Sleep Training

Day One
1st nap - 1 hour 40 minutes, no crying
2nd nap - 45 mins, 5 minutes crying
3rd nap - 45 mins, 10 minutes cry to sleep, awaken by sound
Slept at 7 pm. Woke up crying at 7.25 pm. Cried for 35 minutes non stop.
Woke up at 1 am in crawl position.
Woke up crying at 5 am even when I pat her. Cried for 10 mins.
Woke up at 6.50 am because mommy was brushing teeth (sound)

Day Two
1st nap - 1 hr 25 mins, no crying
2nd nap - 1 hr 40 mins, cried for 3 mins, stare into space, cried on off 10 mins
3rd nap - 25 mins (I woke her cos it was 5 pm)
Slept at 7.10 pm after crying for 5 mins
Woke up crying at 5.45 am. Didn't fuss. Played with toes and slept on.
Woke up at 6.55 am

Day Three
1st nap - 45 mins, cried on and off.
2nd nap - 1 hr 15 mins, cried for 25 mins on off.
3rd nap - 35 mins
Woke up crying once and slept.
Woke up at 6.20 am

Day Four
1st nap - 1 hr 5 mins, slept on her own
2nd nap - 1 hr 30 mins, cried for 5 mins on off.
3rd nap - 35 mins. Talking to herself and then fall asleep
Woke up at 1 am, 6 am. On off crying.
Woke up at 6.50 am

Day Five
1st nap - 30 mins then cried for 25 mins on off and slept for 45 mins
2nd nap - 1 hr 40 mins
no 3rd nap (can't sleep from 4 pm - 4.30 pm)
Woke up at 3.30 am, played on her own and sleep.
Woke up at 6 am, cried on off. 


Day Six
1st nap - 1 hr 5 mins, cried for 1 minute
2nd nap - 1 hr 25 mins, cried on off
3rd nap - 40 mins,  cried on off
Woke up at 4 am and cry.
Woke up at 6.20 am

Day Seven
1st nap - 40 mins (didn't sleep much, played herself)
2nd nap - 1 hr 35 mins
3rd nap - 30 mins
Woke up at 4 am and cry.
Woke up at 6.25 am

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I think the sleep plan works. So all along my baby is cranky because of 2 things. Lack of sleep and doesn't know how to fall asleep on her own. In order to help her, a nap schedule and standard bedtime routine is needed. Slowly reduce and eventually eliminate the rocking, patting, swaying, carrying etc cos she needs to sleep on her own. Even when she wakes up from noise/dreams, she needs to learn how to soothe herself to sleep again.

I would say that so far so good. I am confident that she can sleep from 7 pm to 6 am now without feeding milk, without waking too much (so far only once - but she didn't cry much or scream or yell.) I am so surprised that she could play with her toes and bolster and then fall back to sleep herself.

In fact, yesterday I sneaked out at 8 pm to celebrate a friend's birthday. I reached home at 10.15 pm and she didn't move an inch. Slept like a log.

I hope that it gets easier from now on.

My mom has been "complaining" that she sleeps too much and cannot play with her like last time and has such a strict timetable. But seriously I think I want my baby to have enough rest and sleep for now. And I've never been as proud as a mommy as now.

Baby Sleep Site

http://www.babysleepsite.com/

Mommy is SOOO desperate already. I bought a S$120 customised sleep plan package for baby.

Mommy's books

I bought these two books from book depository.com. Both are highly recommended by friends.

I usually read (if I am not that tired) when baby is napping since she naps an average of 1 hour each time in the day (3 nap times from 9.30 am - 6 pm).

On a separate note, baby has called 'mamama' and 'ah mama' now though she probably doesn't know what that means. Whenever she said that, I am attentive to her so she could be using mamama to anyone to signal for attention.

7 months and one week old

Baby is 7 months and a week old. She is learning to do the crawl position already.

She was practicing until she is tired and fell asleep on her own. 

This only happens when I am at home with her.

I am very frustrated and irritated when people start to disrupt the healthy sleeping habits that I am training my baby. If you want to carry and rock until she falls asleep then you jolly well come and stay at my house and rock in the wee hours at night. Damn.

Warded in Mount Alvernia

My baby was warded in Mount Alvernia. She was having a fever of 39.2 degrees and doesn't want to eat her porridge. We went Thomson Medical 24 hours clinic but he didn't do anything, just gave us fever medicine. Then the next day, the fever was still high and we decided to go Mount A. Doc said that she has 5 mega red ulcers in her throat and suspected her with HFMD. She has to be warded.

The first night, she woke up 7 times (from 10 pm to 6 am) cos of the pain in her throat. Mommy was really really shag out on the second night. I couldn't wake up to change her diaper at all and she pooed in her romper and soiled the whole mattress crying and crying for help.

On top of waking up to attend to my baby (feed milk, change diaper, entertain her while she is awake),
a) Nurse came in to ask whether she drank milk, how much she drank, whether she pooed, changed diapers?
b) Nurse came in to check temperature
c) Nurse came in to give medication
d) Nurse came in to give nebulizer
e) Nurse came in to deliver my food
f) Cleaner came in to empty rubbish bin and wash toilet
g) Nurse came in to give newspaper
h) Visitors talking loudly along the corridor
i) Babies in other wards wailing away
j) smsing and updating my friends on baby's condition

I almost died.


The third night onwards, mommy gave up and decided to put her on drip. It was just too exhausting for me. If she was on drip, I don't have to be bothered about whether she is drinking enough milk. At some hours, she only can drink 60 ml and I don't know how to calculate the next timing to feed her and how much.

We spent a total of 8 days in the hospital. HFMD sprung her bronchitis and she was put on nebulizer. The nurse had to come and disturb her (and mine) rest every 4-6 hourly. She ended up with really lack of sleep. One night, she was so frustrated and angry that she cried for a full one hour non-stop after being disturbed from her sleep.

We cannot imagine the hospital bill as we didn't manage to get a hospitalisation plan in time. Stupid Aviva took more than 5 months to approve the insurance when they already took the premium. We decided to cancel and go with NTUC.

Anyway, glad that she is well and fine now.

We celebrated her 7 months old in the hospital. Daddy got her a present and she was so happy.