insomnia and other sleep issues!
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Topic: insomnia and other sleep issues!
Posted By: Plushie
Subject: insomnia and other sleep issues!
Date Posted: 14 May 2011 at 8:38am
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Firstly, DS has just this week started to self settle/settle at all without a huge dramatic scream fest so i'm not really complaning because this is bliss!
But: #1 I put him to bed when he gets his tired signs after around 1.5hours and the last few days he's just lain there in the dark, quietly, awake. Not a sound over the moniter, but i go in to check on him and he'll be lying there wide awake! Last night at bed time he was awake for 2 hours - i got him up after 30min thinking i must have badly misjudged his readiness for bed but once he was out of bed he was all grizzles and eye rubbing. Its not so long during the day (-10min) but why? #2 Last night he got his wiggle on and managed to get to the top end of the cot horizontally (he is short sheeted and sleeps at the bottom end so quite a wiggle!). He repeated this twice after i'd put him back in the right place and this morning he's gone on a diaganal but stayed under the covers. Dangerous? Could he do a 180 and end up under the blankets? #3 He normally goes down at 7 (though like the last few nights not asleep til 9) and wakes once at 2/2.30 for a feed then sleeps til 7am. This week he's been waking for an extra feed at 5.30 which is fine - but then he refuses to feed when he wakes at 7 so he ends up not feeding again until 9 or 9.30 when he wakes up from his first sleep. So does he not *need* that feed at 5.30 and is perhaps waking for another reason? I have tried to get him back to sleep with his dummy or patting or gentle rocking and he'll resettle for 10min then wake again - he is not to be denied this feed! Is this ok or should i force the first morning feed or deny the early morning one? At no time during the first morning 'up' time will he accept a feed, even if its just when he's ready to go back down. He won't even take a nipple in his mouth! Bonus Question: I am also apparently having sleep issues as i can't!! I just lie there awake until i get exhausted and drop off and about once a week i'm so wrecked i sleep like a log then i recover and start all over again! Sleep remedys that are b/f friendly, anyone? |
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Posted By: millymollymandy
Date Posted: 14 May 2011 at 8:49am
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Hmmm...
My DD used to lie awake for ages in the evening. Don't why though. If he's not crying and is happy though there doesn't seemed be problem and I'd just leave him there. If you are worried about the blankets, pop him in a sleeping bag and wrap over top of that. Pretty soon he'll wriggle so much that blankets are impossible. I'd probably just go with the 5.30 feed and later one when he wants it. He'll change again in a fews probably anyway. Try rescue remedy for sleep, camlomile tea and a warm bath, with lavender oil. |
Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 14 May 2011 at 8:55am
| Brill - thanks. He is usually in a sleeping bag but its at the dry cleaners! |
Posted By: sweetknights
Date Posted: 14 May 2011 at 12:10pm
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lavender is meant to be good to help you sleep you could get a bag of dried lavender and put it under your pillow and also have a bath/shower with something lavender before bed and a cup of hot milk maybe xxxx ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: sweetknights
Date Posted: 14 May 2011 at 12:11pm
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Sorry would go with the sleeping bag too you may need to invest in another one xxx ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 14 May 2011 at 1:50pm
| maybe, i can normally get it dry in a day but the damn dog slept on it so took it to be supercleaned!! should get another for the inevitable poo spolsion or power chuck!! |
Posted By: CJsays
Date Posted: 14 May 2011 at 9:47pm
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yeah worth having 2, we have a summer n a winter one n we had to use the summer one the other nite while the other one dried - wintewr sux! wot is it with thes eanimals that HAVE to sleep on the baby's stuff - ours go for the nappies on the change mat!! garrr! but yeah i am waiting for the first lot of poo to get caked on it too - worth having 2 hehehe.
You are v lucky he lies there awake quiet! so long as your blankets are breathable (light merino wool or aircell cotton) he will be fine if he does manage to get under them. me worried about our wee miss getting all the sheet in her mouth n choking - she loves chewing on blankets right now. And I agree with MMM, just go with the feeding flow, he will prob change again! E was STTN then started waking round 3 or 4am for a feed, i am just giving it to her, i figure she will go back to STTN when she is ready. I am certainly ready hehe! Yay tho - you get to sleep till 9am NICE! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 15 May 2011 at 7:56am
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Hah, i certainly dont get to sleep in til 9, i WISH!! He gets up at 6.30/7 anyway plays til 8ish then back down til 9/9.30. He loves to stick blankets in his mouth atm as well, or if he's wearing a bib he picks it up and trys to stuff it in there, not that i let him sleep in a bib of course.
Anyway, he was in his sleeping bag last night and i had him at the bottom of the cot as usual with the long end (its a 3mnth - 2yr size so quite long) tucked down the end of the cot and he STILL managed to wiggle right up til his head was at the top end - thats about his whole body length again! I guess he has to amuse himself during all that awake time. Sweetknights i am totally going to put Maxs bedtime bath stuff in my bath and test it out. |
Posted By: Danda08
Date Posted: 15 May 2011 at 10:25am
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Can't help with number 1 sorry but I did see someone had posted about a similar thing the other day so there might be some tips in that.
Re number 2. A safety sleep would resolve him wriggling around. Some people don't like them, I've had them for my girls since they were tiny and they are great. Re number 3 you could try introducing a dreamfeed at 10pm (The Sleepstore has info on this, you feed them while asleep) and that should see him through to his morning wake up feed. Oh and bonus question - I second what has been mentioned above. Rescue Remedy do a specific sleep version ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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