I know sleep deprivation goes with the territory when you have an infant, but my 2 month old DD is wearing me down and I'm having more and more trouble finding the stores of patience I need to get through.
If ever there was a truth to the idea of having day and night mixed up, it's my kid.
She doesn't go "down for the night" until about 4 a.m...well, usually between 3-5 a.m.--and then she'll sleep anywhere from 8-10 hours sometimes, but more often, just 4 hours.
Today, for example, she was up until 4:30 a.m. and then slept until noon. However, she did not go down for any kind of real nap all day. She'd cat nap for 10-20 minutes, and within 10 minutes of me putting her down, she was awake again.
Some of this has to do with reflux and gas bubbles; she is really sensitive to burps and will wake up.
She went down, finally, around 9:45 p.m. and hasn't woken up yet...but honestly, I'm afraid to go to sleep because I just *know* she is going to wake up.
I've tried everything I can think of...I swaddle her when I put her to sleep. Tried sleeping her in the bed with us. Tried nursing her to sleep. Keep all the lights off and no stimulation when she wakes up in the middle of the night (tv off, no music on, very little talking). I've tried waking her up during her longest stretch of sleep (in the morning time) to try to "flip" her days and nights, but that didn't work...
What am I doing wrong here? And how do I fix it? I have got to start getting some sleep.
If ever there was a truth to the idea of having day and night mixed up, it's my kid.
She doesn't go "down for the night" until about 4 a.m...well, usually between 3-5 a.m.--and then she'll sleep anywhere from 8-10 hours sometimes, but more often, just 4 hours.
Today, for example, she was up until 4:30 a.m. and then slept until noon. However, she did not go down for any kind of real nap all day. She'd cat nap for 10-20 minutes, and within 10 minutes of me putting her down, she was awake again.
Some of this has to do with reflux and gas bubbles; she is really sensitive to burps and will wake up.
She went down, finally, around 9:45 p.m. and hasn't woken up yet...but honestly, I'm afraid to go to sleep because I just *know* she is going to wake up.
I've tried everything I can think of...I swaddle her when I put her to sleep. Tried sleeping her in the bed with us. Tried nursing her to sleep. Keep all the lights off and no stimulation when she wakes up in the middle of the night (tv off, no music on, very little talking). I've tried waking her up during her longest stretch of sleep (in the morning time) to try to "flip" her days and nights, but that didn't work...
What am I doing wrong here? And how do I fix it? I have got to start getting some sleep.
