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re: Page 6 UPDATE: Baby is 5 months old.. waking up every time we put her down
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:15 am to VermilionTiger
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:15 am to VermilionTiger
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I know we fricked up majority by rocking her to sleep every time she gets fussy, but we are rookies. She goes to sleep at 8, wakes up at 9, we rock her back to sleep, she wakes up when we put her down, repeat x 20.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:18 am to Northwestern tiger
Nosy MIL are the worst - you have to train them same as the infant
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:19 am to Penrod
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My wife and I did it with my first (of four) child. She stopped just short of an hour.
Penrod, you're lucky. Our stubborn 1yr old cried like 90 min for the first week. It may have been less time on both depending on the day but it was hell. But so worth it. After seeing him as a teenager, I know he was just in competition with us trying to break us. Kid is competitive as frig in everything. One time he commented on the fact that he could go to sleep anywhere at any time and was bragging. I was like... if it wasn't for me, you'd still be sleeping in your mama's bed. I wouldn't be there, but you would be.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:29 am to VermilionTiger
Sounds like she might have reflux or silent reflux. Try elevating the mattress crib a bit.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:34 am to VermilionTiger
My daughter was hell to get to sleep. Many times I fell asleep against her crib while holding the pacifier in her mouth. She's 9 now. The baby yrs go by really fast although they seem to take forever. Enjoy it.
This post was edited on 4/7/20 at 8:36 am
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:37 am to VermilionTiger
The problem is that she does not know how to put herself back to sleep when she wakes up. Since you always rock her to sleep, she never learned this skill. Additionally, she falls asleep in your arms and wakes up in the crib so it’s a WTF moment for her.
It sucks for the first 3-4 nights but you have to put her down at least a little bit awake. She’s going to cry. Go in every 5 minutes and reassure her but don’t pick her up. Then start increasing the interval that you go in... 6 min 7 min etc until she’s out. Progress this over days maxing out interval at 10 min but decreasing your interaction. Go from patting to just verbally reassuring her with no touching. Good luck
It sucks for the first 3-4 nights but you have to put her down at least a little bit awake. She’s going to cry. Go in every 5 minutes and reassure her but don’t pick her up. Then start increasing the interval that you go in... 6 min 7 min etc until she’s out. Progress this over days maxing out interval at 10 min but decreasing your interaction. Go from patting to just verbally reassuring her with no touching. Good luck
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:46 am to waiting4saturday
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a chiropractor who's certified for babies
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:46 am to VermilionTiger
Sounds like OP is in the same boat my wife and I were in 18 years ago. She made the mistake of right from the start rocking our son to sleep. Problem was he was apparently the world’s lightest sleeper and would wake up the moment the floor creaked in the least after she laid him down in his crib. Before I knew it there he was in the bed with us. We tried the cry it out method. Neither she nor our son did very well with it. In the end (when he was old enough to get out of his bed on his own) we got into a pattern where we’d put him to bed at 8 then we had until usually 11 or so before we’d hear pitter-patter towards our door. For a while it was every night, them most nights, then some nights until finally when he was about 5 it stopped.
Thankfully she was a stay at home mom and I slept through almost all of it. Most times I had no idea he was even there until I got up the next morning.
Thankfully she was a stay at home mom and I slept through almost all of it. Most times I had no idea he was even there until I got up the next morning.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:52 am to CrazyJoeDivola
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Check for acid reflux, we had to let ours sleep in a car seat for a while to help with this.
You're getting downvotes, but this is legit and works. It helped our son 100%.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:05 am to VermilionTiger
We had the same problem with our 2 year old. We tried the chiropractor, special colic formula, multiple swings, white noise. Only one thing worked.....cry it out! Occasionally we would go get her if she went what we considered too long. It took about a week to break her of us coming in there every time she cried. Kids are resilient and smart, they know exactly what they are doing. Now she’s 2, has never slept in our bed and puts herself to sleep with ease.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:12 am to VermilionTiger
Mrs. Rusty recommends the following:
Try a sleep sack or the merlin suit, also read The Sleep Lady book. Changed our lives.
Try a sleep sack or the merlin suit, also read The Sleep Lady book. Changed our lives.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:19 am to VermilionTiger
Swaddle, Mylicon, and a schedule. The schedule needs to be Wake up..Eat, Play, Sleep. Kinda like a real human. Swaddle and a little white noise. When you put her down and she wakes up..go rub her back but don’t pick her up. Let’s her know you’re there, but she ain’t getting rocked. She will fall into with no problem. We’re 5th kid now and the book “BabyWise” helped us. My wife swore by it. You laughed. She was right.
This post was edited on 4/7/20 at 9:21 am
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:20 am to Cdawg
Just wait until you find out that some Chiros do adjustments on pets too.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:20 am to VermilionTiger
my daughter did the same thing when she was around that age. it was ear infections. when they're upright the ears drain. lay them down and the mucus fills the ear and put pressure on the ear drum causing pain.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:21 am to VermilionTiger
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the cry it out method
This worked for us.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:25 am to VermilionTiger
My daughter (no pics) did this when she was around that age. I remember it being horrible. 21 years later she's a (intelligent, sweet, loving) semi-neurotic perfectionist. Good luck. That's all I got.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:41 am to VermilionTiger
Sometimes nothing works. Sometimes you have one that just won't sleep. Ours didn't start sleeping through the night until 3.5 years old. One breakthrough to get him to actually fall asleep (but not necessarily stay asleep) was (and still is) Zarbee's melatonin gummies. It was a game changer, but I don't know if you should give it to a 6mo.
You can tell who those kids are by the fact they have no brothers or sisters.
You can tell who those kids are by the fact they have no brothers or sisters.
This post was edited on 4/7/20 at 9:44 am
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:44 am to VermilionTiger
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Baby is 5 months old.. waking up every time we put her down
I don't know. It seems like a unique problem but then again there is about 2 million years of human evolution that had to deal with this. Draw strength from you ancestors!
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:07 am to VermilionTiger
I haven't read past the first page, but have you tried or has anyone suggested a weighted sleep sack? We use one for our second boy (he just turned 1 in Feb), and he has slept a lot better than our older boy did. I think we were also a lot tougher on our second as far as letting him cry it out
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:08 am to VermilionTiger
I had the same issue with my daughter. (She's 2, no pics you pervs). We just had to hold her while sleeping. It sucks but it goes by fast.
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