https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:13:58 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214656 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:05:54 +0000 brownie 214656@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: yay!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214651 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 12:50:25 +0000 Freckles 214651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownie: Thanks! It's good to know that all that training won't be for naught. </p> <p>She's actually down for her second nap (45 minutes so far) so it's energized me a bit to power through. The things we moms have to do! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214634 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 12:15:06 +0000 brownie 214634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: If you read babywise mom <a href="http://www.babywisemom.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.babywisemom.com/</a> she says that at some point, you should do whatever it takes to get the sleep. Because if they don't sleep they are so over tired that they cannot get any better. So right now, do what works. When the wonder week is over, you will have to do some retraining but it won't be as bad as the first time. I am going to give you a dog example even though it isn't quite the same as a kid. My little dog was a creature of habit for sure. He was fully dog door trained 2 weeks after bringing him home. Of course, we had to lock him outside once or twice. This always led to him having to be retrained to go through the dog door. Of course it took a day or 2 but not the week or so of the first time.</p> <p>My son, was never able to be sleep trained no matter how hard I tried. We have had some set backs for various reasons. But now, at 14 months old, he craves his sleep. He takes a first nap at 9 am for 1 hour, a second nap at 2 pm for 2 hours and goes to bed at night at 8 pm. And I did all the wrong things (nurse to sleep, rocking until full asleep, swing etc.) but that is what we had to do to get through. </p> <p>So, if you keep working on it, eventually it will all come together and will get easier. We front load the difficulties so it is easier later on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214628 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:55:14 +0000 Freckles 214628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownie: Your responses are keeping me sane!</p> <p>i use a fan as white noise, swaddle, shush-pat, rock while walking, and everything else i've read! Everything used to work before. She used to fall asleep in the swing, but yesterday when i put her in the swing, she just happily sat in the swing for more than an hour, NOT falling asleep. I took her out for a stroller ride this morning and she started crying 30 minutes out. I had to run back home in fear of waking up my neighbours early in the morning!</p> <p>Right now, i'm doing all of the things i stopped doing 4 weeks ago (i.e., nursing to sleep, rocking until full sleep as opposed to falling asleep, etc.) so i agree that training feels like a waste! Does this mean i have to retrain her? Gah! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214599 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:07:40 +0000 brownie 214599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: Yes, it is one step forward 10 steps back. I remember thinking it is such a waste to train because something is going to come up (growth spurt, wonder week, teething, etc.) and mess it all up. You are a good mother. I again recommend babywisemom blog. She has a good grasp on things. Just keep up the hard work. </p> <p>I assume you are using Baby Whisperer (E-A-S). Do you have white noise? A swing? Have you tried the 5 s's (Happiest Baby on the Block)? Or just know that it is a phase and she will grow out of it. Knowing there is an end in site really helps. This looks to be a fairly short wonder week (approximately a week) Then you have 2 good weeks and the big wonder week from 14 1/2 - 19 1/2 weeks. That one is gnarly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214591 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:56:32 +0000 Freckles 214591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownie: forget about staying on schedule. Last night it was only Eat-Activity-repeat until 7pm. I put her down for the night an hour earlier as you recommended and she went down pretty easily...and woke up 15 minutes earlier. I spent the next hour and a half trying to get her to fall asleep (i think i cried a few times). When she finally fell asleep, I let her sleep in my arms for an hour because i was terrified that she would wake up. She slept until 1am, but then woke up almost every 60-75 minutes after that. </p> <p>I'm more frustrated than anything else because we worked so hard to get to where we were. Just when you think you have everything figured out, something goes out of whack to question your mothering abilities! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214250 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:58:52 +0000 brownie 214250@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: you can do it. My son screamed for more than 12 hours a day for the first month. Somehow we both made it through and you can too. Just keep trying to get her down and stay on schedule. It will take a few weeks but it will end. Also, it won't kill her if you have to put her down in her crib to cry a little if you get overwhelmed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214238 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:30:49 +0000 Freckles 214238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownie: It is 4pm, and she hasn't slept since 11am!!! She isn't crying, just calmly sitting in the swing. I'm terrified as to what's going to happen at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214025 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:28:39 +0000 brownie 214025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: the wonder week app says that there is a wonder week starting between 11 1/2 and 12 1/2 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214022 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:27:21 +0000 brownie 214022@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: my son had no sleep habits but they were worse than usual during the wonder weeks. We went through the 54 week one after getting a schedule and he slept for maybe 1 hour a day. As soon as it was over, he was back on a perfect schedule. Just keep working at it. I've read on babywise mom blog that she would put them down earlier than usual during a wonder week. Then typically after a wonder week their wake times extended. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-214011 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:10:49 +0000 Freckles 214011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownie: i was thinking it could be a wonder week. it's funny (well, not really) how it started on the day she turned 12 weeks. her eating is all over the map. she'll feed for 5-10 minutes top, and won't want to take any more. other times she'll feed for 40 minutes, but i think that's because she's sleeping while eating. did your kid's sleeping habits regress during this time? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-213993 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:23:33 +0000 brownie 213993@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It could be a wonder week as well. Those things messed my kid up like no other. It is always best to try feeding the baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-213989 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:10:07 +0000 Freckles 213989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsdaredevil: she slept 3 hours total for her morning nap, and then in the afternoon she started to fuss within 30 minutes of waking up. I put her down for a nap right away, but then she woke up and wouldn't go back to sleep no matter how hard i tried! i've seen her overtired before, and she's never been this impossible to put down. :(</p> <p>@mrs.superhero: Are they normally this crazy during a growth spurt? haha...sob. It's only recently that she's settled down and become less fussy, so this behaviour has thrown me off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-213820 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:01:36 +0000 Mrs. Superhero 213820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3 months is a pretty standard time for a growth spurt :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-213818 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:00:05 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 213818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know my LO screams at night (inconsolable) when she is overtired. If we put her to bed super early, we totally don't get any fussiness! Do you think she is getting enough sleep throughout the day? Could you put her down earlier after each feeding? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growth-spurt-1#post-213813 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:44:57 +0000 Freckles 213813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>During a growth spurt, how do i know if my LO is crying because she is hungry or tired?</p> <p>I am following 3 hr EASY, and in the last while, she would only cry if she had bad gas or she was tired. LO just turned 12 weeks, and she has been impossible to put down to sleep in the late afternoon and bedtime (screaming/crying like you wouldnt believe). She will nap well in the morning, and horribly in the afternoon.</p> <p>Is she going through a growth spurt at 12 weeks/3 months? I have no idea whether she is hungry or tired anymore. Im scared that i will overfeed her because yesterday she spit up so much that i had to change her outfit twice after each feed.</p> <p>I am just so frustrated since she had JUST started sleeping through the night. I feel like i am going backwards. </p>