Help with 3 month old and sleep

[Anonymous]

I think Christine is right. He is sleeping really well. I’m sure it is driving you crazy though. It’s hard to go anywhere when your baby is sleeping all the time. Sorry, I don’t really have any advice.

[Anonymous]

When reading your post I kept thinking that Alana was pretty much the same at that age, 1.5 hrs was a definate limit. Around 4-5 months things started to settle into a definate pattern. By 6 months she was able to stay awake longer.

I am also a tad Type A but realised that Alana needed to set her own schedule…and she has and continues to do so. Now of course she sometimes only has two 45 min naps a day….and boy do I wish she would just go to sleep and stay asleep more frequently!

[Anonymous]

I agree that schedule seems pretty normal. I remember reading in some sleep book that sleep paterns don’t really emerge in children until 4-5 months of age, so until then I wouldn’t worry…the schedule will come.

[Anonymous]

Yep, Adriana slept the same way at that age. If she was tired I let her sleep and it was every 1.5-2 hours for about 30 minute naps. Around 5 months she started taking 3 naps a day. Her last one was about 5 or 6 (and sometimes still is). I try to keep her awake by bathing and playing and put her to sleep at 7pm. Sometimes it works and other times she takes that nap at 5 or 6 and goes to bed a 8 or 9.

[Anonymous]

You ladies are really blowing me away. I had no idea that so many refluxers could sleep so well. Neither of mine slept well at all. Sorry to steal your post, but what did you do to get your babies to sleep so well, or was it just them? I am expecting that any baby we have will have reflux. That being said, I have thought with knowing all that I know now the sleep will be the biggest thing I will have to deal with. I now have hope that even that might be good. Give me some hope.

[Anonymous]

Before I knew Cooper had reflux, I just kept working on getting him to sleep, which was a challenge considering he was in pain and I just thought he was fussy or had colic. I held him allot in the beginning to get him to sleep and gradually held him less and put him in his crib more often. I also did allot of soothing without actually holding him. by rubbing his tummy and stroking his face. We also have a soother bear that plays womb sounds for 20 minutes and he really likes that, so we use that allot and now b/c of all the trouble we had when he was 10 weeks old and no longer in as much pain, he just started sleeping at night (4hr streches) and only in the last 2 weeks has he started taking naps consistently. That is why I was so concerned when I could only keep him up for 1.5 hrs at a time, before when he was in pain he would be up for 3-5 hrs at a time and I just thought that was normal, boy was I wrong. But of course I saw a friend last night who has a “perfect” baby who is only 7 weeks old and she told me she is sleeping through the night already…. those of use with refluxers could only be so lucky!!

[Anonymous]

Hi there! Just wanted to share my experience as a new mom too, with my

daughter Sofie being 7 mos old, and having been through the sleeping/

napping ordeal myself. At 3 mos. Sofie was going to bed at 7 or so, and

sleeping until about 3 am, feeding, then sleeping until 5 or 6 when our

day would start. This was VERY erratic for a while. Her days were also

filled with what we called “snaps” aka short naps, about 5 a day for 30-60

min. We went to a sleep md at Stanford University who studied with

Piaget (the father of child development) and he told us that at 3-4 mos. a

baby’s naps begin to organize (seemed more disorganized to me at the

time) and trend towards a morning, afternoon and sometimes late

afternoon nap. For us, this was reassuring that her erratic sleeping and

inability to stay awake very long was completely normal. At 7 mos, she

usually wakes at 6, naps at 8:30 for anywhere between 45-90 min, and

again around noon with the 45-90. Then she usually needs a little snap

before dinner and bedtime. WE’ve been trying to get her off the 3rd nap

with mixed results. Anyhow, this is long winded, but I want to encourage

you to keep on trying to get on a schedule (a life saver for my also type A

personality, and it helps to explain behavior) and also to read two books

that really helped us: Healthy Sleep Habits Healthy Child by Weissbluth,

and Solve you Child’s Sleep Problems by Ferber. You have to be ready for

a change emotionally and willing to deal with a little crying which is very

hard to do (It took us until Sofie was 6 mos and we were totally

exhausted) but it WORKS!!!!! I never thought I’d go for it, but it only took

2 days. It helps with naps too.

GOOD LUCK and HAPPY BABY THOUGHTS! It will get better, and feel free

to email me with questions. Kelley

[Anonymous]

i think your baby its just doing fine my son is 6 months old and he stays awake 1.5- 2 hrs after every nap but what i started doing when he was 3 months not letting him sleep after 5 p.m. until his bedtime at 9p.m. now he takes 3 naps last nap not before 5p.m and he just wakes up once at night, so maybe you could try to cut down on the last nap. good luck

gabbs2007-5-19 14:31:39

[Anonymous]

Evie will be 3 mos. on Tuesday, so I can relate to the sleep issue. This is especially true for me since I am returning to work and wanted to have her on some kind of schedule. However, I have been reading everywhere that what everyone is saying is true. This is normal. Sometimes the naps are 20 mins. an sometimes they can be 2 hrs. Usually never more than 2 hrs. in between. At 3 mos, they learn to self soothe and put themselves to sleep. So, I read somewhere that you should start putting them down for a nap, instead of rocking or singing etc. so they will learn that the place (ie crib/bassinet) is for sleeping. This has been working pretty good for us. At the VERY first signs of being tired, we put her down and usually she will dose off unless she is OVER tired, which can then be a nightmare!!!

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