If I have learned anything as a mother its that nothing is permanent.
One day I brag about our baby girl being the perfect napper and the next day she proves me wrong by not napping. ( Girl hasn't napped for longer than 40 minutes in about 2 weeks )
So of course as I recently have shared our joy of having a wonderful night sleeper she has yet again proved me wrong.
Faith has entered the " I can roll and crawl now so I will do it in my sleep and then scream for you to come turn me onto my back again and 5 minutes later I will flip onto my tummy and cry again" phase.
Yes she is swaddled. Yes we have tried a sleep positioner. Yes we have tried putting her changing pad into the crib so possibly she might not roll but....nothing has worked.
First she is so quickly and easily breaking out of her swaddle ( a mir.acle blanket) no matter how tightly it is wrapped. I am pretty sure she is done being swaddled. So I have been attempting to put her down for naps unswaddled. Doesn't work out so well but sometimes she will fall asleep but its like she can only stay asleep unswaddled for short amounts of time.
Also it is soooo hard for me to let her CIO. I can't! I tried a few weeks ago and it was easy, 6 minutes of crying...done she was asleep. But now it's never ending! And it breaks my heart. Sunday hubby came home from a walk to me crying because Faith was crying. My heart just breaks hearing her sad little cry. And when I do go in to get her I feel like she is mad at me! She won't even look at me and it breaks my heart! ( I'm a softy I know!)
So last night after getting up at 1am, 3:30am, 4:15am, 5:30am, and then finally sleeping on the living room floor with Faith while I basically manually swaddled her and stopped her from rolling we both got up around 7:30am and here we are...
I'm sure its going to be a long day. But I can honestly say as I slept with her wrapped tightly in my arms this morning I just looked at her perfect little face smiling in her sleep and knew that this too is just another passing phase.
Any stories to share on similar things? Tips, advice, etc?
One day I brag about our baby girl being the perfect napper and the next day she proves me wrong by not napping. ( Girl hasn't napped for longer than 40 minutes in about 2 weeks )
So of course as I recently have shared our joy of having a wonderful night sleeper she has yet again proved me wrong.
Faith has entered the " I can roll and crawl now so I will do it in my sleep and then scream for you to come turn me onto my back again and 5 minutes later I will flip onto my tummy and cry again" phase.
Yes she is swaddled. Yes we have tried a sleep positioner. Yes we have tried putting her changing pad into the crib so possibly she might not roll but....nothing has worked.
First she is so quickly and easily breaking out of her swaddle ( a mir.acle blanket) no matter how tightly it is wrapped. I am pretty sure she is done being swaddled. So I have been attempting to put her down for naps unswaddled. Doesn't work out so well but sometimes she will fall asleep but its like she can only stay asleep unswaddled for short amounts of time.
Also it is soooo hard for me to let her CIO. I can't! I tried a few weeks ago and it was easy, 6 minutes of crying...done she was asleep. But now it's never ending! And it breaks my heart. Sunday hubby came home from a walk to me crying because Faith was crying. My heart just breaks hearing her sad little cry. And when I do go in to get her I feel like she is mad at me! She won't even look at me and it breaks my heart! ( I'm a softy I know!)
So last night after getting up at 1am, 3:30am, 4:15am, 5:30am, and then finally sleeping on the living room floor with Faith while I basically manually swaddled her and stopped her from rolling we both got up around 7:30am and here we are...
I'm sure its going to be a long day. But I can honestly say as I slept with her wrapped tightly in my arms this morning I just looked at her perfect little face smiling in her sleep and knew that this too is just another passing phase.
Any stories to share on similar things? Tips, advice, etc?
11 comments:
You could transition her to a sleep blanket. I have quite a few that I can bring with me on my trip and give you...but that is a month away. Shelby hated being swaddled but loved the sleep blankets.
I am not a fan of CIO. And even if I was, Shelby would just cry for 30 minutes or more and get more and more mad...then it would take another 30 minutes to calm her down. CIO is not worth it, in my opinion.
There is a four month wakefuland the 45 minute intruder and teething also disrupts sleep habits...as well as reaching milestones. So this may just be a phase. Hang in there. It gets better...at least for a while. :)
Have you tried giving her rice cereal at night, not in bottle, just for her last feeding...that will help fill her tummy and may help her sleep longer.
All I gotta say is, I feel your pain. :)
Sorry to hear your little faith is having so much troubles. I don't know what will work for her. I can tell you what works for Cooper and your more than welcome to try (if you haven't already). But as we all know, every baby is different.
We swaddle Cooper up nice and tight from the armpits down (he freaks if its around his arms). We set him in his positioner with his swaddle as well and then I take another recieving blanket and tuck it in on both sides of the swaddle and under his feet like a glow worm. Then we have a sort of noisy little humidifier that we turn on. Its a constant sound. Its good for sids and it keeps him from getting sick. It also drowns out any other sounds in the house that might stir him to wake up.
I sure hope that your little miss starts sleeping better.
I have found the same thing true with Little Bug. EVERY THING is a phase. What she is doing now, she won't be doing 2 weeks to a month from now! Hang in there, before you know it this phase will pass.
Stick with it. It will get better! How long are you letting her cry? I found that 15 min. was a good amount of time for Paige. She is going through a time now... man... last night was a short night going down. She only screamed for 25 min. the last 3 though before that have been 30 min. solid screaming then 30 min. on and off screaming. And at 14 months. She has some volume! I have to busy myself so im not sitting there stairing at the clock. Is she going down nice and full? They do have like 45 min. sleep cycles, so it's not surprising that she is getting up about 40min. later. it's the getting back to sleep after that. Be strong. Pick an amount of time you will let her cry and stick to it! If she is totally fine after you go in there then you know she is fine and is just wanting you. paige also went through a time of not sleeping solid naps. She would sleep a hour fuss for a bit then go back down for another hour. I am all for Baby Wise as you know so I believe a regulare nap/eating schedule is key! It helps them know that their needs will be met and helps them self sooth to sleep. How many naps is she getting a day? or are you attempting to give her? I love figureing this stuff out so feel free to email me too more details if you want more feed back. You are doing great though! You're a great mom and you're the best mommy Faith could have!
I knew sleep blanket didn't sound right...they are sleep sacks. LOVE 'em!
Here is just something that really worked for Lyric.
Lyirc started out wonder sleeper. At 2 days she was going 7 hours at night, only waking to nurse and then back to sleep. Somewhere around 3 mo. that ended. And naps were the same, great napper, then not so much! So I started sleeping with her at nap time. I would lay in my bed with her, put some pillows on the other side of her so she could not roll off the bed, and she slept great, and if she were to wake up at all, she would just snuggle me and I would give her the pacifier and out she went. It was wonderful, such a special time we had and I was getting rest too.
I am right there with you on the CIT thing. I am just not good at it, and I too feel like they are mad at me when I go in to get them. So do what works for you family, whatever that may be. You have to be doing what feels right for you and what makes you a better Mama. If you think she needs to just figure it out so that you can rest and be a better Mama, then do that. If you are ok with getting up at night, then do that. ( That is what I do, knowing full well that my 15 month old does not need to nurse, just wants to) but this will pass, sooner than I will know it, and I don't want to do anything that I will look back on and wish I had done differently. Ok, thats enough from me. Good luck Mama, you are doing such a wonderful job!!!
I didn't do CIO until he hit the 7 month separation anxiety. Even then, one of us still went in to lay him back down and find his paci for him every 15 minutes, so we've never done "true" CIO. Until 7 mo., I followed the No Cry Sleep Solution book. It worked OK, but it didn't eliminate the crying, that's for sure. However, it did set the stage for better sleep as he got older. He still wakes us up occasionally now, at 15 months, but many nights he doesn't make a peep from the time we put him down to 8 hours later. You're totally right in that it's just a phase. However, now is the best time to find a routine that you follow every time she cries, something she'll come to predict. For example, if you start to always sleep elsewhere with her, even if you only do that for 3 nights in a row, she'll come to expect it and cry if you don't. Some people love sleeping with their kids, so it's not a bad thing! I actually tried bringing our son into our bed but it didn't work for me. I'm just saying that now is the time to start setting her expectations in whatever way will probably work for you for at least the next year. Not that you can't change it, of course, just that she'll be very comforted by the predictability and she'll be waking you up at night for a long time to come no matter what you do so you'll want to have a habit in place to turn to each time.
BEEN THERE!!! Sounds so much like Isabel at that age. She's just now finally starting to sleep through the night but up way too early. We couldn't do CIO either. Healthy Sleep Habits was a good read, helped us transition her to falling asleep on her own.
Isabel preferred sleeping on her belly so she did sleep better and didn't wake us up when she rolled so I can't help you there. Plus she couldn't roll herself over with the sleep positioner. Maybe try one that is tighter if you can. She did constantly come out of her miracle blanket around 3 or 4 months so we just quit with no major transition issues.
Good luck!
OMG I'm going through the same phase, but this phase has been going on for 2 months. LC wasn't into the swaddling and he was a perfect night sleeper and napper. All hell broke loss in Nov when he started to wake up during the night. Then about a month ago he naps have decreased. It used to be 3 hrs in the morning and at least 2 hrs in the afternoon.
I too can't do the CIO it breaks my heart. We've been cosleeping since then, but i still try from time to time to put him in his crib.
I feel you!! Your times are very similar to ours. I tend to forget what he puts me (sometimes hubby) through after seeing his big smile at 6:30 in the morning.
Good luck!!
Love the video! I loved her little "uh, uh" whines at first and then her determination. Can't wait to see her!
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