Some of this is from an email I sent to mom:
Things are going well here. Andrew sure likes to wake up during the night, and not want to sleep. He breast feeds a little, and then falls back to sleep. So its a challenge to try to keep him awake. And then he wants to eat again in 30 minutes or so. Last night we held him off so he didn´t eat again until 2 hours was over. But that is hard too, and I had to keep putting the pacifier back in his mouth. I don´t think he ever fell into a deep sleep. So his eating schedule is not good, but we are trying to get a schedule going. I think he woke up at 2 a.m., and we did not get back to sleep until 4. And then had to keep him busy with his pacifier until 6, but he actually then slept until 6:30.
Elianas mother has 8 children, and she is amazed at how alert Andrew is, and also how strong Andrew is. She says that Andrew is very intelligent. And since Andrew has a lot of Inca blood, we say that he has the strength of an Incan.
So neither of those he gets from me, although he does seem to have a receeding hair line, which would be from me. But I imagine that will fill in, and mine never will. :(
So things are going well. Anybody have any tips on getting him on a feeding schedule, and maybe even a sleeping schedule?
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ahhh, there is a new boss in town....ha. Getting babies on a schedule was not one of my specialties. The big thing was getting each one of you to sleep through the night as you got older. I was needing that to survive. :)
Seems some nights were worse than others. Dad was good to get up at times and give me a break. He'd rock you guys in a recliner and then he's recline the chair to sleep with you on his chest. If you started crying, he'd rock some more. It didn't always go well though.
Hopefully someone will have some ideas for you.
Mom
Andrew does sound like a lot like his father. You were alert too. I think one reason you were so content is because you were so active. You entertained yourself...especially a couple of months older.
I very highly recommend "Baby Wise" by Dr. Ezzo (I think). It's about scheduled feeding & sleep time. The basics are:
stay flexible, but at the same time, keep a schedule (if that makes sense!)
-establish a routine of eat, play, sleep. that way baby doesn't get used to eating to fall asleep.
It might look something like this:
7am: wake up and eat
7:30-8:30am: awake time (playing with you, laying under a toy, bouncy seat, etc)
8:30-10am: nap
10am: wake up and eat
etc etc.
Does that make sense? We used his idea and ran with it and made it our own. It's important, I think, to keep a very good balance between not being so rigid that you can't waiver from the schedule at all, to not being so unscheduled that you never know when he'll be hungry or tired.
I really liked it b/c first of all, our kids were sleeping thru the night early on (by about 2 months) and secondly b/c I almost always knew why they were crying by the time it was. It also helps the baby to learn to eat enough and not just snack at feeding times. I had a horrible time keeping Anna awake to nurse when she was Andrew's age. We even had to put cold rags on her feet to wake her up!! Jacob never had trouble staying awake to eat! :)
Let me know if you're not able to find/get the book and I can send you a copy. I hope at least some of this makes sense! It's so hard when your baby (or 3 yr. old!!) isn't sleeping good at night!
hi tim, i've never posted on here before, but enjoy reading your updates. andrew is such a "pretty" baby. precious. anyway, i just thought i'd say that sometimes giving them a little formula at night helps. maybe he's going through a growth spurt and is needing more to eat and in order to increase eliana's milk supply he'll have to feed more often. but, sometimes in order to give you both some sleep during that period, my dr. said it's ok to give a little formula. i feel for you on those sleepless nights. they are hard, but before you know it you'll be celebrating his first birthday. so....these days are temporary.
teresa
Jenny, I had never really thought about a scheduled play time, but that makes sense. I probably can´t get the book here, but can read more about it online. I think that is good to make the schedule our own, and being flexible.
Teresa, thanks a lot for writing also. Last night we did give him some formula, and I think that helped. For some reason during the nights its hard to get the gas out of him. I don´t know why it seems to be easier during the day. But giving him that formula did help him to sleep I think for nearly 2 hours. He ate 3 ounces, which is a lot. Eliana has a breast pump, but I need to buy the container for the pump, because we don´t have one. I want to do that today, and we think that will help.
Hope everything is doing well. Mom, Andrew also likes laying on my chest, well more on Elianas because she is not so bony. We don´t have a rocking chair, and I wish we did, but he doesn´t seem to mind.
Tim
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