After 3.5 weeks of Monkey not sleeping for very long in his crib, we had a small victory last night. He went down around 7:30pm & didn’t wake up until 1am.
To all of those of you that might not think this is a success, believe me, it is. He’s been consistently waking up about an hour after going to bed & we’ve had to go in his room numerous times to try to get him back down.
Last night was different, thank you God. He did cry for a couple of seconds about 8:30pm & Tarzan & I looked at each other like, “What the hell is going on with him?” Then to our surprise, he went back to sleep.
ON. HIS. OWN.
We went ahead & celebrated that little victory too. He used to be able to soothe himself back to sleep all of the time in the past, but lately he hasn’t been able to do that & it’s been very, um, frustrating, to say the very least.
So my husband & I high-fived each other & held our breath that he would continue to sleep. A few hours later (around 1am) we heard crying & Tarzan went upstairs. He changed his diaper because it was apparently “awful” & then brought him to our bed, which was fine with me.
I’ll admit that it would have probably been in our best interest to try to get Monkey to sleep in his own room for the rest of the night, but we were both so tired & took the lazy way out.
So what did I do differently that night? I decided to flip Monkey’s mattress. & who knows if that really did the trick to make him sleep longer or if it was just a fluke…
We have the Colgate Classica III mattress for Monkey. One side is for babies & it’s super firm. Like a rock almost. The other side is for toddlers & it’s a bit softer. It also conforms to his body, which is how our Tempur-Pedic mattress is that he’s been sleeping on.
Anyways I thought that maybe, just maybe, it would mimic our bed & he would sleep longer in his crib. I guess only time will tell, but I hope that the worst of Monkey’s sleep is behind us. I’ll take him waking up at 1am any time over him waking up hourly. It’s really rough. I don’t even remember him waking up that frequently when he was a newborn.
We tried everything to get him to sleep. Last night I gave him some Ibuprofen, along with his antibiotic for his ear infection, & we turned the mattress around. That’s it, but you bet your butt that I’m going to do the exact.same.thing tonight & I’m also going to keep my fingers crossed that I figured out the magic combination of Monkey (& us) getting some decent sleep.
Finally.
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Ooooh Jane,
Every time I read your posts now, I cringe thinking what's in store for me and the twins down the road...lol. They sleep through the night from 7:30pm to 7:30am, so I know I'm spoiled. I'm just afraid to think that this whole waking up at night thing is gonna hit me again....but with twice the army. Keep posting though, so I know how to plan accordingly. Hang in there. This too shall pass...er....I think.....:)
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