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Thanks girls. they are great advice/tips.
Another exhausting day here.... she's learnt how to blow raspberries :rolleyes: and is sitting in her swing chair (yep mel they're great!!) and blowing raspberries while I sit her on the puter. I'm going to try again to put her to sleep. She's only slept in 20min intervals today (3 times) since 5am. So only had 60mins sleep all day. Don't know how she does it.... I'm stuffed!!!
Quite often, by the time she goes down to sleep she's due to feed again (approx every 3hrs she does) and then she wakes hungry!!!!
Townsvillegirl - yes thank you you've been very helpful!!! That's good how you would lie down and rock her every time she cried good idea. I agree as long as she is fed, changed and played she should be happy to lie there in her swing! lol but my DD just loves to play and wants my attention LOL
I used the sling yesterday but she cracks up sometimes after being in it for a short time as she doesn't like feeling cramped anymore she wants to kick her legs etc. Shes so active!!!
Ok off I go... I'm going to try the 15min rule Mel.
I went for a walk this time yesterday with the pram but she was WIDE AWAKE so much to see and look at!! It only stimulates her more!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ren i cant give u much advice - but i can say i know what u are going thru!
Bianca has never been a good sleeper and still isnt - however she has gone from not sleeping at all during the day except for maybe the odd 5-10min cat nap here and there to having 2x30min naps each day - so there has been an improvement even tho its small!
I guess u soon learn to cope with it! I dont force the issue anymore except for when i can tell B is absolutly tired than i will put her down and have a little cry - on those days she will usually cry for about 10mins and put herself to sleep! i hate listening to her cry but it works!
I hope one day she will sleep for longer than 30mins - but im use to it now so if she dosent than oh well! i have tried everything, and nothing works!
They way i try and look at it is, she just loves me so much and that its more fun spending time with mummy than sleeping!
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Ren - DS would often cry and struggle (I mean A LOT) when we first put him in the HAB, but a bit of jiggling and he'd drift off to sleep after a little while (usually). You can't force them to sleep, but sometimes you can help them along... Another thing that sometimes worked at that age was to drape a light wrap over his head so he couldn't look around. sounds cruel, but it did work.
His sleeps got a lot better (day and night) with help from the no-cry sleep solution, though it only lasted for a short while before *something* changed and we had to figure out a whole new strategy.
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How long would I spend getting DD to sleep??? At the 10-12 week mark sometimes 1.5 hours!!!!!!!! Then I decided it was all too ridiculous and I spent the next few weeks teaching her self settling. Now if she's not asleep within 5 minutes, I decide she's not tired and get her up...
Its such an EXHAUSTING day when they don't sleep, and DD wasn't even that bad (she'd have 5 x 30 min catnaps). Now she has learnt to settle she can resettle and will go down for up to 2 hours.
Not sure if that helps or just contributes to the old "teach them to self settle" mantra you probably hear from everyone. I use to curse the damned self settlers, till I bit the bullet and did it. Its worked for us. Hugs to you!!!
