You leave the house with the remote control thinking it is your phone.
I Wonder If This Thing Works?
I did this yesterday. True story. I need sleep. It has been well over 8 months since I got a good nights sleep and it is starting to show.
Max is not sleeping well. He never has. We are seriously contemplating and researching different styles of sleep training but am not at all excited about the process itself. I have heard some real horror stories about sleep training and we certainly have a persistent and willful child on our hands. He is certainly a combo of mom and dad!
I Love When He Is Doing This
oiye 8 months and no regular sleep… lady, I hope you can figure something out! That’s a tough one!
Thanks There have been times it is tolerable and then there have been days like yesterday where I try to dial the remote.
Good luck!!
My first was pretty good about sleeping, ONCE she got to sleep. My second, well… she’s easy to get to sleep… it’s staying asleep that’s the problem. I know it gets better… eventually!
Thanks. These babies need to come with a sleep instructional manual!
Totally. You gave me some strength to try this morning with my 20 month old, who likes to wake up at 5:30. Sigh.
Ugh 5;30 am is brutal. I hope you can get a better handle on those super early wakings so you can get some rest!
Yeah… sucks. Today was 5:50, so we’re getting there. that’s ALMOST human.
How are you doing, er, sleeping?
We were up with you bright and way too early. Sometimes I can get him to go back down for a bit but not today! Come on babies, give your mommies a break!
I am so sorry you are having a hard time with the issue of sleep. Have you read The No-Cry Sleep Solution? We were having some difficulties awhile back, and some parts of the book were quite helpful for us. It’s a nice alternative to ferberizing.
Thanks Emily. I have heard great things about this book and have an idea about the methodology but I need to read it! Hmm…when do I have time to read? In the middle of the night of course!
It’s a quick read. I think I read the whole thing while I was waiting for the mechanic to put new tires on our car
Interestingly enough a neighbor decided to bring me her copy of it today not knowing i wanted to read it. She was just passing it along. Now I just need to find a time to dive in when Max cant get ahold of the pages. His idea of reading is attempting to tear pages out of the book!
did you read the Science of Mom posts?
http://scienceofmom.com/2012/02/06/the-cry-it-out-controversy-and-my-familys-sleep-story/
I have read that. I love her blog! The issue for us is that I am too big of a baby to do cry it out.
ha ha!!! I would have thought by now you might be ready to try it. I guess I tried to think about how sleep training was going to mean a better night’s sleep for all of us… and even though C slept pretty well I was kind of a nervous wreck with her and I didn’t sleep well (I also had the postpartum depression pretty bad…
I wasn’t really a big proponent of CIO either… I did try it a little… but never more than 15 or 20 minutes. So I understand! I guess it must be harder with breastfeeding, too… which I didn’t do. We honestly didn’t have as much of an issue with Chloe… she usually slept well and didn’t wake much… the big thing was getting her to go down with little or no rocking. I imagine it’s that closeness that is so comforting to them… closeness that is a big part of breast feeding!
good luck with finding an answer that fits for you =)
Thanks! Yes, I think the close proximity to mom (and sometimes dad) is so soothing to them. I am really nervous about how all of this will play out with the possibility that I may need to stop breast feeding at the same time. He has teeth now and I have gotten a couple of pretty good bites. It makes me nervous every time I nurse him. It just seems almost like adding insult to injury to stop nursing and sleep train all at the same time!!
I have been thinking about you today after reading this. I wrote a post a while back about when I sleep-trained EB. Her pedi said the commitment to three nights is the most important thing – it’s hard on everyone (mostly parents), but if you go back on all of your hard work, it’ll be torture for them instead of actually getting them to soothe themselves. Here’s the link and good luck!
http://illsleepwhentheyregrown.com/2011/10/15/ask-mama-jells-how-do-i-get-my-kid-into-the-crib/
Thanks for sharing your post an for your empathy. I know one of the cry it out methods works for many people but I am just not in a mental space where I feel ready to do it. That could of course change though. We think we are going to try the No Cry Sleep Solution first and pray to baby Jesus that it works!
I know this was over a month ago, and I hope that you have been getting better sleep, but in case you aren’t I thought I’d share that my son who is still breastfeeding (day and night) has never slept through the night. Never. lol So you’re still ahead of the game if you get yours to do it before then!
My husband and I both agree that CIO is not for us or our kids.
I have days when I feel like he “should” be, but I do well to remember that he will NEVER need me this way when he’s older. He will only be little once. It’s okay that he wakes to nurse.
We are sleeping a little bit better, thanks. I agree with you that this is a special time of closeness with them that is short lived in the grand scheme of things. I try hard to remember that in the middle of the night when I am exhausted.
We are finding that cosleeping works really well for us. I never really pictured us as cosleepers but it is making middle of the night feedings so much easier.
We cosleep too. It IS better, that’s for sure, when you’re talking about multiple wake ups. We are thinking we may need to begin sleep training soon with Samuel because he is now ALL OVER us and in our faces in the middle of the night! lol