Anatomy of a sleep disorder...
So we have these two kids right. They're both great, I love them, I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. Here's the flip side.
Recitative was like among the Earth's best sleepers. She started sleeping 6-8 hours at 10 weeks and was sleeping 12 hours by 6 months. We thought we had this great master plan. Since Kaphy is a booby-feeder we would keep the very young babies in the bed with us so that she could sleep. With Recitative this was like 4 weeks max. Then we'll put them in a bassinet by our bed so that it will be really easy to get them and feed them in the night. Did this for like another month. Then we'll move them to their own bed in their own room. Great plan, right?
Here's part 2. Recitative was born in late April. The rough transitions- to bassinet, to her own bed were in the summer. Who needs sleep in the summer? You can sleep in until noon- and we sometimes did after a hard night. Big Daddy was born in October. This means that all of the rough transitions are in LGPE time... so they got ignored or pushed back.
The result? At 4 months Big Daddy still slept with us. She would go ape shit when she was not in our bed. We knew we were the problem, but we still had to sleep at night. We'd 1/2 heartedly try for a couple of days to force her into her bed, then after 2 nights of 2 hours sleep, we'd give up.
So that brings us to today. As of a week ago Big Daddy was still only sleeping 3-4 at a stretch. We bit the bullet. She's going in her bed, damn it. We put her in the pack y play next to our bed. from 9-midnight, cool. At midnight she would cry for 2 hours and finally go to sleep. Sucky, but OK because she would then sleep until 6. We've now moved the p y p into her room. Now we turn the monitor down real low and this is how it goes. 8 pm- bed. 11:15 pm wake up and eat one last time. Back to bed- cry for God only knows how long 'cause we go back to sleep. Wake up at 6 am. For 3 count 'em 3 nights in a row we have gotten 6 hours of consecutive sleep. Thank God.
The only problem now is that when Grandpa is over at bed time it rips him up to hear her cry...
Just sharing,
E
So we have these two kids right. They're both great, I love them, I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. Here's the flip side.
Recitative was like among the Earth's best sleepers. She started sleeping 6-8 hours at 10 weeks and was sleeping 12 hours by 6 months. We thought we had this great master plan. Since Kaphy is a booby-feeder we would keep the very young babies in the bed with us so that she could sleep. With Recitative this was like 4 weeks max. Then we'll put them in a bassinet by our bed so that it will be really easy to get them and feed them in the night. Did this for like another month. Then we'll move them to their own bed in their own room. Great plan, right?
Here's part 2. Recitative was born in late April. The rough transitions- to bassinet, to her own bed were in the summer. Who needs sleep in the summer? You can sleep in until noon- and we sometimes did after a hard night. Big Daddy was born in October. This means that all of the rough transitions are in LGPE time... so they got ignored or pushed back.
The result? At 4 months Big Daddy still slept with us. She would go ape shit when she was not in our bed. We knew we were the problem, but we still had to sleep at night. We'd 1/2 heartedly try for a couple of days to force her into her bed, then after 2 nights of 2 hours sleep, we'd give up.
So that brings us to today. As of a week ago Big Daddy was still only sleeping 3-4 at a stretch. We bit the bullet. She's going in her bed, damn it. We put her in the pack y play next to our bed. from 9-midnight, cool. At midnight she would cry for 2 hours and finally go to sleep. Sucky, but OK because she would then sleep until 6. We've now moved the p y p into her room. Now we turn the monitor down real low and this is how it goes. 8 pm- bed. 11:15 pm wake up and eat one last time. Back to bed- cry for God only knows how long 'cause we go back to sleep. Wake up at 6 am. For 3 count 'em 3 nights in a row we have gotten 6 hours of consecutive sleep. Thank God.
The only problem now is that when Grandpa is over at bed time it rips him up to hear her cry...
Just sharing,
E
posted by Big E at 7:32 AM
3 Comments:
Stay the course! We did the same things with Turner.
Can't relate- never did the bed thing. But we did the up every 3 hour thing for a while. As for putting him to bed awake, a little crying never hurt anyone. Now it's the stage of "you will stay in bed. Quit making up things like the tractor is scaring you or that you need to change clothes in order to stay up longer" Lots of fun
I would provide a suggestion, but I'm not a validated human being...sorry.
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