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| all babies have different sleep patterns. I would say you are a very lucky person if you have a 2 month old that will sleep through the night!! My son was sleeping I think around 5 hours when he was 2 months---waking up once or twice a night.... It's up to you about the book, but there seems to be a ton of different things you can try to get babies to sleep better, but in the end it just depends on the baby! |
| posted by Jacquelyn on 10/03/2007 11:39 AM
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Im suprised the doc suggested that at such a young age. Most children dont sleep through the night yet. Just feel your baby out in the next month or too cause sometimes those books can be very nerve wracking. My son did start at 8 weeks but I used no book just let him do it on his own.
good luck |
| posted by laura on 10/03/2007 11:40 AM
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| My son is 13 1/2 months old and his sleep pattern changes all the time. He usually gets up because he needs a drink of water or milk. We tried the ferber method and it worked for about a month. It was tough for the first 4 nights every time he started crying I wanted to go into his room and rescue him. Now we just let him make his own night schedule, he gets up once in the middle of the night for a drink. We just leave a sippy cup in his crib every night. |
| posted by Melinda on 10/03/2007 12:14 PM
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| My son is 8 months and he still gets up at LEAST 3 x's a night....like the other mothers have said, every baby is different and I realized that I had to just be patient and tend to his needs in the night. My son still eats 2-3 (4 oz) bottles during the night and eats great during the day. He also naps twice a day for 1.5 hrs. I read Dr Ferbers book and it had some good suggestions but for me personally, I cant let my child cry all night, its easier to go in and get him back down quickly. When they wake up from a lot of crying its even harder to get them back down. |
| posted by Candice on 10/03/2007 12:32 PM
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My son was 11 months when he started sleeping through the night. When he was 6 months we started letting him cry for 10 minutes and then we would go check on him. He rarely made it the whole 10 minutes. Usually he would stop right around 8 minutes, sometimes early.
Babies need to know their parents are there for them in order to feel safe and bond properly.
My doctor also told us that frequently letting a baby cry it out for long periods of time (over 30 minutes) causes the baby stress. This stress causes their blood pressure to rise. Combined with the lack of oxygen to the lungs due to the crying, this can lead to cutting of the oxygen supply to the brain.
I know it is hard right now because you need more sleep- just hang in there. He will sleep for longer periods of time as he continues to grow. Hang in there. |
| posted by Dawn on 10/03/2007 05:06 PM
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| I, too, am surprised at your doctor's suggestion. While my daughter had a solid four weeks of sleeping from 8:30 - 6:30 somewhere at three months, it all just stopped one day. We have no idea why. Now it's just hit or miss. Therefore, even if you get him to sleep through the night now, you can look forward to having it change and wondering, "What did we do???" |
| posted by Tara on 10/03/2007 07:53 PM
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| I too am very surprised at that dr.s suggestion. I was lucky and my daughter started sleeping through the night around 2 months, but every baby is different. If you do buy the book take it with a grain of salt, all books have different suggestions and you will drive yourself nuts trying to follow the book word by word. And your baby may not like how the book "suggests" to do things and may want to do things his way. I would suggest letting your son "tell" you what he wants and you will have a much happier baby. |
| posted by Amanda on 10/03/2007 08:38 PM
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| I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. The doctor said for me to look into that book when the baby is around 4 months. I was just wondering if followiing that book would even be ideal and to just let him flow with his sleep patter on his own? Is anyone working at this stage? I am, and was just wondering would I be struggling with this for a long time being that I'm working also. |
| posted by Eva on 10/04/2007 02:36 PM
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| i liked the book The No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley.....I didnt go by her "daily scheduled logs" but I found great info and basically learnced that a schedule is the best way to get them napping and sleeping better. If your child is 2-10 months and you can get them to sleep up to 5 hrs straight...I think your doing great....you didnt say if you had a boy or girl...I think girls sleep better through the night. I have a boy and most people I know with boys have more sleep troubles. |
| posted by Candice on 10/04/2007 05:34 PM
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| My son is 7 months old and he has been sleeping through the night (with a few exception) since he was five months old...I wouldn't try just yet to get your baby to sleep through the night...the way i see it they know when they are ready...i would try to get her/him on a schedule so nap time and bedtime don't become a probably... |
| posted by Amanda on 10/04/2007 08:36 PM
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My 7 month old is still getting up at least twice a night. I wish he was sleeping through the night. My doc told me at 6 months that he should start sleeping through the night and if he isn't, then it's just out of habit. I have to agree with the other mothers though. Each kid is different. There were nights when Ian did sleep all night and then there were nights where he got up every 2 hours. I find that a lot of it depends on how their day went. If he was active and shuffled around, then he generally went to bed and slept longer before getting up. If we were home all day relaxing, then it took a bit more to get him to go to bed and he got up sooner during the night.
I can't stand it when he cries in his crib, so I don't recommend anything that tells you to do that. I would recommend The No-Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley. I only read the first four chapters and it helped immensely. We were having trouble getting Ian to "fall" asleep. He was tired, he just didn't know what to do about it. The first four chapters gave us so much common sense advice that we started following it and once we did, he started sleeping a lot better at night.
I'm told it gets better. I was also told, when my son was 2 months old, that if he gets up a lot, then he is hungry. Something else I read, if babies gets the majority of their calories during the day, then they tend to sleep longer at night. I'm not sure how true this is though. |
| posted by Jaxon on 10/04/2007 10:18 PM
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| By the way, I never did get past the first four chapters of Elizabeth Pantley's book. Once we incorporated her suggestions, there wasn't any need to. |
| posted by Jaxon on 10/04/2007 10:20 PM
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| Thanks everyone for your replies. Its good to get feedback from other mothers who know exactly what I'm speaking off. Well, usually I give Jacob his bath around 6:45 or 7 b/c that's when he starts getting what I call "night crankiness". Sometimes he'll want to eat and sometimes not, depending on what time the babysitter feeds him. I pick him up at 6 and he might have had a 6 oz bottle an hr or 2 before. Last night I gave him his bath around 6:45, and attempted to feed him around 7:15 but he wasn't hungry. He feel asleep and woke up around 2:30. That has been our routine for the past month. Then he wakes up again around 7 or an hr later. So I guess by the general concensus that Jacob is doing well. |
| posted by Eva on 10/05/2007 09:06 AM
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