Oy. Sleep deprivation is a bitch. My son is now four-months-old and still not sleeping through the night. One of my clients, a former marine, says "forget waterboarding; let's just put terrorists in a nursery!" And I remember living back in New York and I had this neighbor who played the piano and sang opera—both very, very badly—and my client Ed Greenwood suggested that I lower a boombox out the window down to their apartment and play a tape of a baby crying all night long. At the time, I didn't give the idea the consideration it clearly deserved.
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An answer for SLEEP! As a mother of 10 month old TWINS (a boy and a girl) and a 2.5 year old (Also a girl), the answer is swaddling.
ReplyDeleteYes, they don't like it. Yes, they break out of the blanket. Yes, they cry but you have to be stronger and persevere. Try to keep him swaddled.
Feed, change, then swaddle. Put him in the bassinet (back to sleep). He might cry at first. Go outside if you can’t take hearing your cute bundle so upset. Have a glass of wine but hang in there. It took mine a good twenty minutes before they settled down but it worked and my husband was able to come back to bed instead of sleeping on the couch- Poor thing.
You can try the swing but they don’t get a deep enough sleep that way.
Swaddling was great when he was smaller, but as a 20-pound, five-month-old, he's too big!
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20 lbs at five months “Oy vey.” You can try feeding him some rice cereal with applesauce before the nighttime feeding. I know with breast milk they need to be fed more frequently. The rice cereal might help sustain him.
ReplyDeleteI know the lack of sleep sucks, the first three months for me were a blur because I was so tired.
He's on rice cereal, but we won't try any other foods until he is at least six months old, as this is supposed to help prevent allergies. He's also not a very consistent eater. Sometimes he takes an entire serving of rice cereal. Other times, he isn't that interested.
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