ohh i never thought about the adjusted age thingy...i guess that it would be a factor to a point. but i guess as long as you just keep on truckin' and go with what you have been doing, it will all pan out just right in the end.
for us things are still pretty hit and miss. although there have been (knock on wood) more hits than misses. at least i am seeing some pattern at night time. we have to put her down pretty early (6ish) and she will wake around midnight then mid early morning (say 3-4am), then back down until 7amish. but if we miss the boat in terms of tired signs by even a few minutes it's all on for young and old so i guess it's proof that she is still a very little baby and still needs her world to be sheltered from the scary new lol. (like last night we had a big neighbourhood fish and chips party at our house and i was having too much fun and missed her tired signs and before i knew it she was wired to the max, so didnt get down for a deep sleep until 9pm...
one thing that keeps me going is the thought that when they do have a good day/night, that it offers hope for the future. while they are still so young, things chop and change dramatically, but those good days/nights are for me a beacon of hope that it will sort itself out in the coming future!!
George seems to have gone backwards in terms of sleep - I have a feeling that while he was premature he was better, now that he is past his due date, he wont sleep for more than an hour and a half at a time. People say to co-sleep if that makes it easier, well it doesn't. Last night I tried it, and he just screamed in my face instead of from the other room.
Tonight he is going back into his cradle... should be hell!
The good nights give me hope too, but we havent had one for a while, so it's tough to be positive. We have now had almost 6 weeks of this with no improvement and no interaction with him Maybe thats what makes it even harder, he has only just started staying awake for small bursts during the day (unless he's crying of course).
We ended up working out that George was suffering from silent reflux. The poor little guy was in pain. The paed put him straight on Zantac and the improvement was immediate. It made feeds better, and helped sleep. Granted, it didn't make him sleep through the night or anything, but he became less restless.
Now looking back, I have realised... all the crying and wanting to sleep on us, was simply because for half of the time he wasnt even meant to be born yet, and he was just a tiny bubba!
He is now 5 months old, eating solids, off the reflux medication, and has been sleeping from 7pm - 7am (with a dreamfeed at 10:30pm) for the last month and a half. I finally learned to understand his tired signs during the day, so he has been napping quite well aswell.
For all those new mums out there who literally feel like they may die for exhaustion... people tell you over and over that things will get better, but this is just an example of what we went through, and how it really did get better. Reading over this now, I realise how utterly freaked out, tired and desperate I was. WE ALL ARE!!
so i guess it's proof that she is still a very little baby and still needs her world to be sheltered from the scary new lol. (like last night we had a big neighbourhood fish and chips party at our house and i was having too much fun and missed her tired signs and before i knew it she was wired to the max, so didnt get down for a deep sleep until 9pm...
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Maybe thats what makes it even harder, he has only just started staying awake for small bursts during the day (unless he's crying of course).
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