He used to sleep 7hours, since 4 weeks! Now he is getting up after 5, a few times after 3! Is this because I went back to work? Mamma needs her sleep!
2006-09-14 05:41:17 · 12 answers · asked by max's mamma 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Keep your baby to a tight schedule during the day. The routine should be eat, play, sleep. As soon as the baby wakes up, feed him a full feeding. Then let him play until you can see that he is getting tired. Then put him down for his nap. Try not to rock him to sleep. Get him in the habit of falling to sleep on his own. If you do that he will sleep longer and wake up happier. Once you get him used to the schedule he will start sleeping longer at night. It may take a week or even two, but I know from experience that this is the only way to do it. Keep to a schedule, and feed him a full feeding right before he goes down at night. Make sure you give him full feedings all day, no snacking! And what they say about keeping him up longer is wrong. You can overstimulate him by playing too much and he will have more trouble falling asleep. If you overstimulate him you will have a wide awake fussy baby on your hands. Get the book, ON BECOMING BABYWISE by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam. Even though your baby is 14 weeks, you can still employ the advice in this book. It worked for me and for everyone else I have heard of that used it. Get the book ASAP and use it and you will see.
2006-09-14 06:01:17 · answer #1 · answered by Diane A 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have a 14 week old who sleeps through the night. Try keeping him up longer before bed time. Make sure you're playing with him and keeping him occupied during awake hours so that he will sleep longer. Also, give him formula before bed as this keeps their stomaches fuller. You can also try giving a warm bath every night right before his last bottle. My daughter tends to sleep deeper and longer after a bath and warm bottle before bed. Make sure the lights are dim at night so that he will start to recognize that playtime is for the day and sleeping is for nite time. Make sure if he wakes up during the night that the lights are as low as possible so that you can see what youre doing but not high enough to get him wide awake. Try to be gentile and not move him around too much while changing and feeding him. This should help. Good luck!
2006-09-14 12:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just answered a similar question with this, but this has really worked for me.
My trick for my baby was lullabies for naptime (I have to put them on repeat now on the CD player or she pops awake at the end of the CD) and a heartbeat machine I leave on all night for night time.
She seems to somehow know the difference between the day "nap" music sound and the "night" heartbeat sound and she's only woken up at night 8 times in over 9 months. She sleeps from 9:00 to 9:00 (although I wake her at 11:30 for a 20 minute diaper change and to eat a bit because that's been the routine right from when she was born.)
It's the consistent routine that's most important I think. Your return to work has changed your baby's routine so try to set up a new one and stick to it as much as possible until he gets back on track. (I'm going back to work in 2 months too so I hope this will continue to work for us!!)
Good luck!!
2006-09-14 14:53:44 · answer #3 · answered by Poopsie-Daisy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is natural, sleep scheduals will change a lot at this age, but don't worry.
Babies will wake up three times a night, it's just how it works, there little minds are growing so fast, it is absolutly amazing the changes going on in that little brain of theirs.
It won't be for a while till they sleep the whole night through.
But soon it will only be two time you'll have to get up a night
a 4 yr needs 12 hrs and as they get older it goes to 10 hrs then 8 and so on...
Ps......My name is Max too !
2006-09-14 12:47:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are lucky. My daughter was formula fed and was lucky to sleep one hour at a time during the night until she was five months old. I lived on coffee and looked like a zombie at worked, but kept on trucking. I hope he gets his pattern adjusted soon. After my daughter started sleeping six hours at a time, it wasn't long after that that she started teething and was back to that irratic pattern of not sleeping at night. Good luck!
2006-09-14 12:53:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you keep him up a little later during the evenings, so he'll be more tired and likely to sleep in? Make sure you feed him just before bedtime, so hunger won't wake him up -- and if he's old enough, you might mix in a little cereal so it's more filling.
What the previous poster said about formula is right as well -- since formula is harder to digest than breast milk, it'll stay in his stomach longer and keep him feeling full longer.
2006-09-14 12:44:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I hate to tell you this, but that's a very normal schedule for a 14 week old baby. Night waking is normal for the entire first year. ESPECIALLY in the first 6 mos since they are working to double their birth weight in that time.
2006-09-14 12:44:21 · answer #7 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It may be a bit too early for him to sleep through consistently. He may be going through a growth spurt and need more to eat. I would recommend that you sleep when she sleeps if possible. Also make sure she is full when she goes down. I don't know how you can go back to work so early, I would be too tired!
2006-09-14 12:50:52 · answer #8 · answered by Sophmoric 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
my 12 week old sleeps from 8pm till 6.30am this is since i put him on sma white. the formula for hungry baby's. you could also see if he will take a extra oz of milk and a nice bath b4 bed.
2006-09-14 16:26:27 · answer #9 · answered by baby 2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can try lots of things
but the truth is, that baby will sleep when it wants and for how long it wants right now
just keep the same routines and eventually he will work himself out
good luck
2006-09-14 12:45:43 · answer #10 · answered by iammissmess 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋