DD is 7 months and the past few nights she's been up every.two.hours. I am absolutely drained!! If your LO did/does this, how do you survive the exhaustion?????
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Cry, lose my temper, get overly dramatic that I will never sleep again... Decide we should pay for a sleep consultation, then things went back to normal-ish. This applies to pretty much every sleep regression she's had in 2.5 years.
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Early bedtime and too much coffee. And carbs. And crying. And exercise.
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Complaining, crying, huddling in a ball and swearing I will not have any more kids.
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Complain, coffee, positive attitude about it (it's just a phase, this too shall pass, tally up total hours of sleep and say that it wasn't too bad, etc)
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Coffee, tag teaming with DH and meditating with the mantra this too shall pass.
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So my 2 year old just went through a "let's wake up and scream every 2 hour stage" and the answer is coffee more coffee, fight with DH constantly and then drink all the wine. January has been fun....
ETA that the stage did pass so take heart and stay strong mama!
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Coffee, rationalize that it won't last forever, cry sometimes, and naps.
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Same as everyone else! You're not alone, this too shall pass...
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We just went to one nap at 10 mo and now she sttn 12-14 hours. She had been waking every few hours the two months prior.
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Make sure you're taking your vitamins! DD hit her 6 mo. growth spurt before we started solids, and I thought I was going to die. I made sure to eat a lot of leafy greens then, too.
Hang in there. It's awful, but you're not alone!
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@Foodnerd81: I'm so glad I'm not alone. A few nights of lost sleep and I start acting like a maniac.
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My LO is almost 9mos and has never slept more than 3.5h at a stretch. He's usually up every 90m to 2.5h every night. I am tired and forgetful. We bedshare to make it less miserable. And I make Sweetie get up with him if he's already eaten within the last 2h. But it is miserable. Very miserable.
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Too much coffee, too many naps, let other things slide. Hope it gets better for you soon.
ETA: soak up the happy moments, smiles, giggles, hugs, snuggles to remind myself it's all worth it
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DD didn't STTN till 8 months so I feel ya! I think I was just resolved that she was a baby and this is what babies do. I did not want to sleep train so some nights were HARD! We def took it out on each other too many times. But we both agreed that letting her get to STTN herself was worth it.
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Lots of caffeine, crying, prayers, and understanding from coworkers.
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We sleep trained right around 7 months. He was up every 2 hours and he was crying no matter what we did. One night after each of us trying to put him down for the night and only having about 20 minutes of success, we just let him cry it out. Best thing I could have done for him. He just really needed to figure out how to connect his sleep cycles. We also amped up his food intake and started waiting 10-15 minutes at night wake ups. He usually went back to sleep after 7.
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@snowjewelz: my ds didn't sttn until well after 15 months!! But my dh would do feedings. I'm ebf now so it's all on me.
How do y'all do caffeine if you're nursing?? I'm afraid that will keep her up!!!
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@Ash: Honestly, even after she started STTN, you get teething, sickness, growth spurts and what not! I think it was easy that we bedshare so I just roll to my side, pop out a boob and we both fall back asleep. The worst is when she got older and nursing didn't put her back to sleep!
I def drank coffee nursing.. I think a cup or 2 a day is totally fine. I never noticed a difference!
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@snowjewelz: we bed share too but I use a shield and cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to nurse side lying with it!!
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@Ash: Oh I used a shield too! Major annoyance to find it, etc. Hmm I can't really remember how I did it.. I just lie on my side, put the shield on, kinda cradle her torwards me...
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My DD is 7 months and she still for the most part sleeps only about 3 hours at a time. We had a couple of nights where she only woke up once, but my body is so used to waking up now that I was wide awake while she was asleep, so I was still super tired in the morning! Lots of coffee (in the morning after she nursed) and generally trying to stay positive.
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My LO is another one who hasn't ever slept longer than about 3 hours at a time. I basically have nights where we both just sleep all night nursing side-lying. It's not pretty.
And I found my LO had no tolerance for caffeine until recently. When she was a month old I had a cup of coffee every day and I found she lost about two hours of night sleep. So I backed off caffeine (except for the occasional Coke or ice tea).
But just now at 5.5 months she tolerates a cup of coffee totally fine. If I overindulge and have (my prepregnancy regular) a whole pot, she gets a little cranky, but a cup hasnt directly changed her sleep in a big way.
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Coffee ... We had a nanny for the first year. I ended up changing her schedule to 11-5, so that I could nap when LO was taking her first nap. I work from home, which gave me that flexibility. I had a non-sleeping baby for 18 months, and I just tried to be gentle with myself (relaxed on cleaning, didn't make a ton of plans, etc.).
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DH and I did shifts (as much as possible, since I was nursing). After about a month of it, we sleep trained.
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We sleep trained. And even with sleep training there are still MOTN wake ups due to teething, sickness, development, their mood, etc. I know some people are not into sleep training, but it saved us.
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