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04bride
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Desperate for suggestions...
i dont know what to do about my ds sleeping at night. He is 8 weeks and he goes down ok but when he wakes up to eat its a nightmnare getting him back down. i thought it was bc of his vomittng issue but since that has been cleared up with neocate and being diagnosed with a milk alergy it still continues. I will take any and all suggestoins. heres what i have been doing....
he gets washed up either in afull bath or a quick rub down and then pj's and the miricle blanket( just started this part the other night). he falls asleep in my arms in the rocker or in the living room if my dd who is 21 months needs my attention at that time. This happens about 7ish and then i go in at around 10-11 to give him a dream feed.He then wakes at around 130-2 and that is when all hell breaks loose, he is not crying in pain just very restless and doesnt want to go back to sleep unless its on my chest in the recliner in the living room. and even that takes a long time. if i try to rock him back to sleep with a bottle i will lay him down and boom he is up again..
I had a great night sunday and the only thing different was that we had been at the bech club and so he ate an ounce right before we left at 730 then when we got him and got settled he kinda woke up so i took him out of his carrier fed him and put him down by 930 he wsout and he slept until 4. The ni fed him at 4 back by 430 and stayed asleep until 7( yes it was in mu bed but still ). But really it wasnt much differnt as far as the time he went to sleep on sunday and teh tie he has gone the last few nigt or has been goign for weeks now.
can you give me your routine or any idea whatyou think mightork better.
Any ideas PLEAAAAASE!!!
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Posted 6/4/08 9:08 AM  |
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04bride
I'm a big sister!!!
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
no one?
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| Posted 6/4/08 9:33 AM |
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Rycois
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
Sorry, I don't know what to suggest - at 8wks he seems young for any routine to really work. I just recently got my son to sleep more around 10wks.
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| Posted 6/4/08 9:36 AM |
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Lucky
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
At 8 weeks, my DD was up every 3 hours like clockwork. I just stuck it out. As the PP states, it's too young to really expect any sleep patterns to develop. Those that do get longer stretches of sleep are lucky.
My only advice (and you probably do it already) is when DC does wake to keep everything low-key. Still use dim lights, soft voice and make it very boring--no play or anything like that.
Also if DC is awake but not crying, leave him be. Don't pick him up just because he is awake. I think this is a common mistake.
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| Posted 6/4/08 9:40 AM |
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04bride
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
Thanks girls. yes i do keep everyting low key at night.
He will fuss in his crb when i put him down which then leads to crying/screaming if i dont get him. Guess i shoudl have said that.
i know its early its just that ihad a geat first baby speeer which is why i am finding this soo frustating.
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| Posted 6/4/08 9:42 AM |
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Ang-Rich
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
Posted by Lucky
At 8 weeks, my DD was up every 3 hours like clockwork. I just stuck it out. As the PP states, it's too young to really expect any sleep patterns to develop. Those that do get longer stretches of sleep are lucky.
My only advice (and you probably do it already) is when DC does wake to keep everything low-key. Still use dim lights, soft voice and make it very boring--no play or anything like that.
Also if DC is awake but not crying, leave him be. Don't pick him up just because he is awake. I think this is a common mistake.
ITA.
When you say that you go in to dream feed...are you waking him or is he waking but falling asleep with the bottle? If you are going in to get him without him crying...I would say maybe stop that - just feed on demand.
My DS used to wake at night to eat. My aunt told me that with all her boys (not her girl) she noticed this was very common and her doctor long ago told her that boys need more calories than girls and if they don't get them all they will wake at night for food. I fed DS at night and in the begining when he was younger it would take a while to get him to go back down...eventually he would fall asleep on the bottle and before we knew it he was sleeping through the night. 
When I would go in to feed him I had the bottle ready (but it together in my room) and would just pick him up in the dark...sit on the recliner and feed him while holding him very snug. No talking, no diaper changing unless he leaked, no lights...that seemed to help.
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| Posted 6/4/08 9:45 AM |
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octoberbride
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
Are you waking him at 10pm to feed him?
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| Posted 6/4/08 9:46 AM |
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04bride
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
no im not waking him. i am doing the dream feed where you take him out asleep and he stays asleep and eats and goes right back down. He gives me NO PROBLEM at all going down when i do the dream feed.
Thanks girlsl. keep the ideas coming
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| Posted 6/4/08 9:56 AM |
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octoberbride
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
Can you try putting him down at 930? That is the time he fell asleep the night he slept till 4, right?
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| Posted 6/4/08 10:01 AM |
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Kelly9904
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
it might just be that going to sleep at 7 is too early for him. When he wakes around 2 he has already been asleep for 6+ hours, he may think "hey I am rested its time to start my day"
At that age DS was going down around 10/11 and sleeping until 4. Then he would take a bottle and go back very easily. As he got alittle older I was able to move up his bedtime alittle.
Also when he wakes up at nigh, I dont talk to him, I just do a quick diaper change, feed him in the dark, limited eye contact. After he is done with the bottle, he gets swaddled and rocked. It used to take 1 hour total, 30+ minutes was feeding.
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| Posted 6/4/08 10:05 AM |
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DmarieK
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
All I have to say is it gets better!!! I just wrote a post about sleeping. Give it a few more weeks.
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| Posted 6/4/08 10:25 AM |
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Elbee
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
At that age he needs to eat when he wants (unfortunately for your sleep!).
What I did and what worked was I would have the bottle just about ready (powder in the bottle, with water in a small container) right on his dresser. When he woke, I would put the bottle together quick, grab him from his crib/bassinet and take him to the rocker, hold him real tight and feed him and put him back down.
I wouldn't open a light, I wouldn't change his diaper, and I wouldn't even unswaddle him. No talking at all either.
It took maybe 30 minutes tops some nights, mostly 20 minutes though.
And I think 7-2 is a long stretch for 8 weeks. He may think it is morning already. Why not try to do the stretch at 11 pm instead. Let him nap after the 7pm bottle, but let him wake up and play around 9/10 pm? At least a 6 hour stretch at 11 pm gets you to at least 5 am.
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| Posted 6/4/08 10:53 AM |
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04bride
I'm a big sister!!!
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Re: Desperate for suggestions...
thanks girls. i am going to try to put him down at 10 and see what happens.
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