Re: So apparently, 2am is her bedtime. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE

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Re: So apparently, 2am is her bedtime. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE

Wake her up... thats what I do. You need to get her back on track. Get her up by 8 or 9 so you can get her back on track

DO you have healthy sleep habits happy child?

He talks about this a bit in the book and this is the only time he suggests waking a sleeping baby...

Oy she's a piece of work huh! lol

Re: So apparently, 2am is her bedtime. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE

I stated writing everything down and noticed a pattern and correlation between the timing of his and his mood. He seemed to put himself on the EASY (eat, activity, sleep, you time) routine from the Baby Whisperer book all on his own. Now I loosely follow this routine everyday and it keeps things predictable for him.

My liitle guy is 10 weeks and he can only stay awake for about an hour to an hour and a half before he needs a nap. During his awake time we play until I notice tired cues and then pick him up and walk around with him or bounce on an exercise ball while I hold him. If I catch him in this optimal sleepy time he'll fall asleep for a nap within 10 minutes. If I miss this window of opportunity he fights sleep and gets very, very cranky. Usually I do hold him or put him in the carrier while he naps but sometimes he will go in the swing. Sometimes he naps for hours, sometimes it's 20 minutes. If it's later in the day, I wake him if he's napping too long.

We start our nighttime routing around 7:00. It varies depending on when and how long his last nap was. I put his pajamas on, give him an massage for about 20 minutes which really relaxes him. Then we turn out all of the lights and I nurse him then read/sing to him while I rock him to sleep. I think the consistency really helps. He's still not even close to STTN, but goes to sleep much better now.

Message edited 10/16/2009 10:54:24 AM.

Re: So apparently, 2am is her bedtime. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE

Posted by Blissful

Wake her up... thats what I do. You need to get her back on track. Get her up by 8 or 9 so you can get her back on track

DO you have healthy sleep habits happy child?

He talks about this a bit in the book and this is the only time he suggests waking a sleeping baby...

Oy she's a piece of work huh! lol

Re: So apparently, 2am is her bedtime. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE

Posted by TaraGotHutched

Posted by Blissful

Wake her up... thats what I do. You need to get her back on track. Get her up by 8 or 9 so you can get her back on track

DO you have healthy sleep habits happy child?

He talks about this a bit in the book and this is the only time he suggests waking a sleeping baby...

Oy she's a piece of work huh! lol

She sure is - but worth it 1000000%

Darnit...I thought of waking her around 9, but I didn't. Guess I better do it now!

I took that book out from the library but really just skimmed it- too long winded for me!

Thanks babe

I can't believe she's STTN now...but post midnight! Figures! I wonder if she's STTN because we went cold turkey without the swaddle...hmmmm!! If I'da known it was the swaddle waking her up I woulda stopped it AGES ago!

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Posted by Blissful



Love how these girls just keep us contantly guessing.....


She's old enough that she should know her days and nights. I think she is stuck on this late pattern so you need to move everything earlier.

It might be a few days of hell but if she is up earlier and does earlier naps she should go to bed earlier and get back on track.....

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try making it so she wakes up from her last nap like 1.5- 2 hours before you want to put her to bed.....

Re: So apparently, 2am is her bedtime. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE

Posted by TaraGotHutched

Posted by Blissful



Love how these girls just keep us contantly guessing.....


She's old enough that she should know her days and nights. I think she is stuck on this late pattern so you need to move everything earlier.

It might be a few days of hell but if she is up earlier and does earlier naps she should go to bed earlier and get back on track.....

Since I didn't wake her up early enough today- should I avoid letting her naps go on too long? Not sure if it helps with shortening naps or not...Thank you!

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OH well, if she makes it a late night tonight, no biggie- the game is on. But man it is so exhausting trying to put her to sleep...and I don't want to make her miserable when she's overtired like that!

Thanks ladies!

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Could you let her have an afternnoon nap around 3 and then not put her to bed until 8 to 9pm? You can start the bedtime routine around 7 to 7:30 or so and do bath, pj's, book, BF and bed. I would try to put her down sleeply but awake. If you rock her, everytime she wakes she will want that too and will not learn to self sooth. Good Luck

BTW: IMO wake her up in the morning and you can take charge of her her routine.

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I highly, highly recommend the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Baby.

It worked wonders for us. While DD has always been a great sleeper, there was a while that she was keeping the schedule of a rock star, (or a teenager) staying up later and later 11, midnight and then sleeping later and later. She was having a harder and harder time getting to sleep and starting to cry and get frustrated more. She was overtired.

In a nut shell the book will help you set up a sleeping schedule. It recommends protecting each sleep period so sleeping and naps have to begin and end within a certain range of time. It worked great for us.

Within a week of reading the book DD was going to bed at 8pm, waking at 7:30-8am, napping 9:30-10:30/11am napping again for about 2 hours in the afternoon starting at about 1:30 pm.

There was a period that I felt like it was just get up, eat, sleep, get up, eat, sleep, but slowly we made a routine and made fun time in between naps.

It really helped me figure out what do do as she dropped her morning nap and it's currently helping me through a time of naps on some days, not on others.

Re: So apparently, 2am is her bedtime. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE

Re: So apparently, 2am is her bedtime. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE

Posted by TaraGotHutched

Posted by ChrisDee

Could you let her have an afternnoon nap around 3 and then not put her to bed until 8 to 9pm? You can start the bedtime routine around 7 to 7:30 or so and do bath, pj's, book, BF and bed. I would try to put her down sleeply but awake. If you rock her, everytime she wakes she will want that too and will not learn to self sooth. Good Luck

BTW: IMO wake her up in the morning and you can take charge of her her routine.

See, I feel like this whole thing started because she missed that late nap...she seems to just get so crazy overtired - either cranky or completely wired.

Unfortunately, I can't put her down sleepy but awake- it turns to crying and it's too early for CIO. She just fights the sleep like mad - either through whining, crying or just wanting to play!

I guess I really do need to get the Healthy Sleep Habits book - I only got it from the library but it seems I need my own copy!

Thanks everyone!

Re: So apparently, 2am is her bedtime. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE

sounds like she's treting her 7:30 bedtime like her afternoon nap... honestly, i'd try everything to get a good afternoon nap in(even if it meant holding her through the nap or laying in bed with her the first few times) so she gets it into her schedule. once you have that i'm sure her nights will improve.

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Co Sleeping and Wearing DC worked for us