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Re: WIDE AWAKE CLUB!! WANT SUPPORT? JOIN US!
« Reply #45 on: August 12, 2006, 22:57:35 pm »
I hear that.  DH does shift work, currently on nights, won't be home til 9:30 am.  But even he thinks looking after Zara is harder than that!!!
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« Reply #46 on: August 15, 2006, 14:19:28 pm »
My DD is 5 weeks old and has been waking up around 4:30 or 5am... once in a while she will wake up at 6am if we are lucky.  But this is without having yet fully implemented EASY.  We just started this week... and it worked for 3 naps yesterday (took about an hour each but she slept for 1.5 hrs each nap... felt like doing a victory dance!) till bedtime which was a complete disaster.  I tried for an hour to shh pat and it didn't work... then hubby came in and started talking really loud so LO totally zoned out of sleepiness.  he tried the shh pat but hadn't done it before and was having a hard time being fairly consistent... so needless to say LO didn't go to bed till late and really cranky!!  Fortunately, DD slept around 11pm finally... and stayed sleeping till her dreamfeed at 2:30am... and slept until 6am where she wouldn't sleep anymore.  So I took her into our bedroom and nursed her in bed where she fell right asleep till 9am.  YAY!  I have tried nursing her in bed a couple times before and the same thing... she goes right back to sleep.  Course, I don't want to make this a habit but nothing else seems to work!!  Has anyone had the same problem before?

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« Reply #47 on: August 15, 2006, 18:01:50 pm »
Yes I have the same problem with my 5 wk old.  He naps well but has problems going to sleep at night.  It is hard to get him down at 9 when he should go to sleep then have a dream feed at 10.  Instead we are awake until almost 11.  Then, He seems to thing 3am to 4 am is the perfect time to play!  this is new this past week and I don't know how to get him back out of this habit.  We have a middle of the night feed from between 230 and 3 but then he is wide awake afterwards.  during the day he will only stay awake for a few minutes before a nap but at 3 am he wants to stay awake for an hour plus!  does anyone have ideas on how to stop this before I am completely exhausted?
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« Reply #48 on: August 15, 2006, 18:21:17 pm »
4.30 is late for Alex these days.  She is normally awake from 2am until about 6 and she wants to go back to sleep, but that's half an hour before I take a shower
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« Reply #49 on: August 16, 2006, 13:42:49 pm »
Yippee, I get to join this club!!   ::)  DS has decided that 4am is a perfectly acceptable wake up time.  He will fuss and cry and be wide awake until 6 am at which point he is so exhausted he will go to sleep for another 45 minutes.  I have been getting so frustrated the past couple mornings and have decided I will not let it get to me anymore.  I think I may even try taking him out of his crib and sitting with him in the dark if he does it again this morning.  Letting him scream and get upset in his crib for 2 hours every day with me bent over it with an aching back getting upset that he won't just lay down and STAY asleep is not doing anyone any good. 
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« Reply #50 on: August 16, 2006, 13:49:18 pm »
I am with ya there jonsmommy.  Apparently 3:00 am is the PERFECT time for my 4mth LO to try to learn to turn from back to front.  He cries until I come in and then just gives me this big smile (I can tell he is thinking "yeah, I win, she came") when I come to watch his efforts.  The frustration melts away when I see that little smile  ::)
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« Reply #51 on: August 16, 2006, 19:19:51 pm »
OOOH can I join this club too!
Ds been waking at 5 give or take 10 mins for....can't remember. DH is away in the middle east so I have to get up every morning. I feed him now or he will just scream. Too scared to do wi/wo so we are up with the sparrows!!
I am hoping the winter will bring us some relief! Darker mornings.
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« Reply #52 on: August 17, 2006, 07:06:35 am »
Morning,
Up at 7 this morning, fantastic!!!...
Apart from the 1 1/2 hours of screaming at 2.30, it would be! I am stopping his afternoon bottle and I think he may ahve been hungry, as he wolfed down 6oz at about 3.30. Not sure if that was the right thing to do, but he went straight back to sleep as soon as head touched matress, and was in fab mood this morning ;D
I give up trying to make sense of all of this!
Hope some of you lot got better nights sleep (or are having better nights sleep all of you still in the small hours)
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« Reply #53 on: August 17, 2006, 10:40:07 am »
Wow, Jo!  7am is great!  5:15 this morning here but to me that was fantastic in comparison to 4am.  He also slept from 7-2:30  :o....that is the longest stretch of sleep he has EVER gotten!  ;D  Plus as 2:30 all I had to do was lie him down and he was right back out so it actually feels more like he slept 10 hours straight.  I am in heaven! 
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« Reply #54 on: August 17, 2006, 10:45:55 am »
Yasmin, I am so pleased! I'll be keeping everything crossed that it is the start of things to come!
I am trying to get ds onto a one nap day, as he is moving to another room at nursery. he sleeps really badly there cos they have a very rigid regime of a 9am nap. and there is NO WAY he naps at that time. Room he is going in has a 12.30 nap. He went down at 11.15 this morning and was not too grumpy before hand so trying to break him in in the next 2 weeks. Fingers crossed!
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« Reply #55 on: August 17, 2006, 10:48:45 am »
5 am yesterday and 5.40 today... we are making some progress here! I started to leave him in his bedroom til 6.30 every day (fed him there, changed nappy and some cuddles) and it is getting better.

What I hate most about early waking is the hopeful glance at the clock, thinking it is later but then it says 4 something on it!
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« Reply #56 on: August 17, 2006, 16:32:56 pm »
i know!! you think "God, please let it be 5.10 and you look over and it is 2.25  :'(
The heartache :o
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« Reply #57 on: August 17, 2006, 17:07:39 pm »
Quote from: JoC on August 17, 2006, 16:32:56 pm
i know!! you think "God, please let it be 5.10 and you look over and it is 2.25  :'(
The heartache :o


aha... it also spoils the day a bit even if LO is really happy :(
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« Reply #58 on: August 20, 2006, 11:20:27 am »
Well, I've been in denial long enough. I've been fooling myself that it would get better, and that we would get my daughter to sleep until a reasonable hour. But she's winning. This morning she woke at about 4am, and after battling it out for 2 hours, we gave up. I just can't take this anymore. We tried everything: walk in/walk out, staying in the room by her crib, giving her a sippy with milk, rocking her, and even taking her out of the crib in her room to let her play quietly. NOTHING works!!!! She's killing me. I don't know what to do. I know she's tired, but she will just scream and scream until we take her out of her crib and take her downstairs to start the day. She's seriously making me not want another child.  :'( :'( :'(
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« Reply #59 on: August 20, 2006, 14:34:15 pm »
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Honestly can't give you any advice :'( :'( other than putting a tv in her room that she can watch it ::) (honestly i really would if nothing else was working)
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