Trouble sleeping?
Hello everyone!
Hope you had a good and relaxing weekend! Mine was full of packing since we temporarily moved again to my husband's parents house. I shouldn't complain at all - we're lucky to have a temporary housing (and even two!) and not having to rent somewhat expensive apartment for a month. My parents are coming back to their house so that's why we had to leave. So my weekend consisted of cleaning both places, packing (again) and un-packing, cooking and just normal family stuff. Only thing is, our little L is kinda confused with this whole moving thing and he basically cried all saturday night. He also got this really cool fire-truck so he absolutely could not sleep! It's so hard to focus on anything when you haven't really slept - and same happened last night. More coffee, I say..
So back to the topic..trouble sleeping. We've dealt with that with L from the very beginning and we had some help with it in a hospital in Tammisaari when L was 11 months old. Sorry, this link is only in finnish but I'll try to explain it in a nutshell here and share my experience with you all. When we were dealing with this topic, we didn't find that much information on this topic so I really hope someone will find this helpful!
I used to breastfeed L into sleep and he usually fell asleep just fine after (eating). But then he would wake up after 2 hours of sleep, crying and wanting more milk - and that continued every 1-2 hours until morning. Very exhausting and we tried and tried to teach him how to sleep but with no results. I mean, me might have slept for a night or two for 2-3 hours maximum but then we we're back to where we started. This lasted until he was 11 months old, and next section covers it in more detail.
When we arrived there, they (a doctor and a nurse) did a thorough back-ground check on us: they asked everything about our daily schedule from eating to playing to outing..everything. They also examined L (bloodtests etc.) to make sure there was not illness or anything behind this. No, L was (and is) very healthy. They also gave us separate rooms: mothers sleep during the night at this hospital (awesome!) and nurses teach the babies to sleep, and there's only one baby in a room. Meaning nurses have monitors and when the babie(s) cry, they go in and try to calm down baby & teach him/her, it is night time and you need to sleep. No carrying the baby, no milk at night - just talking softly.
Okay, this was the hardest part: being away from my child for a night. Good thing is that in the morning, mother goes in first to breastfeed/greet the child and spends the day with him/her. The nurse gives mother a report of the night, and we also discussed about during the day. Our first night didn't go well - of course it didn't since L is so used to getting what he wants (usually milk) and this time he didn't. I wont go to details but our second night was already better - he only cried once and then fell asleep pretty fast. Third night was the charm: he slept all night long. And that continued until last fall when he started day-care - but soon again he started sleeping again. The reason I wanted to do this sleeping school wasn't just about sleeping - it was also that when he didn't sleep during the night, he was tired during the day. That meant he didn't eat that much either. So when he learned how to sleep, he learned how to eat!
So all in all a good experience and I'm sure we can tackle our current sleeping problems..before our second son borns. Anyone else having these sleeping problems? What are your views on sleeping schools/teaching a baby/toddler on how to sleep?
Hope you had a good and relaxing weekend! Mine was full of packing since we temporarily moved again to my husband's parents house. I shouldn't complain at all - we're lucky to have a temporary housing (and even two!) and not having to rent somewhat expensive apartment for a month. My parents are coming back to their house so that's why we had to leave. So my weekend consisted of cleaning both places, packing (again) and un-packing, cooking and just normal family stuff. Only thing is, our little L is kinda confused with this whole moving thing and he basically cried all saturday night. He also got this really cool fire-truck so he absolutely could not sleep! It's so hard to focus on anything when you haven't really slept - and same happened last night. More coffee, I say..
Bathroom renovation
We did make it to a hardware store yesterday, and pretty much decided on what kind of tiles we want on the walls and floor. And we found a new toilet seat for a good price at Bauhaus, so that's a good thing too. The bathroom renovation project is also going on despite of those old pipes found underneath floor tiles - plumber's coming to see them tomorrow and he'll be the expert on saying whether they're ok to remove or not. Hope the are and we can move forward! At this point, our deadline on the project is april 8th for the very latest :)
Trouble sleeping
So back to the topic..trouble sleeping. We've dealt with that with L from the very beginning and we had some help with it in a hospital in Tammisaari when L was 11 months old. Sorry, this link is only in finnish but I'll try to explain it in a nutshell here and share my experience with you all. When we were dealing with this topic, we didn't find that much information on this topic so I really hope someone will find this helpful!I used to breastfeed L into sleep and he usually fell asleep just fine after (eating). But then he would wake up after 2 hours of sleep, crying and wanting more milk - and that continued every 1-2 hours until morning. Very exhausting and we tried and tried to teach him how to sleep but with no results. I mean, me might have slept for a night or two for 2-3 hours maximum but then we we're back to where we started. This lasted until he was 11 months old, and next section covers it in more detail.
Sleeping school
That's when I started finding more information on how to get help from professionals and soon we we're on our way to this hospital where they're specialized on helping families with (a baby/toddler) having sleeping problems. This sleeping school, as they call it, lasts three nights and days and after that, babies usually (and very of then they do) learn how to sleep all night long.When we arrived there, they (a doctor and a nurse) did a thorough back-ground check on us: they asked everything about our daily schedule from eating to playing to outing..everything. They also examined L (bloodtests etc.) to make sure there was not illness or anything behind this. No, L was (and is) very healthy. They also gave us separate rooms: mothers sleep during the night at this hospital (awesome!) and nurses teach the babies to sleep, and there's only one baby in a room. Meaning nurses have monitors and when the babie(s) cry, they go in and try to calm down baby & teach him/her, it is night time and you need to sleep. No carrying the baby, no milk at night - just talking softly.
Okay, this was the hardest part: being away from my child for a night. Good thing is that in the morning, mother goes in first to breastfeed/greet the child and spends the day with him/her. The nurse gives mother a report of the night, and we also discussed about during the day. Our first night didn't go well - of course it didn't since L is so used to getting what he wants (usually milk) and this time he didn't. I wont go to details but our second night was already better - he only cried once and then fell asleep pretty fast. Third night was the charm: he slept all night long. And that continued until last fall when he started day-care - but soon again he started sleeping again. The reason I wanted to do this sleeping school wasn't just about sleeping - it was also that when he didn't sleep during the night, he was tired during the day. That meant he didn't eat that much either. So when he learned how to sleep, he learned how to eat!
So all in all a good experience and I'm sure we can tackle our current sleeping problems..before our second son borns. Anyone else having these sleeping problems? What are your views on sleeping schools/teaching a baby/toddler on how to sleep?
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