https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 22:22:10 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1271665 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:41:31 +0000 avivoca 1271665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to update everyone and say THANK YOU for all your advice, commiseration, and general all around niceness. </p> <p>Over the weekend, Hyla took every single nap in her swing. It has a vibration option, and she took 1.5-2 hour naps in it. Saturday night we co-slept, and her sleep was better. Sunday afternoon, we rearranged our bedroom with the intent to move her crib in there, but the one thing I forgot to measure was the crib, and we would have had to take it apart to get it through the doors. So we left it in her room and said that if it didn't work, we'd go buy a pack n' play for our room.</p> <p>We put her to bed in her crib that night with her Wubbanub. She slept five and a half hours (11:00-4:30ish), and I woke up at 3:44 and checked on her since she hadn't cried yet. I nursed her in our bed and put her back in the crib until 6:00, then at 6 she nursed and I left her in our bed with us.</p> <p>Last night she went to bed at 10:00, but I've noticed on the days she goes to bed earlier, she wakes up more. She got up at 1:00, 3:00, and 6:30 to nurse. Yesterday was also her 2-month appointment and her shots, so she slept more during the day. I'll be sticking with the 11:00 bedtime for the next little while until she is ready to sleep earlier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1269504 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:47:23 +0000 mdf106 1269504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't usually comment, but I had trouble finding advice for my baby's late bedtime, so I would like to help others with the same problem. My situation has been somewhat better, in that my baby slept in the crib (unswaddled) from the beginning, and has been good at sleeping for a long stretch. However, bedtime was always a struggle, and it was usually between midnight and 2 am that I got my baby to sleep. I am not a night person.</p> <p>One thing that helped me is that I would take a pre-bedtime nap. I would feed DS, and hand him off to DH at about 9 or 9:30. DH would wake me when DS seemed really hungry (rarely) or when it was "bedtime." Besides feeling better after additional sleep, I would be more relaxed, which made DS fall asleep easier.</p> <p>Also, DS has moved his bedtime somewhat earlier, and bedtime is usually not a battle. I start a bedtime routing at 10, and he is asleep within fifteen minutes of 11. It is still later than I would like, but I have adjusted somewhat. I have had success getting DS to sleep slightly earlier, as early as 10:15, but he STTN much worse with a bedtime earlier than about 11. Now he STTN until about 8 about half the time. I get up for work at 7:30, and I am lucky my work is flexible.</p> <p>DS very rarely naps in the crib, but naps very well in the bouncy seat, so I have not tried to change that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1265025 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:07:16 +0000 blackbird 1265025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It sucks but it does get better! i have an 8 month old that has been STTN for two months!</p> <p>Honestly, we all started getting more sleep once she slept in her crib. It was easier for me as a working mom because i wasn't waking up with every noise she'd make and i could toss and turn easier without stressing about her (she was in the RnP next to me). I think we moved her at 4 months but once i did i was definitely able to relax more.</p> <p>also, daycare helped with naps and getting her on a pretty darn solid schedule. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1265001 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:59:58 +0000 Greentea 1265001@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have had a helluva time. I started getting her used to her crib by placing her in therr at different times so she got used to it... like it was a positive thing throughout the day. I tried to nurse to sleep and would try to get at least one two hour stretch of her in tbere and they slowly increased. Also sometimes she does a stint in her swing. At 6 months it is much better but she still doesn't go to sleep until 9-11. I am ok with tbat. When she was 8 weeks she was still fighting sleep until later and then I would be too stressed to sleep! It naturally will get better and I think it is normal. They are babies afterall. They do what they want :) my girl also doesn't nap.<br /> I let her sleep in as long as she wants so I know she is getting enough sleep. I am sure babies that get up earlier go to sleep earlier but even my nightowl baby (she was even in the womb) has started sleeping earlier and fighting it less.@evansjamie: hang in there and familiarize her with her crib. It took a lot but she sleeps well in there now. No matter what you do it will naturally get better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1264892 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:29:23 +0000 SleepyMonkey 1264892@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>what time does she wake up in the mornings? if she is getting up late, maybe try getting her up a little earlier and that way she will get tired earlier at night. i agree with some pp's that maybe you can transition her to a rnp or something similar so she feels cuddled. then slowly transition her to her room in her rnp, then to the crib.</p> <p>btw, naps for my LO were never great. 45 mins are standard, 1.5 hours if we are lucky. 2+ hour naps, i can pretty much count on one hand. LO is 13 months old.</p> <p>eta: at that age, my LO's bedtime was still around 10:30pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1264874 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:24:55 +0000 avivoca 1264874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sslm: My husband is the night owl, but I have the boobs, so I end up staying up late to feed her when she demands it. I'm a morning person, so this schedule is so, so hard on me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1264865 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:23:40 +0000 avivoca 1264865@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: It's good to know that R eventually napped in the crib at daycare. I'll have to see if I can find mrs. Blue's post. I might try the moving crib trick in the no-cry sleep solution, but our room is very small (11'x12') and we didn't have room for a P&amp;P, so it will take some serious furniture shifting/removal to do that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1264852 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:17:37 +0000 sslm 1264852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hear you on the late bedtime! M was a night owl for a long time. She didn't go to bed before 10 until she was about 4 months old, when she just decided to do it on her own one night. She just seemed tired so we put her down at 8:30, then about a month later she moved it to 7:30, which is where we are at now. </p> <p>It will get better!!!! If you don't want to wait it out, I'd try what @heartonastring: suggested. Move bedtime up very slowly over a few weeks. </p> <p>Good luck!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1264842 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:11:25 +0000 Smurfette 1264842@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>R didn't move her bedtime up till she started day care at 12 weeks. She wouldn't nap unless on me. It was rough in our house. But at day care she had to. Those first couple weeks were rough cause she was so tired. But she learned to sleep in the swing, and finally in the crib at day care. </p> <p>No advice on the cosleeping since we never did that. Maybe try Mrs. Blue's nest trick and see if that helps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1264831 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:07:44 +0000 avivoca 1264831@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DillonLion: No swaddling, she absolutely hated it and her sleep was so much worse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1264826 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:05:30 +0000 heartonastring 1264826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That sounds rough :( It will get better, I promise!</p> <p>If you want to move her bedtime earlier, you can try moving it in increments of 15 minutes every night or two. I think it was around that time that DD's bedtime starting moving early but it took awhile. I just kept my eye on her for sleep cues and put her down as soon as I saw them.</p> <p>I agree with @DillonLion: It's probably easier not to go right to the crib. Can you out her in an RnP, swing or PnP in your room to start with? That might ease the transition from co-sleeping a little :)</p> <p>Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1264818 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:02:12 +0000 DillonLion 1264818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We transitioned away from co sleeping like this:</p> <p>Started with a bouncy seat that cradled her so she felt secure. Kept her in the same room. </p> <p>Then moved the bouncy seat to her own room.</p> <p>Then removed the bouncy seat and put her in the crib.</p> <p>Are you swaddling? She was in the Halo sleepsack swaddle the wbole time we were doing this transition. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-tell-me-it-gets-better-2#post-1264812 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:59:10 +0000 avivoca 1264812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Backstory: my daughter is eight weeks old, and we have basically been co-sleeping since day three. I decided early on that I would do whatever it took to get some sleep, and she wouldn't sleep in her Moses basket anyway. She's slept in her crib at night maybe three nights this entire time, and getting her to nap in her crib is like pulling teeth. She also only naps for 40 minutes at a time unless we are in the car, then I can get 2-3 hours. I don't have the car usually because we only have one. Her bedtime is 10:00, but she fights until 11:30 or midnight. I've tried putting her to bed earlier, but it doesn't work. I read about your babies sleeping at 7:30 and wonder when it will happen for us. </p> <p>I'm going back to work in three weeks. I'm tired of co-sleeping and honestly would like to have sex again at some point soon. Please tell me this gets better! I'm so tired now, I can't imagine having to function at work on this schedule. I feel so guilty counting the days until her naps are someone else's problem. I also feel guilty for both co sleeping and for wanting her out of our bed. And please tell me your stories and advice on crib training. CIO is not an option, I can't bear to hear her cry. </p>