https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 20 May 2026 08:40:24 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reality-check-today#post-956621 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:36:55 +0000 matador84 956621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: i wish! that would be so great but we live in a pretty med/smallish town. he doesn't nurse much during the day and makes up for it at night...I am praying once we switch to cows milk that maybe the MOTW will stop?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reality-check-today#post-956542 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:24:51 +0000 edelweiss 956542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@matador84: oh that's rough. it sounds like you're definitely giving him a chance to settle down on his own, but he's digging his heels in! the little guy knows what he wants. </p> <p>one of my friends has a toddler and twin baby girls--the nighttime feedings and wakeups were out of control, so my friend hired a sleep consultant to come sleep train her children. she said it was the best money she's ever spent. but i hope you don't have to turn to anything like that, and that LO grows out of it soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reality-check-today#post-956477 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:18:30 +0000 matador84 956477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: seriously, i think it's worse now than when i came off maternity leave because i never thought i would have an 11 month old not sleeping through the night! </p> <p>i let him cry anywhere from 30 mins to an hour...or more? sometimes i think i fall asleep. he scratches his head and ears and will bleed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reality-check-today#post-956438 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:14:29 +0000 edelweiss 956438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>interrupted sleep is the worst. you must be exhausted. when i came back to work, even "easy" night feedings (where LO and i would basically sleepwalk through them) affected my clarity and energy level the next day. my brain would hurt.</p> <p>how long does LO cry before you go in and nurse? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reality-check-today#post-956356 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:03:56 +0000 matador84 956356@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't even know what category to put this under. So I have been on summer vacation since mid-June and got back to work next week. This morning I had a meeting at 8, do DS and I got back into the routine of early wake up, I get ready, then get him ready, then head out the door to daycare and I go to work. DH lives/works out of town during the week, so this is what we're used to since he was born.</p> <p>Well...DS has had "emerging ear infections" so he's been on antibiotics. (Am I making up excuses for his MOTW that is KILLING ME!) He was up at 1145, 3 and 630...and it just made me realize even more how i HAVE TO GET HIM SLEEPING at night before I go back to work! Seriously, I am having so much anxiety about it because I am sooooo tired right now! When I got up with him at 345, I couldn't fall back asleep and stayed up until about 600. </p> <p>I literally don't know what to do! I don't have a problem with him going down to sleep at night, but the wake ups during the middle of the night are killer! He's 11 months old (almost) and will just stand up in his crib and cry and cry in the middle of the night so I go in to nurse. </p> <p>Really more of a vent...but I am starting to get soooo freaked out about going back to work in a week with a baby who isn't sleeping at night AND another one on the way!! </p>