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I am posting this on several message boards in hopes that some experienced Mommy out there will understand what we are going through and have some real advice. My daughter is 9 months old tomorrow and nighttime has been hell since she was born. She has never slept through the night, not even close. She has gone through teething (she now has 4 on the top and 4 on the bottom - and who knows, maybe there are more coming in right now that I can't see) . . . she has gone through the developmental wakefulness thing where she gets wild at night for a week or so before a big leap (she is crawling and standing & cruising while holding on - what other big leaps could she make right now? I don't think she is close to walking because she can't yet stand on her own for more than a second or two. But my husband did walk at 9 months so it's not out of the range) . . . and she has gas and still has gas. We usually give her a bedtime dose of gas drops (and Tylenol if we can see a tooth coming in and/or nothing will pacify her).
The first thing out of your mouth will be cosleeping. Been there, done that. She basically coslept with us for the first 8 months. She would spend the early part of the evening either in her crib (very rare) or her swing and move to our bed later. We were able to transition her to her crib at 8 months. She wasn't sleeping well in our bed and we were all losing sleep. She would wake up every 30m-1h to nurse. The current situation is that she goes to sleep in her crib around 6:30-7:00 and will usually sleep until 11pm or so, nurse, and then on a good night sleep again until 3am or so. This is not a problem. I have *no* problem with getting up to nurse her every 3 hours or so. I *do* have a problem with getting up every 20-40m and not being able to get her back to sleep. This morning she woke up at 3am. I nursed her and put her back in the crib. She woke up 20 minutes later. I refused to nurse her again because she had obvious gas (I'm thinking from overfeeding?) I tried to rock her to sleep but nothing was working so I nursed her again. She wouldn't fall asleep. I brought her into our bed and she started to crawl and pull up on my back to reach over and touch my husband. It was so ridiculous that we had to laugh. I finally took her back into her room and gave her another round of gas drops and Tylenol. She fell asleep after 10 minutes or so and woke up around 6am. Nights like this are also very typical here and kill us. It's always 3am -5am that are the terrible hours. WHAT CAN WE DO HERE?
I am exasperated and frustrated and feeling hopeless. I feel as if I have done everything possible. She is always so tired and rubs her eyes frequently during the day. I end up driving her around in the car sometimes because I want to make sure that she gets her sleep. We are all so sleep-deprived and after nights like these, I am so strung out in the morning. So if anyone can offer some wisdom, insight, advice - I would greatly, greatly appreciate it.
(BTW, I am not a fan of CIO. I really, really, really don't want to resort to that. We did do a "modified" CIO to transition her to the crib which consisted of my husband rocking her to sleep and patting her from the side of the crib)
Oh and thanks for reading this far. It's Claudia, BTW. I can't ever log in here with my username.
The first thing out of your mouth will be cosleeping. Been there, done that. She basically coslept with us for the first 8 months. She would spend the early part of the evening either in her crib (very rare) or her swing and move to our bed later. We were able to transition her to her crib at 8 months. She wasn't sleeping well in our bed and we were all losing sleep. She would wake up every 30m-1h to nurse. The current situation is that she goes to sleep in her crib around 6:30-7:00 and will usually sleep until 11pm or so, nurse, and then on a good night sleep again until 3am or so. This is not a problem. I have *no* problem with getting up to nurse her every 3 hours or so. I *do* have a problem with getting up every 20-40m and not being able to get her back to sleep. This morning she woke up at 3am. I nursed her and put her back in the crib. She woke up 20 minutes later. I refused to nurse her again because she had obvious gas (I'm thinking from overfeeding?) I tried to rock her to sleep but nothing was working so I nursed her again. She wouldn't fall asleep. I brought her into our bed and she started to crawl and pull up on my back to reach over and touch my husband. It was so ridiculous that we had to laugh. I finally took her back into her room and gave her another round of gas drops and Tylenol. She fell asleep after 10 minutes or so and woke up around 6am. Nights like this are also very typical here and kill us. It's always 3am -5am that are the terrible hours. WHAT CAN WE DO HERE?
I am exasperated and frustrated and feeling hopeless. I feel as if I have done everything possible. She is always so tired and rubs her eyes frequently during the day. I end up driving her around in the car sometimes because I want to make sure that she gets her sleep. We are all so sleep-deprived and after nights like these, I am so strung out in the morning. So if anyone can offer some wisdom, insight, advice - I would greatly, greatly appreciate it.
(BTW, I am not a fan of CIO. I really, really, really don't want to resort to that. We did do a "modified" CIO to transition her to the crib which consisted of my husband rocking her to sleep and patting her from the side of the crib)
Oh and thanks for reading this far. It's Claudia, BTW. I can't ever log in here with my username.
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