hour of sleep increment but only on the first time I use it), she has been put on reflux meds (Zantac) which cuts down on the waking up crying but not the waking up or fitful sleeping.
She doesn't sleep all day either. Just a 1/2 hour to an hour in the morning, about 20-30 minutes around lunch and then a 1-2 hour in the afternoon. So maximum of 3.5 hours sleeping all day but usually more like 2.5 all day.
I am starting to be afraid that she is establishing bad night patterns and will NEVER outgrow it. HELP ME!!!
It is hard to imagine but I SWEAR Aria has done nothing but get WORSE the last 4 weeks of her life. She is now 13 weeks today and I haven't slept more than 2.5 hours in a row since the beginning of October. And some nights, 2.5 hours would be GREAT!
I feel like I am losing my mind. I feel so exhausted that I worry she is going to slip right out of my arms cause I am too tired to hold her. And I am alone with her all night since dh works nights. She has been waking up basically as soon as I lie down with her (cosleeping is killing me but she won't go down alone either). And then she spends the night wiggling and if I just let her wiggle and don't pat her back or get her her pacifier she starts to really wake up, picking her head up everywhere and finally crying. But she can't hold her pacifier when she is asleep so she loses it like every minute, sometimes more sometimes less, and then wakes up searching for it. When dh does get home to take her (or is home for the holiday like the past two nights) she makes him walk her around or else she starts to cry. Probably cause she is wondering why she isn't with me. And so the MOST sleep I get in a row when he takes her is an hour. I thought I could get through Aria's CONSTANT bad sleeping that she has had since birth because I thought it would start to get a little better after 3 months and I was doing ok with 3 hour stretches at once. But things just keep getting WORSE as she gets older not better and I can NOT function on 2-1 hour intervals of sleep.
I have now tried Mylecon, Gripe Water (which will sometimes give me the 2.5 hour of sleep increment but only on the first time I use it), she has been put on reflux meds (Zantac) which cuts down on the waking up crying but not the waking up or fitful sleeping.
She doesn't sleep all day either. Just a 1/2 hour to an hour in the morning, about 20-30 minutes around lunch and then a 1-2 hour in the afternoon. So maximum of 3.5 hours sleeping all day but usually more like 2.5 all day.
I am starting to be afraid that she is establishing bad night patterns and will NEVER outgrow it. HELP ME!!!
. I'll be sending positive sleeping thoughts for Aria your way!
mama I have been there. DD was a really bad sleeper, she was the queen of wanting to nurse every 45 minutes all night long. With her it was allergies (dairy and onions) and they did affect her more at night and usually about 2 hours after I had them. She would also have problems sleeping when she was teething and if the room was too dark or too quiet and right before she reached any milestone.
