u/judgementalintrovert

If you like Obra Dinn, you may enjoy the Apple TV show: Widow’s Bay

Great mystery, spooky and nostalgic storyline, solid cast, fantastic cinematography, and keeps you guessing the whole time. Since my husband and I just finished Obra Dinn a week or two ago, this really scratches the itch in a roundabout way and has more than a few parallels imho

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u/judgementalintrovert — 10 days ago

4.5 months - waking overnight - fed to sleep - how screwed am I?

I don’t know where to begin so I’ll put as much info here as I can. Our son is 4 months (almost 5m) old and has been going though the four month regression with lots of MOTN wakes and a grumpier than normal attitude… we’ve fed to sleep and coslept for two months, and over the past month I’ve fed to sleep and transferred him to his crib to try to gently transition things over there. It works 75% of the time with the other 25% ending up with me giving up and letting him cosleep because I’m too tired to put up a fight.

I’d like to do Ferber or CIO sooner than later as my sleep definitely has suffered from the constant waking, feeding, and cosleeping. Admittedly, my husband and I are nervous of traumatizing him and ourselves (which we realize is dramatic on both counts) but I worry that I’ve built too many associations that will be hard to break.

For added context, huckleberry says his average wake windows are 1.75/2/2/2.5-3ish with three naps being his most common schedule. Sometimes we’ll squeeze a fourth one in, but that’s pretty unusual these days — there’s really no rhyme or reason to things - I try to go off of his cues while following the huckleberry sweetspot suggestions and sometimes get a day of good 1.5-2 hr naps and the next will get a day of 30 min naps… I am not against changing this up at alllll, but we do live a slightly busy life as stay at home/work from home parents and sometimes are (all 3 of us) out of the house during a nap time and he gets a nap in the car or very late according to his wake windows.

Ultimately, I want to do what’s best for him, even if it changes my schedule for a bit or causes some tears for all of us! I don’t want to continue cosleeping and would like to even move him to his own room in the next couple of months if that serves him better.

Anyone been in this boat? Anyone have any advice or encouragement? When I’ve tried Ferber in the past he gets really pissed, but honestly he’s really pissed with anything but the boob, so dad isn’t able to put him to bed or ever help settle him back to sleep. - help! 🙃

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u/judgementalintrovert — 28 days ago