Ok, so I have had ENOUGH! Even experienced moms forget how to fix these types of problems! Like me :) So I need your help. Here is my problem;
Laelynn is almost 5 months old now and had some bad acid reflux a couple months ago. So to solve THIS problem we had her sleep in her swing chair. This detaches from the actual swing, so we put it in her crib with her in it. We also would (and still do) swaddle her because her rapid arm movements are so strong she will probably wake up with a black eye. I would rather not have everyone wonder "Why does a tiny infant have a black eye?" SO, she has been sleeping in this for a while. She also sleeps in her swing at daycare too. So all around she gets to sleep sitting up. Rarely, does she sleep lying down in fear that I don't get my 8 hours of sleep... Well, that kicked me right in the @ss!
She has not slept more than 3 hours in a row for the past week. I DO NOT have a newborn! She does not need to eat every 3 hours... She just wakes up crying! We have even started her on soilds, rice cereal, oatmeal, peas, etc. So I figured she would sleep longer because her tummy is full! NOPE, she is sleeping less. Maybe she loves the food so much she wants to be fed all the time, I dunno. I am stuck.
She had her 4 month appointment last week (a couple weeks late) and doc said that we should just "rip the bandaid off." Which means; take away the chair and swaddle all at once. WHAT? Crazy lady... Anywho, I need some advice on how to solve this problem. How do we get her to sleep through the whole night, or if she is going to get up b/c she is hungry, just ONCE!! Any advice would be WONDERFUL!
Thanks,
So Sleepy Mommy :)
I'm not sure I'll be much help b/c I STILL swaddle Declan (for fear he'll put out his NG tube). With Nico, however, we "pulled the band-aid off" per se with him. Unswaddled and took away the pacifier all at once. We did controlled crying it out. I'm one of those mom's who doesn't have a problem letting her child cry (call me mean). It took a couple nights for about 45 mins. of crying (me going in every 5-10 mins. to calm him down). But by the third night, he put himself to sleep with only a small protest and didn't wake up crying in the middle of the night. Now with Declan, he's waking frequently b/c he wants his pacifier. I'm not ready to do crying it out with him b/c of his tube (and honestly for fear that he'll wake Nico up) but I do know that I need to break him from that too b/c he's using the pacifier as a crutch. So I guess if I were in your shoes, I would "pull the band-aid off" otherwise I'd slowly start taking her away her "crutches" one at a time. She'll get the hang of it eventually....just do what you're comfortable doing....like I said, probably not much help :)
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