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POST YOUR SUCCESS STORIES HERE!!!
JennŠ:
We've all had days when we wondered if our lo's sleep would ever get better. Please post your success stories as encouragement to others. There is light at the end of the sleep train tunnel!!! :D
ladyboggess:
CELEBRATE WITH ME!!!!! My DS FINALLY slept without his swaddle or any other help for the first time last night!!! Instead of 3-8 (yes 8!!!) wakings during the night, he slept from 6:30 - 10:30 (Dream feed) and then from 10:30 - 4 (Bottle without picking him up) and 4-6:30!!! THATS HUGE!!!! Also, you could set a watch by his 40 minute naps, but yesterday afternoon he took a 2 hour nap!!! ;D I have posted here MULTIPLE TIMES. My DS has been a TERRIBLE sleeper. I literally have LUSTED over my friends' calmly sleeping children!!! :-\
ONE OF THE BEST PARTS IS THAT I DID IT WITHOUT SUCCUMBING TO THE OVERWHELMING PRESSURE FROM EVERYONE (INCLUDING DH) TO LET HIM CRY IT OUT!!!!! NO CIO!!!! :P :P :P
If you really want to know how bad it was just read my past postings, but here is a brief synopsis. DS was colicy from birth to 4 months. Then he just had bad sleep issues, both day and night. I won't go into the horrible details of everything we (I) had to do to get him to sleep each nap/night. I have recently had to swaddle him, rock him to sleep with a bottle, and then put him in his crib with ANOTHER sheet across the top and tucked under both sides of the mattress to keep him from kicking and waking himself up. In the past few months he has been waking himself up when his arms got out of the swaddle and he was hitting himself. About a month ago, I would check on him and see that he got his arms out but was still asleep. I could also hear him stir in the night over the monitor but then go right back to sleep. He learned this on his own. I guess it was just a developmental thing. Last week, after a few nights of constant waking, I realized he was waking up fighting his swaddle, so I started putting him down with his swaddle more and more loose. Finally, yesterday I eliminated it completely and was ready for a day and night of no sleep at all, but HE SLEPT SO MUCH BETTER!!! He sleeps on his side and hugs his blanket. :D When he wakes and I go in to get him, he is sideways in the bed but happy!! AND SO AM I!
SO...CELEBRATE WITH ME! We did it! It took 6 months and A LOT of sleep training, but he did it. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT.
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now...if you are reading this for support, here is the flow of transitions we had to go through.
going to sleep by bouncing/humming, sleeping in car seat (reflux and colic) --> sleeping in car seat in crib (still a lot of trouble to get to sleep) --> sleeping in crib with wedge, swaddle, and band across his body to "tie" him down (rocking to sleep, singing, or humming) --> got rid of swaddle gradually --> stopped rocking, put him to sleep in his bed with his bottle (I still have to hold it for him though)-->got rid of everything. Still have to give bottle in his bed at night, but I DO NOT PICK HIM UP AT NIGHT when I have to go in to feed. I guess from here I will begin pushing that 4AM feed until he can go longer without food. oh..and there could never be ANY light in his room because he would stare at it and keep himself awake. He is just so afraid of missing something!! (Yes, I even had to put tape over the glowing green light on his monitor and on the wipes warmer!!) SO...good luck. It IS possible to do it without CIO!!! :-*
andibig:
WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
congrats.its great when all that hard work pays off ;D
samijoe:
4 SURE IT IS! ;)
NO CIO HERE!
WE CONGRATULATE YOU AND YOUR DS....
STICK BY US AND WE'LL STICK BY YOU!
sami
chell:
WOW WEE LADYBOGGESS!!!! YOU ARE AMAZING!
:D It is so empowering when you stick to you plan and it works, good for you, thanks for sharing! :D
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