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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 4 kids and have been through it all with sleep. I have a 7 month old currently. I **strongly** agree with the pp's that your problem won't be solved until you solve the nap problem. Poor day sleep is definitely associated with poor night sleep. Can you find a neighbor or mother's helper who can sit with baby during naps? What is your driving schedule? My 7 month old naps from 9-11:30 and 12:30-2:30. He can def be pushed to 1-3 if need be. Those naps should make school pick ups and drop offs doable. [/quote]

pp here I would add that I had a bad sleeper with my third and found myself too tired and overwhelmed by everyone's advice. I read the two chapters in ferber on night weaning and then sleep training. I did it at 7 months. My baby went from waking many times a night to sleeping 12 hrs straight through in one week. you DONT have to read his whole book. just the two chapters on night weaning (must be done first) then sleep training. [/quote]

Thanks I'll look into it. I agree that the naps need to be resolved before I tackle night sleep. Really don't want to CIO. May do briefly timed checks if push comes to shove.

It's a vicious cycle. She's waking up too early so her first car cat nap falls on our way to drop off. She wakes when the kids exit the vehicle so she isn't tired enough to go back to sleep until the mid-day pick up. Same thing, falls asleep on the way there for ~20 mins and then too tired to go back to sleep until last pickup of the day. Rinse and repeat. Occasionally she will stay up until I can get her in the crib for one of those naps then it rarely lasts over 30 mins.

Though she did have a nice 90 min crib nap this morning, the only day we don't have a packed schedule. [/quote]

That’s great OP! Good luck! 
Don’t let the mean arpies on DCUM stress you out even more… they are likely none of onlies who have no experience having to juggle multiple kids. It will get better soon.

I suspect that because you are so exhausted, you are giving in to whatever baby wants/need. We did this with our third and it was a mistake. I ended up spending 4 nights awake (sort of) to wean baby from night feeding. He cried a lot and spent a lot of time awake… and it was really hard, but it worked. He stared sleeping much batter and only waking up once at 5am (he used to wake up every 1-2 hours). We co sleep though…. Not sure you want to do that.

We choose a long weekend when my DH could help and when we had other people able to help during the day because I literally did not sleep for 2 nights. We took turns, but things got better as soon as baby could sleep without milk. We never let him cry alone, we watched cars out of the window, we walked, rocked,  danced, all you can think of to sooth him and distract him from wanting milk.[/quote]

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