Ok, I can finally sit and reply properly, before I try to go to bed again!
Boo44 - I think an earlier bedtime still looks like it's worth a try, to see if it helps to settle him better. You can always switch it back if needs be.
LC - Don't worry too much about solids, just keep offering and eventually she'll take them. Food is only to taste really until they are a year old. until then milk is more than enough.
Anti - Congrats on the tooth!
Mrspear - Sorry you had an accidental "morning" with Joni. I'm so pleased you had success with getting her to settle in her cot. I bet she sleeps much better now.
Bananaz - Does Elsie cry at the 4am wakings or just scuffle around? You might find she's just adapting to the additional sleep, now she's not waking for night feeds? If she's not crying I'd just leave her to it.
Seren often does this and if I ignore her she'll nap again, and after a few days she goes back to a normal wake up.
Socity -
The decision to sleep train is so hard. I hope you come to a decision that works for you. Have you thought about doing sshhh pat like Mrspear did? That would be a much gentler method than CIO.
I agree with Noelle about setting a time on when she can next have feeds or night weaning totally. She probably doesn't need feeds at her age, but it's just weaning her that's tricky if she's not dropped the feeds herself.
Shadowy Lady - So glad you had a great trip, and that Sofia is settling back in ok. The weather must have been a shock to her when she's used to the cold!
We tummy sleep over here. Once she could roll, Seren kept rolling onto her tummy. We have a movement monitor, so I wasn't so concerned about her. She can roll both ways now, so she can always go the other way if she wants to.
I tend to put her down on her tummy, as she often wakes herself if she's on her back and then she's so tired she can't get onto her tummy and so gets wound up.
Noelle - Sorry you had to give up the class, but the decent sleep outweighs it! You can always try to pick it back up in a month or so, see if she can take the class without it disturbing sleep then?
Charlotte is just so adorable! Hope she gets her next round of teeth through soon so you can get back to great sleep!
Mrsbeano - I find that wakings when they just seem to not really know why they are awake are usually developmental. Don't worry about CIO, sometimes it has to be done, and those times sound pretty good for a first attempt.
And as for me.......
It's all a little bit of a mess. The travelling was smack in the run up to WW26 stormy period.
So she's been a little all over the place. She doesn't really know which side of the equator she's on, never mind day from night etc.
Then the tummy bug kicked in once we got there, so we had a trip to the hospital in the dead of night which obviously made her even worse as she was overtired.
Then on the way back the captain forgot to turn off the seatbelt signs (and no one would ask him to turn them off
) so I held her for 10 hours while she slept. I think my spine is still fused together.
So she had a great sleep, although rather disturbed as we were on a plane and right next to the bathrooms. So she moved a lot. Plus she's not used to sleeping on me, so I think the extra heat was a little uncomfortable for her.
The worst part was that I struggled to sleep while we were in Australia (no idea why, I was just awake) and then I didn't sleep at all on the night flight as I was holding her. So I did 36 hours straight with no sleep.
She was pretty good the first night back, woke once or twice for a few minutes during the night but then was awake at 4am (the time she'd been getting up in Aus). I left her to it and she just dozed and babbled until 5:50am when she was hungry, so I got up and fed. She was only 30 minutes away from normal wake up, so I was pretty pleased.
Then I think WW26 really kicked in, the next night she woke 5 times, again not really for anything, just awake, cried and went back to sleep.
Finally last night.... which is officially the worst ever! I actually think it was much more WW26 than anything else, although I guess the injections must have knocked her off a bit, even though no temperature.
She just couldn't sleep. When she'd had her bottle she was just sort of staring around. Then she'd cuddle in to start to go to sleep, but her eyes were just open, like she couldn't shut off her brain.
Eventually she got to sleep and then the 15 minute intervals started. And never stopped. I think she was awake for over 2 hours in the MOTN just playing with her hands, occasionally shrieking.
She slept a lot yesterday, so I think she was a bit undertired and overtired at the same time going to bed, plus WW26 etc.
So today I made sure she had her three naps as normal. She had 1.5 hours in the morning, and then I woke her, as she only usually does 30 minute naps. Then two other 30 minute naps as normal.
Getting her to bed took effort, had to dream feed her by switching out the dummy for the bottle every few mins until she was full.
She's gone down with her dummy, which I never allow, but when she's overtired she needs it. She's woken once so far 1 hour 20 minutes after bed, because she moved and lost the dummy.
I'm hoping that I can take it off her in a bit, before I go to bed, as I don't really want to have to get up every time she loses it. But every 1.5 hours is better than last night so I'll take it!
I think it would be manageable if it wasn't on the back of a week of no sleep for me!
I'm just having a glass of wine, then I'm going to tidy up and go to bed! Cannot wait!
x
