https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:11:47 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-with-my-babys-sleep#post-2376666 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 11:27:40 +0000 gingerbebe 2376666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>15 hours is definitely reasonable for a 3 month old, although I find with premies, they tend to follow their actual outside the womb age more closely. Even at 5 months I think it sound's normal. Although at 3 months, 10 hours of nighttime sleep is great! Obviously 11-12 would be even better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-with-my-babys-sleep#post-2376387 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:50:28 +0000 MrsSK 2376387@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: @gingerbebe: our ped told us that sleep is based on adjusted age right now (so 3 months for our little guy). He certainly seems to fit the expected wake/sleep pattern for this age during the day. Does 15 hours seems reasonable for a 3 month old? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-with-my-babys-sleep#post-2376386 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:48:29 +0000 MrsSK 2376386@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: it's been going on for a little over a week now. We were sure we'd figured it out when we freed him from his swaddle but that's not entirely it. If it's a phase I'm fine with it and will keep trying other things.</p> <p>We did move bedtime a half hour later last night so maybe that helped since last night was better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-with-my-babys-sleep#post-2376364 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 02:29:30 +0000 gingerbebe 2376364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I might try seeing if you can extend his waketimes a little bit during the day so he can drop the 4th catnap. Then I would just put him to bed a little earlier. He may not be tired for bed because of that catnap. I think 15 hours overall at 5 months is fine, but I wonder if he needs to transfer more sleep hours to nighttime sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-with-my-babys-sleep#post-2376331 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 23:52:30 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2376331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How long has this been going on? We've been going through this on and off with my LO as well. I think its a phase. </p> <p>How long has this been going on? I would give it a couple weeks. </p> <p>Have you tried moving bedtime a little later? 15 hours sleep sounds like a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-with-my-babys-sleep#post-2376295 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 22:21:35 +0000 MrsSK 2376295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyTsMom: @Mrs. Carrot: thanks to both of you for your replies. Tonight still took an while for him to fall asleep, but there was no hysterical crying. I'm counting that as a win!</p> <p>I stopped stroking his head in case he did think that meant I was going to pick him up and instead used his soother whenever he started to get worked up and I think that helped a lot.</p> <p>We'll see how the next couple of nights go! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-with-my-babys-sleep#post-2375659 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 13:07:22 +0000 Mrs. Carrot 2375659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not an expert at all, but it sounds to me like he's going through a transition still, weaning off the swaddling and adjusting to the crib. There's also a sleep regression around 4 months so that might be happening as well. My own personal belief is that it's worth doing whatever is necessary to get a kid to sleep. I held my now 2.5 year old for every nap until she was 10 months old because she wouldn't sleep for more than 30 minutes otherwise. She was always good with bedtime but if she was upset or had a hard time settling, which happens in phases, I picked her up, rocked her, whatever worked. I don't believe in negative associations, definitely not this early in the kid's life so if it helps for him to cry it out, then go with that. If he needs physical contact with you, go with that. It sounds like you're trying your best, so keep playing around with different things and see what works. It'll be better, I promise. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-with-my-babys-sleep#post-2375638 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:52:26 +0000 BabyTsMom 2375638@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't have any real advice but perhaps he gets more riled up with the shushing/touching? Maybe he keeps thinking you'll pick him up? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-with-my-babys-sleep#post-2375273 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:15:32 +0000 MrsSK 2375273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi All,</p> <p>I'm new to these boards and am hoping that someone has advice about some recent sleep issues we're having. </p> <p>My baby is 5 months old (3 corrected) and has started to cry hysterically when we put him down at bedtime. We follow a loose routine before bed where we read a book, nurse, and put him in his zippadee, say good night and I love you. The crying starts off as kind of whiny and then escalates and goes on for about an hour before he exhausts himself and falls asleep. My husband and I stay in the room with him shushing him and stroking his head during the crying. Picking him up makes him angrier and he has never been able to be put down when rocked to sleep. If the hysterical crying goes on for a while with no break, we will pick him up, give him a cuddle and change his diaper to calm him down and see if that breaks the cycle. It doesn't really seem to help because he starts crying again when he goes back in his crib, but at least it gives us all a break and he is usually all smiles during the diaper change.</p> <p>We nurse around 3am and he goes back to sleep without a problem. Total night sleep is approximately 10 hours.</p> <p>A few changes that have recently happened:<br /> - we started doing naps in the crib about three weeks ago in the zippadee. Originally we were only doing the two morning naps in the crib and I would hold him for the two afternoon naps. We've recently added the third nap in the crib and I hold him for the fourth nap as it is fairly short and he seems to get worked up in the crib for that nap. Before starting crib naps we were holding him for all his naps but it was just getting to be too much and we were worried about developing bad habits. There is a bit of crying before each nap but nothing as long or as hysterical as what we are experiencing at bedtime. Total nap time through out the day is about 5 hours.<br /> - he basically swaddle weaned himself this weekend. Night time sleep used to be in the swaddle but he was crying, wanted access to his hands and seems to be close to rolling over so we took him out of the swaddle and put him in the zippadee for bedtime. He seemed really happy the first night but bedtime has gone downhill since. Prior to him rejecting the swaddle bedtime was easy and he'd be asleep within 15 minutes with no crying.</p> <p>Does anyone have any advice or reassurance that what we're doing isn't going to cause negative sleep associations in the long run? Have we just been lucky so far with good bedtimes and have to wait it out? I now feel so anxious about bedtime!</p> <p>Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post! </p>