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Any advice on getting a 5 month old to sleep for more than 30min? During the day it's not a big deal, she just yawns, goes to sleep then wakes up happy, carries on. At night every half hour it's instant screaming, at least 5 min but more like 10 to calm her down, then rinse and repeat. She's been doing it for about 6 weeks now. We have a bedtime routine, noise machine, half the time she's not hungry, she doesn't care about a dummy, painkillers to see if it were her teeth did nothing. It's coming up on two months since I've slept for more than 40min in a stretch, I'm getting so over this
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Mar 6, 2023 10:18
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Silent Linguist posted:Dang dude, I don’t know how you’re still sane. Have you tried sleep training? When she wakes up, give her 5 minutes to try falling back asleep herself. Then if she’s still upset, go in and pet her and say “shhh” (but don’t pick her up). Then 5 more minutes, etc. This is what we did with our son, he figured it out within a week. We tried that, she cried for 2 hrs before she slept the first night, 2.4 the second, third and 4th before we gave up. She's only sleeping for 30min stretches during the day too. No daycare, fortunately my wife can work part time from home
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Mar 6, 2023 17:46
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Yeah, the current thinking is that maybe something from my wife's diet is coming through and upsetting her stomach. So we're cutting different foods out to see. We've spoke to our pediatrician, and it seems to be that they're thinking it's not directly a sleep issue, as she sleeps like a champ during the day. As evidence, when my wife was sick for a day and didn't eat anything other than toast and water we got a 3hr sleep form the little girl. It's just a slow process. And I'm so tired
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Mar 7, 2023 02:49
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carrionman posted:Yeah, the current thinking is that maybe something from my wife's diet is coming through and upsetting her stomach. So we're cutting different foods out to see. I figured I'd give an update. We went camping in the weekend with the grandparents, were a bit worried how it would go. She slept for 3hrs in a row, fed, slept another 3 both nights. Since we got home she's been sleeping in 2hr stretches, waking for 5min for a feed or just a pat on the head then off for another 2 hrs. We haven't changed anything so uh... go camping with your infants if they won't sleep? hosed if I know. Hopefully it sticks
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Mar 14, 2023 18:47
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Late to sleep chat, but my wife and I ended up hiring a sleep specialist for our daughter. To be honest the specialist was more for us, so we didn't feel like absolute monsters leaving our kid to scream. All told it took about 3 nights to go from in bed with us, waking every 1.5hrs, to in her own bed sleeping uninterrupted from 6:30pm to 7am every night, with a 2 hr nap at 1230 every day. That's basically been her routine for the last 8 months and it's been a life saver
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Apr 6, 2024 09:33
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One loving week out from my second kid being due and I finally got my leave confirmation. I threw the cat among the pigeons when I realized I was entitled to 6 paid weeks in addition to any other leave or government benefit and went to claim it. Things I was told: You're the dad so you don't get it, it's for mothers only (the wording in our contract is unambiguous in that it is not gender dependent and also includes adoption or becoming a caregiver) You didn't let us know in time (I had written receipts telling people 5 months ago) We can't cover you for a block that long ( it's between the courses I teach, zero effect on daily ops) I'm the local union rep which was handy, it was a hair away from going to employment court when our head HR lady got wind of it all and lost her poo poo. Just so much loving stress I didn't need.
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Apr 10, 2024 04:18
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Skeezy posted:Fell into the contact sleep for the past 6 months trap and now I can’t get my kid to sleep in the crib without absolutely losing his mind. We ended up putting our mattress on the floor for a while. Solved the falling issue, introduced the "where the gently caress has she gone?" Wakeup panic.
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Apr 14, 2024 07:25
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