Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 August 2014
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Shhhhhh.... she's sleeping!
Shhhhh....
I'm a bit nervous to type this... so come closer and I'll whisper...
Little Owl is sleeping all night!
Shhhhhhhh.....
Its not every night, but its happened enough to not be a one off...
Her best night was 13 hours - 7pm until 8am! Although we're not actually sure what time she is waking because the real magical bit is that when she wakes in the morning, she plays with her toys in her cot instead of calling Mama Mama MAMA!!!
Little Owl did follow this mammoth sleepathon by waking the following night at 11pm and refusing to go back to sleep until gone 1, then up again at 5... so we're not out of the woods yet...
But there is, just a glimmer of hope on the horizon!
Monday, 11 November 2013
Sleep Baby Sleep
We were so cocky
Our newborn baby slept
All the way through the night quite often
Others struggled, we sympathised but OUR BABY slept!
Little Owl was an easy newborn as far as sleep was concerned
Then things changed.
We got all out of kilter when Papa Owl was on summer holidays.
Now I don't do 'routine' but perhaps we had formed one without realising and then, we changed
Going away to visit family in Holland probably didn't help.
Camping for 8 days with 7000 scouts and guides really didn't help!
The end of the summer came and our baby WOKE every 2 hours!
We limped on for, well the whole school year really.
Kept hoping for a miracle cure
If we just tried this one thing, then maybe she will sleep tonight?
But she didn't
Summer came round again and we decided it was time to take action.
And we did.
Nothing major.
Subtle changes.
We bought the No Cry Sleep Solution but only read 4 chapters
But it was enough to start a conversation
To tweak things a bit
Earlier dinner
Earlier to bed
A bottle to drink from in the night
Leave the landing light on
And to re-settle her when she woke rather then the easy option of taking her to our bed
It worked
Over a space of a few weeks Little Owl started to sleep all the way through to 5:20!
We had our evenings back.
We were getting more than 4 hours of consecutive sleep!
Life was good.
We even began to discuss the possibility of encouraging her to sleep later.
We got greedy.
Something changed.
We didn't notice it happening.
But Little Owl wasn't sleeping.
Up once or twice in the evening.
Then again not long after we went to bed.
We were tired.
It was the end of a long term.
Too tired to resettle.
To tired to think straight.
Back to the beginning.
Where did we go wrong?
Need to start again but what had changed?
Earlier meals and nights.
That helped.
The bottle is being rejected.
Change the bedding.
Sleeping bag?
Duvet?
Sleeping bag and duvet?
She slept til 2!
Perhaps she was cold.
Forgot the sleeping bag and she woke and often.
Definitely cold.
Found a fleece sleep suit.
Tried that with the duvet...
SHE SLEPT TIL 6!!!!!!
A one off?
Perhaps.
BUT SHE SLEPT TIL 6!!!!!!
Will she do it again?
Our newborn baby slept
All the way through the night quite often
Others struggled, we sympathised but OUR BABY slept!
Little Owl was an easy newborn as far as sleep was concerned
Then things changed.
We got all out of kilter when Papa Owl was on summer holidays.
Now I don't do 'routine' but perhaps we had formed one without realising and then, we changed
Going away to visit family in Holland probably didn't help.
Camping for 8 days with 7000 scouts and guides really didn't help!
The end of the summer came and our baby WOKE every 2 hours!
We limped on for, well the whole school year really.
Kept hoping for a miracle cure
If we just tried this one thing, then maybe she will sleep tonight?
But she didn't
Summer came round again and we decided it was time to take action.
And we did.
Nothing major.
Subtle changes.
We bought the No Cry Sleep Solution but only read 4 chapters
But it was enough to start a conversation
To tweak things a bit
Earlier dinner
Earlier to bed
A bottle to drink from in the night
Leave the landing light on
And to re-settle her when she woke rather then the easy option of taking her to our bed
It worked
Over a space of a few weeks Little Owl started to sleep all the way through to 5:20!
We had our evenings back.
We were getting more than 4 hours of consecutive sleep!
Life was good.
We even began to discuss the possibility of encouraging her to sleep later.
We got greedy.
Something changed.
We didn't notice it happening.
But Little Owl wasn't sleeping.
Up once or twice in the evening.
Then again not long after we went to bed.
We were tired.
It was the end of a long term.
Too tired to resettle.
To tired to think straight.
Back to the beginning.
Where did we go wrong?
Need to start again but what had changed?
Earlier meals and nights.
That helped.
The bottle is being rejected.
Change the bedding.
Sleeping bag?
Duvet?
Sleeping bag and duvet?
She slept til 2!
Perhaps she was cold.
Forgot the sleeping bag and she woke and often.
Definitely cold.
Found a fleece sleep suit.
Tried that with the duvet...
SHE SLEPT TIL 6!!!!!!
A one off?
Perhaps.
BUT SHE SLEPT TIL 6!!!!!!
Will she do it again?
No, but this time it was 3am.
And we do have our evenings back.
Must not get greedy.
Tired.
She will sleep when she is a teenager right?
Night all x
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