it took a lot longer to get my baby to sleep tonight because of all the stupid fireworks that are very LOUDLY going off in our neighborhood. I’m concerned they may last well into the night. I don’t like fireworks. and I don’t like people. i have the sound machine going, but it isn’t helping much at all. it’s going to be a long night for this sleep-deprived mama and her baby.
My LO is 9 months old and yesterday pulled to stand in the crib for the first time. I freaked out and had my husband lower the mattress in the crib all the way to the last setting. Well, now I am having a very hard time reaching the baby down there to pick him up when he cries at night or to put him in the crib (especially transfers). I am very short.
Plus, now baby is moving all over the crib in the middle of the night to get comfortable, and I am waking up to find him sometimes laying down along the shorter side of the crib with his legs sticking out of the crib bars. LO is very chunky, and I am concerned one day he is going to get his legs stuck between the bars. I need recommendations for a different kind of crib that is more like a square instead of a rectangle and that is closer to the ground so I can reach in there and grab him more easily and so he doesn't get stuck in weird positions in the crib. He has also been going to sleep with his face against the mattress, which is very scary, but safer because he is in a crib with a correct crib mattress. So I need the recommendation for a different crib to also be safe for infants. Are there floor beds that are safe for infants that have space underneath the mattress for air circulation?
My LO is just shy of 9 months. I am trying to find other ways to get him to fall asleep because he is rejecting the old ways I used to get him to sleep (feed to sleep and bouncing to sleep). Today for naptime, he almost instantly was soothed by the pacifier (he previously wouldn't take it all these months). He was falling asleep, so I laid him in the crib and continued to sing to him and pat his side while the pacifier was in his mouth. I watched him for a minute, and he actually took it out of his mouth and continued sleeping. He is still asleep now for his nap.
I keep seeing these stories of babies who cry 10 or 12 times a night to have the pacifier put back in their mouths, and I am wondering if I need to avoid using the pacifier as a crutch OR if he is old enough to where if I put like 10 pacifiers in the crib, if he wakes at night he will find one, put it in his mouth, and go back to sleep. I have been trying the shush-pat method this week (I sing instead of shush), and he is really taking to it well. When shush-pat doesn't work right away, I am thinking to use the pacifier as a bridge to get him sleepy in my arms.
Does anyone have experience with this? Should I continue to use the pacifier or just avoid it because it could cause worse problems? We usually only have a wakeup at 2 am (and I shush and pat him back to sleep at that time) and one at 5 am (I give him a bottle and he then goes back to sleep till his normal wakeup time).
i feed my 9 month old to sleep for most naps. if i can get him to burp within the first 10 minutes of falling asleep, he’s in deep enough sleep for me to transfer him. if he doesn’t burpin my arms and I try to transfer him, he wakes up within a very short time needing to burp, then the nap is over but only lasted 10 minutes. does anyone deal with this and have a solution? i enjoy contact naps but sometimes I really need to transfer him so I cam brush my teeth or eat something or do the laundry.
My 9 month old is getting bored more easily now, and I would like to hear ideas for stimulating him/tiring him out. He cannot quite crawl yet, though I think he is close. The weather is extremely hot outside, so it's hard to do outdoor activities, and there are also lots of viral illnesses going around right now, so I am avoiding taking him to crowded places. In fact, two weeks ago I took him to too many places with lots of people, and he caught a cold. It was mild, but he couldn't breathe well when I laid him down to sleep due to the congestion, so I had to hold him all night two nights in a row. I am sleep deprived again and cannot afford to hold him up all night like that again for a few months (this was his second-ever cold), so I don't want to go to too many crowded places right now and risk another illness so soon.
What are some activities I can do or places I can take him that are not going to be so population dense? Or things we can do at home? He is really getting bored, and so am I.
I just have so many questions and so much conflicting information out there. My baby only sleeps 12 hours out of 24 hours. He is approaching nine months old and it seems like his weight windows are lasting more than 3/3.5/4 hours. He can go 3.5/4/5 hours. And he does not seem to want to sleep more than 11.5-12 hours in 24. Is that normal? All this week, it seems like he is able to stretch the windows even longer than he used to be able to. But he recently recovered from a cold, so that might be part of it? I don’t know, but night sleep has gotten worse ever since six months old. I keep seeing where he needs to have 13 to 14 hours of sleep, and he didn’t even have that when he was a newborn. Also, please tell me it’s true that once baby becomes about 10 months old, sleep will get better. The pediatrician told me that today, and I really need to get better because I can’t do this much longer.
sorry, I’m posting here so much. I just have so many questions and so much conflicting information out there. My baby only sleeps 12 hours out of 24 hours. He is approaching nine months old and it seems like his weight windows are lasting more than 3/3.5/4 hours. He can go 3.5/4/5 hours. And he does not seem to want to sleep more than 11.5-12 hours in 24. Is that normal? All this week, it seems like he is able to stretch the windows even longer than he used to be able to. But he recently recovered from a cold, so that might be part of it? I don’t know, but night sleep has gotten worse ever since six months old. I keep seeing where he needs to have 13 to 14 hours of sleep, and he didn’t even have that when he was a newborn. Also, please tell me it’s true that once baby becomes about 10 months old, sleep will get better. The pediatrician told me that today, and I really need to get better because I can’t do this much longer.
my 8.5 month old had a cold this last week. he finally started feeling better three days ago. Accordingly, for the last three days, he has only taken one nap. first wake window was six hours. Napped from 1:30-3;30. He finally started making sleepy cues for bedtime at 8:30. it’s 8:44 pm and he’s asleep. His longest wake window is normally four hours, and he usually takes two naps a day. He is way too young to drop to one nap. I tried to get him to nap three or four times for his morning nap, but he just screamed and screamed and was not tired at all. This has happened three days in a row since recovering from the cold. What is going on? Please help.
our baby caught mild yet annoying cold about eight days ago with lots of congestion. We took him to the doctor and she said it is just a head cold. Nothing to worry about. His appetite has been down and he was sleeping a lot the first few days of the cold. Now that he is feeling better, yesterday and today he refused the first nap and ended up just taking one long, two hour afternoon nap, which I woke him up from. The nap ended at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. It is now 8 o’clock in the evening, and he is full of energy. Normally, his wake windows are only 3.5 to 4 hours. If we had made him wait five hours before going to bed, he would have been screaming and very I’m not sure what is going on. Also, he is beginning to seem like he’s starting to crawl and he is refusing the bottle and eating more solids. Could this just be a developmental leap? Did anybody’s almost 9 month old begin doing just a one nap day?
I don’t know if this matters, but even though he is feeling better from the cold, he still has a lot of congestion that makes it hard for him to breathe. We have the humidifier running and suction his nose several times a day.
Edited to add-- baby went to sleep a few minutes after I wrote this post. But his wake windows are still too long and I am still confused why he jumped from a two-nap to a one-nap day. We just got on two naps maybe 4 or 5 weeks ago.
it’s midnight. tried transferring 8 month old to crib. 12 times. it isn’t working. he just started showing symptoms of some kind of cold today. who else is up contact napping at night? i will sleep all day. scouring reddit and watching Monk tonight.
I was 34 when I had my first baby. He is now 7 months old, and this has been extremely hard. I love him more than life itself and will do anything for him. I tend to every cry and wake up and sooth him at night every single time. No sleep training in our past, present, or future. This is really exhausting, but I would not take any short cuts or short my baby in any way. But to do this correctly, and to be a parent who never ignores any of my baby's needs, is much harder than I ever imagined. I do not think I can do this again. I want to be one and done, but then i look into my baby's eyes and think how lonely he will be as an only child, and I want to cry. I am not willing to take short cuts or the easy way out, but I am also not willing to do this again. I feel so tired and guilty. I would wait until he was 5 or 6 or even 10 or 11 to have another baby, but by then my chances will be slim due to my age. I WANT another baby, I just can't do this again, and I can't even fathom the alternative- I would never neglect my child in any way.
Also, as an unrelated side note (I have been wanting to say this for a long time): I think our moms and grandmas who tell us things like, "I used to put the baby in the crib, shut the door, and let him cry," are the kinds of moms who probably would not have had children if they had been free from society's judgment and had proper access to birth control. And I think that's why I don't here moms around me today talking like that: the kinds of moms who would have done that didn't have kids in today's day and age.