Oh, Hello. I honestly don't know how much more non-sleep one person can endure. It's getting ridiculous. Last night not only did it take me two hours to get the baby to sleep. But then he woke up at 10 pm, midnight, 2 am, and again at 5:30am...did he go back to sleep after that? That would be a big fat NO! Oh my God. Why won't he sleep? What I am doing that is enabling him to keep waking up? I don't give him bottles in the middle of the night, I don't use cold wipes when or if I change him, I don't know what else to do about this non-sleeping bull. It is wearing thin on my nerves. I start a new business in less than 2 weeks and he is going to be going to babysitter. You know what is sad? On one hand I am going to miss him during the day and the other hand says run, go to work, now, yesterday, leave him with the sitter...I can't stand getting him down for naps or putting him to bed and the hubby isn't much better at, in fact it takes him longer which is just annoying because most the time I have to go in and get in to sleep after he's had enough of it. So it is almost pointless to ask him to do it at all when I just have to go in there in the end anyways. Today is not a cheery day in blog world for me. Today I am tired and wee bit cranky at my life. Today I am going to go back to sleep with Daxon as soon as we eat breakfast. I feel like death I am so tired every frigging day. It has to start getting better, doesn't it..he's 15 months old for God sakes!
over and out.
later.
4 comments:
I am completely with you! hate to say this but I'm glad I'm not he only one! I have had MANY nights like that....you get him to bed, have a couple minutes to yourself, settle into bed yourself and then the crying starts. and it goes on and on and on. Over the past couple weeks, my son (7 months tomorrow) has been up every hour on the hour. I don't nurse him everytime he wakes, we just bounce. If I send my husband in, my son just screams and screams, which makes me go in the room and as soon as I have him he settles down. and it starts all over again in an hour or so. I don't get anything done around here cuz I have to sleep when he sleeps during thte day. if I did't, I'd be a reck!
Now, after saying all that...last night was a good night. He went to bed at 10:00, woke up at 3:30 to nurse and then up for the day at 7:15...very good night! We did something different before going to bed last night. He didn't eat to much supper so before I put him to bed, I gave him some cereal (which I have never done) and then nursed him. I said good night, put him down...he cried for 5 minutes or so and then we was out.
I'm crossing my fingers and hoping tonight will be the same but not holding my breath!
Hope things turn around for you.
Yeah this my venting spot, I am glad to have someone relate to my stories. I'm not glad so much that someone else has the misery of a crying non sleeping baby however! It really sucks sometimes, but what do you do...you go on as if it never happenned moments later. Thats just life with a baby i suppose now.
I am so happy to hear that I am not the only one going through this, Brooke is also 15, almost 16 months and she wakes up more now than she ever did even as an infant. Its about at the same hours that you mentioned in your blog, every 3 hours or so. Some days it is so hard and frustrating because nothing seems to soothe her. I am up all hours of the night and then get up again at 6am for college. Lets hope that it's just a stage that they go though and it'll be all over soon :) ...(fingers crossed)
i also had the same problem and a friend suggested a book called "the baby whisper". The book explained that when a baby wakes in the middle of the night it usually is due to hunger b/c they are not getting enough food in during the day or they simply have habitual wakings. Suggestion to solve both problems in the book: for hunger give a "dream feed" all this is essentially tanking up their stomache at night. The book instructs you to go in the babe room at 1030-1100 and give them a full bottle but DO NOT WAKE them up. Let them lay in the crib on their back (of course) and pop the nipple in their mouth. Babes have a natural sucking reflex that you will suck the bottle dry. You do not need to burp them as they are so relax that they have no need to burp. This is the problem we had with our son so we tried it.The first night he woke up twice instead of four times and after doing this for almost two weeks he now only wakes at 0530..of course he will not go back to sleep after we feed at 0530 but he is not waking four times a night now. The other sugestion is based habitual waking and the book instructs you to wake the babe one hour before they will wake but do not wake them completely and do this for the number of times the babe wakes in the night..it is suppose to break their habit of waking. I have never tried this method but i swear by the " dream feed" method.
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