Random Sleeping
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Topic: Random Sleeping
Posted By: Disco
Subject: Random Sleeping
Date Posted: 02 January 2010 at 2:59pm
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I was just wondering if anyone else had a baby that slept randomly through out the day. She's seven and half weeks old.
Yesterday she snoozed in the morning and then slept for four hours in the afternoon. She sleeps roughly from 9.30pm to 4.30am and then has a feed and goes back to sleep till about 7-8am which is great but during the day it's totally random and I've just spent about 6 hours trying to get her to sleep. She's probably nodded off for half an hour during all that time. So she's totally overtired by the time she gets to sleep. Is it just something that will get better over time ? disco 
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Posted By: Jaxnz1
Date Posted: 02 January 2010 at 6:46pm
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I have the same problem. One day she'll sleep all day, she'll feed then fall straight back asleep again and there's no waking her up. Then other days she's awake for the whole day. Very erratic. Other days she's feeding the whole day.
I'm hoping it gets better over time, I'm a routine person!! ------------- 
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Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 02 January 2010 at 7:35pm
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Sounds just like Jake, he started sleeping better once he got to 3 months but I have noticed his day sleeps become erratic again when he needs to change his naps..
ie he has just moved from 2 hours awake time to 3 hours and has gone from 30 minute naps back to 1.5 hour naps. Some people have success with different techniques.. I found the 5 S worked ok for us but really he just grew into his own routine. GL hun! -------------   
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Posted By: HippyMama
Date Posted: 02 January 2010 at 9:10pm
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I have a gentle suggestion to make, and that is to try and not see it as a "problem"... babies don't come with pre-programmed sleep routines and so it is pretty normal for them to be all over the place, especially in the first three months.
The only thing I really did to try and influence things was wake DD2 in the day if it waslooking like more than three hours asleep, and let her go as long as she wants at night. For about six weeks she also refused to sleep in a bed (any bed!) so I just put her in a sling and carried on, as it meant she'd get more than 10 mins sleep and I could still get things done. Currently she likes to have one really big day sleep, one shorter one, and one catnap... but there isn't usually much rhyme or reason as to when she'll actually have them LOL There are still some days when she only has 40 min naps all day (one sleep cycle), like today, and she is 5 months now - still totally normal behavior and we just have to roll with it. ------------- Mama to two earth walkers & two angels. Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. ~ Kittie Franz Next Slingbabies! Meet - Friday 4th May !! |
Posted By: Disco
Date Posted: 02 January 2010 at 10:54pm
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Hi everyone thanks for your replies,
nice to know it's not just me :) HippyMama, i think you're right, just need to go with the flow and let herself settle into some routine if that's for her. She's still on 7 weeks, I think i was just wondering if I should be doing more to get a routine going as it seems so important to everyone. It's hard to know what the right thing to do is. I just want to make sure she's getting enough sleep. Hopefully she'll carry on getting a good nights sleep like she does and I'll let the days take care of themselves. disco 
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