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Sleep Training an Infant (1 Viewer)
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fred_1_15301
Footballguy
No we weren't considering that. Hence the "afraid to let him sleep with us". Thanks for your advice.
Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
Man i just saw this thread...
my 5 month old is having a serious regression in the way he sleeps. At 4 months we could put him down at 8:30 and he would sleep until at least 3:30 or 4 am, get a feed and sleep until 7
My wife was happy, the family was doing well.
Fast forward to a few weeks later and this kid is acting like a newborn again.. put him down at 8.. he wakes up at 10, 1, 4, 6.. feeding more erratically... not teething yet
What is up... my wife is reaching meltdown level 10 and the family is suffering big time.... any advice?
The problem with the innernet on child stuff is that there is a counter or every solution mentioned... it's great and horrible all at once...
Help me FBG's... you're my only hope
my 5 month old is having a serious regression in the way he sleeps. At 4 months we could put him down at 8:30 and he would sleep until at least 3:30 or 4 am, get a feed and sleep until 7
My wife was happy, the family was doing well.
Fast forward to a few weeks later and this kid is acting like a newborn again.. put him down at 8.. he wakes up at 10, 1, 4, 6.. feeding more erratically... not teething yet
What is up... my wife is reaching meltdown level 10 and the family is suffering big time.... any advice?
The problem with the innernet on child stuff is that there is a counter or every solution mentioned... it's great and horrible all at once...
Help me FBG's... you're my only hope
El Floppo
Footballguy
Dentist-
welcome to having a kid.
IME, this kind of #### happens all the time- you think you have something nailed down, and the kid 'regresses' or changes. Roll with it, but stick to whatever schedule you've set up. He'll get to a more normal schedule eventually. These kind of things will keep happening, so do your best to calm your wife and ease the suffering.
There's a reason they use piped in audio of babies crying to #### with prisoners.
welcome to having a kid.
IME, this kind of #### happens all the time- you think you have something nailed down, and the kid 'regresses' or changes. Roll with it, but stick to whatever schedule you've set up. He'll get to a more normal schedule eventually. These kind of things will keep happening, so do your best to calm your wife and ease the suffering.
There's a reason they use piped in audio of babies crying to #### with prisoners.
gianmarco
Footballguy
shadyridr
Footballguy
Cliff Clavin
Footballguy
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Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
I agree... I'm doing what I can... but "just riding it out" isn't ok with the wife... she wants a solution, and damn it she wants it now.. or at least some advice or some type of strategy
gianmarco
Footballguy
There is no "solution". Again, welcome to parenting. The solution is learning how to deal with the stress that it brings.
Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
no solids yet due to the 'internet rule' that until he reaches 15 lbs he should only get breastmilk and he's 14 lbs (born a month early so undersized relative to birth age)
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Cliff Clavin
Footballguy
Yeah, I'd talk to your doctor over 'internet rules'. Ours had us feeding solids at 4 months and she couldn't have been more than 15lbs.
Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
I was doing a wake up for a bottle... then it was found on the internet that giving a bottle "reduces supply" so now I'm off the bottle... not my choice.
johnnycakes
Footballguy
if she's breastfeeding, that explains a lot. Stick a bottle of formula in the kid's mouth.. that digests a lot more slowly. Or switch to solids.
shadyridr
Footballguy
gianmarco
Footballguy
You should check with your pediatrician about starting solids.
As for adding rice cereal to the bottle, do NOT do that. It does not help with sleeping.
If she has an adequate supply, no reason to supplement with formula. See if she can pump and you can give that at night if she needs to rest more.
But seriously, the fact that things went so well at 4 months should be considered a gift. You're both looking at it the wrong way if you think things are going badly now because of how good it was before. You should be thankful you got a period of rest for a month after the initial newborn period. Bowel and sleep habits typically change around this time and can last for the next 2-3 months (if not more). She really needs to learn how to cope with it and not try to find some answer that just fixes it. If there was actually an answer that worked for all babies, that person would be a multi-billionaire.
It doesn't exist.
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
yeah but he just cried after I 2 outed him... it was at that point I knew for SURE that he was my boy
ChiefD
Footballguy
Wooderson
Fight The Power
Dentist -
I see it was mentioned before but want to say it again rice in a bottle is a bad idea.
To early for solid food.
It's true breast milk will digest much faster so a bottle of formula at night night work.
IMO to get him to sleep all night your going to have to eventually not do the night feeding.
They should be able to make it all night at that age.
We started sleep training our boys at about 4 months and they sleep all night with in a week.
And im not talking about this crap when people say my baby sleeps all night and it's 6 hours.
They go from 7:30 - 5:30
Good luck.
I see it was mentioned before but want to say it again rice in a bottle is a bad idea.
To early for solid food.
It's true breast milk will digest much faster so a bottle of formula at night night work.
IMO to get him to sleep all night your going to have to eventually not do the night feeding.
They should be able to make it all night at that age.
We started sleep training our boys at about 4 months and they sleep all night with in a week.
And im not talking about this crap when people say my baby sleeps all night and it's 6 hours.
They go from 7:30 - 5:30
Good luck.
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Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
can you feed him the rice cereal with a spoon or something at this point?
Also i have no issue with cry it out style sleep training.... my wife and my only concern at this point is that he's not getting enough food to make it that long... always wakes up hungry around the 3:00 time... the other wake-ups are crap
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gianmarco
Footballguy
Yes, you can try and if he's ready, he will take it. He may push it out with his tongue and that just simply means he's not ready yet so you'll keep attempting until he finally gets the hang of it.
Talk with your pediatrician and make sure they are ok with him starting solids, which they should be.
Wooderson
Fight The Power
Yep I agree with this.
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Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
Jesus dude. You and your wife need to do some serious reading up. Go pick up happiest baby on the block and any other top rated newborn books.Dentist said:
TThere are basically like ten red flags in your post. God no don't sleep with him, children die from smothering at night all the tkme; yes in case this is news for you, newborns cry a lot and have wacky sleep pstterns; read about swaddling. Etc.
Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
I have several top rated newborn books, I'm not the original poster, I'm not going to put him in my bed and I have not done so and we're done with the swaddling phase.
Was going to say the same thing. Five months can be tricky, they need more calories and might not quite be ready for solids, but will make the jump soon. It'll probably get better once he gets onto cereal or baby food.Wooderson said:
White noise source in the room can help keep the little one asleep longer, but if he's hungry, he's hungry.
I don't know if you can arrange an afternoon off here or there, but if you're not the one who is getting up at night, getting your wife some nap time is the best present you can get her. Or if she's comfortable with it, get a babysitter to come in a day a week or whatever works.
Fat Nick
Footballguy
Sleep training seems like such a distant thing at this point. Our little guy is almost 7 weeks old, but his "adjusted" age is basically zero as he was born 7 weeks early and his due date was technically yesterday.
They say that the ability to sleep longer is just a direct proportion to their stomach size. Unfortunately, when you're born under 5 lbs, you get an extra month of the joy of feedings every 3-4 hours. I can't wait till he's old enough to sleep even 5 hours in a stretch.
They say that the ability to sleep longer is just a direct proportion to their stomach size. Unfortunately, when you're born under 5 lbs, you get an extra month of the joy of feedings every 3-4 hours. I can't wait till he's old enough to sleep even 5 hours in a stretch.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
I forget what age it was (nature has a built-in survival mechanism will erase all memory of what you guys are going through now -- so not only will it end, you won't remember a second of it in three years), but our kid was big enough that it was hard for him to get enough just through liquid to keep him satisfied long enough to sleep for a good stretch.gianmarco said:
We started adding some sort of cream of rice type stuff (IIRC) to his nighttime bottle when he was able to have it, and it definitely helped some. So if yours is old enough for that, it's definitely worth a try.
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
He was mocking Otis, who made the exact same post in response to my original post without reading any of the thread for additional information.
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
seems like Dentist also has no time to read the whole thread, so it ended up being rather fitting anyway.
Fat Nick
Footballguy
Let a man dream, will ya! I gotta have something to look forward to...even if it'll never happen.
<-- Me this AM.
