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So, everyone keeps telling me that if you give your baby solids at 6 months that they sleep better. I haven't fouind that to be true. I breastfeed and have been exclusively since the beginning and really haven't had a full nights sleep in ages. She was sleeping for a while through the night from 9pm-5am and for the past three months she goes down at 9pm, but wakes every 3 hours. Is this normal? I know that all babies are different, but I feel that every parent I ask tells me their child was sleeping through the night by 4 months. I have tried everything:
Cereal
Solids
Routine of 7pm bath until 7:30, massage with lotion, a couple books, feeding and bedtime at 9. Sometimes 8.
II think she may not be getting enough to eat during the day and that is why she is waking at night. When she wakes I get up with her and nurse for 20-30minutes. Sometimes I try to let her cry it out, but that doesn't last long because it breaks my heart for her to cry.
When she was sleeping through the night it was in her swing. I recently ut her in the crib. She usually starts off in the crib and then ends up in bed with me.
Any suggestions? |
| Posted by caitlin on 11/08/2007 06:53 PM
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| To keep my daughter sleeping through the night, I try to keep her up and playing more throughout the day. I also have a little plastic fish aquarium that ties to the side of the crib. It lights up and plays music. When my daughter Sofia, is starting to fall asleep, I put her in her crib and turn on the aquarium and she stares a it until she falls asleep. It woks like a charm! |
| posted by Dalila on 11/08/2007 07:03 PM
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Caitlin,
I'm starting to wonder when my daughter will ever sleep all night through too so don't worry your not alone!! It seems as though a lot of people have this problem. Renae actually is sleeping better sence last week we moved her out of her bassinet from our room to her crib in her own room. The adverage night seems to feed her once during the night usually around 3 or 4 am. It has gotten better for night feedings sence doing the solids but it took a couple of weeks after starting that I really noticed. (she also wakes up as much as 3 times a night for her binky). Does your daughter use a binky at all? that might help with the night feedings and how much solids are you giving her? Don't forget you are supposed to give her the same amout of milk as you did before you started the solids. How often does she eat during the day? Maybe try giving her an extra feeding if you don't think shes eating enough? |
| posted by Elizabeth on 11/08/2007 07:35 PM
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Hi Caitlin
I have been battling it out w my little Annie also. Breastfeeding exclusively since the beginning. Haven't started solids yet. We have just started trying a form of...(gulp) letting her cry it out. I need some alone time w the hubby! Our relationship is so changed. :( I hope it works. I hope she goes to sleep at the same time every night. (and stays asleep.) Sometimes this happens and sometimes not. |
| posted by Trisha on 11/10/2007 07:14 PM
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| I was just telling Elizabeth that last night was a real nightmare. She was up every 1 to 2 hours crying and wanting to nurse. I thought it might be gas or overstimulation from the big day with Auntie Jen. I have slowed down with the solids. I haven't given her any lately, just cereal with breast milk. I am trying to wean her to the bottle with pumped milk as well. I might be doing too many things at once and it could be hard on her. As for crying it out...I tried that and it really doesn't work withher. She just keeps going until she gets hoarse or sick. So I don'y feel all that comfortable with that. I will et her CIO when we are in the room with her to assure her that she is not alone. I am so lost in ttrying to get herto sleep better that I think I am losing my mmmy instinct. I used to know her cries and what she needed on a whim. Now I feel like we are at step one. What to do? |
| posted by caitlin on 11/13/2007 12:01 AM
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| Give her some more time to adjust to her crib. The constant motion of the swingacts to keep them asleep longer. Also, she was used to the position in the swing and though it may recline, it is still different from sleeping in a bed flat. Sleep is precious and it may take some time but keep her in her crib as much as possible and she will eventually get used to it. Also, is she teething, because that can change sleeping patterns too and make them fussier. Hope this helps! |
| posted by kendra on 11/13/2007 09:19 AM
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| Is the hardest part getting her to sleep at night? or getting her to go back to sleep during the night? What are you doing for her when she wakes up at night? If shes waking up to feed that often at night I would really recommend a pasifier. My daughter loves her's and kept her from using me as one! (thats why I started her with one) Also maybe if you have a rocking chair for putting her to sleep might help sence shes used to being in a swing... |
| posted by Elizabeth on 11/13/2007 01:56 PM
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I found no correlation between solids and sleeping better.. Pedi started Megan on cereal at 4 mos, but she didn't really sleep through the night until 5.5 or close to 6 months.
up until then, she was waking every 3 or so hrs at night for a feed.
At home, she sleeps in her own room. On vacation when she's in the same room with us, she still wakes every 3 or 4 hrs at night (I think she smells me-and the milk and wants to feed, or else hears us shifting and turning durning the night). But when we get home again, she's back to sleeping, more or less, all night.
We have more or less a routine, usually involves a bath a few times a week, lotion, jammies, books, and a final nursing before binky, blankie, and sleep around 7-730. She cries when I put on her jammies because at that point she knows it's bedtime.
I don't know if it helps, but I make sure to feed her, whether solids or nursing, every 2 hours or so during the day so that she's not waking at night to fill her calorie requirements.
We also use a fan for white noise, which helps her not wake as often, since it drowns out other minor sounds.
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| posted by Bethany on 11/13/2007 02:24 PM
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So I am trying the Dr. Ferber way now. Letting her cry for 5 min. alone and then 5 min. with her and she is tuckering herself out right now. I know that this is going to take time and am trying really hard to be patient, but it is nerve racking because I wish I could do more for her.
I try to fed her every 2 hours during the day and think that I might have been slacking. Thta can happen when you are so caught up in the hype of new baby things to do. I will start to be mpre aware off the times we eat. Tonight I am going to try my hardest not to feed her more then twice. I also am trying a new technique of feeding her at 6-7pm and then bath, books, song, bed. So we will see what happens.
As for a pacifer...she won't take one and that is fine with me. If she likes to stick her hands in her mouth to self sooth, the better for me. Just in case the paci falls out.
I think she may be teething, but I have been thinking that since month four. She has been drooling more today and refusing to eat at times which isn't normal. I gave her some teethers to use and a litle tylenol. Hopefully if she is teething it will pass quickly, for her sake. I had a tooth come in two years ago and it was hell.
Well thank you ladies for the suggestions, I will keep you al updated on our progress.
Wish us luck!
Caity |
| posted by caitlin on 11/13/2007 11:44 PM
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| I wish I could get my daughter to use her thumb, so we could do away with pacifiers entirely! Did your baby start out a thumb sucker, or did it take some time for her to learn? Mine tries, but ends up chewing on the thumb, or she won't keep it in her mouth. |
| posted by Bethany on 11/14/2007 05:10 PM
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| She doesn't really suck her thumb...she more likely eats it. The only time she sucks it is if she is REALLY hungry or upset. She actually started taking the paci when we go out for walks..I'm loving it. |
| posted by caitlin on 11/15/2007 12:13 AM
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gosh my Sam is 9 months and he still wakes 2 times at night for 15 mins.... he eats solids during the day and drinks formula [he went on strike from the breast at 8 months] but for the past month he'll take 2 , 4-8oz bottles at night... so no help on that question
sleeoing throutgh the night... what's that... something you get on vacation when grandma has the baby????????? hehehe |
| posted by roxanne on 11/27/2007 08:51 AM
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