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| i wish i could help but im having the same prob w my 6 month old, only diff is i still nurse him. a friend recommended the book "healthy sleep habits happy child" and im reading it. but the basic idea is that kids NEED sleep and if we dont teach them how to stay asleep we're hurting them. basically it makes you feel ok letting them cry it out. i tried letting him cry for 5 min then soothing him then another 5...it took about 4 times (20min total cryin) before he went to sleep for a whopping 20 minutes then i had to go in and nurse him. i will try again tho, hope you have some luck and you find something that works let me know please! |
| posted by Melanie on 10/25/2007 04:11 PM
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| Hi. I feel your pain! My daughter will be one in November and has never slept through the night. Just in the past week, she has started to wake up every 2 hours and wants to nurse. My husband travels a lot for work,so I have also gotten in the really bad habit of letting her sleep with me. I think when my husband is home next week, I am going to have to start and begin to let her cry it out. So, if you find something that works please let me know. Good luck! |
| posted by kim on 10/25/2007 04:36 PM
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| Wish I could help you. All I can say is you are not alone. I'm in the same boat. My son is 14 months and hasn't slept through the night yet. It is getting worse. Same thing up every couple hours wanting to nurse. I've weaned him during the day to soy milk, but at night I'm having a hard time and have just given in to continuing to nurse. I'm wondering if he is nursing all night as a way to emotionally compensate for being weaned during the day. He used to sleep so much better at night. Never all night, but for 4 hour stretches sometimes 5. I hope you get some good advice. I'll be watching as well. |
| posted by Charlene on 10/25/2007 05:44 PM
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Well I somewhat have the same issue with my 11 mos old daughter, she goes to bed with a bottle and then wakes up about 2 times in the night, the first time I just try to console her back to sleep or give her juice and it usually works then when she wakes up the second time I give her a bottle, I have read that if they are in another room (our daughter is with us due to living circumstances) to just let them cry it out, I would try the juice and see if that works and just the other few times, maybe go in and console her and just try that for about a week but wait longer each time before going in. Does she have any music player in her room or one of those crib attatchement aquarium players or anything? My daughter loves hers. Good luck
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| posted by Traci on 10/25/2007 06:54 PM
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Hi Shanelle,
Sorry to hear your nights are still sleepless. My son is 3 1/2 mo. and is sleeping for 12 hours and will go for 7 to 10 hour stretches between night feedings. I think the big thing that worked for him was really making a difference between day feedings and night feedings. During the day of course the light is bright and there is sound, music, people talking,... everyday stuff. At night whenever we had to feed him, we always kept the lights really low and never talked to him or did googily things. And as soon as we were done feeding him and had changed him, burped him, etc. we would put him straight back to his bed and let him fall back to sleep on his own. I don't know if this was or will be helpful to you, but I wish you the best of luck and lots of future sleep! |
| posted by Lisa on 10/25/2007 08:36 PM
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Hello Ladies,
My daughter is 6 months and 2 weeks now, and waking up 2 times to nurse.
Recently I read a book: ''no cry sleep solution'' by E. Pentley. She describes there what to do when the baby wakes up in the middle of the night. Basically you have to follow the steps she suggests and after 10days your baby will sleep much better.
I did not try it, guess I'm too tired to do so. I prefer to nurse my daughter and be back after few minutes to bed.
Hope after reading this book you will get some more sleep. Good luck and let me know if it works.
Regards, Magdalena
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| posted by magdalena on 10/26/2007 05:03 PM
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| My son is now 6 months old and was still waking up 2-5 times a night SCREAMING because he thought he was hungry. I honestly just think it was the habit that I had to break. He wasn't really hungry, he was just used to me feeding him, so he wanted it. I got one of those bears that have a heartbeat sound inside of it and it seemed to help. The only problem with it was that it turned off after 40 minutes. I went to walmart.com and found a natures lullaby player. It had the same heartbeat sound on this player and it continuously plays or is sound activated. This has seemed to help a lot. He is now waking up 2 times a night but just kind of whining and falls back to sleep. I don't go get him because I know he'll fall back to sleep. If anyone wants to spend $20, I recommend it. I hope it can help somoene else too! |
| posted by Shenae on 10/26/2007 10:25 PM
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I do NOT recommend letting her cry it out. I found it to be extremely hard on me (I didn't like hearing him cry and not going to him) and it didn't help my son go to sleep. In fact, it tended to keep him awake longer when I let him cry then when I try and soothe him.
I would try reading "the No-Cry Sleep Solution" by Elizabeth Pantley. It's been recommended by a bunch of moms here and I have a couple of other mom friends who have used it to success, plus me. In reality, I only read the first 5 chapters, but that gave me so much information that I didn't feel the need to read the rest of the book. Here's my review - http://www.ianhawthorn.com/2007/06/26/39/
Basic idea....start a routine that you do every night and stick to it. We do the same thing every night - bath, change into pajamas, bottle. Ian was only 2 months when we started this, so we couldn't do too much, but after 6 months of doing this, he knows that when he gets a bath, it's time for bed. It only took a couple of nights before he started picking it up too. Although, since your daughter is a year old, I might incorporate reading or something else. I'm not there yet, so I don't know. Something else we do, when I give Ian his bottle before bed, we rock at the same time. Between the bottle and the rocking, he goes right out. Since we started the routine, he only gets up twice a night and thats mainly because he's teething right now.
Something else that I've noticed gets him up at night is the humidity. If it's dry in our apartment, he tends to get up more wanting a bottle. When we started using the humidifier, he started sleeping better at night. |
| posted by Jaxon on 10/29/2007 09:53 PM
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I think my last post was aimed more at Melanie.
Shanelle, is your daughter teething? Could it be dry in her room? |
| posted by Jaxon on 10/29/2007 09:54 PM
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| Charlene - try substituting nursing with a pacifier. I was running into the same problem you are having and my doctor told me that if Ian was still getting up to nurse at night, it was more from habit than necessity. A way I started weaning him off was I took one of his night awakenings and used a pacifier to get him to go back to sleep. He was getting up at three different times (11:30pm, 2am, 5am), so I gave him at bottle at the 2am wakening, but used the pacifier for the other two. It took me a little longer than nursing, but after the third night, he stopped getting up as often. Now I can get him to go back to sleep by just rocking him when he gets up at night. Although, if he gets up within 30 minutes of getting back to sleep, than I will normally give him a bottle and then he doesn't get up the rest of the night. |
| posted by Jaxon on 10/29/2007 09:58 PM
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| actually letting him cry has started working like a charm! he's never cried for longer than 7 seven minutes and it's more like moaning than crying and he is actually getting himself back to sleep! i can't believe it. he's only waking up once a night for a feeding now and it's so much quicker than it ever was, on the boob and then right back down! i can't believe how much better i feel. get the book...and read the whole thing! :) |
| posted by Melanie on 10/30/2007 10:15 AM
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| I'm so happy for you Melanie!! That's wonderful!!! :) |
| posted by Shenae on 10/30/2007 10:32 AM
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| Thank you for the advise as well ladies. We'll get the book and try the pacifier. He has always spit it at me, but I'll be consistant with it and see if I can get him off the boob. |
| posted by Charlene on 10/30/2007 02:09 PM
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| oh if ur trying to ween off the boob try adiri bottles, so much more like the boob, it's the only bottle my little boob man will take! |
| posted by Melanie on 10/30/2007 04:29 PM
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| This past week my daugher got sick and would only drink water.... well now when she goes to sleep she only wants water so she kinda weaned herself lol and she is sleeping longer i dont ask i just keep my mouth shut and go along but it was almost to easy.....hmmmmm |
| posted by shanelle on 11/05/2007 08:43 PM
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| Its good to hear that she kind of fell into her own routine. Is she sleeping thru the night? |
| posted by Shenae on 11/05/2007 11:16 PM
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| she is almost sleeping though the night she is only waking up once or twice instead of 5 or 6 |
| posted by shanelle on 11/07/2007 08:53 PM
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| Well that is much better than 5 or 6 times a night. I hope it continues to improve for you!! :) |
| posted by Shenae on 11/08/2007 09:31 AM
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