Sleeping saga

[Matej Cepl]

Hi,

our DD is a seven-weeks sweetest creature imaginable, she sleeps very well
at night (wakes up once in the night around 2AM and then something like
6:30AM), and sleeps also very happily most of the day (except for some time
when she plays with us a little), and there does not seem to be any problem
with her at all. That is except for putting her down for sleep in the
evening. She gets bath around 7PM (or sometimes slightly earlier) and then
it takes (in the last four days that is) like until 11PM before she really
falls asleep (and tonight it is 23:35 and a mom is nursing her just now to
pacify her).

We hoped to avoid for some more time a need to let her cry out to her sleep
and I really do not want to do it to her unless it is really necessary.
Moreover, to me (a Dad) it seems too early to do proper sleep training. Can
anybody enlighten us (please!) and/or share their own experiences with
terrible putting down babies?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Matej (for his beloved daughter Andulka)

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A man once asked Mozart how to write a symphony. Mozart told him
to study at the conservatory for six or eight years, then
apprentice with a composer for four or five more years, then
begin writing a few sonatas, pieces for string quartets, piano
concertos, etc. and in another four or five years he would be
ready to try a full symphony. The man said, "But Mozart, didn't
you write a symphony at age eight?" Mozart replied, "Yes, but
I didn't have to ask how."
-- ripped from another sig

[Ericka Kammerer]

Matej Cepl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> our DD is a seven-weeks sweetest creature imaginable, she sleeps very well
> at night (wakes up once in the night around 2AM and then something like
> 6:30AM), and sleeps also very happily most of the day (except for some time
> when she plays with us a little), and there does not seem to be any problem
> with her at all. That is except for putting her down for sleep in the
> evening. She gets bath around 7PM (or sometimes slightly earlier) and then
> it takes (in the last four days that is) like until 11PM before she really
> falls asleep (and tonight it is 23:35 and a mom is nursing her just now to
> pacify her).
>
> We hoped to avoid for some more time a need to let her cry out to her sleep
> and I really do not want to do it to her unless it is really necessary.
> Moreover, to me (a Dad) it seems too early to do proper sleep training. Can
> anybody enlighten us (please!) and/or share their own experiences with
> terrible putting down babies?

Good heavens, yes, this is too early for sleep training.
She sounds perfectly normal to me. Most babies this age have a
longer wakeful spell, and it sounds like your daughter's is
just hitting at an inconvenient time for you. You may be able to
nudge her longer wakeful period earlier by jiggling her schedule
around a bit. Maybe you can move the bath or feeding or other
naps or whatever around to help move it somewhere more convenient
for you, though it would likely be a slow process. In my
experience, this is a common pattern for babies this age.
Mine went down later as newborns, and then went to bed
progressively earlier as they got older.

Best wishes,
Ericka

[Stephanie Stowe]

"Matej Cepl" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> our DD is a seven-weeks sweetest creature imaginable, she sleeps very well
> at night (wakes up once in the night around 2AM and then something like
> 6:30AM), and sleeps also very happily most of the day (except for some
> time
> when she plays with us a little), and there does not seem to be any
> problem
> with her at all. That is except for putting her down for sleep in the
> evening. She gets bath around 7PM (or sometimes slightly earlier) and then
> it takes (in the last four days that is) like until 11PM before she really
> falls asleep (and tonight it is 23:35 and a mom is nursing her just now to
> pacify her).
>
> We hoped to avoid for some more time a need to let her cry out to her
> sleep
> and I really do not want to do it to her unless it is really necessary.
> Moreover, to me (a Dad) it seems too early to do proper sleep training.
> Can
> anybody enlighten us (please!) and/or share their own experiences with
> terrible putting down babies?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>

It does seem to young to me. But it also important to understand what sleep
training is intended to train for. There is no training for falling asleep
when you are not really tired, for example. It is entirely possible that you
can skip the whole "sleep training" thing by not creating bad habits that
have to be undone later. You can head over to the library for some baby
sleep books and get an idea of what is going on with sleep, and skip the
solutions/training parts until later.

> Matej (for his beloved daughter Andulka)
>
> --
> Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
> GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
> 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
>
> A man once asked Mozart how to write a symphony. Mozart told him
> to study at the conservatory for six or eight years, then
> apprentice with a composer for four or five more years, then
> begin writing a few sonatas, pieces for string quartets, piano
> concertos, etc. and in another four or five years he would be
> ready to try a full symphony. The man said, "But Mozart, didn't
> you write a symphony at age eight?" Mozart replied, "Yes, but
> I didn't have to ask how."
> -- ripped from another sig
>

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I agree with the other posters that are suggesting that your baby is
too young for any schedule other than their own.

I do have a suggestion to pass along.

Between 7pm and 11pm our DD could be quite fussy. We made a comment to
our midwife who suggested we look at mothers afternoon protein intake.

We found that as soon as mother started having a protein snack in the
afternoon our DD couldn't be happier in the evening. DD still doesn't
like to be tired but it's changed the experience greatly.

Good luck

[JennP]

"Matej Cepl" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> our DD is a seven-weeks sweetest creature imaginable, she sleeps very well
> at night (wakes up once in the night around 2AM and then something like
> 6:30AM), and sleeps also very happily most of the day (except for some
time
> when she plays with us a little), and there does not seem to be any
problem
> with her at all. That is except for putting her down for sleep in the
> evening. She gets bath around 7PM (or sometimes slightly earlier) and then
> it takes (in the last four days that is) like until 11PM before she really
> falls asleep (and tonight it is 23:35 and a mom is nursing her just now to
> pacify her).
>
> We hoped to avoid for some more time a need to let her cry out to her
sleep
> and I really do not want to do it to her unless it is really necessary.
> Moreover, to me (a Dad) it seems too early to do proper sleep training.
Can
> anybody enlighten us (please!) and/or share their own experiences with
> terrible putting down babies?

This sounds like a perfectly appropriate schedule she's set for herself. In
fact, I think at seven weeks Jessica was doing something similar except her
first stretch of sleep was a bit longer. I wouldn't dream of doing any sleep
training yet. Waaaay too early. Think about it again at six months if you
think you want to take that route.

JennP.

[Matej Cepl]

Matej Cepl wrote:
> We hoped to avoid for some more time a need to let her cry out to her
> sleep and I really do not want to do it to her unless it is really
> necessary. Moreover, to me (a Dad) it seems too early to do proper sleep
> training. Can anybody enlighten us (please!) and/or share their own
> experiences with terrible putting down babies?

Thanks to everybody who answered to our request. We have got over the idea,
that we would plan her sleeping schedule and now everything seems to be
more or less fine (DD gets to the bed on 11PM).

Matej

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Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
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138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded
easily.
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