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| My 7 mth old still wakes up 3 or more times (mostly more) a night to breastfeed. I tried to deny her the boob but she cried for what must have been 2 hours. Does it ever stop? |
| Posted by Shawn on 03/21/2007 09:21 PM
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| I had the same problem, only it was crying out for the pacifier. One night, I just had enough. I followed some advice and just let her cry. She never TRULY cried like she does when she's hurt or scared, she really just crabbed. She did this for 40 minutes the first night, 20 the next, and now she still occasionally wakes up but only for about 5 minutes and then goes back to sleep. Your baby is smart--she will soon realize that night time is for sleeping if you just ignore her, even though it's hard sometimes. We went from being woken up every 1 1/2-2 hours to sleeping for 9 hours at night. However, if you really hate the thought of crying you can try some ideas from "The Baby Whisperer" book. I thought that was really helpful also. Hope this helps, good luck!! :) |
| posted by Briana on 03/22/2007 09:50 AM
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| Hello, my almost nine month old still wakes up to nurse in the middle of the night. Not as much as she did at eight months, she does it once a night now. She will do it more if she is teething. I don't think denying them is helping you or your little one. Also another thing I am wondering is, is your little one eating foods yet? Like rice cereal or baby food? The liitle one could be hungy. I found that if I don't give my little one rice cereal at night she will wake up to nurse more than usual. Let me know how it is going, we need one anothers support on those challenging nights and days. Best of wishes always Lena |
| posted by Lena on 03/23/2007 07:57 PM
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| My eight and a half month old daughter was waking up once in the night to nurse as well. This week I have been just going in her room and patting her (not picking her up) until she goes back to sleep. Remarkably it has worked 5 out of the 6 nights I have done it--I have only had to breast feed once. I think that she has just been so used to waking up and nursing that it has become more of a habit than a necessity. She has really not cried much at all (less than 30 min a night) when I patted her. In fact she has slept from 8:00 pm through to 7:00am on three occasions this week. I am hoping the trend continues. I hope this helps! |
| posted by Leah on 03/25/2007 07:17 PM
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| I hope it stops! I have all the confidence it will:) My 11 month old wakes up three times a night and only a bottle will get him back to sleep. Actually, he has been waking up only twice lately. Since my husband and I live in a very small one bedroom in the city, we're hesitant to let him "cry it out." I fear a knock on our door from our neighbors, or a call from our landlord. I've just taken the approach to let him adjust to his own biorythms, and eventually it will pass just as other phases. Until then....coffee, coffee and more coffee. |
| posted by Ash91 on 03/27/2007 01:21 PM
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breastfed babies don't "sleep through the night" until sometime between 6-9 months so its still normal. Children technically don't sleep through the night until they are around 2 years old. they may awake and put themselves back to sleep wtihout the parent knowing. If you let the child just cry the only reason she may not do it anymore is because seh has learned you won't be there for her. She's hungry so let ehr have her food. It will stop eventually but it will be gradual. She may be going through another growthspurt where she needs that extra milk. After my lil one wakes for the first time i just bring him into bed iwth me so i don't even know how many times a night he truly nurses. Its at least twice. and i still get my sleep and am able to stay sane during the day. Good luck. here are some website you may want to look at for some more advice/ encouragement on teh issue. http://www.askdrsears.com
http://www.attachmentparenting.org
http://www.kellymom.com
http://www.empathicparenting.org
http://www.naturalchild.com
http://www.kellymom.com/parenting/sleep/4mo-sleep.html
http://www.mothering.com/guest_editors/quiet_place/quiet_place.html |
| posted by sara on 03/30/2007 05:06 PM
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| My son is almost 8mths old, breastfed and sleeps thru the night. My doctor told me at 6mths I really needed to start letting him go thru the night. Sleeping and eating are supposedly the top two habit formering things babies do.So I go into his room when he wakes up and settled him down by patting him. almost two months later he still wakes periodically but he settles pretty easily and he does not feed thru the night unless he is sick. Good luck! |
| posted by Kimberly on 04/01/2007 09:31 PM
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| Kimberly's experience is the same as mine. My daughter recently got the flu, so now I am up nursing her through the night, but before that my doctor also told me that at 6 months it is important to start letting them do it on their own. There's nothing wrong with it, you're actually doing them a favor by giving them a chance to soothe themselves. They won't mistrust you in the morning...if anything they'll be happier because they slept better!! |
| posted by Briana on 04/01/2007 10:00 PM
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| My son who is almost 5 months old was doing great at night only waking once but then aroung 3 1/2 months started to change and get up twice here and there then about a week ago doing it about every night. It will stop babys dont ever stay the same every single night. Last night wwe went throught the whole crying for 2 hours to get him to sleep and the only thing that finally worked was the swing. I dont want to keep doing that every night he has been doing good in the crib so we will continue to do that but they do change and it is hard to know why. She will get better on her own not much we as parents can do to change that we cant make them sleep, my son fights sleep really bad but last night I thought there was something wrong so he went to the Dr. we switched formula and I have a prescription for a medication for acid reflux to try we also stopped baby food until he is a little older to see if he will sleep better at night. I have joined mamasource.com and had lots of advise to help him but so far I think this is just him and in time he will go back to the way he was and so will your daughter. I would suggest joining that web site it is a big help and you hear from lots of moms. Hope that you get some sleep soon and your daughter does to I really think she will get better in time just try to be patient. Lori |
| posted by Lori on 04/05/2007 04:45 PM
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| No it wont stop just give her the boob as soon as she starts. |
| posted by Nadia on 04/08/2007 08:48 PM
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| my almost 8 month daughter does the same thing, but now it is only about once or twice a night. I try to let her cry but unfortunately I cant stand it, also her crib is in our room still. Just the living arrangement for right now. I am also trying to get her to sleep longer in the morning so I give her the boob then too. She has her first two teeth so it can be a little painful, but hey whatever you need to do to get them to sleep, so we can right?! |
| posted by Lauren on 04/09/2007 03:09 PM
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