why you still awake rn little one???? He's just sitting in the bouncer watching me in silence 👀👀👀

I know you sometimes have problems with him sleeping but have you tried putting baby oatmeal in his bottles before bed? Sometimes the added oatmeal really fills them up. My pediatrician recommended that when my LO was 4 months.

Yeah I've actually started doing that again this past week, although early on his doctor told me not to since it's a lot of empty calories. But she's not w me at 4am when he's wide awake! @chelz_renae

It has helped but only slightly. He just stays asleep about an hour or so longer then is up again 😅 @chelz_renae

I feel your pain! Kynsli is not a big sleeper for me unless she's next to me...and then I don't get sleep. The past few nights we've listened to some white noise stuff and she's done better..maybe try that if you haven't already. @emkasting

I feel like there's nothing I haven't tried. I got spoiled in the beginning cause he would sleep from 9pm-7am no problem. Didn't wake up once. Now it's like a complete 180. He goes to sleep at the same time since we have a routine, around 8pm he gets a lavender bath then a 6oz bottle and he usually passes out right after. But now he wakes up a couple hours later and is literally up alllll night until 8am or so then he naps until 9:30am or so. And I've always had bad insomnia so I'm just constantly awake. @chelz_renae I took him to the doc yesterday just to make absolutely sure there wasn't something else going on and his doctor said he's in perfect health just going through sleep regression and told me I should really just leave the room and let him learn to soothe himself. But I just feel so freaking bad i always end up picking him up because no matter how long I let him just babble in his bed he doesn't go back to sleep. It's exhausting! @chelz_renae

Well someone told me to try this with kynsli....I just don't have the patience to do it. so when they wake up go to them right away and pat them for a couple mins then leave for 5 mins. keep doing that till you get to 25 mins or so. supposedly they will end up soothing themselves back to sleep. Of course maybe he's not crying and he's just awake. Kynsli wakes up and cries and cries and we share a room so it's bad. I totally feel for you. I work, go to school and I'm a single mom and I'm dying because of lack of sleep. and if Kynsli is sleeping good I of course can't get to fucking sleep! @emkasting

Gosh you sound JUST like me. I share a room with Oakley too. I don't HAVE to but even if I was in my room which is a room over I would still hear him. He doesn't wake up and cry he just wakes up and is like ready to go lol and just babbles so loudly. But if I don't get to him right away he ends up crying. Maybe I'll try that and see but I just have a feeling it won't work lol... although at this point I'm willing to try anything. Like you though even if he does fall asleep I just can't. I recently became a single mom when Oakley's dad left us.. I mean I actually feel like I'm going a little insane I'm running on about 5 hours of sleep in 10 days. It's crazy. Is kynsli the same age as Oakley? @chelz_renae

@emkasting, Kynsli will be 6 months on the 27 of this month. I think she's a month or 2 older than Oakley. I even do the lavender lotion on her after a warm bath but apparently it's fake fragrances. I'm getting some lavender essential oils tomorrow and I'm gonna put some drops into the lotion to make it stronger and I'm also gonna spray some on her crib sheet....lavender is suppose to help relax and calm and help sleep....I'm trying most anything at this point.

The lavender oils have yet to work for him 😥 ugh this is getting stupid lol @chelz_renae

Oh geez I don't want to hear that lol @emkasting cause we are trying the lavender oils tonight.