https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:46:19 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/needing-some-sleep-advice-please-help-me#post-779848 Tue, 14 May 2013 08:18:52 +0000 NovBaby1112 779848@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ugh guys....I thought I would give it a try last night and here's how our night went:</p> <p>We did our normal routine, except I read the book last instead of while I was nursing her so she would have some separation from nursing and bedtime. I honestly thought she would go to sleep no problem since she has been going to bed awake for awhile now. That was not the case at all. She fussed for about 10 minutes and then the hard crying started. I did intervals at 3, 5, 7, 10 minutes and she was still going strong. Then she rolled around and bumped her head on the crib and was hysterical :( I felt sooo bad and had to go in and pick her up/rock her. It was awful. It took awhile to get her to go back to sleep and I had to nurse her several times. I felt like a total failure bc I had let her cry for awhile only to pick her up and nurse her. She SCREAMED anytime I tried to put her in the crib :/ I have no clue what is going on! She has been going down awake for awhile now, so I am thinking something else must be at play, like wonder week 26 (which i think is when they start to realize mom and dad can walk away and they can't reach them). She had wake ups to nurse at 1:30am, and 4:30am, up for the day at 6:30am but thankfully she went right back to sleep after each nursing session. I am going to give her another week to see if this wonder week passes or whatever it is that is making her sleep funky, and if it isnt better I am going to commit to a plan next week. :( was hoping it would go better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/needing-some-sleep-advice-please-help-me#post-777390 Mon, 13 May 2013 09:42:55 +0000 hilsy85 777390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NovBaby1112: up to you! I would probably go for it tho..if you feel like its really not working after like 3-5 days Bc of the ww stuff i would maybe give it a break for a week and thn try again.good luck!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/needing-some-sleep-advice-please-help-me#post-777374 Mon, 13 May 2013 09:34:36 +0000 NovBaby1112 777374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: thanks for the advice, I agree, I think I do need to let her work it out on her own, I just need to really commit to doing it. She does play around alot in the early morning and I think I am so worried about her being overtired in the morning when we have to get her up that I just want to put her back to sleep, but she will never learn how to do it on her own if I always step in.</p> <p>@hilsy85: ok this gives me a lot of hope!! I just read your update and that is AWESOME! So it sounds like our LO's were similar in the fact they could go to sleep easily at nighttime by themselves, but were still waking up a lot in the MOTN. I think I need to give Ferber a try, sounds like you had great success so far! I did read his book awhile back but haven't put it to use yet, I'm going to re-read it tonight and I think implement it starting tonight. Do you think I should start now even though she is in wonder week 26, or maybe give it a few days? </p> <p>@babynumber1: thats awesome! I am pretty sure my LO is stubborn, but we will see I guess. I am not ready to CIO for naps yet, but this 3am wake up is driving me crazy and am ready to fix it! I feel like she is ready and old enough now, where as before I was too nervous and felt she was too young. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/needing-some-sleep-advice-please-help-me#post-777345 Mon, 13 May 2013 09:15:28 +0000 hilsy85 777345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ETA that my LO was similar in that he could put himself to sleep at the beginning of the night, so I didn't understand why he couldn't do it in the middle of the night. But apparently they can have different sleep associations for different times, so right now it sounds like your LO needs to be nursed to sleep in the MOTN and hasn't figured out how to put herself to sleep by herself at that time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/needing-some-sleep-advice-please-help-me#post-777343 Mon, 13 May 2013 09:14:33 +0000 babynumber1 777343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Until we let LO CIO for a few nights, we were headed down a bad path. It was a wonderful tool for us, but our LO wasn't very stubborn. We did this at 6 months for night time only. If we knew she was hungry, we still got up with her. She started sleeping from 8p- 6:30a at 7 months. At 11 months, that has gradually stretched to 7:30a (when we wake her up for the day) to even 9:15a on a few weekends. </p> <p>We didn't CIO for naps until she was unable to fall asleep easily in our arms at 9 months. She only cried a few days, now she is fast asleep in a couple of minutes, and her quality of naps has dramatically increased. </p> <p>- Sorry this got kinda long! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/needing-some-sleep-advice-please-help-me#post-777342 Mon, 13 May 2013 09:14:05 +0000 hilsy85 777342@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were going through something similar...LO would sleep til 1 or 2, and then wake up a million times between then and 630. We sleep trained this weekend and things are SO MUCH BETTER, at least for now. I was like you in that I took the path of least resistance (nursing to sleep), but when I actually let him cry, it only took 23 minutes at the most for him to go back to sleep and that was on the 2nd night..the third, he didn't wake up til 5am and then went back to sleep with no fussing. </p> <p>Have you read Ferber's book? It talks a lot of about the science behind baby sleep--has lots of good information and specifically discusses why those hours are prime for a lot of wakeups! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/needing-some-sleep-advice-please-help-me#post-777333 Mon, 13 May 2013 09:09:07 +0000 loveisstrange 777333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly, I would probably let her CIO. When she wakes up the first time, I'd feed/change her (whatever she needs done) and then I'd let her work it out for herself after that. It kind of sounds like she's made it a habit at this point. You said she rolls around and plays a lot during this time? </p> <p>C goes through phases where she will wake up at night and refuse to go back asleep and she will be awake in her crib, not crying, for a couple hours. I generally just leave her until she goes back to sleep, unless she gets hysterical. I found that she wouldn't stop waking up night after night if I went in there and fed her each time. Eventually, she always does go back to sleep and she'll cut it out after a night or two and go back to sleeping right through. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/needing-some-sleep-advice-please-help-me#post-777314 Mon, 13 May 2013 08:59:58 +0000 NovBaby1112 777314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Warning, this is going to be long. Guys, I really need some sleep help!! Last week sleep was awesome, one waking to eat around 4/5am then right back down until 6:30ish. It was amazing and I thought we were on our way to STTN. BUT, the last few days LO has been reverting back to her old sleep ways and I don’t know what it is or what I am doing wrong! She is 26 weeks, 6 months, and I know there is a 26 wonder week, so not sure if that has something to do with it or not, but I am just sooo tired and when she sleeps awesome for a few weeks or a few days in a row, I get excited and hope it sticks, but it seems to just disappear so quickly and I have no clue what to do anymore.</p> <p>Here is our bedtime routine: Bath, Lotion/PJs, Nurse and Book. Last week I started reading a book to LO during our nursing session so she stays completely awake while nursing and goes into the crib completely awake, and not just drowsy but awake. She took to it great and goes down without a fuss, usually asleep by 7pm. She sleeps great until 3am (so about 8 hours), wakes around 3am to nurse/diaper change, and then I put her back into crib. She puts herself back to sleep after her first feeding, but wakes up pretty much every half hour or so and will not go back to sleep without being nursed or rocked. It alternates between playing in her crib, to rolling around, to crying. I’ve tried to just let her go and see if she will put herself back to sleep, but when I have to wake up at 5:30am to go to work, it’s so much easier for me to just nurse her. BUT I pretty much don’t sleep from 3am onwards because she is up so much and I am exhausted! Is this something I just need to let her CIO for? I know I need to be more consistent in what I do at this time, and I am ready for a plan, but I just don’t know the best way to go about it. I don’t get why she can put herself back to sleep at nighttime and after her feeding, but keep waking up and not being able to go back down without me at these early times. Any advice would be appreciated!!!! </p>