u/Kelso22340

I have a 4m old, we worked very hard to get here through a lot of ivf and loss. I’ve been pregnant 8 times and only have the one living daughter. That alone is enough to make me be one and done.

It seems we’re hitting a bit of the sleep regression, mostly manifesting in naps being an absolute nightmare.

In the midst of now convincing my daughter to sleep… trading on and off contact napping just to get through this transitional period…

She’s cute, I love her very much and when she smiles even after screaming at me she melts my heart.

But holy crap why do people do this over and over, I can’t help but be grateful that we’re only going to do this process once.

I unfortunately have an incredibly good and vivid memory and these hard times will not just fade into the mist.

She freaking did it! I was putting my nearly 15w daughter down for a nap, she fell asleep and then woke herself up and was slamming her face on me.. per usual. I put her in the crib to go get a bottle, then fed ex showed up… then the dog wanted out… she wasn’t crying and I watched her on the monitor. I saw her HR going down into her resting levels (owlet) and decided to watch it play out. It took 20 minutes but after some rolling around and grunting, she put herself to sleep.

So proud. Hoping this continues. If you saw my post from two weeks ago I was at my whits end with getting her down for naps that won’t stick. This one seems to have stuck amazing since she put herself to sleep.

Hallelujah.

I have a 3.5m old. I’m so sick of convincing her to sleep. Sometimes it’s great sometimes she can’t do it to save her life. Either way.. I can not wait until this constant nap fight isn’t a part of of day 3x a day

That’s it. That’s the post. I can’t fucking stand the random ass twitching. My kid is a great sleeper at nearly 13w, she’s been amazing at crib naps, but we’ve had a bit of a regression bc she started showing signs of rolling.

Now we get her sleepy or sleeping … put her in the crib… she’ll stay sleeping / reach deep sleep (according to owlet) but then out of no where will jolt herself awake. She used to be great at putting herself back to sleep but I see her little arms falling as she falls asleep and all of a sudden it’s like someone pushed her off a cliff.

I know it’s just the name of the game right now and it’s temporary but UGH I spent every nap window contact napping yesterday, which btw I can watch a show on my phone at full volume and she stays asleep but if she’s in the crib sleeping and my knee cracks we’ve got wide open peepers.

I’m just ranting, I know she’s a baby. Plus she sleeps 7/8 hours every night so I can’t complain but DAMN what a stupid reflex.