Go The [expletive] To Sleep

[lukethedrifter]

My daughter would not sleep at all during the day and cried most of it. Not quite the truth, you could finally get her to sleep then put her in the crib then as soon as you got 4.38 feet away from her toward the door she'd start wailing. Brutal.
I remember the day I discovered that the wind up swing plus this acoustic country/bluegrass Christmas cd would calm her and keep her quiet. It was incredible. Silence... ish. So calm.
Then her mother decided the swing was cluttering up the house so she got rid of it.

[heyzeus]

Actually this place we were going was the most expensive. So, it'll actually be cheaper unless we have to go with someone hourly which I don't think we will. Still, like 3 months into daycare and he's already getting booted. I don't know rather to be worried or....worried.

Honestly, don't worry too much. Babies can be incredibly persistent in their sleep habits; they can refuse bedtime (or naptime) for months and months, until something just clicks in their little heads and they go straight to sleep without any fuss. For us, it took mabe 9 or 10 months of screaming/crying/begging to go the [expletive] to sleep before it all clicked for 'Zeus Jr.

Keep the faith, and don't worry too much about the move to daycare. Just go with your gut. If you get a bad vibe about a place, move him to a new one. If it seems like the staff is overwhelmed or just sits around drinking Big Gulps all day (we had this experience), move him to a new one.

[cardsfansince82]

If it seems like the staff is overwhelmed or just sits around drinking Big Gulps all day (we had this experience), move him to a new one.

There's only one correct way to respond to that:

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[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

My daughter would not sleep at all during the day and cried most of it. Not quite the truth, you could finally get her to sleep then put her in the crib then as soon as you got 4.38 feet away from her toward the door she'd start wailing. Brutal.
I remember the day I discovered that the wind up swing plus this acoustic country/bluegrass Christmas cd would calm her and keep her quiet. It was incredible. Silence... ish. So calm.
Then her mother decided the swing was cluttering up the house so she got rid of it.

Sounds very familiar, minus the remedy.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

lol at 82, and thanks zeus.

[Freed Roger]

When my daughter was a baby, one night we steeled ourselves to just let her cry it out in the crib - so bawl bawl bawl...then immediate silence....which made me suspicious. Sure enough a few seconds later we hear a "thud" - she had climbed over the top of the crib. So if you decide to go the "cry it out route" my advice is to invest in some concertina wire.

At 10 she almost never has gone to sleep easily at night, or taken naps etc - not even in vehicles. It's frequent for us to think she's been asleep for an hour, and then about midnight she'll walk-in and announce that she can't sleep.

One time driving home thru the night from Smoky Mountains at age 5, she stayed up chatting with me from the backseat - then after 10 hours of driving, we are crossing the river and I tell her "there's the Arch" and turns out she was asleep -finally.

[Jocephus]

If it seems like the staff is overwhelmed or just sits around drinking Big Gulps all day (we had this experience), move him to a new one.

There's only one correct way to respond to that:

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[wart57]

Rose is the best sleeper of the 4. She usually falls to sleep between 11 pm and midnight, and wakes up at 4 for a bottle, and then sleeps until 8 or so. Every few nights she will sleep through the night. 1 out of 4 ain't bad I guess. Of course I am still the one up with her 'till midnight and I get up at 5 am to go to work, but 5 full hours in bed is better than the 3 to 4 I was getting...

[redbirdjazzz]

Rose is the best sleeper of the 4. She usually falls to sleep between 11 pm and midnight, and wakes up at 4 for a bottle, and then sleeps until 8 or so. Every few nights she will sleep through the night. 1 out of 4 ain't bad I guess. Of course I am still the one up with her 'till midnight and I get up at 5 am to go to work, but 5 full hours in bed is better than the 3 to 4 I was getting...

It's because you named her something nice and not another variation on the odiferous theme you've had going.

[Gashouse]

My 2.5 month old had been a fantastic sleeper from about 2 weeks old until 2 weeks ago. Now he's been fighting a bad cold and been fussy at night. Despite poor sleep, he was just awake at 4:30 yesterday and 4 today. Wouldn't go back to sleep and wanted some attention. I got up with him both times since my wife had been pretty much nursing him most of the night and dealing with most of the fussing. Now, I'm so tired, and don't really have time for a nap this afternoon before the game. I'm probably going to fall asleep in the 4th inning.