Right now I am trying to stay awake because last night I was allowed only 2 hrs. of sleep. When you only get 2 hrs of sleep and have to go to work the next day...well lets just say its a very hard thing to do. I have been having a problem trying to get Eli to sleep threw the night. The last month has been really bad. Eli decided to break himself from the passy. I have tried and tired to talk him back into it. I put it in his mouth and he looks at me like I just grew a second head or something. I am sure this is just the beginning of the crazy looks I will get from him. lol. Anyways beings he broke himself from the passy he has nothing to sooth himself with. So now when he wakes up I have to give him a bottle of water. We end up doing this like 3-6 times a night. This leads to another problem.....a leaky diaper. Which again wakes him up an I have to change him. He is such a light sleeper. This is now an every night process. Well last night was more of the same except Owen also got up twice because of nightmares. Now I know that all moms go threw this kind of stuff and this too shall pass for me. Its just surviving till then....with my sanity intact! Wish me luck and if anyone has any magic tricks for making a baby sleep...well by all means..please send them my way!!!
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I don't have much advice on this one. As you well know, we are the type that just throw the wimpering baby in the bed with us until they just stop coming to our bed. The only thing I would try not to do is give him anything. It seems to me (not that I'm an expert...see above comment), if you try to give him something, i.e. water bottle, he will soon start waking up for that something. One thing that worked for us and continues to work today is lullaby music. And, it works at school. Other than that...dunno!!!!
Yeah I know, thats what I am doing now is just letting him cry it out. It seems to be getting a bit better. He only gets one bottle a night now. The rest of the time I just let him cry himself back to sleep. The positive thing is that it's not waking up Owen which is what I was afraid of. Thanks for the advice!
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