Posted: 4/11/2009 3:29:17 AM EDT
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My 4mo. old kept me up until 1am woke me up at about 3:30am and has kept me up ever since....His sleep deprivation torture is really starting to take it's toll on me...
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Just wait it can get worse. If you wife is breast feeding and eats a broccoli and cauliflower salad what comes out of the back side of that child will be a weapon of mass destruction. Just remember, Benadryl is your best friend. Semper Fi Don't you dare give OTC to a four month old. That can be deadly. |
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Just wait it can get worse. If you wife is breast feeding and eats a broccoli and cauliflower salad what comes out of the back side of that child will be a weapon of mass destruction. Just remember, Benadryl is your best friend. Semper Fi Don't you dare give OTC to a four month old. That can be deadly. I was joking, (yes, I know, in poor taste). But then again, I was pre coffee and sleep deprived myself. Semper Fi |
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Sleep during the days/afternoons. There is no rule that says you have to sleep during the night.
Anyways, it will give you an oppty to surprise those home invaders that might come a'knocking around 3:30am. 
I too will never forget those first few months. Let them cry if you can. Just cover your ears. It is all they know right now, don't feel bad. You MUST teach/train them to learn that crying is not the solution. |
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Sleep during the days/afternoons. There is no rule that says you have to sleep during the night. Anyways, it will give you an oppty to surprise those home invaders that might come a'knocking around 3:30am.
I too will never forget those first few months. Let them cry if you can. Just cover your ears. It is all they know right now, don't feel bad. You MUST teach/train them to learn that crying is not the solution. My wife and I did this and I love both my girls to this day If they think cry works, they will do it Just wait till their older, DON"'T let it work then either 
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Mine loves to be changed, well more to the fact he loves being naked... He will be all smiles and giggly goo when we are carrying him to the bed room. Once we get it off him he is as happy as a pig in shit. He is not much of a crier he just does not sleep at night. He does not really sleep during the day he just cat naps. I can litteraly pick him up, drag him across the floor, yell, stomp. and he will not wake up from those lil naps. 
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| I got a 5mo old who has been sleeping through the night since 3mo. I would recommend picking up "baby wise" and reading the chapter on establishing the schedule. give her a schedule of 2 hours up and 2 hours asleep. Start at 9am and by the time 9pm rolls around, give em one last bottle and then put them to bed for the rest of the night. Should only take 3 days for them to get used to the schedule. This will give you a predictable schedule to work around and also some stability in her life. good luck, I barely remember the first 2 months cuz i was so sleep deprived. |
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Sleep is overrated. You can live for, oh, at least 6 months with little to no sleep. I've done it twice.
If you are sure he is clean, dry and it's not feeding time, do NOT pick him up when he cries. He will learn quickly that if he cries someone will come and pick him up. Don't let him do that to you. If he starts crying just check to see if he is OK then let him cry. After he stops and is awake then pick him up. You have to teach him that crying doesn't fetch you for him. If you do go pick him up everytime he cries you are screwed. By 4 months he should be sleeping through the night with no problem. My daughter couldn't. It turned out that she had reflux. She would wake up an hour or 2 after bedtime screaming. She ended up having surgery to fix it when she was 6. Since then no problems- no physical problems. She does have an attitude. Jim |
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I got a 5mo old who has been sleeping through the night since 3mo. I would recommend picking up "baby wise" and reading the chapter on establishing the schedule. give her a schedule of 2 hours up and 2 hours asleep. Start at 9am and by the time 9pm rolls around, give em one last bottle and then put them to bed for the rest of the night. Should only take 3 days for them to get used to the schedule. This will give you a predictable schedule to work around and also some stability in her life. good luck, I barely remember the first 2 months cuz i was so sleep deprived. +1, except I would recommend reading the entire book. Lots of good info. $11 at Amazon: On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep (There shouldn't be any referral link in there. If there is, let me know what to remove.) You can also save $5 if you buy the older printing of it. I don't know what the difference is. We did this for our two kids (2.5 yrs and 3.5 months) and they both slept through the night at around 7 weeks. Except we use a 3 hour schedule, roughly 1 hour awake and 2 hours asleep. The sooner you can get the kids on a schedule, the happier everyone will be. The book has lots of info on how to handle things such as growth spurts, getting off schedule due to travel, etc. We also used book 2 and Toddlerwise so far with our oldest, and will be following them again for his little sister. All of our friends who have followed BabyWise, have babies that sleep through the night and seem very happy and well-adjusted. Our other friends (including a couple sets who read the book but didn't believe in making their baby follow them and instead think that the baby should lead the parents) have babies that sometimes still aren't sleeping through the night after a year. Highly recommended. |