https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:02:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-sleep-how-does-it-work#post-546298 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:32:42 +0000 autumn865 546298@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is exactly my DDs feeding schedule. She's in bed at 7 and I dream feed her at 10:30. She's up at 1:30/2 for a feeding and then up at 5:30 for another feeding. Goes back to sleep until 8am ( if we are lucky). So I never get more then a 3 hour stretch.! I just figure she will make her feeding stretches longer as she gets older or we eventually night wean. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-sleep-how-does-it-work#post-546010 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:41:30 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 546010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cascademom: I think we started moving her bedtime earlier around that time. She went down at 9:30 for a long time, but now she's ready for bed at 6:30. If he's showing signs of being tired try starting the routine earlier. It might take a few nights before he gets used to it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-sleep-how-does-it-work#post-545598 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:15:07 +0000 kml636 545598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dd is 10 weeks. I don't let her CIO but I find if I give her about three minutes, she will sometimes settle herself down. If I jump at every cry she never settles herself. It'a so hard! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-sleep-how-does-it-work#post-545432 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:09:05 +0000 cascademom 545432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyBoecksMom: Thank you so much for replying. I was curious if I was all alone in this sleep conundrum. I really miss the once or twice a night feeds we had going there for awhile. What's interesting is in the past few nights, he's been tired earlier. We've kept the bedtime start time and routine the same. He's been showing signs earlier. Though, last night, it still took until about 10pm to get him really geared towards sleep, but his signals are showing earlier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-sleep-how-does-it-work#post-545107 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:39:12 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 545107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD did the same thing about that time. I don't have a lot of advice, because we weren't able to get her to sleep in long stretches until she was closer to 8 months. We tried to CIO... didn't work at that time. I honestly think that she just needed the cuddling. At her peak, she was waking 6x/nt. After a few weeks, it tapered off to 3 per night. When I felt she was ready for CIO again, she was able to cut it down to 2x/nt (she still needed the milk). It took her until just recently (1 yr) to STTN. </p> <p>Good luck to you!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-sleep-how-does-it-work#post-543709 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:16:09 +0000 cascademom 543709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, we had another tough night of little sleep in our house. LO is a little over 5 months old. Since he got colicky at 6 weeks or so, we've used the Happiest Baby techniques. We still sort of use them on him for naps and bedtime. We attempted CIO to disastrous results like inconsolable crying for hours. Even with modified versions of it, he didn't take to it. </p> <p>In the past week, he's been able to be rocked/bounced to sleep, but then wakes up every 15 minutes later until he sleeps for 1-3 hours. We know to some extent that we're being "played" by him because we'll attend to his cries. I worry that he expects interaction with us or the boob. Around 5am, I finally boobed again after being tired. He was last boobed around 1:30am at that point. This morning, he was still sleeping when I left for work at 7:30am.</p> <p>How do I get him to sleep longer without CIO (which doesn't seem to work with him) and stop these little wakeups? He used to sleep these long 4-5 hour blocks with one wakeup. I miss those days. He's also teething something fierce right now too. </p>