So, sleep is THE topic in our house. You bloggers out there...how do your babies go to bed? When do they go to bed? And how many times a night do they get up?
So far, we start getting ready for bed between 6:30 and 7. Usually the goal is to be asleep by 7:45. Usually it happens.
Our routine: bath, nursing, books, sing a song, swaddle, more rocking and nursing, gently place in crib asleep, run out the door.
He typically gets up at least 4x a night, sometimes more like 6x. He falls back asleep if I let him nurse again, only sometimes if dad rocks him.
The things we're doing wrong: swaddling, sneaking him into bed asleep, letting him nurse to sleep, and I'm sure there are some others, but I can't think of them now.
On the positive side: He seems to go back to sleep fairly easily when he wakes up at night...less than 20 minutes of awake time. He's getting better with napping during the day. He's pretty cheerful during the day.
Any suggestions from you veterans? I'm trying to do the NCSS...I'll let you know if in 10 days I notice any improvements.
4 comments:
Sounds a lot like Christian. I'm afraid to put him to bed to early because he'll wake up about 3 hours later. He wakes up about 3 times throughout the night. At one point I wouldn't feed him every time, but now I have to. About 2 months ago he was waking up once throughout the night but that changed and he hasn't been doing that since. So much for mommy getting any sleep.
Jack goes to sleep at 8. We have to go in at 12ish to calm him down and give him his pacifier. Then again only once around 6 on a good night. Sometimes we go in at 9pm, 11pm, 2am, 5am...
He wakes up sometime between 6am and 8:30am.
Oh and... Our bedtime routine is: bath, nurse, put him in his crib already asleep or virtually asleep, and run out the door.
What we do wrong: pacifier- when he loses it we immediately run in and put 'the plug' back in, we put him down in twilight where his eyes are literally closing as we lay him down, and we go in when he starts to fuss because we don't trust him to put himself back to sleep (because when we tried to let him cry it out that ended in 2 hours of trying to calm him back down from the hyperventelation hysteria.)
I'm so glad I'm not the only one with baby sleep "problems." All of this is unfortunately normal...it's those ones who sleep 12 hours straight that seem to be in the minority.
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