May 30th

Down for the night around 9:45 (bad way to start off a sleep log, huh ~ not knowing what time she went down). She went down really well. I put her down and she started fussing, but I kept my face right next to her face and rubbed her head. Then I used one hand to pull her blankets up and around her and kept the other hand on her head. Gave her lots of kisses throughout and only had to wait about a minute until I could walk away. And then IT began . . .

Up at 12:25 nursed for 8 minutes down at 12:40
Up at 1:35 down at 1:42
Up at 2:15 down at 2:28 (gave her Tylenol hoping it might help)
Up at 2:37 nursed and gave gas drops down at 3:12
Up at 5:15 . . . gave up and brought her to bed with me, so fell asleep within 5 minutes and slept until 7:15

TNS = 9.5
NOW = 5
TTA = 1.25 hours
LSS = 2 hours 40 minutes
TDS = 3 hours
TNS = 11.25 hours

Could it be that she's actually just not getting enough sleep and she's over tired? Hence why I would like to be putting her to sleep around 8, but its not worth it when she absolutely won't fall asleep until between 9:30 and 10 . . . its so stressful and frustrating for me to fight with her for an hour and a half to two hours.

First Entry

I was inspired by a fellow BIO mom's sleep log to do one with Alyssa since we're really trying to get her into a good sleep pattern. From about 2 months until just a couple weeks ago she did great ~ would sleep from 8 until anywhere between 3:30 and 5:15, then nurse and sleep until 8 or 9. Now she's waking up on average about 3 times a night and not sleeping longer than 3 hours at a stretch. I'm hoping that by keeping a sleep log I can analyze how much sleep she's really getting. Part of me thinks that this is foolish because I think a big part of her problem is that she's teething, but I'll try anything.

Our plan is a combination of NCSS (no cry sleep solutation) and CIO (cry it out) . . . which in itself can kind of sound like an oxymoron if you know anything about the methods. We plan to nurse/bottle then rock until she's sleep, lay her down, cuddle if needed and then leave the room. If she starts to cry, we'll let her cry for 2 - 3 minutes to see if she can settle herself down and if she's still crying, we'll go back in. So far she has needed to be picked up when we go back in because she's very upset, so soothing is not really an option that point.

I found this on one of the sheknows boards and am going to try to use it as part of this blog.

TNS = total (hours) nighttime sleep
NOW = Number of night wakings
LSS = Longest stretch of (uninterrupted) sleep
TTA = Total time awake (night)
TDS = total (hours) daytime sleep
T24 = total (hours) sleep in a 24 hour period