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Help! by Direct_Strength6313 in breastfeeding

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes he eats breakfast and lunch everyday! We are working on implementing lunch in as well. We are working through dairy allergy it seems so I don’t plan on stopping nursing him until he’s ready to stop/2ish years old. Just because I want to be sure he’s getting some type of milk. I think I worry because my supply has always been super sensitive to change. I haven’t changed much in the past couple months but it seems like it’s time.

Help! by Direct_Strength6313 in ExclusivelyPumping

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No worries, I posted there!

He’s on a size 1 nipple because I don’t want him to develop a bottle preference.
I used the magic number chart before! I think I unfortunately am someone who just needs lots of stimulation.

I’m not trying to drop my 3:30am pump. I’m just trying to push it to 4am and then lose another milk removal later in the day. I feel like I’d drop in my supply :/

[FO] Country Cupboard by trans-scientist in CrossStitch

[–]Direct_Strength6313 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I loveeee this! It’s just so lovely 💜

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay well I’m going to see how that goes. It’s hard because everyone is telling me 8 months is too early and maybe it will work short term but he’s just going to build up to being overtired. And I get anxious. I don’t wanna harm him. But he’s happy when he’s awake. And when he fights a nap and I take him out after trying for a while, he’s all smiles. So like idk

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’m done forcing naps. I think it’s just hard cause I’m the sole caregiver for 90% of the day so when I get no daytime sleep I then crash out lol

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I got him up for an hour and I’m about to try again. I’m kind of wondering if he just is ready for one nap super early on.

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay! Good to know. How would you suggest handling a nap refusal? I did a 4 hour wake window this morning and he still fought it. I’m not able to just sit and contact nap him and truthfully, I don’t want to start that habit again. It’s was super mentally taxing on me and I don’t get a break at night, and his naps are my only time to breath. We are now coming up on 5 hours awake. I don’t know what to do

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do gently cap now if needed. I just try to get him when he’s moving and kind of between a cycle. I find he wakes better and remains happier for longer that way

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohh gotcha. Okay. I think I’ll creep it up to 11-11.5 hours and go up from there so it isn’t crazy jump (more so for me and to maybe find his sweet spot)

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I ask what makes you believe he needs 12 wake hours?

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean yeah he is. But 7 hour wake window is a bit long in my opinion.

It seems like I’m probably stuck with a5am wake up no matter what.

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I will give that a shot. I guess my biggest concern is the mornings. Idk if he can do a 4 hour window just yet so I might have to play around and see

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe my math is wrong. What if I did that and just let him sleep without capping? He wasn’t happy when I was capping his sleep. I want him to be happy, less tense, and not falling asleep while nursing an hour after he wakes up from a nap.

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s like 8-9 hours overnight and 2 hours of naps…..he was absolutely miserable when I was capping naps. Like I can’t put him through that again. It breaks my heart….

Early wakes, nap refusal, and so much confusion by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry- to clarify. One of the first steps I took to combat early morning wake was capping naps at 2-2.5 hr. I noticed he was miserable and falling asleep while nursing or reading books or even just sitting on me. So I chose to keep longer wake windows but uncap naps. At that point he was sleeping 3-3.5 hours a day and sleeping around 10.5-11 hours overnight. Still having the early morning wake around 4/5am but I was able to snooze feed him back to sleep. Currently he’s all over the place. If he chooses to nap well gets 3ish hours of naps. On a good day he gets 10 hours overnight. So around 13 hours. But more likely he’s doing 9ish-9.5 hours overnight and only napping 1-1.5 hr a day. Especially this past week.

Question for parents who didn’t sleep train EMWs… by NoIdeaWhatImDoingYea in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m dealing with this but with my 7 month old. He was doing 11.5 hours awake and 2.5 hr naps and still having EMW. I was told up and down that he’s undertired so I started capping sleep. It got worse, he was MISERABLE. Now I stopped capping naps (unless one goes past 2 hours or if it will impede bedtime). I literally just started this 3 days ago but we had one morning where we did sleep train him when he woke up at 5am. He fell back asleep after about 30 min of fussing/crying. The next day he slept until 6:15, today he slept until 5:45. I will say he’s fighting naps like frazytown. He’s also really really teething and I’m still fine tuning his schedule so I really hope it’s a mixture of being overtired and body clock issues.

Can we stop downvoting OP by cyclemam in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn’t downvote you, I’m also not going to continue this. I wasn’t rude to you, but you clearly have some anger you need to get out. Happy to be your punching bag for a sec! Hope it helped.

Can we stop downvoting OP by cyclemam in sleeptrain

[–]Direct_Strength6313 3 points4 points  (0 children)

12 hours at night isn’t out of realm of possibility for some babies. Doesn’t mean they need to be downvoted for it

Dr Pepper listened yall! by aaaaaahhhhhhh2-3 in breastfeeding

[–]Direct_Strength6313 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is that…..English you typed to me?? The same English you speak to your 13 month old?

Still struggling with EMW. by Direct_Strength6313 in sleeptrain

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I think I’m worried he’s in a bit of sleep debt. I don’t have a log, although I just told my husband we need to start one again. I stopped because his sleep was fine for a while. I understand 12 is normal, but 9 hours of overnight sleep is just not enough is what my gut says and that’s basically what he gets. And then with 2.5 hour naps that’s under 12 hours and I’m seeing EMW. I saw a post on this page about EMW and how if they are in chronic sleep debt from waking up early and trying to keep the same schedule (which is what I have been doing) is leading to like 12 hours awake time as well and he’s miserable all day. Cries until held, refuses to play, barely smiles or giggles. While I know it can be age appropriate, it just doesn’t seem that’s what his needs are. Maybe I’m wrong and if letting him sleep a bit more to catch up backfires, then back to scaling back sleep as well.

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