https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 07 May 2026 04:32:36 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-50050 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:05:05 +0000 BoogieBea 50050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son was like that for the entire 6.5 months after he was born. No matter how early or late we start his bedtime routine, he would never finally stay asleep until close to midnight. This occurred every single night until we finally sleep trained him. It seems like ages ago now but am going through sleep training currently with our second child. It's not any easier, emotionally. Hopefully Olive will be able to sleep better on her own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-50042 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:41:58 +0000 reggie 50042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hm Eli used to cry for no reason between 6pm and 8pm... it stopped when i moved his bedtime earlier to 6pm.. maybe try that? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49917 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:11:19 +0000 Mrs. Bee 49917@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsnarbonne: i have to keep switching it up. hold her for a little while. put her in the carrier. in the swing. in the bouncer. she's relatively calm when we put her down most of the time, but she gets fussy after a little while and we just need to switch it up. usually what finally does her in is nursing... but that's after i've nursed her like 3-4 times and she's been up for hours.</p> <p>@looch: do you mean limit activity at night? once charlie goes to bed at 7:30, the house is pretty much quiet. she has an earlier bedtime of 6:30, but we've tried putting her down after charlie too which hasn't really helped either. </p> <p>she was up til 11:30 again last night, but at least she did a 5 hour stretch after that, woke up for a feeding, and then went straight back down again for another 3 hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49706 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:54:25 +0000 looch 49706@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It sounds more and more like a day and night confusion, is there anything you can do in the house to limit the activity at that time? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49702 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:05:39 +0000 mrsnarbonne 49702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If she's up from 6pm-midnight, could you just have her stay up instead of trying to fight it? It seems like you're doing all the right things to encourage a sleepy environment, so if she's just not tired, maybe wear her as you go about your chores/tasks? You are usually up from 6pm to midnight, anyways, right? </p> <p>Whenever E was like that, I'd just put him on my back in the baby carrier and carry on with my chores. Nothing like a housework routine of vacuuming and washing dishes to bore him to sleep. :) And if he was still awake, at least he was content and I'd gotten stuff done. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49674 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:52:58 +0000 Red 49674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rubies: Just FYI, until 8 months, a lot of babies don't actually shed tears cause their tear ducts aren't fully developed yet. See below link for details :)</p> <p><a href="http://www.parenting.com/article/on-call-tear-free-babies" rel="nofollow">http://www.parenting.com/article/on-call-tear-free-babies</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49668 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:30:16 +0000 808love 49668@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You might want to try the bouncy exercise ball, if you are desperate. I found that tip on a board and never saw it in a print book. Anyway, it was my husband's lifesaver...mine was nursing. Also she liked to suck on my pinky in the very young months. Weird as it may sound. Now my husband uses the car if need be, or jiggles her like he's playing the guitar with her. The ball was a necessity for the first 6 months but after that, not so much. She likes to roll it around still so it's a good investment. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49260 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:49:44 +0000 Maysprout 49260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LO started really responding to music around that age. My husband would take her and put her to sleep by singing to her. </p> <p>I'd nurse her then play a game like kissing her cheeks or hands in a pattern to get her to focus on us and, then swaddle, then my husband would walk around and sing to her and lay her in the crib and sing one more song. She even had certain songs that would help put her to sleep faster. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49248 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:35:53 +0000 Mrs. Bee 49248@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: yah i think it is in our future, but i'm not sure when we can sleep train. also i just feel a lot more guilty with sleep training olive than i did charlie because she was born early and is so much smaller (charlie was 90% so i felt less guilty).</p> <p>meanwhile a friend's baby the same age as olive is sleeping 8 hours straight. oh the glory! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49233 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:23:14 +0000 Andrea 49233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: that stinks. Hang in there until she is old enough for sleep training? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49229 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:15:21 +0000 Mrs. Bee 49229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: she doesn't nap that much in the daytime because her naps have become shorter and shorter. when this 6pm - midnight mischief was sporadic, her daytime naps didn't seem to indicate whether she would be up or not.</p> <p>she is an enigma to me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49225 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:13:23 +0000 Mrs. Bee 49225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@808love: nope don't have an exercise ball. some nights i'm willing to try anything!</p> <p>@Rubies: i never thought about whether no tears = not really crying. i guess i considered crying without tears still crying? also i think toddlers tend to shed more actual tears than babies?</p> <p>@chopsuey119: olive is not a fan of the swing alas.</p> <p>@Thehistoryofus: i will try that in our closet!</p> <p>@Mrs. Marbles: i even tried cosleeping in desperation. i don't know what it is about those hours, but she just won't sleep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49185 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:08:58 +0000 Mrs. Marbles 49185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The only thing that worked for us was co-sleeping and now LM won't get out of our bed! I definitely don't suggest going that route. I noticed that LM does get startled (then scared) easily so she would wake up in fits every hour or so when sleeping by herself in the crib. She likes the comfort of me and Papa Marbles nearby. She even grabs onto our arms and faces while she is sleeping for security. My parents told me I was the same way. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49181 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:03:34 +0000 T.H.O.U. 49181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know this sounds terrible, but I used to stand in my closet with the door closed with LO. It was pitch black so she couldn't see anything and I would either hum or sing while I swayed/bounced and eventually she would calm and go to sleep. Any light she could see and it would distract her and she would stay awake. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49180 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:58:36 +0000 BabyLove 49180@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wish I could help! We're having sleep problems with our almost 5 month old. I'm out of creative ideas and almost outta hope! Good luck to ya </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49171 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:46:58 +0000 chopsuey 49171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do you have a swing? My LO used to stay up late when she was that age too. We didn't get her on a schedule til she was about 4 mos old. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49169 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:41:47 +0000 heffalump 49169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know how you New Yorkers raise babies without cars! Car rides are always our go to thing if my LO won't go to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49167 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:36:24 +0000 Rubies 49167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: Sometimes I pretend that the bloody murder-type of screaming is LO's way of swearing at me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49149 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:48:44 +0000 Andrea 49149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rubies: I wonder the same thing. I tried to let her CIO for a nap yesterday and she was screaming bloody murder but there were no tears. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49148 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:47:29 +0000 Andrea 49148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does she nap a lot during the day? Can you shorten her daytime naps so maybe she will want to sleep at night? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49144 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:00:39 +0000 Rubies 49144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, I'm so sorry! LO woke up crying at 5am and I thought, "I'll let her cry it out..." Yeah, she cried for a whole hour. When I FINALLY went to rescue her, it turns out she has a crazy poo explosion in her diaper. Poor girl.</p> <p>P.S. - What do you consider to be crying? When I went to rescue LO, she has zero tears. She was just yelling for me, I guess. But without crying, I don't count it as "crying". Am I wrong? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49130 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:34:42 +0000 looch 49130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel your pain! I have a child that's been a difficult sleeper since the first days. We used to bounce him on the exercise ball to get him to sleep, it worked for a long time, but was a difficult habit to break. If I could do it over again I would never have started that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49129 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:54:58 +0000 808love 49129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ooooh, yah a big poop should do it.</p> <p>Do you have an exercise yoga ball? That helped us. I held our little one horizontally and bounced her with white noise in the first 5 months. No eye contact, until her eyes got heavy and fall asleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49118 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:14:20 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 49118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: that totally happened the other night to us too. And I just had to nurse him back to sleep. So far so good ... But I'm sure he'll be up again in another couple hours :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49117 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:09:51 +0000 Mrs. Bee 49117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Yoyo: olive just had a blow out poop. hopefully she'll go to sleep now. hope baby y stays asleep too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49116 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:45:29 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 49116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh. I wish I had some advice for you, but I'm in the same boat right now. Baby Y is up for the second time tonight from the sounds of the monitor, and it's not even 11 yet. </p> <p>:( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/olive-wont-sleep#post-49114 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:23:20 +0000 Mrs. Bee 49114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Olive's sleep has been getting worse and worse. She's usually up from 6pm - midnight most nights. Sometimes she dozes off, but the minute she's in the crib she wakes up. She hasn't slept a wink in the past 4 hours now. Even a walk outside in the stroller, wearing her, the swing, holding her, pacifier, nursing her, can't get her asleep! i'm pooped!</p> <p>she sleeps pretty well the rest of the time... this is just her witching hour.</p> <p>Any creative ideas on getting her to sleep? </p>