We figured out that Emma's recent sleep issue are directly related to (1) her recent MASSIVE growth spurt (a pound gained in less than 10 days folks!), and (2) teeth # 5 and #6 coming in, just starting to break through the skin today. Each and every time she teethes, the week to 10 days before hand she gets very cranky and doesn't like lying down, and is very fidgety. That, combined with AF showing up and tanking my milk supply this past week is the likely culprit.
Last night she went to sleep easily in her crib, slept for 2 1/2 hours, came to bed with me and I nursed her, and she only roused a couple of times to nurse. Tonight she took a 1 hr, 40 minute nap at daycare, and fell asleep in her crib without my help within 3 minutes of me putting her in there. She's been sleeping about 11-12 hours each night, with the sole exception of the day that she had a MASSIVE poo at 5am and just was so wound up that she couldn't go back to sleep. I believe it was Tuesday night that she slept for 4 hours in a row at one point? But I've been feeling a bit more rested, thank goodness.
We're all looking forward to the 3-day weekend. Work has completely swamped me -- I think I've had two 50-hour weeks back-to-back, and this week is shaping up to hit that mark also. I'll be glad when I'm done covering for one of our clinicians who is out with medical issues, although the extra work has been wonderful and I won't complain about the extra money. :)
hey. just reading about your recent sleep issues :( so hard! Since I can't say I'm on top of my blog reading lately, if you ever want to email another Mama about something that's up - always feel free to be in touch. I read the sleep email before this and was immediately wondering about teething. Eleanor had a hard time with teeth. Ped told us to use Motrin as it's more effect.
ReplyDeleteGrowth spurts are so tricky too. Eleanor occassionally will still go through restless nights with what we we think might be growing pains which I remember as a kid. Always something! But thank god she's a good sleeper generally. Now if I could get baby Samuel to sleep better! But E didn't sleep 10 hours nights until she was 13 months old so I'm just putting Samuel on that track as well to not frustrate myself. Hugs, Cheryl