Why won’t she sleep
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Topic: Why won’t she sleep
Posted By: Rachael21
Subject: Why won’t she sleep
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 10:27am
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Caprece started sleeping 7ish hours in a block from about 6 weeks but only sleeping for 45 mins at a time during the day which I was fine with. Then about 3 weeks or so ago the long sleeps stopped and so she was waking every 2-3 hours all day and night. We have now managed to get her better at day sleeping and will now go 3 hours between feeds and sleep for about an hour and a half. I put her to bed awake and she has a wee grizzle but goes down on her own.
She now goes to bed at 7 and is really hard to get to sleep, will wake at 9 for a top up and then sleep a max of 4 hours after that and then be 2-3 hourly after that all night and be really hard to settle her back to sleep. The thing is Jack is right next door so I can't let her grizzle for too long or it will wake him and he won't go back to sleep for a good 2 hours  In the end I chuck her in our bed at about 5 so i can get some sort of sleep. She doesn't have reflux or anything and I've tried to settle her down without a feed but will just wake up ten minutes later.
Is there anything else I can do to help her sleep longer and be better at settling herself to sleep? |
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 11:19am
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I wonder if she's having a growth spurt and needs to feed more often because of it? Are you swaddling her with a blanket so she can't wake and startle herself? What's her sleep routine like? Another idea is that because she's older, she's now more aware of the world around her and it's just too "interesting" for her to want to go to sleep as easily. A good consistent sleep routine might do the trick. You poor thing, you must be exhausted! |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 11:37am
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Remember that daylight savings will mess with her a lil too. It's definitely messed around with Daniel with going to sleep at night because it's still light outside he doesn't think he needs to sleep.
I know how you feel though, with Daniel being sick I'm up every 2-3hrs in the night at the moment. |
Posted By: KateW
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 12:09pm
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Hmm, don't no if this would help but when my SIL 3mo doesn't want to sleep she puts a little bit of lavender oil on a blankie in his crib, or around him and she finds that that is enough to relax him and he fall asleep in no time. ------------- ~Our miracle IVF babies~ http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 12:23pm
| Her routine is feed, play, bath, feed, bed and is swaddled. She will be fast asleep in my arms after a night feed and then wakes right up as soon as I put her down so I have to stand there rocking her. I'm wondering if its something i'm eating, what have other people found keeps baby awake? I can't think of anything new I've been eating but anything is worth a try. |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 1:30pm
| Maybe you should try keeping her awake when you are doing that last feed... even if you have to keep a wet cloth there with you to keep her awake, then put her down when shes drowsy. Because that little bit of sleep (even if its only for a few seconds) is probably taking the edge off her tiredness |
Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 3:03pm
This sounds EXACTLY like Sam, except his bedtime is between 9-10PM, as any earlier and he thinks that it's just a nap and he can wake up at 9PM and play for three hours. For ages I would put him down after his bath and feed and he would sleep right through till 7-8AM, so a good 9 hours, now when I put him down he grizzles or just stares at me like I'm silly for putting him to bed and then when he eventually goes to sleep he wakes anything between 1, 2 or 3 times a night. I don't feed him though I just try to settle him back to sleep. Sometimes it works, other times he is really hungry so have to feed him. He has two teeth so I am thinking that has something to do with it. Hope Caprece has some big sleeps for you soon, I know I'm hanging out for a decent night! |
RachandJack wrote:Posted By: Faraway
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 4:49pm
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I second the idea about it perhaps being a growth spurt? Kaleb slept through until he was 3months then started waking for a feed during the night again (he kept this up for another month then went back to sleeping through) We knew he was waking due to hunger based on how much of his bottle he would take in the middle of the night.
Also agree about trying not to put her down asleep.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 8:26pm
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Sounds to me like she might just be hungry. If you feed her when she wakes at night does she take a whole feed or just a little bit to get back to sleep?
Spencer generally feeds 3 hourly during the day, he goes to bed at 7 is dream fed at 10.30 and then wakes once in the night anytime between 3am and 5.30am. If he goes longer during the day and only ends up having 4 feeds before 7pm instead of the usual 5 then he wakes up for 2 feeds at night. Ok the whole point of that ramble was just to suggest adding an extra feed in during the day to try and stop her getting hungry during the night.  ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 8:55pm
She has a whole feed every time she wakes but if I only give her half a feed she goes for just as long. She feeds every 3 hours during the day with a good 2 hours worth of feeding from about 6am to 8 am when I am asleep. There is no way I could add in another feed without mucking up her day sleeps which I am not going to do. I'm hoping its just a really long growth spurt and then she will turn into a 12 hour a night sleeper  well i can dream
Its really starting to get me down all this broken sleep tho I keep losing my temper at poor Jack and then feel terrible the whole day. Why can being a mum just be easy |
Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 05 October 2007 at 8:49am
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Ella has started doing a similar thing at night and she looks to be roughly the same age as Caprece. Up until 2/3 weeks ago she slept between 8-11 hrs at night, but lately has started waking up after 5-6 hours wanting a feed and then 3/4 hourly after that. The odd random night she does 9 hours but then the next night is back to waking up early.
I do think it does sound like a growth spurt, as she does have a full feed when she wakes up and has put on a lot of weight recently. Hopefully it is just a phase and it will eventually settle down again ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |