Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Tricky...

Sleep has become tricky at our house-day and night. Ever since Will turned 4 months old and learned how to roll over, he no longer sleeps through the night. It is so very frustrating because we got used to him sleeping so well through the night! Now he wakes up anywhere between 2 and 4 and if you put his paci in he is fine for an hour or so and then crys again. I swore I would not use the paci at night, but I have learned to never say never. We will not feed him in the middle of the night and we are not going to put him in our bed (don't think that would really help anyways), so we have resorted to the paci. He sleeps soundly once it is tucked in his mouth but then he rolls over, it falls out, and he is awake. We have tried to not go in there and just let him fall back asleep, but that once that took 2 hours which did not make for a fun next day. And he didn't cry/scream for 2 hours, just talked up a storm which kept both John and I awake.
Since I have been out for summer, we normally get out of the house to run errands or meet people for lunch around 11:45 after he eats at 11...which means he does not go down for a nap like he was used to around 12:30. He will nap in the car, but it isn't good sleep like he gets when he naps in his bed. Yesterday I stayed home to try to get in 2 good naps (He no longer goes down in the afternoons-we try, we fight, and he always wins). He slept from 10 to 11 and then from 1:18 - 1:54 and that was IT. I was about to lose it when John came home. He was whiney BECAUSE HE WAS TIRED, but refused to go to sleep. Now he not only can roll from his stomach to back, but just a few days ago started rolling from his back to his stomach. So basically nap time has turned into gymnastics. He is usually at the opposite end of the bed laying in the opposite direction when I go in there to get him up.
I know lots of you out there have been through this. I have read that you start to encounter some sleep problems at 4 months. So I am hoping this will just go away soon. However, if you have any advice, PLEASE offer it. I am willing to try anything. I have tried increasing wake time so that he will nap. Doesn't work. I have tried putting him down earlier than usual for a nap. Doesn't work. I have tried putting 6 pacis in his crib so hopefully with all the rolling he is doing, he will stumble across one and just put it in his mouth-but I don't think he has learned to do that yet. Anyways, any help would be much appreciated!

7 comments:

Christen said...

Have you tried looking on the Chronicles of a Babywise Mom blog, she has every topic under the sun and I've seen a few posts about 4 month old sleep problems. We encountered the paci problem with Luke too, but when he was around 4 months old we started using a sleep sack, because he was always kicking off the covers or rolling out of them and the sleep sack seemed to help quite a bit at night. Hope this phase passes soon!

Confessions said...

arg! i know you are at your witt's end. i have no advice. you are being a good mama. you aren't doing anything wrong. the kinks find a way of working out. i've been irritated with our little non-napper myself. could it be the 45 minute intruder discussed in babywise? i'd be reading that chronicles of a babywise mom blog, too. and i would read the same posts again and again...i tend to stumble on something that helps that i had already read!! :) good luck!

KiKi said...

Just be thankful he's home in bed....wait until he is 16-17 years old, driving around and you're not sure whom he is with, or what he is doing! Enjoy these years....they go by fast.
love you,
mom

Dana and Chris Sheheane said...

Hey!! You are doing great! I love reading your blog and was so impressed you had him sleeping well so early. Wells took until 6 months and I tried everything!!! He had the 45 minute intruder, and then that went to 20 minutes! Crying it out (and yes for 2 hours at a time naps and night for 7 days straight) were all that worked for us. I was losing my sanity. Most days and nights are great now until a new tooth comes in. Just when you think you've got it down pat, another intruder comes in! People have told me it happens until 18 months!! yikes! love ya, dana

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The Coleman's said...

Try 7 paci's. :)