Thursday, July 14, 2011

Chub's Sleeping pattern

As the weeks pass, it's getting harder to put chub to sleep. Each week, her sleeping pattern evolve- not for the better unfortunately. As a newborn, she slept so well but as she becomes older, it's getting tougher. No longer are her naps hours long, it has become minutes long. Now, she's taking frequent catnaps from 10-15minutes throughout the day. Everyday is a different story, one day rocking her is good, another day nursing and on bad days neither! 

The good thing is, she doesnt catnap at night but sleeps for long stretches though not yet through the night. Right now, she'd sleep for 5-6hours before waking up for her first milk feed of the night, then she'd sleep for another 3 hours before her second feed. Fortunately, unlike her day time naps, her bedtime is getting better. Previously, she'd wake up every 2-3 hourly and every hourly when it hits 4am till 8am. But these days, she seems to be dropping her hourly wakes even if so, it would only occur once in the early morn.

I've tried reading books from experts to see what i can do to improve. But as i read each book, i get myself more confused and concern. There are just too many varied and extreme recommendations, i just do not know which is the right one! Each methodology has its own 'fans' swearing by it. Yes, this happened to me even when i was babying my first child. Both times, i've decided to screw the books, screw the clock, screw what's right what's wrong and just follow my child's lead- though it is freaking exhausting. But i just refuse to put my baby through stressful sleep training or force her to conform to what the adults think is 'good or right'.

2 comments:

  1. Hey, popped by this blog of yours and love it! Yes - screw the experts (and the clock!) indeed! I had never put my girls through any sleep training of any kind nor conform to what is "good or right" (till now I am still co-sleeping with them, and they are 5 and 9!!! But we all enjoy it, so there!)...so go by your instincts. Hell - they will all eventually turn into sleepy teenagers one fine day, drive us outta their bedrooms and sleep in their own rhythms :)

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  2. amen sista! I just LURVE likeminded mothers! Yes, i think the same, they WILL outgrow their baby habits one day. When that happens, we'll NEVER have them sleeping next to us like FOREVER. So my take: enjoy while we can! :)

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