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| Sometimes kids think that the middle of the night it is a good time to play. If you make his time while he is awake really boring, he will probably fall asleep again. Try to change his diet and reduce sugar intake or try to get him to have more physical activities during the day so he would be really tired at night. Good luck! |
| posted by Vero on 12/26/2006 07:27 PM
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Hi Penny,
I agree. Keep it boring.
This is hard, but I try not to make a lot of eye contact. My son is only 3 months old, so I am sure things are vastly different for you with a 14 month old.
I know that I give my son formula as well as my breast milk at night, and this seems to help him sleep untill 5:30-6:00 (lately, I'm not holding my breath :]
I also made 10 his last feeding and he was getting up at 2 or 3.
When I changed his bedtime to an hour later, he slept longer.
I don't know if this is something you can do.
Good luck |
| posted by megan on 12/30/2006 04:31 PM
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| I put my son to bed at 10 also, which hopefully doesn't get you the looks it gets me from other parents, but anyway I put a little cereal in his bedtime bottle and he sleeps until 8 or 9 in the morning. I know every child is different and I have been very lucky but that has worked for me. |
| posted by APRIL on 01/30/2007 05:41 PM
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hi! I just wanted to let you know that you arent alone with that problem. My 14 month old daughter had a bad habit of it for a while. I just ended up giving her juice from a sippy, and then let her see that nothing interesting was happening, even kept the lights off or low. Eventually she just gave it up completely.
GOOD LUCK!!
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| posted by Lori on 01/31/2007 09:07 AM
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| Def. try putting some cereal in the last bottle of the night and when he does wake up...boring really is the way to go. No talking, lights...just nice and peaceful. I also agree with Vero and making the day as busy as possible, and try to keep the naps early in the day and not to long (no more than a hour or so). Good luck! |
| posted by Cait on 01/31/2007 06:29 PM
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| I'm a new mom of a 10 month old son and up until this past Friday he was waking up once or twice a night (usually around 2 or 3 am) at which point I would rock him to sleep and he would sleep until 5 or 6am. Friday in addition to his standard meals after dinner we also fed him a couple of table foods (cheerios, crackers, etc.) about an hour before his bedtime. I'm happy to report that he now goes down to sleep between 7 & 7:30pm and will sleep until 6 or 7am. Try giving Matthew a solid food snack before bedtime...it may just hold him!!! |
| posted by Denise on 02/05/2007 07:43 PM
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| I dont know if there is anything your cann do. My son does the same thing. Eventually they should get a pattern going and then I know that I will almost miss waking up...lol |
| posted by Tina on 02/05/2007 07:47 PM
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| Hi, I have a 7 month old baby that seems to want to wake every 3 hours. We started the habit of giving her a bottle and now I often contemplate whether she is wanting the bottle because she is hungry or to use it as a pacifier to go to sleep. She does drink the bottle. She was put on Nutramigen which I am told digest faster and can make a baby hungry quicker. I am not sure if that is fact or not but I do now that I would love to sleep through the night without Grace waking up so much. We are trying to let her cry a little more, honestly it is so hard to hear her cry. We went through so much to have her losing 4 to miscarraige and I just hate to hear her cry. Do some babies have a harder time at soothing them self to sleep? Im not sure what to do too. |
| posted by Teresa on 02/06/2007 12:22 AM
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| Teresa, my son is 3.5 mos and is on Nutramigen too. I had not heard the theory on the digestion of it....interesting. To answer your question on babies soothing themselves to sleep, apparently putting yourself to sleep is a learned thing. I heard we are not born knowing how to put ourselves to sleep. At about 3 months, we had to let our son "cry it out" and now we can put him down for naps awake and he may fuss (not even cry just fuss) for about 2 mins before going to sleep. I know it's hard - it just about killed me to hear him cry and if it weren't for my husband, we would still be at square one with our son but now he knows how to put himself to sleep. I would recommend the book Babywise. I didn't take everything word for word in the book - I took some advice and left some (sometimes the advice the book give is kind of harsh) but it really helped us get a routine and teach our son to go to sleep. |
| posted by Christy on 02/06/2007 10:03 PM
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It can be tough getting to the point of sleeping through the night consistently. I have an article with some tips that may help.
http://www.helium.com/tm/250628
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| posted by Marcia on 06/05/2007 09:17 AM
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Hi,
My baby is close to nine months young. I put him to bed by 10; it doesn't matter how much he ate before bedtime, he will wake up between 2-4 am. I've tried the cereal or solids but doesn't work for me. Sometimes I have to feed him or rock him or give him his pacifier, and he will go back to sleep within minutes. This wasn't the same story when he was a newborn...Teresa, I couldn't let him cry either...I had a hard time during pregnancy and to hear him cry would crush my heart. Luckily someone gave me a copy of "The Happiest Baby in the Block"...(I think that's the title of the DVD) It saved my life, and I think he learned to soothe himself to sleep thanks to the techniques in the video. To put him to bed you might want to try music, it works for me to play the same CD every night...he falls asleep like an angel. When he wakes up during the night, never talk to him, and keep the lights off, you might rock him for a while (I do), but in silence...It works for me. |
| posted by sonia on 06/05/2007 03:15 PM
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Hi Penny,
I think your baby may be associating having you with those late night wake ups. There are some really good books out there that can help you help him learn to soothe himself. Dr. Ferber's book which lets you gradually allow them to soothe themselves and then you check in periodically so that your child still maintains trust. The happiest kid on the block mentioned by the other mother is great too. I do highly discourage the use of the book Babywise by Gary Ezzo. He has no training in child development and the Academy of American Pediatrics has actually issued statements telling parents to beware. I may get alot of flack for this one, but it is scary the number of parents that told me to read this book. I think that these parents are great parents, but have not read up on the disturbing evidence of maltreatment this author advocates. Please read the articles on the following link before trying out this book http://www.ezzo.info/reviews.htm. I hope that you find the right appoach for you. |
| posted by Andrea on 06/06/2007 08:29 AM
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