Yes, I know I have been behind on the update last week. Work was busy and the sleep training with JT hasn't been going well.
I am thinking taking JT's crib away might have been a mistake. Even though JT likes sleeping on the mattress he has never slept through the night in a crib. I don't know why I thought he would sleep through the night on a mattress.
The lack of sleep for the past week, busy at work, more traffic has all lead to me being extremely grouchy. Aya isn't fairing that well either.
Right now our typical night schedule is:
JT goes to sleep at 8:00 pm
JT wakes up again at 10:30 or 11:00 pm
JT wakes up again at 2:00 or 3:00 am
JT wakes up again at 4:00 am
JT wakes up again at 5:00 am
JT wakes up again at 5:30 am
JT wakes up again at 6:00 am
As you can see the most sleep at one point is a 4 hour stretch. In addition, the 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00 all means that JT can be up for good at that hour. Typically 5:30 is JT's wake up time now.
I think I might have to abandon the sleep training and just let JT cry is out...which still means no sleep.
5 days ago
12 comments:
oh my god. i am so sorry to hear that!!! that sucks!! are you & aya trading off sleeping in his room?
jen-
i need about 1 week before i had enough of the floor.
aya took thur - sat and then i started back again yesterday.
so NOT fun.
Ohh... it must be something in the air. I can't get Jessica to fall asleep before 11 and she's fighting it from around 9. After she goes to bed she will wakes up around 3-4:00AM! For instance, she did not go to bed until after 7 this morning. She cried for over 3hours straight! Nothing will calm her down and I'm beginning to think her room is haunted. This has been my schedule for the past week. It's killing me!
shirley-
that sounds worse than us. if we sleep in jt's room then he sleeps well. even when he wakes up for every hour it is for 10 seconds and then back to sleep.
if we aren't in the room and he cries a while before we get him then we wakes himself up and then he doesn't go back to sleep.
your place can't be haunted...it is a brand new house.
do you guys need a sleeping matt? I have one of the 3 fold ones. it's actually pretty comfortable...all things considered..
dang man..that sucks! sleep is so precious!! :(
Do you know why he wakes up that frequently! sensitive to sound??
does he take a reasonably long nap during the day too? maybe you should try and make him dead-bone tired somehow just before he takes dinner and see if he sleeps better when he is tired.
Dont try any of it...I have absolutely no clue about what I am talking..lol!! As a baby, my folks used to keep a transistor radio next to me...I used to doze off thinking someone was attending to me...since then havent heard a thing in my sleep..I really dont know what a disturbed sleep is..and also when it is disturbed that often!!! :P
jen-
thanks, but hopefully i won't be sleeping on the floor much longer.
sunil-
jt has NEVER been a good sleeper. most kids take 2 naps a day. he takes 1 nap. those kids that take 1 nap usually sleep 2-3 hours. jt sleep 90 minutes.
keep this in mind for when you have kids. kids that are dead tired are cranky and fussy kids. since jt can't speak yet, his cranky and fussiness consists of whining, pointing and crying. all of which makes no sense.
add our lack of sleep to the mix and we (aya and i) are explosive like mentos and coke!
man, that is like a newborn's schedule. how do you guys function during the day? i feel for you two.
i think sunil might be onto something about running JT tired and playing music, also making sure that he's put to bed before being overtired. with the short naps and waking up at night, it sounds like he just doesn't want to miss anything!
melissa-
i am not sure the radio will help. jt actually wakes up and looks around to see where we are. as long as he can see us he goes back to sleep.
man...the way you describe it now as long "as he can see us he goes back to sleep" ..i think he is going through his little period of separation anxiety!..my sis's kid had it for a bit!
I think the doc. suggested that she should put his favorite thing next to him when he is sleeping...so when he woke up..if he didnt see any of the parents..he had his favorite thing next to him...to comfort him! Fortunately, for my nephew, he had a favorite toy as a substitute and it worked out!
Dont know if it would work for JT or not! I suggest, next to leaving him to cry totally unattended, you could try and think of pretty much anything!
:P
sunil-
ha! i have already done that. jt sleeps with elmo and bunny. his two favorite sleep toys.
when he wakes up crying then he grabs both and then waits by the security gate for us.
i think we just have to be mean and let him cry it out now.
oh boy.. getting flash backs. Sorry to hear you guyz aren't sleeping much. Kyle was the same, once we transitioned into a toddler bed, either Darin or I was in the room trying to keep him from coming out of the bed. We took turns putting him into bed since at that age he understood taking turns. Also lied down on my workout mat cause the the floor was killing us. Whomever slept in Kyle's room, ended up sleeping there til 1 or 2am them going back to our room. Usually by then he'll sleep to the morning. We didn't break that habit til he was 3 1/2 or so (I think). We continued on this habit when he transitioned into the big bed (twin), prior to Kevin coming to the world. So around 3 1/2 or so, we decided enough, It helped that Kevin was a great sleeper and didn't require either of us in the room. We just talked to Kyle and said this is what is going to happen from now on. He's was big enough to understand.
So not much advise here other then...think big picture. If you want to get him to sleep by himself.. keep at it (we did the moving further away from the bed and eventually out the door day by day (worked for Kevin when he was in the crib). If you value sleep now, I would get a futon or something and make yourself a comfortable bed and deal with it later when he's older.
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