Sorry I have been away for a few days. DD has taken to going to bed at 8.30pm, waking every 20 mins or so and then finally waking up at 10pm and refusing to go down again until 1am. This means I miss out on all my me time . Wouldn?t mind so much if she would then sleep but she sleeps on and off until 5am when she finally likes to sleep for a couple of hours just as DS wakes up. Exhausting!
Carve133 ? I totally agree with you about different babies having different sleep temperaments. DS was a nightmare as a tiny baby, very colicky, over stimulated by everything. By 8 weeks though we had him in a good bedtime routine and he started to sleep 8-10, have a feed and then 10.30 ? 8 we still use the same routine for him at 2yrs (although he sleeps right through from 8-8 now). DD has had exactly the same bed time routine but it?s not working. The only difference is that we started giving DS a bottle of expressed milk at bedtime so I could fill up for the 10pm feed but DD has never had a bottle. In this house both DH and I seem to be grumpy, not a good environment for 2 babies! Been trying the Pantley Pull Off here for a few weeks too, DD is pretty wise to it and really fights to get back on the first few times and then gives up! Clearly we haven?t reached your DS?s stage yet and she still won?t pull off alone. I tell you if I had had this baby first she wouldn?t have had a younger sibling at 15m like DS did! Jury?s still out on the lactose intolerance thought. Am keeping a food (and everything diary!) If she is then it is mild but she does seem to have most of her milk at night so I thought maybe that is why her eczema (small patch on birthmark at the back of her neck) is worse at night.
Bellamsybride ? peace restored yet?
Hi and welcome Melodian, I have just joined too your story is very similar to mine except I am a few months on, DD is 10 ½ m, DS is 2.2yrs and DD still hasn?t slept a night through and hasn?t done more than 2 hours at time for months now. I feel constantly bad that my fuse is short with DS who is just a typical, energetic 2 yr old. I keep trying to get my NCSS plan together but my biggest problem is that in the night when I have been up for hours and am exhausted I just keep doing all the things I know I shouldn?t do just because I want to get her back to sleep quickly so I can get some sleep i.e. feeding/rocking to sleep! LOL at your comments about EP. I do know exactly what you mean
Galena ? glad to hear that things are finally settling down after what must have been a very traumatic start to Skye?s life my gut feeling now is that DD needs to move to her own room and if I have to go in too for most of the night then so be it but I am waiting for MIL to come and visit first (as that is DD?s bedroom) and that has now been delayed 2 weeks due to flights (as has DS?s potty training!) happy birthday to Skye! will look out for her card on CBBeeies ? I am always so impressed at how amazing the cards are!
Wal07 ? my DD is often like that from about 1am, it?s like she wants to sleep again but isn?t as tired as at the start of the night and finds it impossible to go back to sleep. Sometimes holding her tight to me or holding her firmly on her side in her cot and stroking her works but not always. I began to wonder if it was indigestion and so I have been making sure she gets a proper roll and play about after her dinner and before her bath. We were going for a walk before but I now think her moving about seems to be more beneficial.
Bicnod ? thanks for your advice. I must try to put her down faster rather than rock her back to sleep. Hope the entrance of a CM doesn?t affect your training. I do have a plan and keep reviewing it but have a few sticky points: 1) some days DD doesn?t eat very much. She has 10 teeth and more coming through and she really suffers with them. That said EPs suggestion of a damp flannel to chew on does work quite well sometimes 2) I live in Spain and it is getting steadily hotter. By the end of next month there will be no point in even trying to put her down before 9pm, it is just too hot (learnt this from DS) so I don?t want to try an earlier bedtime and then have to move it out. It?s also convenient that she and DS go to bed around the same time 3) I am not too good at working out how to help her learn to fall asleep without help in the middle of the night. Admittedly, she doesn?t have a ?lovey? (totally uninterested in that or dummies sadly), I haven?t tried music or sound as sleep cues. She has a Tommee Tippee star thing that plays music and has moving pictures but it is very loud. Haven?t done bedtime books or posters either. It is probably time I did a review. It?s been about 10 days since I introduced something new.
Hello ladylush long time no see one of the things I really liked about the NCSS was that she makes you feel ok about a sleep pattern that might not be ideal for everyone but works ok for you. It would be bliss for me if DD woke just once, I wouldn?t mind at all compared to what I am getting now so I am sorting of aiming for that if you know what I mean. Also, she reinforces that fact that your child?s current sleep habits are only a problem if they are problematic for you not if they are just not conventional. I like that about the book
Dycey ? thanks for sharing, I hope age helps with DD!
Welcome Notjustsomeonesmum our babies are the same age
Olivo ? it is so tough trying to juggle two when you need to get them to sleep isn?t it, I feel really torn as to which one to deal with first.