You will see from a previous post that 3ish weeks ago I had a perfect sleeping baby at night. I'm talking 13 hours no feeds solid sleep (I take no credit, she was sucking her fingers and taking herself off to sleep). It was amazing.
Fast forward 3 weeks and dd has hit the growth spurt/sleep regression/milestone meeting stage and therefore it's all gone wrong.
She's forgotten how to self soothe, is up every 2 hours at least and stirs constantly from 4am.
So, to give background I'm a light sleeper and ftm so I wake every time dd blinks. I've resorted to wearing ear plugs so I can't hear the constant wriggling, but can hear grizzles/crying, and we have a motion sensor. Dh is heavy sleeper and none of this bothers him..
Obviously I accept that I will be without sleep but I've realised that DD's sleep is being affected by room sharing too. She is, since last week, stiring at the slightest noise, waking each time I move in bed, I have to wake up each time dh starts to move and hold him so the bed doesn't creak, and poor dd is woken up by dh coming in from night shifts also.
Tonight, I've gone without a shower so as not to make noise, but dd woke as I switched a light off in en suite. I've been literally silent but she's just woken and was screaming.
So.. Would I be unreasonable in light of current guidelines considering dh's shifts, me being awake all night, and Dds interrupted sleep to put her into her own room near to ours if movement monitor was used??
Anyone been in this situation? Did the separate rooms help? Sorry for long post, I'm tired and hiding my head under covers so light doesn't disturb dd who is thrashing about again...
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
AIBU?
in putting my 14 week old in her own room?
66 replies
Whatabeautifulsight10 · 25/08/2014 22:06
OP posts:
MissClemencyTrevanion ·
25/08/2014 22:17
This reply has been deleted
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.