https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 14:28:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/why-do-they-do-this#post-2928155 Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:51:42 +0000 KT326 2928155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>During the school week I usually have to wake up my 6 year old at 6:30/6:45 in order to get ready for school and be on time. 11 year old is usually up on his own between 6-6:30. </p> <p>It’s spring break. They are going to bed mostly at their usual time, maybe staying up for an extra 30 minutes. What time did my 6 year old get up at today? 4am. Yesterday he was up at 5:30. Like seriously dude. You have a chance to sleep in as long as you want without me coming in and waking you up. Whyyyyyy 😫</p> <p>/end rant. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-time-do-your-kids-go-to-bed#post-2927214 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:29:30 +0000 LadyDi 2927214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm just curious! Our summer bed times vary wildly than our school year bed times (but wake up times don't...*sob*). Just wondering when your kiddos go to bed? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-interruptions-as-kids-get-older#post-2926531 Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:45:53 +0000 Portboston 2926531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son (6.5) has always been a bad sleeper. Doesn’t ever want to go to sleep (melatonin helps), wakes up early (thankfully he’s old enough to do his own thing on weekend mornings), and recently started waking me up in the middle of the night for whatever random thing he can think of. I was recently talking to some co workers about this and they responded with “no kids in the bedroom” to which I explained that I don’t let him sleep in my room but if he’s complaining of leg pain or a tummy ache I’ll help him and sometimes lay with him. My coworker said “nope leave a note at the door” :shocked:<br /> How do you all handle middle of the night wake ups with older ones? Am I too much of a pushover?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-for-big-kids#post-2926260 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 07:41:55 +0000 PinkElephant 2926260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Talk to me about your "big kid" (3rd - 5th grade) bedtime routine!</p> <p>My nine year fourth grader is really struggling with sleep these days. She still really wants to be "put to bed" (ie., she'd like me to lay and read with her the way I do for her siblings), but isn't ready to sleep when they're going to bed between 7:30 and 8. I've offered for her to read/play quietly in her room until she feels more tired, but she comes down stairs repeatedly, telling me "Mommy, I can't fall asleep." and basically refuses to settle until my DH and I come up to bed. More recently, she's started waking up in the middle of the night, either claiming she still hasn't fallen asleep (not true) or that she's scared.</p> <p>We're trying lots of tools - different lighting, a sound/light projector, melatonin....nothing seems to be helping! Has anyone been through something like this? Am I way off base to expect a kid of this age to be asleep at, say, 9 PM? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kids-sleep#post-2925100 Sat, 02 Oct 2021 05:26:00 +0000 meadow 2925100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD and DS are 5yo and started kindergarten a month ago. They were home with me in the summer and slept 7:30 - 6:20 nearly every day. Since starting school, their bedtime is the same, but they are often waking up at 5:30. Unlike spring time, its not like its light outside earlier or anything - haha. </p> <p>Does it make sense that their sleep needs would be lower after starting school?? I figured they would be more exhausted from having to be "good" all day and with all of the learning they are doing....</p> <p>They are in a half day public school program and bus to a montessori school for the afternoon. At the montessori school they seem to spend a lot of time of the playground - so they are certainly getting gross motor / running around time....</p> <p>Has anyone else experienced less sleep once starting school? </p> <p>(ETA - the goal was for them to keep waking up at 6:20 --- it isn't that we are waking them up early or anything :-p) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3-year-old-waking-at-5-530am#post-2919699 Sun, 18 Oct 2020 12:17:14 +0000 cake2017 2919699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO goes to bed (in bed/crib) at 630/645pm- he doesn’t fall asleep until 7 or later sometimes. </p> <p>Waking at 5/515/530am....</p> <p>Solutions?</p> <p>When the time goes back will this be a bigger problem?</p> <p>He will sing and move around and start to make noise etc- I go in and tell him it’s still night and to go back to bed but he doesn’t- </p> <p>He use to wake at 6/630.... we prefer that -</p> <p>Solutions? TIA </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-woes-5-year-old#post-2919148 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:11:08 +0000 Portboston 2919148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>IM SO OVER SLEEP BATTLES. </p> <p>My 5 year old has always been a crap sleeper but I’m just f’ing over it!!! He takes FOREVER to fall asleep and will whine and cry if I don’t sit in his room, on his bed, rubbing his back or cuddling with him. He’s in bed by 7:30/8 every night but typically doesn’t fall asleep for anywhere from 15 min to an hour and a half..., no naps and wakes up between 6:30/7am. I try to hold out but eventually I cave because I just don’t want to deal with the whining and I have some lingering guilt about ending my marriage a year ago. (I’m so grateful for 50/50 custody!!!) I just want an hour of peace and quiet!!!!<br /> on top of it my son just had his 4th COVID test today because any time he gets a slight cold/cough he can’t be in preschool unless he gets a negative test. I totally get it but we just had a week and a half of heavy smoke and hazardous air quality so like...clearly that’s the issue here because half of the kids are out with a “cold”. (We’re in portland or)</p> <p>Having a super frustrating day today. Sleep tips welcome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/preschooler-fighting-bedtime#post-2899668 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:34:44 +0000 macintosh 2899668@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is almost 4.5 and has been a pretty good sleeper. He's dropped naps completely for a few months now and goes to bed around 8:30 or 9. He normally sleeps through the night about 11 hours in his own bed and wakes around 7 am.</p> <p>Last week we had family in from out of town and either the routine disruption or maybe a cognitive spurt has him fighting bedtime like crazy. Every night we do the same routine as usual, but he comes out of his room at different intervals asking for socks, potty, a certain stuffed animal, etc. </p> <p>I tried the Super Nanny back in bed thing where I walk him back to bed with no discussion, but he's persistent on coming out 2-3 times every night. I've got a reward chart going and I want to add stay in bed to his list of "responsibilities". </p> <p>What else would you do at this age? I wonder if promising to check on him would help. He's been saying lately that he doesn't want to be alone at other times, too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-year-old-doesnt-want-to-sleep-in-his-room#post-2893025 Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:03:31 +0000 crazydoglady 2893025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the past several nights, DS has been waking up at around 1 in the morning and wanted to go to the couch to sleep. Last night, he woke me up to come into my bed (DH put him back in his room after DS fell asleep), and then woke up a couple hours later because he wanted to sleep on the couch. I've asked him why he doesn't want to sleep in his room and he doesn't give a clear answer. I don't really care if he ends up on the couch, but he is waking me up more than the baby. We did get him a new bed with a tent like structure on top about a month ago, but that's the only change. Is this a phase? Please tell me it's a phase. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reflux-and-sleep#post-2873287 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:45:04 +0000 bhbee 2873287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My exhausted brain is just realizing there is a connection here ... curious what this looked like for you?</p> <p>We’ve wondered for a while if my youngest has a reflux issue. It’s not major I think ... we’ve never treated it because she doesn’t seem miserable and is a chunk. But she spits up a ton still at 6m (and is an excellent sitter which was supposed to help but didn’t - she’s been sitting up 1.5 months now), hates being on her tummy (and has never rolled probably related to that), and I just realized her crappy sleep could be connected. It’s not a horrible extreme but we’ve never gotten close to STTN - she wakes every 3-4hr and wants to comfort nurse or sometimes is just really sad. </p> <p>We’ve been fairly successful with daytime sleep training (and initial bedtime) but at night she is just screeching and sad and we haven’t followed through yet. I’m so exhausted at this point and trying to think through whether we tough out some really awful CIO (I know it can work, we did it for my last one) or whether something else may help if there is reflux. Or who knows could be teething or a phase or anything really. So just looking for patterns others may have seen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-does-your-kid-act-when-tired#post-2871282 Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:40:42 +0000 bhbee 2871282@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just curious! DS was clearly exhausted today and probably getting sick ... his behavior was so bad!</p> <p>My oldest fades into the sunset ... just kind of wilts. She was always an easy sleeper at least comparatively. When she was younger she would definitely cry more when tired but not act wild. </p> <p>My middle is kind of the opposite and just gets crazier and crazier. Whatever shred of impulse control he had goes out the window. I find this mode hard because he doesn’t calm easily and he’s so hard to deal with until we get him the sleep he needs. There’s really not much calming/fading, he will thrash around and then suddenly be asleep. I wonder if that made him harder to train to be a good sleeper?</p> <p>What are your kid(s) like? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/recommend-your-sound-machine#post-2871353 Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:22:37 +0000 periwinklebee 2871353@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is in our room and is easily disturbed by us, leading to regular 5 am wakeups for the day. DH has been away and I've been sleeping on the couch so as not to bother DS, and he's like a different child, sleeping until 6 or 7... Loud white noise seems like it could be a solution, but DH detests our white noise machine and says he can't sleep with it. It's an electronic one (has 18 different fan noises, in an effort to find something DH doesn't hate.) We have a fan on our humidifier that's a bit noisy, but I don't think it's enough. </p> <p>What kind of sound machine do you use? Manual? Electronic? I'm wondering if manual ones work better, but they're big and expensive so I'm a bit hesitant if it's basically just like the electronic version... We're looking for a house with more bedrooms but in the meantime I just want everyone to be able to sleep! At this point I'm almost tempted to move our bed to the living room and our living room furniture into the bedroom with DS's crib, as I'm desperate for decent sleep... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-nightlight#post-2869980 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 22:53:57 +0000 Mrs. Turtle 2869980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We need a new nightlight. We've had a couple of the projection ones and O loves them, but she broke her most recent one and honestly, it seemed really flimsy to begin with. Do any of you have a favorite, not super bright, nightlight? I've found that she needs the room quite dark, but gets scared if it's totally dark. Most nightlights I've found are way too bright for her. What's your favorite nightlight? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mouth-breathing#post-2855300 Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:22:23 +0000 shabang 2855300@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That article floating around (and linked on the blog) about "dangerous" mouth breathing in children the past few weeks has triggered my googling paranoia. My 5yo is a mouth breather while sleeping, but she sleeps well, shows no signs of adhd, is well-behaved in school, and basically seems to have no issues from it. But now I've gone down the rabbit hole and read about dental issues and facial deformities, all related to mouth breathing. </p> <p>Does anyone else have a similar situation? Unless she gets sick, we're a ways off from her next dr appt, but would you make one to discuss it? Or is it just time to put the google down? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naps-and-bedtime#post-2853439 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:41:03 +0000 snarkybiochemist 2853439@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>E is almost 1 and is a great napper at home and used to be a great napper at daycare. On weekends or days off she typically takes 2 really good naps and still goes to bed easily and generally sleeps through the night. The daycare naps have gotten worse and worse most days she gets 30 min in the early afternoon and then falls asleep during the 15 min ride home. She used to go to bed at 7ish (give or take 15 min depending on a number of factors) this was great we could eat dinner around 6-6:30 and still have time for our bedtime routine. Now we get home around 5:15 she gets a bottle and some dinner around 5:30 or 6 and then wants to go right to bed. She is cranky and unhappy and goes to sleep without any fuss, so clearly she is tired and needs the sleep. The problem is that we get 45 min with her and we can't really eat dinner as a family which my husband and I would really like to do. Help? Suggestions? Do we just have lots of crock-pot meals so we can eat at 5:30 and put her to bed at 6? I am extra worried when she isn't getting bottles anymore and absolutely needs to eat dinner. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/climbing-out-of-pnp#post-2843043 Sat, 01 Sep 2018 23:44:35 +0000 Hypatia 2843043@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 17 month old is climbing out of her Pack n Play at night and during naps. She was an early walker and absolutely loves to climb.</p> <p>The first thing we did was take out the mattress insert we'd put in it and have her sleep on the mat that comes with the PNP, so it's as low to the ground as possible. Didn't work.</p> <p>Then we measured our old crib (which is partially broken, thus the PNP) to compare the heights, and the PNP is actually taller than the crib. I don't know if the sides of the PNP would be taller than all cribs, but it makes buying a crib instead a little daunting. If she can climb this much now, it seems like a taller crib would be defeated in a few months.</p> <p>We bought a sleep sack. That worked for about a week, and then she discovered that she can still get out if she pulls herself up on the rail and swings both feet over at the same time.</p> <p>She's way too young to transition to a bed. My DH thinks we should put a floor mattress in an empty closet, use a door monkey to keep the door partially open, and point a fan at the door to make sure she's getting proper ventilation. I know that sounds crazy, but I'm out of ideas. Any thoughts? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5-year-old-still-wakes-up-in-middle-of-the-night#post-2838494 Wed, 08 Aug 2018 06:46:29 +0000 Foodnerd81 2838494@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never thought I would have a five year old who still woke me up in the middle of the night, but here I am. Hoping someone has some insight or suggestions I haven’t thought of because mama needs sleep. </p> <p>My daughter just turned five. She has never been a great sleeper- we had to sleep train at 3.5 months because it was so awful. She goes through phases where it’s fine for a while, then phases where she wakes up every night, from a bad dream, supposedly- I think usually once she actually wakes up from a bad dream then she realizes it’s a good excuse so she keeps saying it for days. She resists going back to bed but will, reluctantly, but usually doesn’t fall all the way back to sleep and will get up to go potty, or ask to come snuggle, or whatever. Then when her clock lights up at 7 she comes in happy and expecting us to hop right out of bed because it’s finally morning! We generally won’t let her sleep in our bed because once we let her one time, she will ask again and again and again. </p> <p>Schedule wise- she is supposed to get up at 7 (if she wakes up before her clock lights up she can “read” books in her room or play quietly with her toys in her room). Her sister naps at 1:30 and she has quiet time, when she plays quietly in her room or the playroom, for an hour and a half. Bedtime is around 7:30, she often resists bedtime. She frequently seems tired and irritable. </p> <p>My thoughts- partly I think she lacks impulse control, which is why she can’t help getting out of bed and waking DH or me when she wakes up at night, even though she knows she should stay in bed. But also, why does she wake up so many nights? Right now she has a runny nose and that seems like it. I may try benedryl tonight to see if that helps with the nose and also the sleep. My own sleep sucks so I feel bad I seem to have passed that on to her. To me she seems to act more overtired than like she’s getting too much sleep, but I guess I could be wrong. </p> <p>And her 2.5 year old sister sleeps through the night consistently unless she is actually sick, so I feel like it’s not all just bad parenting :bummed: </p> <p>Oh and activity level doesn’t seem to make a difference. She could have had camp all morning and been swimming all afternoon or watched tv all day and it’s the same. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/13-month-old-waking-too-early#post-2836757 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:50:27 +0000 cake2017 2836757@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi!</p> <p>LO is sleeping well. He goes to bed at 630pm. He wakes up at 6am. </p> <p>Well the last two days it’s been 430am with a BM. </p> <p>Dinner is at 5pm and I usually wait for a BM before bedtime routine. </p> <p>Should I be watching the dinner choices? He had spinach and blueberries the last two nights🤔. </p> <p>Also, how do I handle the early wakings cause I don’t want him sitting in poop?</p> <p>I need for him to sleep until 6/630am because in January my husband will be doing drop off and the later the better. </p> <p>He still takes two naps(morning 830am- 10/1030am and an afternoon one around 1pm to about 2/230pm) .....</p> <p>Any suggestions? </p> <p>TIA </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-yr-old-help#post-2827134 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:46:40 +0000 AnnabelleG 2827134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My almost-4-year old is driving me a little nuts. We’ve struggled with his sleep since birth and worked really hard with a good sleep schedule and routine, dark room, white noise etc. Now he’s in a phase of sleeping approximately 8:45pm-5:30am and then napping an hour in the afternoon. I’ve considered cutting out his nap but he’s so tired at nap I don’t have the heart. Any ideas? Let it go and lower my expectations? Cut the nap? He’s been so cranky recently!<br /> Thank you! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826617 Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:25:22 +0000 LCTBQE 2826617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Spinoff thread from ajsmommy's thread about work hours: I've been curious for a while what time everyone goes to bed and wakes up, and how much sleep you feel you NEED to get by. I try for 11pm-6am. </p> <p>I am so exhausted I often feel like I can barely function. I get 7 hours of sleep, 8 feels better but during the week is basically unattainable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/looking-for-a-co-signer-i-promise-my-credit-is-good#post-2809878 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:26:07 +0000 Ajsmommy 2809878@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Anyone else lay with their LO until they fall asleep when they are 4yo+????</p> <p>I do and I don't care, I like it. She wants me to and I know that won't last forever. Do I think she could fall asleep on her own? Heck yeah, she does at school for naps and nights when I'm not there (although those are very few).</p> <p>This normally isn't an issue but the other night DS woke up, he is 1 and goes to bed before DD. Since I was laying with DD my DH had to tend to DS. He then proceeded to tell me I need to stop laying with DD and that I am creating a bad habit that will only get worse.</p> <p>A little more background is that before we had DS we did have to stop laying with DD, she was 2-3yo at the time and it would take her 45 min-1 hr to fall asleep and it was taking too much time. So we did institute a no laying with her rule. Now that she is 4yo and goes to preschool she usually falls asleep within 5-10 mins and I fell back into the routine of potty/teeth/songs/books/lights out/snuggle/sleep. </p> <p>I'm here looking for anyone who will co-sign my bs (lol)??? Or am I alone and am I creating a bad situation? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-children-are-demons-overnight-what-am-i-doing-wrong#post-2804428 Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:07:22 +0000 codeitall 2804428@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Problem child #1:<br /> A few weeks ago, 3yo DS was sleeping well overnight. Maybe going to bed a bit late, but sleeping solidly and waking up at 8ish consistently. Then he figured out that he could stay up playing with toys after we laid him down. We had almost a week of laying him down and him playing in his room till nearly 11 before crashing. We kept moving his bedtime earlier to compensate. Now he's going to bed at 8:30, playing for maybe half an hour and going to sleep.</p> <p>BUT now he's waking up multiple times overnight whining. He really wants us to cuddle and sleep with him but he's just too fidgety for that and I don't think it is a good idea.</p> <p>This morning he woke up at 5:30 wanting 'TV' and I told him he had to wait till the sun came up around 7. He kept escalating his whining until he woke the baby up through her white noise :crying: </p> <p>Problem child #2:<br /> 11mo DD goes down just fine around 8 by herself. She wakes up between 11:30-1 to eat once, then again around 5. I didn't think she was really hungry, but she gets quite mad if I lay her down before she gets both sides. As a result, she cannot tolerate DH going in to get her :bummed: </p> <p>If it was just her, I'd be fine, but in combination with DS, I'm only getting one 2-3 hour block a night and I just can't do this anymore.</p> <p>What am I doing wrong? Have the planets just aligned terribly? Have they been replaced/possessed? IS THIS KARMA?!? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleepwake-clock#post-2801143 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:26:50 +0000 LindsayInNY 2801143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Trying to find a sleep/wake clock that lets you set different wake times. I can't with the "Okay! To Wake" clock. A friend recommended Hatch Baby but it's more than I'd like to spend except it's what I'm looking for. Anything similar to Hatch? App controlled would be nice too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multiple-kids-moving-to-separate-bedtimes#post-2799013 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:12:46 +0000 PinkElephant 2799013@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our bedtime routine has felt rough lately. There are a number of reasons, I’m sure, but I feel like some of the issues (squabbling in the shower/bath when they’re together, playing off of each other and getting hyper instead of getting dressed, having really divergent interests in terms of bedtime stories) could be solved with separate bedtimes. I’d love to try it, but am stumped on how to go about it. The times I’ve even read to the big girls separately, I’ve had issues with one staying in bed while I read to her siste, then the sister who got read to first coming in and pestering during the second sister’s time with me. </p> <p>My kids are 5.5, 3.5, and 15 months. No one shares a room, and I’m doing it alone like 90% of the time (or more). As it is now, I’ve been trying to quickly rinse the baby after the big girls are bathed, and read her a baby book/quickly put her down while they get dressed....but they tend to get distracted without supervision. Currently I try to have them eat at 5:30, go upstairs by 6:30, and be showered/teeth brushed/clothes laid out/in bed by 7 for the baby, 7:30 for the big girls. 7:30 is starting to be way too early for my older daughter, so I’m wondering about her faking bedtime with her sisters, then getting her real attention later. </p> <p>If your kids have separate bedtimes, how do you handle it (without help). The key is I don’t have a second person; I need to figure out a way that stagger things like showers/reading so that everyone stays busy, but no one is in over their head trying to do something alone that they can’t handle. It may not be possible! :silly: </p> <p>Any tips/suggestions appreciated!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kindergarten-bedtime#post-2799014 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:20:29 +0000 PinkElephant 2799014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following onto my bedtime routine post ...what time does your kindergarten child go to bed? How many hours of sleep does this give them?</p> <p>My child is supposed to be in bed at 7:40, so asleep by 8. She gets up around 7-7:30, giving her about 11-12 hours of sleep! Lately she’s been wanting to be up later, though, which makes me wonder if I’m trying to get her to bed too early. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-do-when-you-cant-sleep-2#post-2798190 Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:18:22 +0000 shabang 2798190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've found that if I'm woken up around 2am/3am, I can't fall back asleep until 5am (when the alarms start going off...) I've been like this since I had kids, but it's worse now that I'm pregnant again. I'm a super light sleeper and DH is a very heavy sleeper, so obviously I'm the one that always hears the kids when they wake up. </p> <p>I usually just lie in bed and try to fall back asleep for at least the first hour, but I've also gotten up to do stuff around the house, or started browsing on my phone. Regardless of whether I lie there or am active and despite the fact that I am exhausted and yawning, I can't seem to fall back asleep until 5. I know the phone wakes people up, so it's rare that I do that (but it doesn't seem to change me getting back to sleep or not). </p> <p>Do you have any tricks for getting yourself back to sleep? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-los-were-late-to-sttn#post-2795002 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:27:09 +0000 Ajsmommy 2795002@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>when did it finally happen consistently?</p> <p>DS has always been a crap sleeper (see prior posts). When he was 9 months he finally started only getting up 1-2 times a night and that was glorious.... At that time. Now, 2 months later and almost to the ONE year mark I am just drained. When will he STTN??? </p> <p>A few tidbits of info: he is small percentile wise, he has a VSD (hole in his heart), he drains a 6 oz bottle during his wake up's so I do believe he is hungry, he is not a great eater during the day</p> <p>My thought* is that he is just not getting enough food during the day and he is hungry. We do puree's and table food but he just doesn't eat much. We do 3- 4 oz bottles during the day too and it's a pain to get him to drink them.. he is too busy..... but he'll drain the 6 oz bottle at bedtime and during the night when he wakes up </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/experience-with-melatoninsleep-aids-for-kids#post-2794756 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:42:40 +0000 Mrs. Carrot 2794756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hey all, wondering if folks have experience and stories to share on using melatonin or other sleep aids on kids (mine's 4.5). </p> <p>Long story short - my kid is a very low sleep needs kid who has always (since about 2 years old) gone to bed super late (10 PM or later, especially if she naps, which at her school is a non negotiable). While it sucks to have no adult time in the evenings, we've just accepted this as her biology, and have all the right things in place according to her pediatrician and a sleep consultant we've used (routine, low lights, no electronics, calming rituals, etc.). She wakes up fine, she's high functioning, so it hasn't really been an issue other than us having to manage a late bedtime.</p> <p>In the last month or so (since Thanksgiving), it's been a lot harder to get her to settle down to sleep. She sleeps fine once she's asleep, but getting to sleep is chaos. Over Thanksgiving, we finally dropped the pacifier. For a week or so, she was settling down fine without it, sleeping as usual, etc. And then at the beginning of December, it started taking her hours to settle down. Her body just could not stop moving, and her bedtime escalated to 11:15-11:45 on nap days, and closer to 10:30 on non-nap days (up from 9 on average). We gave it a few weeks, just in case it was a pacifier transition, and then gave her the pacifier back to see if that would help, and it did a little, but she is still exceptionally hyper and is taking longer to settle than usual. </p> <p>We talked to her pediatrician and they recommended giving her Benadryl or melatonin to help her settle down for a few weeks. I am exceptionally weary of both these drugs. Benadryl because using it previously for an allergic reaction made her crazy hyper, and melatonin because it's an unregulated hormone with not a whole lot of long term evidence of use. I'm not medication averse in general, and her doctor recommended it, and I know folks have used it, but I'm just very hesitant of creating reliance on drugs, messing with what might just be her natural rhythm, long term issues, etc. Given how long it's taken us to even drop the pacifier as a reliance mechanism, drugs just seem even more of a potential issue. </p> <p>Would love to hear any stories, experiences etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/very-dim-nightlight-recommendations#post-2784780 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:07:16 +0000 jennlin821 2784780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just moved to a new apartment, and my DD's room does not have any windows. Any recommendations for a very dim nightlight? </p> <p>She is 11 months old, and I do not want her to learn to sleep only in complete darkness. I just want something that will emanate light like a window would, and so that I can sneak in and see her while sleeping. </p> <p>Any recommendations? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/start-night-sleep-in-swing#post-2782895 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 07:59:12 +0000 Revel 2782895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 10 week old naps great in the swing during the day. Night sleep is a crapshoot, often just getting him to sleep in the first place takes several hours and he wakes often. I know this is generally normal for this age, but curious if anyone has had any luck starting baby in the swing to fall asleep and then transferring to crib/bassinet after 30 mins or so? </p> <p>I don't want to leave him all night in the swing, but I'm wondering if getting him to fall asleep earlier when he's first tired would get him better night sleep. </p>