SLEEPING IN MY ARMS ALL NIGHT

[Anonymous]

I know it must seem that I am posting on just about every topic but I have so many questions and concerns and this is the only place I feel I have to turn.Grayson will not sleep unless someone is holding him unless he accidently falls asleep in his swing and that has just recently started happening and it only last for a short time…30min at the tops. I have tried to swaddle him but he just screams and thrashes around until he makes himself sick.I cant seem to let him “cry it out” as I know he still feels so bad and seems so afraid when he figures out he is “alone” even though I am still right there with him.So…we both end up in the recliner with him up against my chest as content as he can be.. he had even started sleeping 3hours at a time some nights. I am happy that he is starting to get some rest and I will do what I have to in order for him to feel good but I would be nice to sleep in my bed once in awhile. I welcome any suggestions!

[Anonymous]

Hello. I don’t have any suggestions I just want to make some comments. As young as he is I don’t blame you not wanting him to CIO. A lot of people do not recommend that technique unless you know that it is a behavioral problem and that he is not hurting. There are a lot of mothers on here that has been dealing with no sleep so we definetly understand. Emma will be a year this week and still has not slept through the night. She is teething and I can’t make her go through that right now and she ends up sleeping with me. She almost always slept with me when she was Grayson’s age. If that was the only way she could sleep so be it. I just wanted her to be comfortable and not crying. Like I said though I understand what you are going through and the thing that keeps me sane about this sleeping issue is that they will only be this age once and we are both content snuggled up together and if that what makes her happy I wouldn’t change it for the world and someday she will be sleeping by herself and I will miss her by me. Good luck, I know others will chim in but I just wanted to add my story.

[Anonymous]

Kaelyn only slept on me while I lay reclined on the couch for the first 9 weeks of her life. Well, actually, for the first 2 weeks, we kept trying her flat on her back in the bassinet and none of us got any sleep – at the most 45 minutes at a time. At 9 weeks, we finally had her on a fairly reasonable dose of prevacid and she was somewhat less fussy than she had been, so we started putting her to sleep at night in her crib on her stomach. Tummy sleeping made a huge difference for her. She was so uncomfortable on her back that she just couldn’t sleep. She still didn’t sleep for more than 3 hours at a time, but that felt wonderful to us!

[Anonymous]

I have tried the tummy sleeping as he is on an apnea monitor and at first(around 4-6 weeks)he would take short naps but after a couple of hospital stays and then when I returned to work….forget it he will not have any thing to do with it.I feel guilty for even asking how to get him to sleep alone as I do enjoy having him close to me.I can handle it for as long as he needs me to but one of the big problems is that I am a single mother and I work full time.So….when he is at the sitter during the day he also refuses to sleep unless being held. Thankfully he stays with my mother but she is 70 and it is getting very hard on her as he weighs 15lb 9oz and is a chunk.

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