I need help ya'll. Serious help. (And I better not hear any of you mutter "yeah, we know" under your breath when you read that....) My boys are pretty stinkin' awesome and life is going pretty smoothly for the most part, but there are a few areas in which I could use your advice. At this point, any advice is welcome....unless it is along the lines of "How is this for advice... just shut up and stop blogging about your issues!!"
1. Is there a direct vent/line from the shower to the nursery? At least 2 times a week, Matthew will be sleeping soundly in his crib and then the second I turn the shower on in our bathroom, he wakes up. And what is weird is that the same thing used to happen to Jonathan. Zack would get up and start getting ready for work and almost instantly, Jonathan would start squeaking! I seriously considered that maybe a vent was connected somewhere and they could hear it, but they never hear anything else from our bathroom. The hairdryer, Zack's electric razor, when I vacuum the rug....we have even used the blender in their before and still, they slept on. So what am I supposed to do? Never shower again?
2. Speaking of sleep, Matthew hates sleeping Saturday-Monday nights. It is the weirdest thing. During the week, he sleeps awesome. I put him down at 8:00 and he wakes up around 6:15-6:30. Absolutely no complaints here! But Saturday-Monday, he is up all. night. long. I thought it was because he likes his weekday routine and when he gets off (on the weekend) it throws his night schedule off as well. So this weekend I did my very best to hold firm to his regular routine. Good naps, lots of bottles, good cuddles etc....and nothing. Last night he was up at 12:45, 2:25, 3:30 (I fed him 5 ounces at 3:30), 5:20 (when I turned on the shower of course) and up for good at 6:15. How can a kid who I KNOW can sleep all night, go from that to up every 2 hours?! He is 16 pounds, 4 months old, doesn't want to eat but MAYBE once a night.....what gives?!
3. And in regards to eating....It has been a constant battle to get Matthew to eat. He is formula fed and I think he hates the bottle. He wiggles his head, cries, fights, acts as if he is never hungry, basically just makes it a huge ordeal. I can't just sit and hold him when he eats either. I have to lay him flat on his play mat, walk around the house, lay him on his changing table so he can watch his mobile, stop feeding him for 10 minutes and try again. It is so frustrating! Now, at bedtime and if I feed him in the middle of the night, he is awesome. He will down his bottle in like 12 minutes and fall right back to sleep. But during the day...oh man. I have tried new formula, new bottles, we raised his dose of reflux medication (and I don't think this is the issue since he tends to eat better flat on his back) and tried spacing his meals out. Nothing has helped. Has this happened to anybody else? Anything you guys can suggest that worked for you?
4. And last but not least....Jonathan refuses to keep his drawers on. Luckily he hasn't learned how to take his diaper off, but man, that kid hates his pants. He will be playing in the front yard and all of a sudden I look over and his pants are off. Playing in the house? Of course the pants are off. He even tried once in the Wal Mart grocery cart. Options? Ideas? Most of his little shorts don't have belt loops, so a belt wouldn't work. And he is so skinny that they are already as tight as I can make them! And just for proof....
So there you go....any help would be appreciated. I know there has to be somebody, somewhere who has dealt with at least one of these issues! Help!
1) Have you sat in the bedroom and had Zack turn on the water? I'm wondering if a pipe to your shower runs by the nursery hence the waking up when the shower water is turned on?
ReplyDelete2) No clue here. Only thing I can think is he is so excited he gets to spend all day with you, his daddy and his brother - that maybe he is overstimulated hence the break in sleep patterns. Hope he grows out of this one quickly for you!
3) Have you tried a different bottle? Austin is formula fed and we found early on that he preferred and ate better with Dr. Brown's than other bottles. Just an idea.
4) No clue here love. Maybe you could entice him to keep his pants on with M&M's? That is how my sister got my nephew to be potty trained.
Good luck! You are doing awesome! Hugs!
I would like to echo your sentiments about #1, but sadly I don't have any advice :( Davis will sleep through the hairdryer, the vacuum, a thunderstorm, etc., but he wakes up every time we turn the shower on. Our bathroom shares a wall with his room, so that doesn't help. Wade has actually started getting ready in the guest bathroom, and that seems to help sometimes... not sure if you have a different bathroom you can use? Or just never shower again, like you suggested :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. In response to your comment on my blog day, I think the term "precious blessing" bothers me because it is overused and sounds kind of fake, though I am sure plenty of people are being genuine when they use it... I'm just a hater.
I can totally relate to #3! My girls fight eating a lot of the time too. They are such wiggle worms which is a battle within itself. I'm not sure I have any real solutions to offer you but a couple of things that I've seen over time is that:
ReplyDelete1) When they get like this, it is sometimes a gas issue and I will stop and burp them.
2) When they are fighting that hard, I will typically just give them their pacifier. If this satisfies them, I assume they're not hungry and move on.
Other than this, I'm really not sure what to tell you....but if you figure things out, please let me know :)