August/ September 2019 babies #2

[kyles101]

Thread number 2 for our August / September 2019 due date babies.

DS is having a regression on nighttime sleep since moving over to combi - seems to want to wale at 1am whereas before would always go through until 3am...

Lol @DustyDoorframes deary me that is a win and a lose isn't it?!

I have tried "drowsy but awake" putting down a few times now. It. Does. Not. Work.

Got him asleep on me now
I notice if he sleeps on me he has up to a two hour nap whereas each nap in his cot is 30 mins almost on the dot each time.

@Horehound feel your pain. Drowsy but awake, pft! Never works for naps for us. We get 20 minutes on the dot if I do miraculously get him to settle that way. Yep, two hour mum nap for the win. They only nap in the day for about two years don't they, so only another 18 months of this to go 🤣🤣🤣

Haha!

@Horehound We're the same, much longer naps if being cuddled. But DD1 was the same and she now naps beautifully in her cot so hopefully will get there.

Hi, my first time posting on this thread. @Horehound @Littlehouseinthebigcity so glad to hear I'm not the only one 😣 my little one, Arlo has fought his nap all morning and won't let me put him down so he's currently on me so I can guarantee he has a decent nap!

Hi pollyroe16 welcome to the club!
Yeh, I think they must just really love us hehe guess we are cosy etc too

I have to have Alice on me, or she won't nap at all... I have to believe that this won't always be the case.

Must be because it was so warm when they were born. Silly little cuddle monsters.

DS won't nap on me, he just thrashes around and gets hysterical. So it's a fight every day to get him to nap, we usually settle for the pram but it's hit and miss still whether he will go longer than 45 minutes. Sometimes a few rocks of the pram will re settle him, sometimes that's it 🤷‍♀️ I even tried lying down to co-sleep for a nap this week but apparently that was a no no too!

Felicity naps in the car, in the pram if moving, in the sling if moving and occasionally on me or in the rocker. Daytime sleep is challenging!

Cosleeping at night was great until leap 4, now its not great but still better than daytime! I don’t plan to do much about it until 6 months + though.

Another day battling naps. Feel like I spend my whole time trying to settle him for a nap, so frustrating 😒 I'm obviously not alone though!

Welcome @PollyRoe16😊

The past two nights Alice has been waking every 2 hours for a feed, then it being 50:50 that she wakes upon being placed back in her basket.

Luckily she feeds and falls back to sleep quickly, but it still adds up. Also fortunately, this has been over the weekend so I've made DH take her so I could get a little more sleep. I feel a bit bad as he gets up early for his job Mon-Fri, and his sleep is being disturbed too. But at least he gets to sleep while I'm up feeding. Plus he's better at napping than I am.

Can babies go back into the sleep regression? Or does the regression itself have peaks where it gets worse? Or is it something else? So confused. So tired.

I think whatever happens in the regression is the baby setting it's sleep pattern for the future?not sure though!

@dyra you must be exhausted.

This does really suck. I've read in places that this passes and in others that they're setting their sleep pattern for the future. Well is this is his future pattern then it's awful! Everywhere is saying don't feed to sleep, don't let them rely on a dummy and my favourite 'let them self soothe' - yeah right, self soothe with a blood curdling scream. Over it 😱 Don't even have any help on the weekends so don't even get a lay in. I'm tired and back at work in three weeks to a demanding job 😡 Sorry, rant over.

3 of mine always had a dummy to sleep. They all sleep great now.

The one that didnt have a dummy doesnt sleep great!

Baby DS is hit and miss re sleep but has also gone off the dummy 🙄

@that90sbitch I'm a dummy believer. No way he'd go back to sleep if I didn't put it back in.

Was feeling a bit sorry for myself earlier if you couldn't tell 🤣

Rightly so gee its hard to be upbeat when your so bloody tired!

I wish mine would take a dummy but he's not having it 😣
Another night of him waking every one to two hours. Falls asleep on me and then wakes when I try to put him down. At 2am curiosity got the better of me and I flipped him onto his front - out like a light in seconds 🤦🏼‍♀️ don't feel safe leaving him like that so flipped him back onto his back but I think he just must prefer sleeping on his tummy 😩

We have a dummy here. If he wakes in the night, we just pop the dummy back in and he goes back to sleep. The only problem is the last 2 weeks those wake ups are getting more and more frequent and are now every 45 minutes - and hour. I'm exhausted

polly i would be tempted to let him sleep like that with a movement monitor on! Once he can roll over he will probably do it anyway

Ty @Geegrl19 Really sorry to hear you and @PollyRoe16 have got it worse. And for anyone else who's got it bad as well.

I truly hope this isn't Alice's future sleep pattern.... She slept better as a newborn FGS. At least she only woke every 3 hours last night.

Maybe she's destined to be a tummy sleeper and it'll all get better when she can roll to position herself.🤞🏻

It is tough isn't it? I'm glad we have this thread!

Arthur used to take a dummy but hasn't for a few weeks since the sleep regression started I think.
Good news is I've managed to get him to sleep in his cot all night (with a feed or two). And last night managed to out him down his eyes were definitely open but he went to sleep! But he had been a grouch all day and I am still knackered today from that. He's still sleeping so it will be another late night tonight. I'm tempted to wake him but don't want to upset him

@horehound glad to hear he settled in his cot for you and I wouldn't be waking a sleeping baby either, lol

I'm sure they'd all be more comfy sleeping on their belly. I'm a staunch tummy sleeper and can't sleep on my back.

Ty @Dyra - very glad to here I'm not the only one sleeping though in a weird comforting way!

@THAT90sBITCH I'm hoping he gets the hang of rolling soon and then it's up to him and I wouldn't worry so much. I guess I've just read so many things about the SIDS risks that I wouldn't sleep for worrying if I stuck him on his front. But then I think he's sleeping on my chest half the time anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

@PollyRoe16 Arthur pretty much only sleeps on his tummy. If I out him down on his back within three seconds he's flipped to his side or tummy. He's sleeping on his tummy right now. If they have good head control and can lift their head up I think the risk is greatly reduced.
Just do lots of tummy time to encourage rolling!
My problem is Arthur can roll into his tummy but not the other way which I read is the wrong way round but I can't seem to teach him to roll tummy to back he just isn't getting it

@PollyRoe16 I've been letting DS sleep on his tummy for a couple of months now. Recently he's started settling on his back a bit better but suffers with reflux and before now sleep was only an option if he was on his tummy!