Anyone else got an amazing non-sleeping baby?!

[cruisemum1]

Anyone? btw ds 19 weeks.

My DS (6wks) has just spent all day sleeping as he spent the previous 36 hours awake!

Am hoping it is down to his growth spurt and insane amounts of energy he got from demanding a 5oz bottle every 2 hours for 72 hours!

Please someone tell me he will take after his sister and be sleeping through within 2 weeks. I am hoping to instill a routine to make this happen!

LFMS - my dd was and is a glorious sleeper. my ds is the opposite . no two are the same. sorry...

We had a bit of crying but i felt ok with it as we weren't leaving her for long periods and I was confident it wasn't hunger because i made sure she fed really well every 3 hours during the day and i gave her a "dream feed" at 10.30 pm. I read ncss first and was v. optimistic about it but it just didn't help us i think because all that picking up / putting down / hugging in cot stuff was just more mucking about and what she needed was for us to help her learn to self-settle not pick her up all the time! Anyway we started with this stuff during the day to get her to settle herself for daytime naps in her cot and once we'd cracked that i started it at night. If you know your ds can settle himself already (does he do it in the daytime?) then that's a good start! I will add that i had been feeding her to sleep - day and night - for the first 3 or so months and got to the point where i knew i had to break that habit so this was all part of that. she had also been through v. unsettled times at night - not just waking every 2 hours but waking constantly eg put her back down after a feed and ten mins later she'd start crying again - so i was at my wits end!

how was last night btw???

sar - last night was crappy. ds slrpt 7 - 10 (as usual) then again til 1is then woke constantly looking for a boob to suck. very tired and teary today (me not ds ).
re: cot in day. hv recommended i put ds in cot 4 naps as previously he would not settle there at all. i have persevered with this and some5times he grizzles, sometimes he screams blue murder - like today. in the end i rubbed his head and he nodded off albeit for 45 mins only. i never bf to sleep during the day. he usually naps in the carseat/buggy but i am determind to persevere wiht the cot thign as it is much better for him I am sure. my plan is when he wakes to settle him in his cot without getting him up but i am waiting until he is in his own room next week hopefully. what you did sounds just like what i am intending to do.

tired and teary sounds v.v. familiar - know how you feel but it won't last forever and at least you are getting ready to do something about it. it is hard though and so much easier just to feed all the time and get back to sleep asap. Me and dp figured at one point the nights were so bad we had nothing to lose by trying a bit of crying and patting - how much worse could things be??? no pain no gain as they say but easier said than done. anyway hope you feel better and manage to get some sleep tonight.

sar - how did the sshing/patting go? was it worse than giving in?

kama - i am the same
but also desperate

hi cruisemum in the end it was soooo much better than giving in although at the time it is hard to do especially if you know cuddling or feeding will make her go back to sleep and you are desperate for sleep yourself. But as i said before she was ok and we never felt she was in too much distress and we never left her for very long (we didn't ssshhh by the way just stroked her tummy/hand/head but no talking). we wouldn't have let it go on for hours either - that's just not something i could have done. i have read people saying they had tried controlled crying and it went on for hours and baby cried so much it was vomiting etc - that sounds hideous to me but i had to do something otherwise she'd still be waking me up to feed all night when i go back to work in May. Feel like i am writing lots of long posts!!!!!! but hope it is useful.

sar -it is really useful as I have to take action soon if ds doesn't stop doing this himself. It is affecting my days in as much as I am not enjoying them . I love my lo;s so much that I want to enjoy them not have to trudge through another day wishing I was asleep/somewhere else etc. I think we are gonna tackle this next week as my mum will be here and she can take care of my beautiful little girl while we fix our beautiful little boy . I know he is only 20 weeks (tomorrow ) but better now than when he can sit/stand/walk imo. Thanks for your support - I'm gonna need it.

Please don't say that Fillyjonk ... mine & Cruisemum's same age [Hi Cruise - smiles; waves] ...

Mamama, I think that if the drug companies invented a safe sleep aid for babies it'd be a best seller. I'd buy some in a heartbeat. DS1 was sleeping through by 4 months; this one ... not so much.

Sar - we have not fed ours between 11p and 5:30a since he was 2 months old ... he's formula fed & doesn't take a dummy. Have tried controlled crying of course but so far to no avail. Never cried more than 15 min at a time & we'd never pick him up ... he's still waking every night at 2, crying for 5 min, and then off-and-on between 4 and 5:30!!

Any suggestions?

Marls - didn't realise you had sleep probs with your lo. I have deviated a bit from the sept thread as I needed more specific advice etc. ds was a brill sleeper from around 9 wks until he got a cold around 3 weeks ago and since then he has become a nightmare. Waking 1 - 2 hourly for a suck some nights. he is currently up in his cot yelling his head off. He needs to nap but is protesting. Tempting to go to him but hv said I should get him used to cot sleeping/settling himself during hte day and nights should follow . Does your lo nap in the cot in the day?

Marls maybe it's a growth spurt and he is hungry?

Cruisemum good luck with it next week! You are right I think that this is the time to do it. Hope it goes ok and you get through it without too much crying!

Sigh; Sar, I hope so.

Cruise - He never naps in the cot during the day ... naps either in the baby swing, or, if we're on the move, in the car seat. Was able to work my day around DS1's scheduled naps, but now, with 3yo DS1's schedule to consider, that's not possible. Well, keep me updated with yours. Losing sleep is the worst.

marls - my ds never wants to nap in his cot and prefers the car seat during school run or hte buggy when we are out and about. I got sick of having to go out everytime he needed a nap esp since it has got cold and also it meant poor dd (she is 9) had to go out for a walk even if she didn't fancy it! (Mind you having heely's for christmas got over this one for a while!) I have tackled the daytime nap in cot thing because I think it must be far better for him. He screams a bit at first but nothing terrible. Prob is naps are shorter in cot but I guess that will come..The HV recommended i get the daytime naps sorted in the hopes that nighttime settling will become easier