Will someone please teach me how to get my baby to sleep? I thought I learned with Eva and this go around I did everything "right", but it's still not working.
Benjamin just turned a year old & I still can't get him to sleep through the night. I've tried letting him cry but I always cave and go get him. Caleb was sleeping through the night at 10 weeks!! I miss sleep.
I'm with Beth... what have you done so far? How often is he waking, do you feed him when he wakes, etc? Not that I have all the answers, but maybe together, we can think of something you haven't tried.
I feel for you sweet friend. No sleep with two little ones is the worst. I know it doesn't seem like it now, but this too shall pass, my friend.
Okay, what we have tried: I've always done the eat, play, sleep routine. So I don't nurse him to sleep. He does take a pacifier though. Usually he wakes and just wants his paci back and then I often pick him up and hold him for a few seconds, but not always. He doesn't like to be on his tummy... makes him mad as a hornet. We also have always (well almost always) put him to bed drowsy but not yet asleep. I guess that's about it.
You're better than me! I nurse Caleb to sleep at his (usually) last feeding and I did with Abby also. I also wimped out on the "drowsy but not yet asleep" thing. Maybe he's waking because he wants a little cuddle time with Mommy, especially on the days when you're away from him some? Don't really have advice but I sure will pray for Mr. Eli to sleep through the night. We felt a little silly asking people to pray for Caleb to sleep through but did it anyway and he mostly does now. God knows your every need, even sleep! :)
Poor mommy!!! Jett did not want to sleep through the night either! He would have been completely happy just cuddling and nursing all night long, but six months of that was making this mom a little off in the head!!! We finally did some sleep training with the Ferber Method. Have you tried anything like that?
Poor thing! I am scared about having another kid one day and encountering this same problem. I nursed Ella to sleep and probably paid for it. It was always hard for her to fall asleep on her own. However, after so many sleepless nights I needed something that would work immediately and didn't care about he long-term consequences because I had to have sleep NOW. We also had to try the ferber method after nothing else worked. It was really hard the first couple of nights, but it eventually started working.
I'm sorry, friend. There is nothing worse than having to function on no sleep. Praying for you.
Jett won't sleep either!! I don't know what to do either! You would think that by the third child I would have it down! I've done all the same things and still no sleep! I will pray for you when I am up in the middle of the night! This is why I wish we lived closer! We could just get up in the middle of the night and take the boys to IHOP and have some coffee, a nice conversation, and some early breakfast! It would be great!
Have you let him cry it out at all? After 4 months we did that with Caed, and after 6 months, we let him cry in the middle of the night b/c our ped. said he didn't need to eat in the middle of the night any more. It took a while for it to work, but eventually he figured it out. We used to have to go back in and give Caed his paci back too, but eventually he found his thumb, which was WONDERFUL!
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Benjamin just turned a year old & I still can't get him to sleep through the night. I've tried letting him cry but I always cave and go get him. Caleb was sleeping through the night at 10 weeks!! I miss sleep.
What have you been doing so far? Caed didn't sleep through the night until 7 months, so maybe you are almost there!
Earplugs. For you, not the baby.
I'm with Beth... what have you done so far? How often is he waking, do you feed him when he wakes, etc? Not that I have all the answers, but maybe together, we can think of something you haven't tried.
I feel for you sweet friend. No sleep with two little ones is the worst. I know it doesn't seem like it now, but this too shall pass, my friend.
Okay, what we have tried: I've always done the eat, play, sleep routine. So I don't nurse him to sleep. He does take a pacifier though. Usually he wakes and just wants his paci back and then I often pick him up and hold him for a few seconds, but not always. He doesn't like to be on his tummy... makes him mad as a hornet. We also have always (well almost always) put him to bed drowsy but not yet asleep. I guess that's about it.
You're better than me! I nurse Caleb to sleep at his (usually) last feeding and I did with Abby also. I also wimped out on the "drowsy but not yet asleep" thing. Maybe he's waking because he wants a little cuddle time with Mommy, especially on the days when you're away from him some? Don't really have advice but I sure will pray for Mr. Eli to sleep through the night. We felt a little silly asking people to pray for Caleb to sleep through but did it anyway and he mostly does now. God knows your every need, even sleep! :)
Poor mommy!!! Jett did not want to sleep through the night either! He would have been completely happy just cuddling and nursing all night long, but six months of that was making this mom a little off in the head!!! We finally did some sleep training with the Ferber Method. Have you tried anything like that?
Poor thing! I am scared about having another kid one day and encountering this same problem. I nursed Ella to sleep and probably paid for it. It was always hard for her to fall asleep on her own. However, after so many sleepless nights I needed something that would work immediately and didn't care about he long-term consequences because I had to have sleep NOW. We also had to try the ferber method after nothing else worked. It was really hard the first couple of nights, but it eventually started working.
I'm sorry, friend. There is nothing worse than having to function on no sleep. Praying for you.
Jett won't sleep either!! I don't know what to do either! You would think that by the third child I would have it down! I've done all the same things and still no sleep! I will pray for you when I am up in the middle of the night! This is why I wish we lived closer! We could just get up in the middle of the night and take the boys to IHOP and have some coffee, a nice conversation, and some early breakfast! It would be great!
Have you let him cry it out at all? After 4 months we did that with Caed, and after 6 months, we let him cry in the middle of the night b/c our ped. said he didn't need to eat in the middle of the night any more. It took a while for it to work, but eventually he figured it out. We used to have to go back in and give Caed his paci back too, but eventually he found his thumb, which was WONDERFUL!
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