ChrissyJames
05-30-2006, 02:31 AM
Hi - I am looking for suggestions.
She has 2-3 naps per day of 45 min - 1 hour each (10:30, 2:00 and 7:00, approximatly) and goes to bed for the night at 10:30 or so (after much sobbing and holding and rocking). Then she is up about one hour later and unless I nurse her, crys herself awake. She wakes up at about 8:30 in the morning. I am not that concenned about sleeping through the night as after one or two initial wakings she only eats once in the night (she is just under 7 months), and goes right to sleep afterwards.
My problem is that she just fights sleep so hard and requires so much rocking and is getting too heavy! I go to my friends houses and they just put their kids down and the kids seem to just go to sleep. I have started a night time bed routine for the past 2 nights but so far I am seeing no change and it is taking me all night to do it:
Bath
Massage
Read book
Breastfeed
Turn out lights and walk around her room listening to Norah Jones
Put her down in her crib relaxed but awake
And then - whaaaa! At which point I rock her in the dark, breastfeed her, bounce on the exercise ball till she is asleep. And then tonight, I took away her last nap, so she went to sleep at 8 but then popped up at 9 and I was stuck soothing her in the dark in her room till 10:40. My husband and I are just so stressed out putting her to bed that it spoils the whole night and is causing us to fight.
Does the no cry sleep solution work for anyone?
She has 2-3 naps per day of 45 min - 1 hour each (10:30, 2:00 and 7:00, approximatly) and goes to bed for the night at 10:30 or so (after much sobbing and holding and rocking). Then she is up about one hour later and unless I nurse her, crys herself awake. She wakes up at about 8:30 in the morning. I am not that concenned about sleeping through the night as after one or two initial wakings she only eats once in the night (she is just under 7 months), and goes right to sleep afterwards.
My problem is that she just fights sleep so hard and requires so much rocking and is getting too heavy! I go to my friends houses and they just put their kids down and the kids seem to just go to sleep. I have started a night time bed routine for the past 2 nights but so far I am seeing no change and it is taking me all night to do it:
Bath
Massage
Read book
Breastfeed
Turn out lights and walk around her room listening to Norah Jones
Put her down in her crib relaxed but awake
And then - whaaaa! At which point I rock her in the dark, breastfeed her, bounce on the exercise ball till she is asleep. And then tonight, I took away her last nap, so she went to sleep at 8 but then popped up at 9 and I was stuck soothing her in the dark in her room till 10:40. My husband and I are just so stressed out putting her to bed that it spoils the whole night and is causing us to fight.
Does the no cry sleep solution work for anyone?