As a mom of 3, you would think I would know a thing or two about how to put a baby to bed. Well, not so much :0( All 3 of my kids have been totally different when it comes to bedtimes.
Zachary was and has been my dream sleeper from the very beginning. Sleeping through the night at 6 weeks, would fall asleep anywhere and napped till he was 3 years old.
Alexis was my bad sleeper. She didn't sleep through the night until she was 4 years old and stopped napping just before she turned 2. BUT at least she took a soother and I could lay her down and she would fall asleep on her own.
Isabella turned 7 months yesterday and started out great! She was sleeping 8/9 hours straight at 3 weeks. I thought I had it made! This lasted off and on for about 2 months then started the waking up 2-3 times a night. She wasn't sleeping longer than 4 hours at a times for weeks at a time.... which meant I wasn't sleep more than 4 hours at a time for weeks. She had been a good napper as well. A morning nap for 2 hours then an afternoon nap for 2/3 hours. Well, those days seem to be over as well. I'm lucky if I get an hour nap out of her in the mornings and afternoon naps have turned into 1/2 hour naps. Sometimes now, she will stay awake while I go out and run errands. This isn't good! My mom said that my sister stopped napping all together at 9 months. Just telling you now, I will go insane if that happens!
I have always nursed Bella at bedtime (an issue that is most likely causing my current sleep issues) but when you have 3 kids and a hubby that works alot of nights and you are trying to get all 3 kids in bed, you do whatever works to make it through. But in classic Bella style, she has switched things up on me. I can feed her and put her to bed between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, she will fall asleep but then is up again within an hour ready to party. So, when it is time for me to go to bed around 11pm, I'm having a huge problem getting her back to bed. I had fed her an hour or so earlier trying to get her to sleep the first time, that when I go to feed her to sleep again, she is not interested. She just wants to play. I have tried everything to get her back to sleep and I'm starting to dread bedtimes.
So I will be trying different sleep techniques, trying others advice and reading books and websites in My Adventures In Finding Dreamland for both Isabella and myself.
I know it's not going to be pretty and it will be one of the hardest things you have to go through as a parent but I don't want another "Alexis not sleeping through the night until she is 4" on my hands.
So, bare with me as I figure my way through this...... And the let Adventures begin!
Zachary was and has been my dream sleeper from the very beginning. Sleeping through the night at 6 weeks, would fall asleep anywhere and napped till he was 3 years old.
Alexis was my bad sleeper. She didn't sleep through the night until she was 4 years old and stopped napping just before she turned 2. BUT at least she took a soother and I could lay her down and she would fall asleep on her own.
Isabella turned 7 months yesterday and started out great! She was sleeping 8/9 hours straight at 3 weeks. I thought I had it made! This lasted off and on for about 2 months then started the waking up 2-3 times a night. She wasn't sleeping longer than 4 hours at a times for weeks at a time.... which meant I wasn't sleep more than 4 hours at a time for weeks. She had been a good napper as well. A morning nap for 2 hours then an afternoon nap for 2/3 hours. Well, those days seem to be over as well. I'm lucky if I get an hour nap out of her in the mornings and afternoon naps have turned into 1/2 hour naps. Sometimes now, she will stay awake while I go out and run errands. This isn't good! My mom said that my sister stopped napping all together at 9 months. Just telling you now, I will go insane if that happens!
I have always nursed Bella at bedtime (an issue that is most likely causing my current sleep issues) but when you have 3 kids and a hubby that works alot of nights and you are trying to get all 3 kids in bed, you do whatever works to make it through. But in classic Bella style, she has switched things up on me. I can feed her and put her to bed between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, she will fall asleep but then is up again within an hour ready to party. So, when it is time for me to go to bed around 11pm, I'm having a huge problem getting her back to bed. I had fed her an hour or so earlier trying to get her to sleep the first time, that when I go to feed her to sleep again, she is not interested. She just wants to play. I have tried everything to get her back to sleep and I'm starting to dread bedtimes.
So I will be trying different sleep techniques, trying others advice and reading books and websites in My Adventures In Finding Dreamland for both Isabella and myself.
I know it's not going to be pretty and it will be one of the hardest things you have to go through as a parent but I don't want another "Alexis not sleeping through the night until she is 4" on my hands.
So, bare with me as I figure my way through this...... And the let Adventures begin!
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