https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:15:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-can-i-do-what-would-you-do#post-477565 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:44:49 +0000 Sammyfab 477565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I highly recommend that parents use waketimes to determine bedtime. So depending on when she wakes from her last nap, you would put her to bed 2-2.5 hours later. </p> <p>I think that her waking every 1-1.5 hours at night has to do with sleep dependencies. If she needs you to fall asleep initially then every time she wakes between sleep cycles she'll expect you to be there.</p> <p>I also think pacifiers are fine to use but I wouldn't replace it in the middle of the night or else she will become dependent on that. We've always used pacifiers for naps but never at nighttime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-can-i-do-what-would-you-do#post-477519 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:33:55 +0000 BelugaBean 477519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@luckypenny: She actually has determined when she falls asleep so I don't know if that makes a difference? I've been trying at 6:30 every night like usual. The only night we didn't do that was Christmas Eve but she still fell asleep around 8 while we were out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-can-i-do-what-would-you-do#post-477512 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:30:43 +0000 luckypenny 477512@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would maybe try putting her to bed a little later. If she's been going down at 10 and now it's suddenly 7, it could be too drastic of a change. Try moving it up and little each day and she might stay asleep. </p> <p>I'd also try keeping her in her room. DD was in pack n play over the holidays in the room we were in and she had so many more night wakings than usual </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-can-i-do-what-would-you-do#post-477494 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:27:09 +0000 BelugaBean 477494@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Would it be a good idea just to try to put her in her room tonight and see how she sleeps? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-can-i-do-what-would-you-do#post-477318 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:21:48 +0000 BelugaBean 477318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sammyfab: She nurses to sleep at night which I'm fine with because normally she doesn't take long although if it needs to stop that's fine. She doesn't need to nurse at night unless she's hungry though. Sometimes when she wakes up, I leave her and she can fall back asleep on her own but it's rare. I always give her a few minutes before I check on her (unless she's screaming).</p> <p>We're trying to get her schedule sorted out during the day. She has between two to three naps usually for a total between 3-4 hours. Naps vary, sometimes she nurses, sometimes she just needs her pacifier. I'm hoping to work on that too though because she needs someone near her (maybe a form of CIO for that too). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-can-i-do-what-would-you-do#post-477291 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:13:07 +0000 Sammyfab 477291@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is she falling asleep on her own or do you have to put her down asleep? What does the rest of her day look like in terms of naps? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-can-i-do-what-would-you-do#post-477288 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:10:05 +0000 BelugaBean 477288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel like I post about sleep a lot but it seems to be what's hardest for LO. She used to sleep like a champ, especially at night. In laye November, her sleep started to go bad but about two weeks ago we got her back to going to bed around 8, a short wakeup at 12:30 that just required me to pat her back for a second, a wakeup around 4:30 to eat, and up for the day at 7:30-8. Christmas and traveling ruined it though.</p> <p>Her bedtime was off even though I did her routine at the same time. Last night, she finally fell asleep at 7:45 again after I was persistent at starting her bedtime routine around 6:30 (she had been going to sleep at 10). However, she's still waking up a ton. And I mean every hour to hour and a half. I only feed her if it's around four. The other times I either have to pat her back, turn her onto her back from her stomach, replace her pacifier, or do all three.</p> <p>I'm tired. I was going to ask my husband to take over for a few hours tonight since he doesn't work tomorrow. But should we do something else? Should we do CIO at every wakeup besides the one where she eats? He's off until Monday so we'd have three nights to tackle this together.</p> <p>She's five and a half months old and still sleeps in our room. That's an improvement from a week ago when she was in our bed almost all night. We want to move her into her room but I just can't do it with all the wake ups, I would never get any sleep. When she can go a few hours again we want to move her though. And we may try anyway as her doctor suggested she might be waking up because she senses we're nearby.</p> <p>Advice? I'm exhausted.</p> <p>Edit: I meant to add that she's had a cold since around Monday so I do realize we might have to wait for it to pass to do anything. It's just been going on for a while. </p>