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| buy the book the baby whisperer or go on her website, i think her name is tracy hogg. she says what you should do is first find out if your baby is getting up because he is hungry cause sometimes babies just dont get up for food, the get up from habbit or to see if you are around and just because. so if it is food and you are giving him cereal at night, perhaps you should give him some cereal for breakfast too, increase his bottle by a few more ounces and see if he eats it, also she also talks about dream feeding where you go in there before 11 pm and give him a bottle before he wakes up this way he is not hungry. i bought the book and it helped me alot. she is now on a every four hour feed and she naps about twice a day, goes to sleep around 8 or 9 and she gets up perhaps once to put her binky back in her mouth. i tell everyone about this book because my daughter never slept. if the problem isnt that he is hungry she also tells you things you can try. |
| posted by MARYANNE on 07/15/2007 02:53 PM
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| I wouldn't worry too much about it. He may be teething or having a growth spurt. My son did not sleep through the night until he was 7 months old and sometimes he still wakes up (10 months now) when he is not feeling good. |
| posted by Chrissy on 07/15/2007 05:53 PM
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| Thanks for the advice. Maybe I will try to feed him cereal more than once a day and see. He was only if the 40-50 percentile for his height and weight. Which i dont understand because he eats about 6-8 oz each feeding. But its nice to know that I am not the only mom with this problem. |
| posted by kristi on 07/15/2007 08:15 PM
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MaryNNE
Im just curious in your comment u said u feed your child before 11pm when he is asleep. How on earth do u do this
just wondering mine is now 2 1/2 way past the bottle stage LOL |
| posted by laura on 07/15/2007 09:36 PM
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| Does he wake up with a full scream or does he just make some noises.? My husband would get up as soon as my daughter wimpered at three in the morning I finally had to tell him to let her be and she now falls back asleep a few minutes later (granted it took a week or so). If you don't get him everytime he may learn to sleep longer. Hope this helps. |
| posted by Monica on 07/15/2007 09:53 PM
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| I have to agree with Monica. I use to get up everytime my son would make a noise in the middle of the night (as most first time moms probably did). Once I started letting him make noise without getting him up, he eventually learned to go back to sleep on his own so he was able to self soothe himself and went right back to sleep. |
| posted by Toni on 07/15/2007 10:33 PM
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If your baby is only in the 40-50 percentile, he will not sleep no more than 5 hours at night. The solution is to feed the baby as much as he will take during the day.The more intake a baby has during the day the longer he will sleep for you at night. Any other questions you can email me.
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| posted by Lois on 07/16/2007 08:41 AM
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What do you consider sleeping through the night? I've been told that if my child sleeps at least 5 hours straight, than that is through the night. I've had some luck with a book called "the No-Cry Sleep Solution" (http://www.ianhawthorn.com/2007/06/26/39/). Honestly, I didn't get to the sleep solution part of the book, but the first half gave me a lot of advice that I used and my son only gets up 1-2 a night now.
Do you have a nightly routine? Something you do every night right before bed? My son won't go to sleep unless we do his routine and he's 4-1/2 months. We started the routine when he was just barely 2 months and it seemed to get him to sleep quicker.
Strangely enough, we just started him on cereal and it seems that he has been getting up more since we've started. I'm not sure if there is any correlation between the two, but it has gotten me to thinking. |
| posted by Jaxon on 07/16/2007 02:31 PM
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| Yes since starting the cereal he does seem to wake up at least one more time. I guess if you consider 5 hours sleeping through the night then he does. He goes to bed around ten and wakes up at three , then six and eight. I have to confess that i jump up and go to him as soon as i hear him. Maybe i will have to just let him cry ans see if he will go back to sleep. |
| posted by kristi on 07/16/2007 04:02 PM
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| I've found that if he is still making noises after 2-3 minutes, then I should get up. When I do have to go to him, I've found that he doesn't always need to be picked up and fed either. Sometimes he just needs to be comforted, so I'll rub or pat his back and he'll fall back asleep. Granted it doesn't always work, but once I started thinking like that, I started getting a lot more sleep even if he was waking up 2-3 times a night. |
| posted by Jaxon on 07/16/2007 05:26 PM
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| the dream feed is for babies usually under 6 months but what the author says to do is around 10 make a bottle, pick the baby up from the crib, and the baby will naturally suck on the bottle and eat, i did it and she didnt wake up fully she just drank her bottle. i held her for about 15 minutes after the bottle just in case she spat up, she never woke up and i put her down again. i only did this if by some reason she fell asleep before i gave her a last bottle around 7 or so. now she goes to bed around 8 and wakes up around 6 in the morning for another bottle and then takes a long snooze from about 9 to 11 in the morning, which is when i shower. when she gets up i give her cereal. i feed her three meals a day and she gets about 7 ounces of formula about four times a day. and she is skinny too. she is a great baby. her naps and feedings are down to a schedule but it took until she was about 6 months to get it that way. |
| posted by MARYANNE on 07/16/2007 08:47 PM
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| Maryanne, what time do you put your baby to sleep or how long after she's asleep do you try this? I've actually heard of the dream feeding, but haven't actually tried it yet. My son is 4.5 months and he's still getting up a bit during the night and I would love to get a full nights sleep. Have you ever had a time when she woke up while you were giving her the bottle? How did she react? |
| posted by Jaxon on 07/16/2007 10:04 PM
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| no she never fully woke up because she was sound asleep when i got her from the crib she she just sucks naturally and is still asleep, if i saw her eyes motion she just fell back to sleep. you should read the Tracy Hogg book - i think its called the baby whisperer or go online and read what she has to say. its weird because i was in your position and one day at the mall some woman out of nowhere came up to me and started talking to me about her my baby and all this stuff and i didnt know her or anything. as it turns out the baby whisperer died a few years ago from skin cancer. i thought that was weird since i had been praying to GOD for some sleep. i was truly crying every minute cause i was exhausted. i put my daughter in the crib around 8, she tosses and turns and listens to music until about 9 or so without crying and falls asleep. she learned how to sooth herself to sleep. i stay in the room just in case of anything. she sleeps until about 2 in the morning and then crys out but thats it and then crys out again around 4 am and then by 6 she is up. |
| posted by MARYANNE on 07/17/2007 09:01 PM
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| I started mixing rice cereal in my baby's formula for her bed-time feeding and she went from sleeping only 3hrs to sleeping 6-7 straight at night. She is 4 months old now but I started the cereal thing and 3 months, it seemed to work for us!! |
| posted by cheri on 07/18/2007 02:14 AM
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| just go with it some babies just take longer, if u try to force it you'll make yourself crazy. my 8 month old still wakes up sometimes (almost everynight) maybe your child just needs to know your there. |
| posted by Anna on 08/28/2007 05:53 PM
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| My son didn't start sleeping through the night until he was 7 months old. I was told that not until 6 months is there body capable of going without food for an entire night. |
| posted by Michelle on 08/28/2007 09:23 PM
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We've taken my son to his pedi twice just because of sleeping and tummy issues. We've done everything suggested from him and other moms (including some on here :-) ) He's 9 months old and still gets up. My friends son is 10 months and gets up 2 times as well.
When we gave our son solids his sleeping got worse because his body wasn't ready to digest solids yet. We stopped for a week or so and then tried again with much better results.
Our pedi said that if they are in the lower percentiles for weight, they will get up more often in the night because they need the calories. Hang in there! I know it is SO HARD but just seeing their happy personalities in the morning makes it better. Most days. lol |
| posted by Jenni on 08/28/2007 11:25 PM
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