Dealing w/sleep issues
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| Sun, 07-10-2005 - 11:55pm |
Jacob is almost a year old but is still dependent on one of us rocking him to sleep every night w/a bottle. We try to let him cry if he starts after we put him down but ultimately one of us gives in and rocks him back to sleep, we usually end up doing this more than once throughout the night. It's been like this off and on for months now, maybe even since he was born. I'm afraid to do the cry it out thing, I'm scared he's going to make himself sick and I just don't feel right about that. I know I should let him learn to fall asleep on his own, practically everthing I read says to put him down sleepy but awake and then let him cry some, come in every 5 min or so to soothe him but don't pick him up, and gradually he will learn to fall asleep w/out us there. But he's just a baby! I don't feel right about it, but it's still very stressful on all of us when he wakes up every night screaming and can't fall right back to sleep. And what do you do when he stands up and won't lay back down? I pat him and try to soothe him but he grabs on to me and sometimes will bump his mouth on the crib rail, so then he's really upset and in pain! I know I posted about this before but we're still having a rough time. I don't know what the answer is. I feel like we're somehow contributing to his sleep issues. I wish there was a "baby psychic" like the "pet psychic", but can tell us what exactly we need to do to help him fall asleep and stay asleep. That would be nice huh! Will he eventually grow out of this? He has had a few spells where he will sleep straight thru and wake up happy. But we never know when those nights will be. I pray it will be tonight.......
Jenny & Jacob(7/28/04)


I am sorry this is happening. I don't think I would be of any help since I practice attatchment parenting but here are some sleep boards i found on Ivillage...
hth!
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