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| When we moved back to montana my mom started driving the two hour trip and spending two days a week with my daughter to help me and my husband. She would do everything that katie needed, but katie started geting up in the middle of the night. She started sleeping through the night at two months and has up until now. My mom hasn't been here for two weeks becuase we figured it was messing up her schedule and katie still wakes up between 4 and 530 every morning, takes a bottle and goes back to bed. I've heard that if they start doing this at this age they will never stop (6 mo) i know she is hungry when she wakes up becuase she greedily takes the bottle and goes right back to sleep, usually 4 oz. Am i doing wrong by giving her the bottle, could she be having a growth spurt and thats why she's so hungry at night? Her daycare lady says she's a bottomless pit and eats all the time, we have been feeding her solids for about a month and she's doing very well with them. Should i feed her more solids, stop the night time bottle and just give her water? I'm so tired because i don't get to sleep all night like i used to. anyone else have this problem? |
| Posted by Amanda on 10/22/2007 10:00 PM
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| My little guy is the same way, he wakes up a lot during the night and I still offer him a bottle, he could be that she is just thirsty, I think that is why kevin takes his bottle he only drinks a couple of ounces and is done, I dont know that I would stop giving her the bottle. As for help with sleeping through the night I have yet to figure that one out myself, he is 91/2 months and doesnt sleep through the night when he was younger he did. |
| posted by Christy on 10/22/2007 10:06 PM
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| I would not stop her night time bottle, she is still young and needs the nutrition. Is she getting formula/breastmilk with her solid meals? My daughters sleep schedule changed so much the first year. With so much growing, teething, learning new things it was hard to keep up. If she is really active at daycare this could also cause her to be hungry, she might be burning it up quickly. You can try giving her larger portions at meal time and in her bottle. Also maybe give her some cereal or solid foods before bed, it might help her sleep a little longer. |
| posted by on 10/22/2007 10:08 PM
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| I went through the same thing, my daughter slept through the night from the time she was born till 3 months 12-14 hours each night. Then we went to MA, and when we got home she started waking up around 4:00a to nurse and then go back to sleep till 9-10:00a. I just mad sure I was giving her the right amounts of food during the day, and that her nap was regular each day. This went on for 5 months when I finally quit giving into her. I knew she was fine in her crib to cry herself back to sleep. Three days later she never woke up again in the middle of the night. However it must be something in their minds to wake in the night when company is in town. It never fails, when someone's staying with us she wakes up. But, once they leave back to normal schedule again. I did read that in a parent magazine one time that when traveling or when people visit once your back to normal living jump right back into the way things were before. And that it's okay to bend the rules when your in a different situation. Thanks for letting me share, good luck. |
| posted by Brooke on 10/22/2007 10:12 PM
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| my daughter is almost 12 months old and still does not sleep through the night. she gets up anywhere from 1 to 3 for a bottle and still gets up at 6 am for the day. |
| posted by MARYANNE on 10/22/2007 10:13 PM
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"eats all the time"?
What is her eating schedule? If she is having little snacks throughout the day and afternoon then she has been trained to only keep a little in her stomach instead of a reagular balanced meal schedule and letting it digest for a couple of hours inbetween. This probably began with her being thirsty and someone giving a cracker instead. A suggestion would be to give her a routine and then not letting her nap after 3pm in addition give her some formula and cereal mix when she goes to bed for the night. She should be fine in a week. This will help all 3 of you (mom, daycare and her) and also the cereal will help w/ the growth spurts inbetween. I would also suggest heavy playtime in the evening and a then a quiet routine (story) and a warm bath before bed and that goes for mom too. |
| posted by Tina on 10/23/2007 07:13 AM
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I was reading a lot of bed time routine, about warm bath and a lot of activities followed by quite time, and giving cereal at bed time etc. And I don't want to be discouraging but I'm doing all that stuff and my son still wakes during the night for his bottle and he never didn't lol and he's almost a year. Sometimes he wakes 2-3 times and those noghts I consider very good and I'm rested (yeah, human being is able to adapt to everything, lol) and sometimes like this night when he's teething or otherwise unwell he will wake constantly almost and not neccessary for bottle and those are terrible noghts. lol. But anyway, all babies learn how to sleep through the night (to some point, as an adult I still get up sometimes) someday so it's not going to last forever. Plus some babies do need less sleep than others. Plus short spams of wakiness are in our nature actually, humans didn't live the way they do now always and there were times when not sleeping too deep was saver of life and the thing is that evolution didn't kill all our instincts totally. That's why some of our babies are waking a lot. Plus there is separation anxiety (especially if she's staying a ot at day care and with her grandpa in stead of being with her mom) and it can start even so early.
I don't want to sound depressingly but do not expect miracles when You try all those technics. They can work but You have to be aware that aside of all Your efforts she'll be still waking up. Till one day when she stops or at least will not need You anymore. You are the mom and that's mean more obligations and sacrifice than You expected, truth, but it's worth it. |
| posted by Sylwia on 10/23/2007 08:26 AM
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| My daughter is now 12 months and the same thing started with her at around eight months. She was teething. And everything I read about it told me it was perfectly normal for her to do this, even though my exhausted self thought it was completely abnormal. |
| posted by on 10/23/2007 09:02 AM
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| I feel for you :) My daughter is 10 1/2 mo. for a brief period she slept thru the nite. Now, she wakes up 1-2x a nite, even tho, I do the prior sleeping ritual (bath, book, etc.), I even give her food if she's hungry before bed, but, she still wakes up. I've adjusted. When I'm cuddling her while feeding her her bottle, I just enjoy that time, she won't be a tiny little baby that I can cuddle with. I know idealistic, but true. |
| posted by Michelle on 10/23/2007 12:57 PM
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Hey Amanda,
I feel for you, I'm going through the exact same thing with my 6mon. old son! He was sleeping through the night perfectly for the first three months, then he started teething and it was down hill from there. He eats every 3-4hrs., his schedule is bottle in the morning usually around 8am, cereal&fruit between 11-12, then another bottle around 3-3:30, then cereal&veggie, then he'll have his last (wishful) bottle @9pm. We thought more solids would do the trick too, but it hasn't. He's even just started meats this week! and he broke his 1st tooth by 4mon. and his 2nd shortley after but, it hasn't changed a thing. He usually gets up twice early morning, usually between 1-2 and then again between 4:30&5:30. We've tryed everything before feeding him first because its not a good habit, this isn't my 1st , he's my 3rd, from swaddling, to white noise/ or light music, to treating for any teething pain and nothing! So if anyone out there has an answer that could help us both that would be great!!! Well good luck! |
| posted by Sarah on 10/27/2007 10:30 AM
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