
My baby has recently been going through a sleep regression. She’s never been the best sleeper, but since she turned 6 months old, all it has taken to get her to sleep is being fed, some light rocking, and being transferred to her crib. She would take 45min-1.5hr naps consistently throughout the day. She would sleep in her crib and only occasionally wake up and need help getting back to sleep or to nurse for a little while. That all changed once she hit 8 months.Honestly it was poor timing. She was sick for about a week. She had a fever for days and was super clingy. She’s better now, but her sleep seems to be permanently changed. For naps, she falls asleep fine, but transferring her is a nightmare and almost impossible. Once I get her asleep in her crib, naps are short but she’s getting 3-4 of them and they are usually a decent amount of time. Night is a different story. She fights sleep for an hour and is still so hard to transfer. Even once she is asleep she wake up every 1-2 hours and needs help getting back to sleep. She been a very cranky, needy baby as a result. All of this is exhausting, but manageable and I’m hoping it’s most a phase.The real problem is daycare. They’re only getting her down for two naps a day and they’re very short. She comes home only having slept 30 minutes to and hour during her day. She comes home exhausted. She needs to be put to bed right when we get home. This isn’t their fault, but it’s disappointing. Some times she fights it and won’t sleep, so she’s up until bed time, but that causes her night time sleep to be even worse. Other times she falls asleep, and wakes a few times, but it’s obvious she wants to be in bed for the night. The problem with that is she ends up waking at 3:30am or 4am because she went to bed at 4pm.We’ve tried doing sleep training before. We spent a week trying it for naps and bed, but she just ended up screaming for hours. The longest we let her go was three hours and I felt like a terrible mother after it. It was the worst week of our lives. I decided it’s not for us and it didn’t matter because we found a rhythm that worked for us... until now.Has anybody else gone through something similar? Did anything end up making it better? Or do I just need to wait it out? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/36J01Cg
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