Tuesday, October 5, 2010
mom advice
I am desperately seeking mom (or anybody else) advice for sleeping issues. Zuri has finally gotten down to only waking up once a night (and it's awesome) but for some reason every other night or so she will wake up, eat, and NOT go back to sleep. She will just scream and scream until we just let her play around. She is so exhausted (us too) doesn't cry as long as she's out of her crib, but won't sleep anywhere until 2-3 hours later when she's wiped her self completely out. We have tried her screaming it out, and when I say scream it is the most death curling scream. Ever. I don't know what I should do. ANY advice or suggestions of what to try would be great. She's making me very bugged and all of us (even poor Kelso) way too tired.
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melatonin... my sister in law had to give my nephew that. it helps them sleep through the night.
You could try putting some books or toys in the bed with her so that when she wakes up she will play and then maybe go back to sleep. I don't know it could work. I hope something works for her soon so you can get some sleep!
Tylonel. Haha, just kidding, kind of. You might want to try putting her down around 11 or noon (or I could), for just one nap, see if maybe she will take just one longer nap and then sleep better at night. I'm not sure, but that might work. Or maybe she is just testing you and needs to know you will consistently make her cry it out. But what do I know, Caleb still wakes up at night too... I love you and Zuri so I hope she sleeps perfect for you soon.
I agree with Cami one nap during the day and then hopefully it will catch her up at night.Sleep is a hard on.
i will do some research at my internship and see if i can find anything for you...at my work we are there to answer moms' questions, so i should be able to dig something up! one thing though--if you do put toys in the crib, i would just not put stuffed animals in. just as a SIDS prevention. i will get back to you! good luck! i'm sorry--life seriously is so much harder when you aren't getting enough sleep. love you! --court
Do you guys have a bedtime routine with her yet? That saves our butt EVERY night and sometimes even at naptime when G is being difficult. Whether it's brushing teeth, reading a book and then putting her in her crib and singing a song/prayers, whatever... she'll hopefully start to be conditioned to know that singing this certain song, or saying prayers means it's bedtime. So even if you have to redo the routine when she wakes up at night, it will at least give her a little heads up that she needs to go back to sleep?
Thanks you guys, we are still rollin with it. If she doesn't go back to sleep in the middle of the night we let her cry for about 30 min then go rock her and she's out. hopefully she'll start to get the clue faster. hope meaning she better or else....jk.
Spam: We've definitely doid the Tylonel, we're trying to cut back on her drug intake now :) Her teeth don't seem to be hurting her as much the past few days.
The books/toys work great in the morning Jordan, I'm pretty sure she was in bed for half an hour this morning playing before she hollered for us. (court: the SIDS thing freaked me out at first, but according to the DR. we're past the danger of that phase)
mom and spam: we took your advice, she's down to one nap a day. it's working pretty good, is less stressful for me too, thanks.
Brinn, good thinkin, I haven't been the best with a routine, we have bath time but then she just plays like crazy so she doesn't get a chance to wind down. I started the brush, read, pray tonight so we'll try to keep it up. I never thought about doing it in the middle of the night too so she knows it's sleep again, good plan.
Thanks you guys, you saved our little inexperienced lives.
I don't know if you use the website "babycenter" but there are some tips for baby sleep.
www.babycenter.com
check out "healthy sleep habits, healthy child" by dr. marc weissbluth. i have heard it recommended several times..i know that isn't a quick solution, but maybe it would help! there is also "happiest baby on the block" by dr. harvey karp. i hope things are getting better! --courtney
Thanks court, I just bought that and another sleep book. I don't know why I haven't done it already!
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