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Yep my near 9 month old has been doin this daily to me the eyebrow and the nose get it a lot and iv had a couple of bruised and bust lips. No one believes Jack does itMy almost 9month old is back to waking constantly at night. Both my partner and myself are exhausted and we've ended up bringing into the bed just to get some kind of sleep.
On top of exhaustion, he head-butted my nose so hard this morning that by whole face is killing me
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I'd like some advice on sleeping from experienced mommies! My lad has monster sleeps, at 14 weeks old he'll happily sleep 10 hours at night. His problem is going to sleep. He'll only fall asleep in my/OH's arms, usually with a good deal of crying, ear pulling and wriggling. After a few minutes of shushing and rocking he'll nod off. We place him in the cot, and he'll either (a) wake immediately and cry - back up, rock, shush, fall asleep, back into cot, or (b) we'll place him in the cot, he'll sleep for 10 minutes, or 20, or 45 - and wake up crying, back up, rock, shush, sleep, back in. He might do this five times before he falls asleep for the night. Last night we started putting him down at 8pm, it was after 9.30pm when he finally slept. This happens whether we put him down early or late, and happens night time and nap time. (Naps during the day are haphazard, he keeps changing his pattern - at the moment he's going for a nap about 11am - 1pm, bottle, then another nap about 2/3pm till 4/5pm, and I'm trying to get him down sometime after 8pm)
Now, while I know it's great that he's sleeping through the night at 14 weeks, I'd like to get him into falling asleep independently. He will fall asleep by himself in the pram or car seat if we're out, he has practically fallen asleep sitting up on occasion so I know he can do it. He hates the dodie, won't take it (despite my best efforts!) I think he'll soon be looking for a blankie or teddy, he tends to clutch at clothing or the muslin when he's feeding or falling asleep.
Can anyone recommend a book/technique that worked for similar sleep issues? Is he too young to be implementing them? As I've said, once he's down, he will sleep the night through, I'd just love to be able to get him to fall asleep by himself!
Gonna post this in the newborn chat thread as well
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It's so frustrating when they only sleep for 40 minutes as it's pretty much useless as they're tired an hour later. Sometimes I catch her just as she's waking up after 40 minutes and get her resettled. Sometimes not though
Yes I'd recommend that book. It's very short but you'd probably find yourself reading it a few times over the next couple of years when his sleep gets disrupted because of teething, being sick, on holidays etc.
Her techniques have helped us get her sleepy very quickly during our nightly play session so we're all back in bed within 20 minutes as opposed to an hour. We've also been able to resettle her at 5am so she's getting up at 6.45-7 instead of 5ish. As I said minor successes!
There's nothing revolutionary in the book. It's pretty much common sense but it's hard to be logical when you're exhausted with a non sleeping baby0 -
Hi all. I wish I had gone on boards and seen this thread earlier, because I can see myself in some of the posts from other users about how they are/were feeling after the birth of their babies.
I haven't been on the pregnancy / parenting boards since the birth of my son in Dec. Just before Christmas I was hit with baby blues /PND (am still not sure which it was) and am only starting to come back to myself now.
I never realized how much I need my sleep. I think the sleep deprivation was not helping me at all. My little one was also taking an hour and a half to breastfeed each time - even the night feeds. I saw my doc and amongst other help/advice, she told me to switch to the bottle, which we did and that was a huge weight lifted. He was able to feed quicker and settled quicker, which gave me more sleep and my husband was able to take on some of the feeding.
I did want him to have the best and that's why I was so looking forward to breastfeeding, but I think it's more important that he has a healthy mammy.
I didn't expect to feel so bad after the birth - I was full sure that everything would be sunshine and lollipops. As it turned out, my hubby was the one who was on cloud nine and I was struggling to deal with my thoughts and feelings.
I would advise any new mammies who are feeling depressed to talk about it to your friends/family/ GP. The sooner you address it, the sooner it can be turned around and you can begin to enjoy your new little bundle 0 -
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