Hello Jen,

What an odd coincidence that I posted concerns about sleep the same time you did. Weird...

Anyway, my son is doing the same thing. He is 37 weeks and used to sleep a solid 6-8 hours a night and just the past few weeks he's started waking up every few hours. I think it's the teething.

We co-sleep, so most of the time I help him reposition closer to me and he goes right back to sleep. However, sometimes I do find myself up at 5am rocking him back to sleep or giving him a warm bottle to get him back to sleep. The earliest I will "let" him get up and play is 6:30am. Anything before that and I am doing everything humanly possible to get him back to sleep. We normally don't get out of bed until after 8am.

You didn't use the "cry it out" method to teach your daughter to fall asleep on her own? How soon before bedtime do you feed her? Do you always rock her to sleep or does she sometimes just fall asleep on her own? Did she always use her pacifier to help her sleep? (My son HATES his pacifier - I think it makes him angry there's no milk in it.  )

Kimberly

Hi my son is 19 months old and I remember him waking up like that. They go through stages like that and around 8 months old they can start to have night terrors so that could be part of the problem, a little touch and love to reassure them that you are still there puts them right back to sleep. Also Jen, the whole wanting her to fall asleep on her on thing, she is only going to be little for a short while and one day when she wants to do EVERYTHING on her on you might miss cuddling her when she was little! So take that 30mins every night and bond with her, she will always need you but she will never again "NEED YOU" the way she does right now. So just enjoy the mommy and me time before she goes to bed

My daughter does the same thing I have no idea what to do. I end up rocker back to sleep with the lights off so that she knows its night time not time to play. most of the time she gets the hint. I think she might b doing it because I just introduced formula. I breast feed at night and bottle feed during the day. She used to take two naps during the day, but recently stopped doing that. She wakes back up as soon as I put her down. It makes it really hard for me to get anything done around the house. I think I have already ruined any chance of her being independent,because I see other babies sleep on there own.

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