{"id":1438,"date":"2013-09-16T07:12:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2013-11-22T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:46:27","slug":"sleeping-sounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/16\/sleeping-sounder\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Sounder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little baby Doodle has now been in his own room at night for almost three weeks.\u00a0 He\u2019s been doing really well overall, only waking once or twice most nights and only had two nights where he didn\u2019t go right back to sleep after feeding.\u00a0 Even with him doing \u201cwell\u201d though, I\u2019m still ready for him to start sleeping better.\u00a0 The 6:30 wake up call to get Honeybun off to school in addition to the regular night feedings is all really adding up to make one tired and fussy mommy.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>I\u2019ve tried many things to try to get him to sleep better at night.\u00a0 I started trying to increase how often he feeds during the day, even to the point of waking him from naps or \u201cdream feeding\u201d him if he exceeded 2 hours between feeds.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tried getting him to feed longer each time.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tried getting him to take better and longer naps during the day rather than just cat napping. \u00a0(I did NOT try cutting back his naps as in my experience, young children who sleep more sleep better).<\/p>\n

I found, though, that none of those things made any bit of difference.\u00a0 After each attempted change he was still having unpredictable nights.\u00a0 Some where he would sleep until 3:00 or 4:00 before waking and some where he was waking early (like 12:30) and often (like every 2-3 hours).\u00a0 And then I came to a realization about what really was making a difference: water.<\/p>\n

I started to notice that days when I didn\u2019t drink very much water he was waking often through the night.\u00a0 I also noticed that on days when I really focused on drinking TONS of water, he only woke once after sleeping 6 or more hours.\u00a0 So now I\u2019m force feeding myself water (I\u2019m not a big water fan and even get an upset stomach when I drink too much) but if it helps me get some sleep, I\u2019ll do what I have to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little baby Doodle has now been in his own room at night for almost three weeks.\u00a0 He\u2019s been doing really well overall, only waking once or twice most nights and only had two nights where he didn\u2019t go right back to sleep after feeding.\u00a0 Even with him doing \u201cwell\u201d though, I\u2019m still ready for him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}