How do you handle them? Do you retrain as soon as their sleep changes or do you ride out the regression and hope their sleep goes back to normal/retrain them after?
Sincerely, a Mama who has been up every hour all night for the past two weeks.
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No idea but I hurt for you. That's crazy!
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Bumping because my instinct is strangely silent on this.
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We rode out the regressions and usually he would return to his normal (which was by no means stellar) sleep patterns. His regressions were usually due to a sickness, or major milestones he was working through and I didn't feel right trying to sleep train him through that. Plus, if I'm honest, It was easier for me to get up and nurse/comfort him than to let him cry when I had to get up early for work.
After a week or two he would usually go back to his normal 2-3 wake ups. If that wasn't happening, usually one night of letting him CIO would put him back to his usual sleep pattern.
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we decided to cosleep instead of sleep train because that was what worked for our family. unless there is an illness or teeth he will STTN while cosleeping.
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I try to give it a week or so to see if the regression passes (teething sometimes?). If it doesn't then I retrain. That's what we're in the middle of doing right now actually! Tonight is day 1 of Ferber 2.0 as I like to call it;)
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@FutureMrsMcK: it's nnot your instinct which is silent...it just some brain cells that have been lost from lack of sleep;) I know this, I've lost probably millions by now. I'm lucky to even remember my name.
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LO started sleeping through the night once we started sleep training around 7 months. At 12 months he decided it'd be nice to start screaming at 3 AM--I thought it was a regression of sorts and he'd go back to STTN but noooo! He had other plans. I retrained him on Wednesday. He slept through the night this morning and I hope will continue to do so.
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@kiddosc: That's pretty much where we are...before this he was waking up 1-2 times a night and that was fine. But this all night every night thing is slowly making me crazy. And it's almost always me because DH is working ridiculous hours right now, in a warehouse, and I don't want him to get hurt because he's tired. Glad to here your LO went back to his normal and I hope that whatever is going on here passes soon
@littlebittyhouse: We co-slept the first 5.5 months of his life, and it was great, but our bed is too small to co-sleep safely long-term, and he's too distracted when he's there anyway...it's like "boob boob I WANT TO GRAB THE CAT boob boob OO I WANT TO PULL DAD'S BEARD boob boob NOW I WANT TO SIT UP AND NURSE boob boob AND TRY TO CRAWL OFF OF THE BED! boob boob OKAY NOW I'M DONE SO I'M GOING TO SQUIRM UNTIL YOU BRING ME BACK TO *MY* BED. (Caps because he is very intense about it all!) And even if he was calm and nursed and slept little dude is such an active sleeper, and a bed hog (and again, our bed is not big enough now).
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@TurtleDoves: @keiki_mama: I think I'm going to give him another week to see if whatever this is a chance to...culminate? (his drool has increased, so teething is a definite possibility) and if things aren't better I'll retrain. I want to let him work out whatever it is without me interfering but sweet baby jane I am SO tired and it's negatively impacting my patience...I've been having to bite my tongue to not snap at DS (and DH) and I don't like that.
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@FutureMrsMcK: here's the thin though that happened with us: I have it time and even though the teething ended, the sleep didn't go bak to normal. You'll probably still have to retrain. Just give it the week anyways because its not fair to E to train him to sleep if truly he is going through something (teething). Ya know? So basically, you'll more than likely have to retrain:/ but don't do it now because it'll go no where.
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