Well, folks, my mama just left us. I wish she could stay for another few nights, but she has a life, too.
I'm nowhere near rejuvenated but I also feel like I can go into tonight and be okay. We talked about it, and while it would have been best for me just to leave and sleep in a hotel, I wasn't sure how it would go for Tiny Boy. In the end, we took a compromise position that got us both some more sleep than we were getting. I slept downstairs, my mom stayed with him, and she brought him to me to nurse. Then around 5:00 am we ended up switching, and I managed to fall back to sleep until LG needed to get ready for school.
Some things learned: (1) Tiny Boy really does have digestive issues of some kind in the night. Prevacid is helping (the 40 minute stupidity didn't start until about 4:00 am, instead of the beginning of the night), but he's really gassy. He actually ended up pooping around 3:00 in the morning one night. Not sure what to do about that. (2) My mom also confirmed his sleep patterns for me (and really I consider the past few days to be back to baseline for the most part): he goes a roughly 4 hr stretch, then 2.5-3, then 2, and then all hell breaks loose around 3:00 or 4:00 am. He's fussy, inconsolable, etc, nurses and still won't go back to sleep comfortably or easily. (3) He prefers to sleep in the crib, and, other than wanting to nurse, will go back to sleep with some mild back rubbing.
And then there's me. The main problem that surfaced in the past week was that my old insomnia coupled with the mommy sleep deprivation. So I had trouble falling asleep and then once woken couldn't go back to sleep. Ambien is not a great drug for me, though I experimented taking it different ways, at different times, and last night seemed to work best (taking it at 11:30, in one dose instead of halved). I don't want to be on it long term, so I need to get in to see my primary care provider to talk options.
Need to get a bit of work done this afternoon... I'll let you know how it goes tonight.
I'm nowhere near rejuvenated but I also feel like I can go into tonight and be okay. We talked about it, and while it would have been best for me just to leave and sleep in a hotel, I wasn't sure how it would go for Tiny Boy. In the end, we took a compromise position that got us both some more sleep than we were getting. I slept downstairs, my mom stayed with him, and she brought him to me to nurse. Then around 5:00 am we ended up switching, and I managed to fall back to sleep until LG needed to get ready for school.
Some things learned: (1) Tiny Boy really does have digestive issues of some kind in the night. Prevacid is helping (the 40 minute stupidity didn't start until about 4:00 am, instead of the beginning of the night), but he's really gassy. He actually ended up pooping around 3:00 in the morning one night. Not sure what to do about that. (2) My mom also confirmed his sleep patterns for me (and really I consider the past few days to be back to baseline for the most part): he goes a roughly 4 hr stretch, then 2.5-3, then 2, and then all hell breaks loose around 3:00 or 4:00 am. He's fussy, inconsolable, etc, nurses and still won't go back to sleep comfortably or easily. (3) He prefers to sleep in the crib, and, other than wanting to nurse, will go back to sleep with some mild back rubbing.
And then there's me. The main problem that surfaced in the past week was that my old insomnia coupled with the mommy sleep deprivation. So I had trouble falling asleep and then once woken couldn't go back to sleep. Ambien is not a great drug for me, though I experimented taking it different ways, at different times, and last night seemed to work best (taking it at 11:30, in one dose instead of halved). I don't want to be on it long term, so I need to get in to see my primary care provider to talk options.
Need to get a bit of work done this afternoon... I'll let you know how it goes tonight.
I don't know if this would work now that your baby is bigger and mobile, but one of my friends whose baby had severe digestive issues had her baby sleep in a baby papasan chair. From what you've been saying (and this is complete armchair speculation), I wonder if it gets worse later at night because he hasn't been upright in a long time, and maybe there's a way you could safely get him more vertical during the second half of the night?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking sleepy thoughts at you all!
I'm going to second what nicoleandmaggie said ... I had some friends who did the same for their baby and it seemed to work pretty well.
ReplyDeleteMy first child would also poop in the middle of the night. The pediatrician assured me he'd grow out of it. *sigh*