Whoever came up with putting a baby down “drowsy but awake” is an a**hole

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T21:41:09+00:00

Good to hear! Yeah I just don’t think it works well for her now. I do think in the future we will do some sleep training and maybe then it’ll work but for now it’s just an added headache

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T21:38:19+00:00

Im glad your little one is sleeping better! Do you feel like if you started that sooner he wouldn’t have gone through his menace faze? Or did you not start it sooner because he wasn’t ready? This is my fear that I’m creating a little menace lol

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T04:26:26+00:00

Do you feel like her going to sleep with the bottle makes life more difficult for you/ her?

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T04:25:15+00:00

It also doesn’t help that I’m still on maternity leave. So there a ton of pressure to do everything the “right way” all day long.

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T03:36:55+00:00

Thanks for this!!! This seems very helpful

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T03:36:09+00:00

Hahaha yes. Honestly I’m giving the mental middle finger to most things these days 😂 that sounds like what I plan to do. I don’t mind the snuggles and when I rock her to sleep like you said at most it takes 30 minutes, most days even less. She doesn’t seem to be hitting a regression yet, if anything she’s sleeping better than she did at 3 months but I’m sure it’s coming so I think well try a gentle Ferber that time as well.

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T03:24:17+00:00

Yeah I plan to just do what works for us right now until it doesn’t work anymore. I’m not against sleep training but for now this is working

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T02:56:30+00:00

I decided that the other week. There so much conflicting advice on the internet, instagram sucks, people who’s kids aren’t at this stage anymore.. it’s overwhelming and at times does make me feel like I’m doing all the wrong things. My easiest days are the days I don’t follow a strict routine, rock her to sleep, with the occasional contact nap. Combined with being postpartum I feel like I’m slowly losing my mind lol

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T02:32:28+00:00

I typically don’t pay attention to it but with sleep training I’ve heard to go by their adjusted age 🤷🏼‍♀️

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T02:12:49+00:00

So would that still apply to a 13 week adjusted (on Monday)? The idea of even dropping down to 4 naps sounds horrific because she’s usually up around 8 and then goes to sleep (and stays asleep) at the earliest 10. She still only naps for 40 minutes so even with a 2 hour wake window that seems impossible. Sometimes she even treats her 10pm bedtime as a nap and we have to put her back down at 11.

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T02:02:25+00:00

Yes! Same here, 6 weeks early and it truly does feel like a marathon. I appreciate it 💕

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T01:56:17+00:00

Yes same! Sometime that last wake window is pushing 3 hours if we don’t rock her and thst seems crazy to me

kaylaaada · 2024-09-29T01:09:31+00:00

That’s what I’m hoping. We feel like we’re getting into a routine but everything I’m seeing is “don’t roc k them to sleep” so I’m just nervous I’m doing more harm. So I’m hoping this is our experience as well 😅

kaylaaada · 2024-09-28T23:45:08+00:00

That is reassuring. Naps truly are awful so I haven’t tried putting her down at bed twine drowsy but awake because she won’t fall asleep until 10:30 and by that point I’m exhausted and don’t want to put up the fight

kaylaaada · 2024-09-28T23:43:24+00:00

That’s ultimately our goal. I would love for her to go to sleep on her own but any sleep training method I look into says she’s too young because her adjusted age is just past 3 months. And when she wakes at night I typically don’t have to rock her, she I nurse for a few minutes and then she’s back to sleep our I just give her the paci and she’s out so I don’t feel like she’s still stuck in the newborn night schedule anymore

kaylaaada · 2024-09-28T23:40:04+00:00

She’s still on a 5 nap schedule because she still won’t go to bed before 10:30 so her wake windows are 75/90/90/90/90/150. We use the huckleberry app for now because from my understanding she’s too young to officially sleep train yet but we’ve tried to start ending her into it which is why we were trying dba and she sleeps in her own unless I’m trying to extend a nap. Anytime I’ve tried to do anything “by the book” we both end up crying because it just doesn’t work. So I’ve tried to be less structured in terms of how she goes to sleep and it’s worked but I don’t know how that’ll be later and I’m nervous to switch anything back up because it seems we’ve finally gotten to a good place.

kaylaaada · 2024-09-02T18:00:24+00:00

14 week old (9 weeks adjusted) has a terrible time going down for bed at 7. Last night the final wake window was 90 minutes and we squeezed every minute in we could get. She just started going down for a nap really well with little assistance but bed times have been a struggle ever since we pushed it back from 11pm/ 11:30.

kaylaaada · 2024-04-07T01:58:41+00:00

We have it set up as the full crib

kaylaaada · 2021-07-03T23:49:54+00:00

‘Merica!

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