NOT SLEEPING 13 MONTHS IN

1st Timer: R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Your baby girl will most likely sleep through from week two. Girls are so easy!

We had a lovely "bonding time" night again. He went to bed at 7:30pm, woke up at 11pm and only went back to sleep at 2:30am! (After Stilpaine. But I think his teeth are very sore at the moment.)

I can't do the no-diary thing. It's very hard. Have decided I am weaning Sion and then HE can do the no-diary thing. He's on his own on that one. I think I've done my bit for "volk & vaderland" on the breastfeeding side.

Huggles, I am quoting from a website:

"Melatonin is a hormone produced in the pineal gland that is instrumental in helping people to get to sleep. It is secreted in greater quantities at night than by day. Apparently the darkness of night is a triggering factor, since the presence of artificial light has been demonstrated to affect melatonin production.

Babies, though, do not produce very much melatonin during the first few months of their lives. The little bit that is produced is produced at a consistent level — no higher by night than by day. Around the age of six months, however, a clear pattern in melatonin secretions emerges. The baby's system produces noticeably more of this hormone by night than by day. This coincides with the age at which babies begin to consolidate their sleeping hours, sleeping for a longer stretch at night and taking on average two distinct naps during the daytime hours."

Hi Gloei

I sort of got used to it. But am a more miserable person when I don't sleep. I really am one of those people who need at least seven hours of sleep, preferably 11!

He's been to a chiro quite a few times. I take him on a regular basis. He also had a thorough, as in THOROUGH check-up when he turned one at the best pead in town. We discussed it all and he said some babies do that. He also said Sion is almost too healthy. His own child only started sleeping through at 5! He said I have three choices. 1: Accept it. 2. Let him scream and sleep-train him or 3. Try melatonin.

I am back on the melatonin again. I checked food labels yesterday and there is no way I'll be able to go without diary. I have cut out cheese and most milk products but can't go full-on no diary. Sion also drinks rice milk, as well as breastfeeds.

I gave him melatonin for two and half weeks after I've been to the pead. Now that I think back, I stopped it, because he slept for four hours for two nights. (Which is like a miracle...) I shouldn't have stopped. My pead said I must give it for a month at least and then make it less. So I think what I've done is, just as it started to maybe work, I stopped it. I'm now going to give it for a full month and then gradually lessen it to none. Will see what happens.

But then again, like you also said, I was apparently the same when I was a baby. My mom said I hardly slept at all!