Thursday, July 24, 2008
Operation GYAOMB didn't go so well last night. Yesterday, I did some research on why Brooklynn's not sleeping through the night. I found quite a few articles that pretty much said it was my fault for not teaching her to self sooth. I've always nursed her to sleep so therefore that's what she expects at night. When she wakes up in the middle of the night she doesn't know how to get herself back to sleep without me nursing her. Ok...I can pretty much agree but what do I do now? Well, most of the articles recommended the CIO method. I'm not a fan of CIO but I figured I would give it a try. I found one article that gave me a 7 day step by step guide as to what do. It told me to nurse her but before she was asleep to lay her down in the crib. Give her a few pats on the back and walk out of the room. It said she would cry but to come back every 5 minutes to reassure her that everything was ok. So, I tried this last night. It was a mess. She screamed and screamed, banged her hands on the bed, held her breath, she took crying to a whole new level. I've actually never seen her cry like that. I went in after 5 minutes and she would pull at my shirt to get me to pick her up. I didn't but the crying got progressively worse. I sat in the dining room listening and I couldn't take it. There has to be another way. When I did go in and get her she held my neck so tight. Almost as is if saying, "why did you do that to me?" (Yeah, Wey I'm a punk ) I found a book online about a no cry method. I'm going to see if I can get it from the library. Anyway, I nursed her to sleep and she slept in her bed from 8-1. She woke up I nursed her again and she slept in it until about 4. After that I didn't want to sit her room so I nursed her in the bed with me and we both fell asleep. Oh well at least I got most of the night to myself. The nursing wouldn't be so bad if I could go back to sleep. The first wake up always has me up watching tv. I ended up watching Shear Genius on DVR. I'm not tired though so I guess I'm used to it.
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Ummm, You are a PUNK and I'm right there with you... but I'm not giving up. Let me know the name of that book so I can pick it up from the library too.
Don't you make my baby cry like that heiffa
Shut up! I knew you were going to say that. If you would have heard her it was insane. It was almost like she was in pain or something. I only last 7 minutes. The recommended going 20...THERE IS NO WAY I could have held out that long. Yeah, the baby will fall asleep...from pure exhaustion.
The book is called The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
There are tons of good reviews on Amazon. Here's the link.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Cry-Sleep-S.../dp/0071381392
I'm getting that today on the way home. I meant to call you last night but I was sooo and drained... you know. Love ya Mami. We'll beat this operation. I just have to get through sleeping through the night and I'll be alright.
Now that I think about it, I think Nana did the waking up close to a year old. I'm calling Rachelle today so I'll let you know.
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ETA: YOU KNOW I HAD TO RESEARCH! Other Mommy posts...
Basically her method is to soothe your baby when he needs you until he learns to sleep on his own. The idea is to have to soothe him less and less as time goes on (but this could take a while to work).
She suggests having key words that you use when soothing as well as when it's sleeptime so that when baby hears it he knows it's time to sleep. She also talks about sleep associations, both negative (pacifiers) and positive (loveys). Basically there are a bunch of different techniques you can use, but the idea is to soothe them by picking them up if you need, and then later not picking them up but touching them/shushing, etc... and then soothe by the crib without touching, then soothe at the door of the baby's room,etc. until your baby doesn't need you to soothe him/her anymore..
She also covers things like how to help your baby distinguish between day and night and not get them confused (eg. naps in a lit room vs. dark at night, feed more during the day vs. night, etc.)
This is a completely rough overview of what she covers and some of her basic methods/ideas. She's not saying there will be NO crying at all with her methods, but definitely a lot less than using the CIO method. It's a great book to have, in my opinion!
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