Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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No Longer Cosleepers Part 2
by Mama FoxSwitching Fox3 to his own bed was working out lovely. He was waking up once or twice a night for a few minutes then promptly going back to sleep. I was comfy in my bed without having to worry about where he was and if there was enough room between him and Papa Fox. Good sleep, really good sleep.
Then the house caught a cold. Everyone but Papa Fox was sick (not sure how he escaped). It was awful. Fox3 started waking up every hour until finally I brought him to bed with me just to get some sleep to function the next day. That went on for a week until everyone was feeling better.
I assumed that once the colds were eradicated that life would return to the way it was. Wrong. Fox3 was still waking up often and taking longer to get to sleep. I ended up having to sit for at least an hour in his room rocking him to sleep and having to repeat it over and over through the night. I felt like dead walking the next day.
The last couple of nights I haven't even tried to get him to sleep. I just brought him to bed with us when we laid down. Since Fox3 doesn't wake up at all (that I notice anyway) when he's next to me I was able to catch up on a bit of sleep. I'm usually up by 7am and showered and dressed before 8. Lately, I've been staying in bed until almost 9 because I'm just so tired.
Last night, I got tired of it. I wanted my bed back. So I rocked him to sleep, took about 15 minutes and laid him down and went to bed. He woke up twice. Once around 4 for a few minutes then Papa Fox must have woke him up when he was getting ready because he brought him to me a little after 6. It was wonderful! Life is back to normal I hope. Tonight we'll see.Don't you hate it when sickness creates a hiccup during a transition period?
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Comments (6)
Yes, I know what you mean. Teething is the thing that interrupts my daughter's sleeping routine. It's not for long, but still it takes time to get back to normal, and you can never really catch up on sleep.
Hey mama fox. We're having a hard time putting our little one from our bed to his crib which is right next to us. First off we can't put him in there until he knocks out otherwise he wakes up crying and we're screwed. Second, when he does wake up in the middle of the night it takes a long time to put him back in the bed. How did you guys do it? At what age?
this is a HUGE step in a child's life. biggie. and for mom too.
@WaterfallPhilosophies@xanga - He was 7 months when we started transitioning him into his own bed in his own room. He's 8 months now. I started a bed time routine with bath, lotion, pjs then I rocked and nursed him to sleep in the dark with some soft music playing. Once his sucking started to slow down, I pulled him off and rocked him for a minute or two more to make sure he was going to stay asleep then I set him in his bed. In the middle of the night, I try to get to him quickly before he has a chance to really wake up so he goes back to sleep a lot easier.
I have read a bit about the No Cry Sleep Solution and have been using some ideas from that. It seems to be helping him stay asleep longer.
We got our daughter used to sleeping in her own room when she was 8 months old... shes been sleeping in her own room since, the main key its a before bed time routine,shower,dinner,theet brushin, peeing,bed time story... that did for me and i couldnt be happier.
I have to say that this is one of the things I never got about co-sleeping...the transition. I am all for comforting your child and wanting to have them in a safe place. I am not trying to raise a ruckous here, but I just don't get the co-sleeping thing.
With most of the people I have known that have done it, they talk about it more in a sense of ease for them. i.e. 'It is so easy to just nurse and fall asleep and not have to worry about getting the baby back into his bed." I know there is also the talk of it being more soothing for the baby, and I am sure for some babies it is. (My youngest has always hated being rocked/held to go to sleep. He just wants to lay down and sleep.)
Then you get to the 'transition' stage. I am sure there are enough parents who don't have too much difficulty with this, but there are also the fair share that do have a really difficult time with it. To me, I wonder what the child thinks of it. It has been a security thing for them for however long and now, suddenly, it is taken away. My kids all have blankies that they sleep with (even my 8 year old still has his) and I can't imagine suddenly taking them away one day and saying "It's gone, just go to sleep". I know it isn't that harsh or anything, but I just wonder about that.
I had trouble with my first one because, being my first child and the first grandchild on both sides (plus the fact that I lived with my parents and couple of siblings for the first 6 months of his life), he was rocked to sleep literally every night until after he was two and I became pregnant with my second. I realized, wait a second, I can't rock two babies to sleep every night. We had a heck of a time getting him to go to sleep on his own. With my second and third, they were not rocked to sleep. That is not to say that they were NEVER rocked to sleep or NEVER fell asleep in somebodies arms. And I always cuddle my kids and often read to them before bed. But they lay down awake and put themselves to sleep. They also, generally, put themselves back to sleep if they wake up in the middle of the night. I will give them a hug and listen to what the problem might be, but then they go back to bed and go back to sleep.
I know everybody does things differently and different things work better or worse for different families/kids. We are not co-sleepers, but I don't have a problem with others doing it. I guess I just don't 'get it'.