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Hi Misty!
Congrats on your beautiful baby girl!! I know that you must be tired and exhausted but things do get easier as they get older. I will say that at 2 months, I think you're still at her mercy schedule wise especially at night time. You could try and plan that she naps at certain times during the day but for nighttime, I waited until both kids were 6 months before trying to get them to sleep through the night. The reason being is when they're born - thier tummies are so small that they need to eat frequently and as they get older the tummy expands to holds more liquids which lets them sleep longer without waking up and being hungry every two hours =) When I did try the Sleeping though the night I just made sure they had a full bottle, changed thier diaper and put them in their crib. She will cry, just something that you will have to deal with (I know I am opening myself up to a whole slew of controversy by saying that) You can wait for a scheduled amount of time, 5, 10, 15 mins whatever you want and then just go in, check on her. Make sure she's not tangled in anything, doesn't have a stinky and is safe. Try not to pick her up, just rub her back and do all this in a minute or two and then leave. Start the cycle again. In the beginning, it's going to be REALLY stressful. You may do the same thing 5 or 6 times in one night, but eventually she'll learn that bedtime is bedtime. Both my kids (14 and 29 months) go to bed like clockwork at 7pm each night and wake up between 6 and 7 the next morning. There are few (very few) where I wake up and have to change a stinky, but they go right back to sleep.
Lots of luck, hopefully the info was helpful. |
| posted by Char on 07/09/2008 08:28 AM
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| Yes it was very helpful thank you very much. Well right now she only wakes up once a night to eat and goes right back to sleep. I'm hoping she will get to where she will sleep all night here in the next couple of weeks or so. Thanks again for the advice. Msty |
| posted by Misty on 07/09/2008 08:35 AM
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Wow! You're one of those incredibly lucky moms =) I know a ton of people who wished they had thier kids on that sleeping schedule this early in the "game".
Right now, I am dealing with potty training my oldest (Victoria)and trying to find my "inner peace" while doing this. She's doing pretty good so far, a few accidents here and there but nothing too major. If anyone has tips, please feel free to send them my way. I'm trying my best not to let her feel scolded, ashamed, or that she did anything wrong while we're doing this. I try to focus on the positive praise and keep the negative to a minimum.
I guess this gives Misty lots of new things to look forward too =)
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| posted by Char on 07/09/2008 09:01 AM
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| Yeah i have been told that i am one of the lucky ones. I guess that is another thing that i get to look forward to is the potty training. That is going to be fun i guess. HAHA. Misty |
| posted by Misty on 07/09/2008 09:37 AM
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| Hi Misty, I have a 6 month old daughter who has been sleeping through the night in her own crib since 2 months, now at 6 months she's not as impressed but it did work for 4 months. I for the first two weeks would wake her at 11 when I went to bed, change her diaper and give her 2 to 4 ounces , if she would stay awake for it. I did this for about a week and then stopped waking her and she started sleeping through the night after that. Once and a while she would wake up I would go in her room but her binky back in her mouth and she would fall right back to sleep. At our 4 month check i mentioned to the doctor that she was waking up in the night, and his advice was to unplug the monitor. I thought he was crazy, but my husband made me try it. She would wake up and put her self right back to sleep, we can hear her if she really cry's her room is right next to us, but that never really happens any more she wakes up plays for a few minutes and go's right back to sleep. Hope it helps |
| posted by Lorie on 07/10/2008 12:38 PM
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| Wow thats amazing. Right now cause shes still so small were sleeping in the nursery with her. Do u think that we should stop sleeping in their and than maybe she'll be able to sleep all night? I have told my husband that it won't hurt for her to sleep in a room by herself and us be in our room but he won't let her be by herself. Thanks for the help. |
| posted by Misty on 07/10/2008 01:23 PM
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Hi Misty,
You should defintiely move back into your room, you need to have your own time and space. I also don't use a baby moniter, if they are really awake, you will know it!! Most kids stir in thier sleep and do need to learn how to go back to sleep on thier own.
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| posted by Char on 07/10/2008 01:28 PM
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| Thank you for the advice. She does go to sleep on her own after she eats in the middle of the night about 3 i put her back in her bed turn on her mobile and she will lay their and go back to sleep on her own. |
| posted by Misty on 07/10/2008 01:31 PM
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| WOW Misty sounds like you really have a great husband. I had a hard time putting her in the nursery too, but she did sleep better, maybe not hearing my husbands snoring helped (LOL). |
| posted by Lorie on 07/10/2008 02:31 PM
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| Yeah i really do have a wonderful husband. And he has been an awesome father to our baby for someone that has never been around kids in his life at all. Yeah it is hard to put her in the nursery by herself because she does not like the dark we even have a night light in their but it still doesn't help her. |
| posted by Misty on 07/10/2008 03:47 PM
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| Hi Misty, She will get use to it, after all she spent the past 9 months of her life in the dark. Maybe you could leave a small lamp on in her room, we do that in Ava's nursery that way we can see her better too! |
| posted by Lorie on 07/11/2008 10:27 AM
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I put my daughter Victoria in her room by the time she was 3 months old with a night light and a instermental cd playing softly in the back ground. She is 15 months old now and she has always put her self go sleep when we lay her down exept when she was colicie.
We are also potty training right now. Victoria was interestad so we started. We put her on when she wakes up and before she goes down for naps and bed times. She is just learning the feel when she goes in her diaper but as for pooping she has only had 1-2 poopy diapers in the last two weeks she likes to do them in the potty.
Good luck to every one. |
| posted by Anne on 07/16/2008 03:25 PM
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| Yeah we have a night light on in her room that we leave on all night. But that doesn't seem to work either. |
| posted by Misty on 07/16/2008 04:04 PM
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| Wow thats great. You must be one of the lucky moms because if i leave my daughters sight if shes not sound asleep while shes going to sleep she will start crying |
| posted by Misty on 07/16/2008 04:05 PM
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| You can train her to do that my 2 best friends do the same thing. The first time I just let her cry and would check on her after about 5-10 min and then extend the time between going in the most she cried was 15-20 min. and then that was it(it only took 1 day 2 at the most). Once she did it for nap time there was no fight at bed time. Just go with the time you are comfotable with. Or try the sitting in the room and slowly move the chair out the door over the course of about 2 weeks. |
| posted by Anne on 07/17/2008 10:57 AM
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| Hey Misty, Hows it going with your daughter, have you gotten her to sleep on her own yet! Lorie |
| posted by Lorie on 07/20/2008 11:07 AM
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