Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Help Please!
So, in my last post I talked about how well Jackson sleeps. Well, not too long after I posted that he started to only sleep for 3 hours then one hour increments after that! The only thing that calms him down is if I feed him. But he can't be getting hungry that often can he?? I started him on rice cereal hoping that would help. One night he slept for 9 hours, but the norm recently has been me getting up every hour. It does not make for a happy mama. Anyway, do any of you with kids have any suggestions as to what the problem might be? I am willing to try anything (short of drugging him) to get him to sleep more!
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I have no idea Nicole. I took your advice of swaddling and it was working for awhile, but now she is too big and kicks out of the swaddle and the blankets get by her face, which scares me, so no more blankets. The only thing we have been doing differently that has been letting us get 4 hours increments at night, is adding rice cereal to her bottle. It helped Savannah and it seems to be helping her. But if you are already feeding him rice cereal, I doubt it will work for him. Anyway, sorry you're going through this. I hope things get better. Sometimes kids just go through phases and there is nothing we as parents can do but be patient and wait for things to get better!
Sam was a pretty good sleeper on his own, but we had a book that we used that helped a lot, called "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child." It is basically a "cry it out" method (although I didn't always do it quite so strictly), and he says that sleep begets sleep--so you might try putting him down really early, like at 6 or 6:30--it sounds crazy, but it might work. We still put Sam to bed at 6:30, and he sleeps like 14 hours a night.
If that doesn't work, Alan says that Tylenol doesn't really count as drugging. I always say that Sam is teething :)
Anyway--so sorry about the no sleep. That would be miserable. And good luck!
Brady was doing that and we found out he had an ear infection. Maybe take him in for a quick checkup and make sure everything is ok. It's so hard when they don't sleep.
Hi Nicole, not sure if you remember me, but I am a friend of Weston's from way back when in high school, and stumbled across your blog. Having dealt with the same thing you are (though, I might say I was a bit more desperate... you sound like you are holding yourself together, lol) I felt I could relate. I second Amanda's recommendation of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Baby. Your little one might be a tad on the young side to start real sleep training, but it never hurts to start early. (I, like Amanda, didn't follow it quite as strictly either, but I did make a valiant effort at it).
The only other thing I can think of that we did was use a white noise machine. Good luck. It gets better, I promise.
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