Sleeping problems
Hi everyone I am new in this field and I have so many questions but I believe the most important for now is how to recover a good sleep pattern for my wife.
Well my daughter is 11 month old chronological and corrected is 9 month. She born premature with just 29 week from then to now has been a really difficults days.
In the last 2 or 3 weeks She wakes up more than 3 times in the night and She try to play with us it doesn't matter that she is almost falling asleep, I called playing in a zoombie mode and she just want to be with her mom and rejects anything from my side.
We are trying with a more strict sleeping rutine (bath, story time, sleep) and at the beginning this work really well but now she is getting this behaviour again.
I Believe this is related to the stimulation that we give to her with different activities, such as swimming, playing in parks among others. But how i can still stimulate her and get a good sleeping time?
Do you have any recommendations?
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My best suggestion is for your wife to sleep when you get home. As soon as the baby has been fed, she sleeps for as many hours as possible. You need to sleep, too. Perhaps you could make room for the baby and either your wife or you could sleep with her separately until your child is sleeping better. I understand that the baby is showing a preference right now, but if she is safe, clean and fed, then she will just have to accept you. Perhaps weekends you could try to be more helpful and allow your wife some time away from the baby. I know it does not seem fair when you have to work but I promise you, hers is the harder job right now. She is always 'on'. You may not notice your breaks or lunch times, but even a few minutes of 'you' time is a miracle. You have to support each other.
It takes time for routines to be routine. Just look out for each other and you will get through it. Do try to be kind to each other, it will really help both of you.
We had turns. One was keeping touch with the baby when (s)he woke up at the night. Lets call this parent nightguard. NG would try to tell to the baby: It is night and we are sleeping. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. No talking to the baby beyond that. Stimulation at night keeps baby up.
When it was my time to guard the baby I petted babys back or just held my hand lightly on babys shoulders (our babies usually sleep belly down).
When it was time to feed the baby, nightguard did pick baby up for feeding.
This way I got some sleep every second night, so did my wife.
The real problem is when baby is trying to adjust daily routines and keeps waking up at night. Schedule might be off 1-2 months. When breast feeding ends there will be another set of sleeping trouble.
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