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| Hi everyone. I'm a new member.I am 27 years old. My daughter Mya is 6mo. old, and she doesn't sleep the night. Her bed time is 8pm give or take a 1/2 hour. She wakes at 12am and 5am. She drinks 5-6oz of formula. I have started her on solid foods, and she has rice cereal mixed in with her formula. She initially falls to sleep on her own, and during the night will fall back to sleep right after feeding. Any suggestions? I would love to sleep the night. |
| Posted by christina on 05/12/2008 01:44 PM
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Welcome to the group. I have a 7 1/2 month old Camille she pretty much sleeps all night. I put her to bed at around 9pm, but really don't have a specifc time. I breastfeed her and we do not use a bottle at all. I try to feed her solids in the evening and nurse her b4 bedtime. I also try not to nurse her if she wakes up in the middle of the night ( before 5am) instead I try to comfort her other ways first. Then if nothing else works I will nurse her. I also try not to, play with her, turn on the lights, or do a lot of talking when she wakes in the middle of the night. Which is really hard when you see those bright eyes shining at night :). I also make it a point to bathe her at night and massage her before her last feeding at night. Sometimes it helps her sleep better. Something else I do is when she wakes ay night I try not to rush in right away to see if maybe she will get herself back to sleep. That is hard for me to do also.........
Anyway I hope you find this helpful |
| posted by Melissa on 05/12/2008 02:35 PM
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I also have a 7 1/2 month old, but she has no idea what sleeping through the night means....
her best time is 5 hours. I also breastfeed but supliment once a day.
Today we will eat veggies again at night and a bath and massage.... wish me luck she is very needy, but our angel. |
| posted by Kristhal on 05/12/2008 04:49 PM
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| Hi .. I also have a beautiful lil girl her name is Mia :) Seems like she is doing very well ... 8 -to 12 and 12 to 5 .... Sounds good ... Sleep for you will come after teething :) |
| posted by Tara on 05/12/2008 05:28 PM
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Hi Christina,
From what I have heard from reading and talking to people who are in the business of child development, it is not often children will sleep through the before two or three years of age. My one year old twins sleep in the same room but different cribs, my first born hardly ever sleeps through the night and the second born he is just starting to sleep through the night half the time. Don't feel bad if your baby is not sleeping through the night, every child grows and develops different. If you are worried about her sleeping patterns ask her doctor if she is doing well, they will know if it's is normal or not. But, this sounds a lot like my two when they were six months. |
| posted by Gina on 05/12/2008 06:00 PM
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| HI, I have a 5 month old daughter, who sleeps 10-12 hours! I know, you hate me - LOL! This last week she has started waking up aroound 5am ( i think it is teething or something). If you don't already have it, you might want to try reading Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth. Someone suggested it to me early on, and that seemed to help. But I think it is totally normal for your daughter to be waking up at night still. |
| posted by on 05/12/2008 06:48 PM
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| My son is 27 mos and has slept through the night maybe 4 times. He has gotten better as he has gotten older and actually after we put him in his toddler bed started sleeping longer, your a ways away from that. I think it is pretty normal that your daughter is waking up a couple of times, at least that is pretty normal in my house. It will also get better when she doesnt' need the bottles at night, but as it is, sounds normal to me. |
| posted by amy on 05/14/2008 02:12 PM
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| Christina, I feel for you because I went through what you are describing with my first child. By the time he was 6 mo. old he had learned to fall asleep on the bottle. So whenever he would enter "light sleep" in the middle of the night, he did not know how to self soothe and relied on the bottle. We tried more food (cereal, etc) during the day and it didn't work. We ended up "Ferbering" him which means we put hime to be tired but awake, walked out of the room, let him "fuss" (very difficult to do) for 5 min., and then go in and rub his back but NOT pick him up. We would then leave the room and this time go back in after 10 min. of fussing. Continuing the process by adding increments of 5 min. at a time. It is a long process. The first night took 2 hours, but each night it got shorter and shorter. He was putting himself to bed and sleeping from 8 pm-6 am in 3 days (we picked a long weekend to do this). I have 2 more kids now and I started teaching them to self-soothe early on so we never had to go through this again. Sorry so long, but I know how lack of sleep affects you and it is not pretty!!! :-) Good luck. |
| posted by meredith on 05/21/2008 10:05 PM
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Chrisitna,
Hi welcome to the group. I have a 12 month and she that same problem. All I can really sugest is do not put her to bed with you. Avi will sleep in her bed for a couple of hours and then wake up. I try to calm her down and put her to bed but the crying starts right up but once she is in my bed she is crashed. Now I have to try to break her from that bad habbit. |
| posted by Jessica on 05/22/2008 02:14 PM
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