Sleep Problems: Infant, The First Years

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Sleep Problems at 4.5 Months?!?!

Hi! I'm L.. I have a 4.5 month old baby boy who doesn't like to sleep. I've been told by our pedi he is a night crier. He doesn't like to take naps during the day, and if he does lay down it's for maybe 30 min. at most. Bedtime usually comes between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m., and he normally wakes again during the night between 4-6 a.m. From month 1 to month 2, he was an incredible sleeper sleeping 9 + hours straight through. Now, I'm lucky to get that at all. Is it normal for 4.5 month old babies to have such an unhealthy sleep pattern? ...

Sleep Schedule Changes

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Daughter Has Changed Her Sleep Schedule!

Hi everyone: my daughter used to have a pretty set schedule when it came to sleep. She would go down about 8:30pm, wake up at 9:30am (yes, I have been told I am lucky), go down for a nap about 11 and sleep til about 1:30 or 2pm. Then another nap about 3 for a couple hours. That's about it. She was awake a lot. Then she got sick, with croupy cough, and changed her schedule! She now gets REALLY grumpy about 7:30pm, wakes up about 7:45am, occasionally waking up around midnight or wanting to go to sleep about 5pm, then goes down for a nap...

Sleep Training

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Confused About Newborn Sleep Training Books, Need Advice for 6 Week Old Baby

I have been reading lots of different sleep training books, Babywise, The Baby Whisperer, Dr Sears etc. They all extol the virtues of letting the baby learn to go to sleep on her own without any "props", ie mom rocking, vibrations, etc. The problem is that I've read so many different things that I'm confused and still have no plan. I don't really believe in attachment parenting but yet I also don't believe in detachment parenting. I feel like letting the baby cry it out is reasonable in some cases but at the same time I can never do it, it...

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