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Post by ouchy on Aug 22, 2008 1:54:59 GMT -5
UGH. I'm toiling with this. It's now 11:50 P.M. and baby Ouchy WON'T go to sleep. I've tried everything, and this is once again becoming a nightly occurrence. I've given her teething tabs, colic tabs, tried rocking/nursing her, nursing her down in bed NUMEROUS times. I've let her go potty NUMEROUS times....NOTHING is working! She's now in her crib here in the computer room b*tching at me off-and-on. She goes from b*tching at me to whimpering, to sitting down playing with her toys in the crib. God willing, she'll wear herself out soon as I've taken Nyquil in anticipation of her sleeping well....yerrite!
I guess I'm stuck with doing a modified cry-it-out tonight. Grrrr!
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Post by ouchy on Aug 22, 2008 1:55:56 GMT -5
P.S. I have a different brand of Gripe Water on the way. Should be here hopefully tomorrow!
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Post by jjuls22 on Aug 22, 2008 8:52:19 GMT -5
whats gripe water?
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Post by ouchy on Aug 22, 2008 10:14:28 GMT -5
Gripe water is kind of like a tea of fennel and ginger. It has worked amazingly for us in the past, but she now won't swallow a drop of the brand she previously loved!
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Post by ouchy on Aug 22, 2008 10:15:06 GMT -5
She finally decided to nurse to sleep after she was in her crib for 10 min. Yayyy!
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Post by anneny on Aug 22, 2008 13:56:20 GMT -5
Yuck. Sorry you had a rough night! I've had a couple of similar situations, except they usually start at 3 a.m. and go until 5. I finally just had to lie down with him on my chest after changing his diaper and feeding him (again) and then sing lullabies until he fell asleep.
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Post by ouchy on Aug 22, 2008 14:02:03 GMT -5
Eeek. Sorry. It's not a fun time when baby is fussy, huh! The tummy lying used to work great for us, but now she's in to walking and playing and uggggh. I miss tummy nursing for calming down. It was great for the first several months! ONLY way to go for us! I need to check the tracking on the gripe water. Hopefully she'll take it this time!
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Post by jellybean on Nov 22, 2008 3:36:45 GMT -5
For the past couple weeks, my little one has been sleeping sporadically throughout the day and night and I wasn't able to adjust. I guess my body is more resistant to change in sleep patterns than it used to be. For a couple nights, I had to basically use the CIO method. I was at the point of collapsing and we would nurse until she'd fall asleep. The moment I would pick her up, she would wake up. She still sleeps on top of me at almost 6 months, but she doesn't generally fall asleep unless she's nursing. She was tired though. It was obvious that she was. She just wouldn't stay asleep. So I laid down with her on top of me the way I would if she was asleep, and she cried for about 15 minutes. Was really hard to listen to...but she didn't cry like she was in pain. Since then, I keep her up for the most part during the day and now we're sleeping from 7-8PM until about 11PM and then about 2-3AM to 10AM. It's much easier on me and I get enough sleep now without letting her cry, so I feel better about it. She still gets brief naps throughout the day, but no longer than 50 minutes.
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Post by anneny on Jan 7, 2009 12:51:35 GMT -5
My little guy takes naps pretty well--about three hour-long naps per day, usually clustered from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.--but he is terrible at night. I just don't have the heart to use a CIO method, so we're going to try the Baby Whisperer. www.babywhisperer.com/babywhisperer.htmlI think a huge factor in his sleep problems has been that we've had no consistency. When he was about three months old, he was sleeping one two-hour stretch, followed by a four-hour stretch, followed by a three-hour stretch. This lasted a few weeks, and it was like heaven. Then, the construction on our building forced us out of our bedroom, and it's been all down hill from there. I had to go to my mom's for a week because of noxious fumes in our apartment, and then when we got back, we still couldn't be in our bedroom for about three more weeks. We just got settled back in for four days when it was time to go to my MIL's for Thanksgiving for a week. He got bronchiolitis while we were there, and was still sick when we got back. By the time he was better, we tried a bed-time routine, but no sooner had that started to help than it was time to go back to my mom's for Christmas. He got sick again, and I got it, too. So mom and baby have both had a nasty virus with congestion, coughing, ear pain and pink eye. Yuck. Well, we're finally home, and finally getting healthy, and we don't have any disruptions for the next several weeks, so we're going to try the Baby Whisperer technique and hope we can all get some sleep. There have been a couple of times when I was losing my sanity, and just had to put the baby down for a while and collect myself, but I don't count that as CIO because the point wasn't for the baby to calm himself, but for me to calm down so I could take care of him. Maybe that's quibbling, but to me it feels like there's a big difference between deliberately letting him cry for a set period of time to teach him a lesson and occasionally letting him cry for a few minutes so I can eat or reclaim my sanity to have the wherewithal to continue mothering him.
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Post by ouchy on Jan 7, 2009 13:00:46 GMT -5
^Actually, I guess that's what it was for us, too. Hope things get better for you. Glad you're back in your house. I'll check out that link!
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Post by anneny on Mar 16, 2009 11:07:30 GMT -5
Okay...time for me to 'fess up.
I did let him cry it out to get him to sleep consistently at night for more than 2 hours at a time. It was hell. It was also a last resort. It turns out that since we had schedule disruptions right at the time when they're supposed to be developing a regular sleep pattern (though not necessarily "through the night"), most of the no-cry methods were going to be ineffective no matter how hard we tried. And we tried, and tried, but once we went to CIO, we all finally got some sleep.
I wouldn't advocate it as anything other than a last resort, but it did work.
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