Cooper has been a quirky child right from the get go! He has NEVER slept like a newborn. That is both a good and bad thing. The first night in the hospital I should have known that I was in for a ride with CJ! We sent him to the nursery night one so that we could try to sleep and also because I was in and out from the mag drip...YUCK!! I faintly remember the nursery bringing him to me saying"I think he is hungry". They would leave him with me to feed and we would send him back. Josh would bearly get settled on his chair bed...lol and the nursery was BACK AGAIN! Oh brother! They discharged us just a few days later on July 1 and from that day until around Thanksgiving Cooper has been sleeping pretty good at night. Pretty good means 5-7 hours in between feedings. Cooper has also never been a napper...pretty bizarre for an infant. He takes maybe 2 cat naps a day, and occasionally he will take a 1-2 hour nap. I stopped breast feeding when he was 5 months and right around the time I stopped he has NOT been sleeping at night. I guess the magic was in mama's milk and I would give anything to have some more right now!
Cooper used to sleep at night...now not so much!
Right about the end of November Cooper has been...well a pain in my @$# at night! I love him like crazy but the fits that he throws are absolutely the worst thing to wake up to at 12 am, 3 am and 6 am! The squeal/scream is SOOOOOOOO loud, and to make it even worse he throws his head back and scoots his body up to the top of the bed! It is BAD people!! We feed him a bottle and he falls back asleep before he can even finish it. Then 3 hours later....repeat above! I thought he was doing so good, and now Josh and I are walking zombies at night. You would think the older he got, the better he would sleep.
We make sure to get his tummy full with a bit of oatmeal mixed with formula before bed and he is eating solid food 2-3 times a day. My hungry man is well fed and he is an excellent eater!!
At first I thought it was a growth spurt...let's face it we have a lot of those, he is a growing boy! If he is teething...he has no signs of teeth coming in just yet. So we asked his pediatrician what to do and she said...put water in his bottle. If we substitute water for formula in the middle of the night he will realize water is not worth waking up for. It will start to break the habit of waking up to eat all the time.
I would like some suggestions/advice from all you mama's. I know this to shall pass however I wish it would be sooner than later!
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Carrson and Rusty are terrible sleepers, they wake up to movement, sounds, anything, so I have no advice just sympathy! Paisley on the otherhand sleeps like a rock, wakes to eat and back out she goes....I get so tired of hearing "this too shall pass"...but maybe eventually it will :)
I wish I had some advice for you, but I dont. :( Just some encouragement that it will get better, and that one day he will be away at college or out on his own and you will think of these times and miss them. That is what keeps me going when I feel I cannot handle another minute. And at least he is such a cutie!!!!
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