Sleep problems
Our good little sleeper, who by ten weeks was consistently sleeping through the night, has fallen off the wagon. Admittedly we have trained him with some bad habits lately, caving when he was sick and crying at night by picking him up, rocking and feeding him. Turns out being cuddled all night is way more fun than going solo, and Riley is a boy who knows what he likes.
But mommy and daddy are tired. We can't do it anymore.
The sleep training begins tonight. I'm expecting to have zombie eyes and a heavy heart tomorrow. :(
Wish us luck.
But mommy and daddy are tired. We can't do it anymore.
The sleep training begins tonight. I'm expecting to have zombie eyes and a heavy heart tomorrow. :(
Wish us luck.
Do you let him cry it out? We are bad, we rock Alex to sleep every night. I feel like we'll be doing it until he's 18, but I don't know how to stop!
ReplyDeleteUm, how is going to him when he's sick and crying "caving?" I think that's just parenting!
ReplyDelete(My mother would like you to know she disagrees with that statement. She didn't say that to me, but I just know she does.)
Our bed-sharing is only a problem for my mom. If it's a problem for Rob he hasn't copped to it yet. I get to sleep. So it's a win in my book. It may not be for everyone, of course, and maybe the joke will be on me when she's 4 and I can't get her out of our bed - but I just don't think it will end up like that. She understands more and more every day. I feel like a transition will come soon and will be better understood by a slightly older kiddo.
Ah, too true. The problem was that I "caved" for more than two months, and the majority of the time he wasn't sick. By the end of that period, I had trained him not to sleep without being held even when he was perfectly healthy.
ReplyDeleteWe tried a gut-wrenching round of cry-it-out (Ferber style where you go in and comfort every few minutes), and it worked like a charm. He started sleeping great within two days. Sadly, he is now sick again and needing his mama to rest. After his fever reached 105 last night, there was no way I was going to let him go it alone. We all cuddled up together in bed and got a surprisingly good night's sleep.
The approach that feels comfortable to me is to give him whatever he requests when he's sick and retrain him toward independent sleep when he's healthy. For now, it's all hugs all the time.