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Sleep Deprived!

Lately my 6 month old daughter will not sleep through the night at all! When she was born she slept through the night since 2 weeks. We have been to her doctor about this many times but she continues to wake up every night acting like she wants to play. She is getting plenty of food (she's on formula, cereal, all kinds of baby food, gerber graduates puffs, and cheerios). We just switched her formula to Similac Sensitive for fussines and gas because we thought she may have bad gas pains and that's causing her to wake up. My boyfriend, Lily and her 2 year old sister are currently all in the basement together while we save up enough to get a house. So everytime Lily cries at night I run to her to soothe her so her sister doesn't wake up. She was used to a bottle at night but we slowly got her off of that with help from her dr. But she's still waking up! We try letting her scream on nights her sister is not there but it seems like that doesn't work at all. She screams from 2:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. then falls asleep but it up by 6:00 a.m. Last night when I ran to her nothing soothed her, not her ninny not a bottle as last resort and she ended up waking up her sister and no one got any sleep! Please help! I have no idea what to do. It's a complicated situation and I need help!

Written by Emily
Posted on 03/18/2010
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during the day KEEP her awake. no matter how hard she cries comfort her but do not let her take a nap. i had to do that with my son and after a week he started sleeping all the way through the night. feed her dinner around 8:00pm then give her a nice warm bath with nighttime baby bath and lotion. then cuddle her until she falls asleep. 15 minutes after she falls asleep put her in her crib/bassinette. it will work i promise. just make sure not to let her take a nap until she is sleeping all the way through the night. once she is then dont let her sleep for more than 2-3 hours in the day or your right back where you started.
posted by skittlez on 05/28/2010
she may also be starting to get some teeth. I know that my son slept well until his teeth started coming in at around 5 months. we started giving him tylenol or motrin practically every night if we thought he seemed like he was drooling/chewing more than usual.
posted by Melissa on 06/01/2010
  
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