mommys who co-sleep Did you tell lo doctor you were co-sleeping? What is the response im going to get from her dr this month? She is almost 6 months and weve been co-sleeping since 4 months. She starts the night out in bed until she wakes up to eat, and then she comes into my bed.
So we got in super late last night. Had to carry my daughter to bed. She had the nerve to try and wake me up at 7:30am saying she wanted breakfast. Smh (She wanted me to fix her a spread)🙄 I told her to choose some cereal. I'll fix her a bowl. Of course there wasn't any cereal that she wanted today 😴 I told her spoiled ass to figure it out and I went back to sleep 😂🤣 She ate an eggo.
Mommies I need advice.... So last night was night 15 of me sleep training my daughter from sleeping with me to now sleeping in her new crib. It has been EXHAUSTING! When she slept with me she would sleep straight throughout the night. Now she wakes up at the least, 5 times throughout the night. She has waken up at most 8/9 times at night. There have been times where I’m patting her for an 1 hour-2hours straight to get her back to sleep when she has waken up at one of those times🥵. So I have felt like a complete failure because I am delirious due to sleep deprivation, and I’m just so exhausted from this whole journey and can’t catch up with my sleep that when she’s waken up the past two nights at 7am, I haven’t been able to push through my exhaustion and I just put her in the bed with me for an hour or an hour and a half until we wake up just so I can get a little sleep. I don’t want to confuse her and I don’t want all the work I’ve done so far to be a waste because of putting her in bed with me these past two times. I don’t have anyone to take turns with me because I’m a single mom. And at times my bed wakes her back up after putting her to sleep because it’s so noisy 🙄. I’m working on that part, lol. I’ve let her sleep with a shirt of mine that smelled like me 3 nights and it didn’t help. I’ve even given her a bed baby that she sleeps with. What would you guys do in my case.??
So my baby is 8 weeks old and is thriving with weight gain each doctors visit. So here is my question: around 4-5 hours at night for sleep she wakes up every night and sucks on her thumb. (She finally this week likes it to soothe her during nap times) her eyes are still closed and she moves around and sucks it. I wake her to feed her. My question is should I just let it go? And see if she is just soothing herself to sleep? I don't want her to stave by morning if she sleep a couple of more hours. What would you guys do?
Queen Bitch·
Do you run a fan
Julia Boles·
Мама троих детей
@braindeadmama no. I've tried fans and white noise machines. She hated both
Queen Bitch·
She probably can’t self soothe honestly
Ausome Minions Mombie ·
What about a security blanket. Both my 4 yr and 16 month old needs theirs or won't sleep long. If at all.
Julia Boles·
Мама троих детей
@braindeadmama she can't. I just don't know how to get her to.
Julia Boles·
Мама троих детей
@autism.mommy she doesn't have anything that she attached to like that.
Queen Bitch·
Well, they say the cry it out method will help teach them to self soothe. I don’t personally agree with full on letting them cry it out
Julia Boles·
Мама троих детей
@braindeadmama it feels like that's my last option. But I can't start it until school's out. I can't keep the other two up all night.
Queen Bitch·
@tiredmom, yeah you could do a soft cry it out. Like let her fuss for five to ten minutes and then go calm her down
Julia Boles·
Мама троих детей
@braindeadmama I'll try that. Thank you!!
Queen Bitch·
You’re welcome! If she continues after a week to keep crying after the five to ten minute mark i would just slowly back up the time. Like one week make it 11 minutes, the next week 12 minutes. Hopefully by then she is learning how to self soothe though