Tuesday, 18 January 2011
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Tell Me Tuesdays: How Did You Get Your Child To Sleep Through the Night?
A new edition of Tell-Me, now on Tuesdays! The Momaroo Team would love to hear from you!Please tell us how you got your child to sleep through the night and how did it work for you? If not you, how did your mom or aunt or friend or grandmother do it?
**Remember, no judgment - just the sharing of ideas - how we did what we did. Being a mom is hard enough already without someone telling us we did it all wrong. Take the ones that work for us and accept that others may do things differently, but are no better or worse than us. We all have mothers and many of us are mothers!
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- From: chelleannette@xanga
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Our little guy was ready to sleep through the night when when we got him... he had a very chaotic start to life. Around 7:15pm we got him ready for bed, then he had his bottle, usually finished it, and fell asleep. Put him in his crib and he slept until 8:30 the next morning. We didn't really do much, when he went through a couple fazes of waking up at night, unless he cried for longer then 10 minutes we let him sooth himself to sleep. Unless it was the Mommy-need-you-NOW cry, then there is no wait. but most of the time it was a little fussing in his sleep, he'd find his blanket and be good to go.
He has been the only one to sleep through the night... but my hubby gets up for night feedings because I am home with the kids all day.
We co-slept. Once she was at an age where she didn't need to eat, in the middle of the night, she just stayed asleep.
after weeks of no sleep as a new mom, i finally caved and just let her cry it out -- after feeding her and rocking her, we put her in her crib and let her cry, going in to check on her every 15 minutes or so. after the first night she was sleeping 5 hours at a time. there's a lot of criticism for cry-it-out, and yes, it can be abused. but if your baby is just fussing and you have checked on her and made sure she's ok, i think there can be a place for it, if it works for you. i don't even like to write about it because of the backlash, though.
My best friend has an 8 week old, and she used the book _Baby Wise_ and her son has slept through the night for a few weeks now. He currently sleeps from about 9:00pm till almost 7:00am (although on rare occasions will wake up at 4:00am for a feeding). He is formula fed though, so I know that sometimes keeps kiddos fuller longer, but my daughter was breastfed and she still slept 6 hours at a time by 6 or 8 weeks old. Still, after hearing how long my friend's son sleeps, I'm totally reading _Baby Wise_ before #2 arrives in April!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2377134/the_dangers_of_being_baby_wise.html
I think I'm one of the lucky ones... at 3 1/2 weeks old my daughter loves her sleep. We put her in bed between 9 and 10pm and she would sleep through until 7a if we let her. Her pediatrician has me wake her every 4-5 hours at night to eat, but some nights (like last) she refuses to eat and goes right back to sleep. Instead of enjoying the extra sleep I'm worried I'm doing something wrong... is it bad that she already wants to sleep that much?? She eats good during the day and is very alert for hours on end.
I let my daughter cry it out. She was sleeping thru the night w/ only small crying in her sleep but when her father came home (after deployment) he would get up and get her when she started crying so it took her out of it. Really irritating. And he hated it when i had to let her cry it out again.
@SmilingSusie01@xanga - my daughter did the same thing. At 8 weeks she was sleeping thru the night but at about 4 months she started waking up again for feedings. Get all the sleep you can while she's sleeping at night!!!
@marzish@xanga - people actually consider it abuse? i never knew that. maybe that's why i always get nasty remarks. but like you said if everything's done and fine and you can't find anything wrong than i don't see the problem w/ letting them cry.
@mevlink@xanga - I did babywise too and all three of my kids (breastfed) slept through the night. You have to make sure the baby has everything he/she needs (fed, changed and not uncomfortable), but it worked well for me. I've definitely heard lots of other negative feedback about the method though. I think it's not for everyone.
@ErinneC@xanga - I'm going to have to agree with the comments after this article; it seems to me that the author of the article never actually read the book. My best friend who follows the ideas in this book has basically summarized it's main points, and from what she tells me, it's nothing like what this article says. I'll have to read it and see for myself though.
@chelleannette@xanga - I definitely agree that Babywise not for everyone (nor is any method). I didn't use it for my first but I plan on reading it before #2 arrives and taking the bits and pieces that I think will work for me and my kiddo.
Well since I'm hardcore against CIO...I obviously did not let my child cry himself to sleep. (I'm not judging those who do...but how the hell can you listen to your child scream and not lose your mind. Plus all the evidence of stress it causes them...I personally couldn't do it)
We co-slept (bed sharing for about 2 years, and then room shared for 6 months, he went to his own room at 2 1/2). When he got bigger and moved into a toddler bed, I put him in bed, tucked him in, read him a short bedtime story, turned on his music, turned off his light, and shut the door. I've been doing that since he was 2. I can count on one hand how many times I had to go in his room because he was playing... none.
The routine is the same now that he's 4, but I no longer shut his door.
He has a strict bedtime at 10pm (DH is on second shift, so there is no point in us living a 8-5), but he gets up when he's ready. Some mornings its 8am, others its 11am. The only reason he has a bedtime is because over stimulation, and over tiredness aggravate his parasomnia (Confusional Arousal...think night terrors with hallucinating). 30 minutes of screaming and hallucinations aren't fun for anyone. A strict bed time, and no movies/TV after 6pm (he only gets 1 and 1/2 hours anyways) helps tremendously.
@chelleannette@xanga - @mevlink@xanga - good for you!! we did babywise also, and it worked great. and yes, there are tons of people who are against it and say it's bad for your baby, but i know lots of parents to used it with their kids who are now 5-8 yrs old and just great. you just have to know that you are taking care of any needs your baby has and also know their cries. i can tell when she is hurt or something is wrong, vs just a little fussy. she just got overstimulated by always being held because she is *extremely* alert, constantly taking in everything --- so for her, she just needed to be in a quiet room by herself to be able to go to sleep. if i'm there she has to see what i'm doing and watch me.