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| My son had started sleeping through the night right around 3 months old and it was amazing but lately he's been waking up atleast once but sometimes twice a night. We've done the cereal in the bottle thing and also tried feeding him cereal regularly which he just spits right back out. He is 5 months old now and you would think he would still be sleeping through. I'm wondering whether or not to start regular baby food or what. |
| Posted by RACHEL on 07/10/2008 09:48 PM
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| Is he teething? That'll keep him up at night if he is. My son started teething around 4 months and when it got really bad, he would get up more than normal. Even at 16 months he still gets up at night if his gums are bothering him. That's when I get the Motrin out (it lasts longer than Tylenol). My guess is he's teething and he'll go back to sleeping through the night once this passes. |
| posted by Jaxon on 07/10/2008 10:10 PM
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| My 4 month old is doing the same thing and everyone I ask says she could be going thru a growing spurt. Babies tend to want to eat more during the nights during those times. Don't know how true it is |
| posted by Laura on 07/10/2008 10:38 PM
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| I would agree with the idea that they want to eat more while they are going through growth spurts, but I don't think the time of day is a factor. My son eats a lot during the day when he's growing, but once night comes, he really isn't interested. I have a friend who said his son slept more when he was going through a growth spurt. Although, I guess it could depend on the kid. |
| posted by Jaxon on 07/10/2008 10:47 PM
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| My daughter did the same sort of thing (although sleeping through the night lasted until she was 7 months). She is now 14 months and it is still hit or miss concerning sleeping through the night. For her everything changed when she went through a growth spurt, got sick & then started teething within the same week. She was just too hungry. However, if your son is just spitting the cereal out, he probably isn't ready for baby food. I would try something soothing for his growing/teething pains (tylenol, motrin, orajel) and see if that works. Also, make sure he isn't sleeping too much during the day. If he isn't hungry when he wakes up in the middle of the night, you may want to just let him cry himself back to sleep. My daughter never does that. She ALWAYS wants to eat when she gets up at night. But you can't force your child to eat more than he/she wants, so I would try some other things. Also make sure that it isn't something environmental - too cold, too warm, drafts in the crib, etc. Hope this helps! |
| posted by Jen on 07/11/2008 08:17 AM
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hey my son is now 16 months... He didn't start sleeping through the night until 10 months and then suddenly after 2 months he started waking up again. I found it easier to give him a bottle and then lay him down and he'd go right back to sleep which for me was better than hearing him fuss for 1 hour more than 1 time a night... Recently I switched to sippy cup at night which he refused... Now he sleeps through the night again or I just rock him to the count of 200 and this works for me... Of course you may not like having a waking baby til 16 months but time flies....
the only reason I share this is just to let you know it happens for many reasons... Teething, growing of just comfort.... Its a pain getting ip at night but when it stops you miss it just a bit.... That warm sleepy trusting body in your arms.... Sigh.... I'm spening the weekend away from my son can you tell I miss him????? Hehehe
Good luck, it happens to us all! |
| posted by roxanne on 07/11/2008 08:56 PM
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| I started giving my son a sippy cup when he goes to bed and it works beautifully! There was one night we didn't give it to him and he screamed until we took a cup in to him. As long as he has his cup, he doesn't have a problem going to bed at night. I'm not sure if it actually helps him at night, but it all works. |
| posted by Jaxon on 07/11/2008 09:06 PM
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| When did you guys start sippy cups. I thought he was teething last weekend when his gums were warmer than normal. But now that I think about it I think he was just sick. He ran a fever of 102 that thursday and was just a fussy unhappy kid the rest of that weekend. Then I came down with tonsilitis....So I'm not sure about the teething, but as you can see by my main pic he is a finger sucker lol. I just don't want to get into the habit of constantly having to rock him back to sleep and things like that. |
| posted by RACHEL on 07/12/2008 02:23 AM
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| If I remember correctly, the doc told me to introduce the cup at our 9 month checkup. However, my son really didn't get the hang of it until he was closer to 11 months. Try a sippy cup, it can't work, but I wouldn't put anything but water in it. If your son can hold a bottle, he should be do fine with a cup. My son never held his bottle, so it took us a little while before Ian realized that he could hold the cup. I would recommend getting one of the cups with a straw first if he is/was like mine. Once I got him the straw cups, he took to that so much faster (mainly because he didn't have to tilt it yet). |
| posted by Jaxon on 07/12/2008 07:00 AM
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| My daughter did the same thing at about six months and we just uped her food a little bit(added fruit and veggies) and she would start sleeping through the night again. She did this every couple of months when a growth spurt would come(she hasn't woke up in 6 months). The other thing we did was see if she was teething and put on night time teething orejel and doubled up with teething tablets if was worse than normal. I hope you figure it out. I gave my daughter a sippy cup about six months and skipped the bottle(one less habbit to break). She is 15 months and just figured out the straw. Hope this helps and good luck, it goes by fast. |
| posted by Anne on 07/12/2008 11:34 AM
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