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Baby keeps waking in the night
By: InbalB Date: April 18, 2013, 1:59 pm
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This was an issue raised in the facebook group which will
probably be familiar to many parents. Hope this will give you
some suggestions if you are in the same situation. If you have
any questions or more suggestions please reply to this post.
J
My little girl is nearly 8 months old and still not sleepibg
through the health visitor said to try controlled crying but me
and my partner doesnt have the heart. At the min she wakes up
every hour n half was just looking for any advice or see if any
ones goinf though the same. Been up ten times tonight and its
one . Thanks xx
K my 10m old has literally this week just started waking once in
the night before that it was up to 3 times (not quite as extreme
but...) do you have a set bedtime routine? ie. dinner,bath,
massage,story time, milk, bed?? my eldest, slept through 6 til 6
from 6 weeks and im sure it was that routine each night that
helped her! LO has routine but having a 3yo too its not quite as
strict as what eldest's was so im convinced thats why he doesnt
sleep so well xx
13 hours ago · Like
K R My little one is 11 months and has just started sleeping
through, he still wakes at 5 but I ignore him and he soon goes
back off to sleep till about half 6
H My oldest daughter didn't sleep through til she was about 18
months. It's gruelling and disheartening when everyone else's
babies are sleeping through. Hang in there she'll sleep through
eventually. Have you tried sitting by her cot so that she's not
on her own and then gradually moving further away as she
settles. May take a while but this seems to have worked for my 9
month old. X
E My daughter is 11 months and wakes about 3 times a night.
She's only just got better, and was waking up to 8 times a
night. If she wakes before 11 (which she always did) my husband
goes in and settles her. it seems to have broken that
association if waking and being fed and seems to have reduced
the number if times she wakes. My eldest didn't sleep through
till 18 months so I'm expect ion at least another 6 months of
looking like a zombie! Lol xxx
E *of waking and being fed
K R Haha my little one stirs a lot but but by the time I go in
he is asleep again where my 3 1/2 years old still wakes up to 6
times a night as she has night makes,
H It is worth a try to get your husband to settle her. My
daughter has just gone through a stage of not letting me settle
her. I'd put her into her cot & she'd just cry eventually her
dad would take over & she'd be asleep within minutes!! X
Ml Have you tried watching that sleep program 'Bedtime Live' on
weekly at the min? I know they have some good ideas. I think the
problem is children get into a habit of waking up frequently,
and you have to try and wean them off the habit. Unfortunately
you do have to be cruel to be kind, but she will quickly get the
message! My daughter is 20 months, and has slept through since
she was about 2 months old. Try going into your little one,
putting her back down and tell her its sleepy time. The crying
thing may sound horrendous but it really works!! You just need
to try to change her body clock away from what shes used to xx
N Is your daughter breastfed? She may be using you to comfort
back to sleep. My daughter is breastfed and didnt go through the
night until 9 months but i did the controlled crying technique.
It was heartbreaking to start but each night she woke less and
after 3 nights she went through. I had reached a point i needed
to sleep and was ready to try anything! We also started a
routine - bath at 7, bedtime book, milk then bed at 7.30 and
that also helps. There are other methods you could try including
the gradual retreat method which i believe they use on Bedtime
Live. Sometimes the waking is a habit so its finding the best
way for you and your daughter to change that habit. Let us know
how you get on x
J thanks everyone. im still breast feeding her and stick to her
routine bath cuddles and milk. she some times stops wen i give
her cuddle so i think shes being a madam but she hasnt got any
teeth yet and think shes teething but getting so disheartned
.she ll go bed fine just in the night . my partner does try but
he works alot of houre too.so i try let him sleep. she has other
ideas lol x
11 hours ago via mobile · Like
S Hi. I half twins that are now 2 1/2. One if the twins has
never slept well. Last year the hv suggested controlled crying
and it worked for but it's not for everyone. My husband found it
really hard and u didn't like doing it but just tried to switch
off. I have to say though it worked and within 3 or 4 nights he
was much better. You just have to do what's right for you though
x
11 hours ago via mobile · Like
I J if you don't want to try the controlled crying have a look
for the baby whisperer book for sleep at the library it may
help. It offers an alternative. (have a look, you may find her
show on TV or youtube) Also if she is teething that could make
her wake up loads but not sure if she would settle back to sleep
for an hour if that was the case?
If you choose a technique the best thing to do is try and stick
with it for at least a week as otherwise you may be on the verge
of success and not realising
C I did the controlled crying after a phase of waking
constantly. It's not as bad as you might think. It took 1 hour
the first night and 35 minutes the second night. By third night
she was back to her 12 hours.
It was hard to listener to her cry it remember its only for few
seconds/ minutes at a time. You won't be leaving her to cry for
hours without comforting her.
We found it helpful to do it on a Friday so you were both about
and could take over from each other.
Done it twice and it worked every time
C H You dont have to do controlled crying. By the sound of it
she cant self soothe herself to sleep at night (your getting her
to sleep by breast feeding her which is sending her to sleep).
She doesnt know how to get back to sleep when she wakes up. You
just need to change her routine slightly at night so the breast
feeding isnt the last thing, then put her in her cot (wide awake
not sleepy from feeding) then sit with her (no eye contact or
talking) until she goes to sleep. Ignore her crying (unless shes
hysterical then just calm her down and start again), one shes
starting to fall asleep, start to go towards the door slowly at
first, taking little steps. Increase this once shes got the hang
of self soothing. Eventually you will just put her in her cot
and you will leave the room straight away. I guarantee you this
will work and i bet i am right that the breast feeding is what
is sending her to sleep. Good luck xxxx
J thanks c ill try that she does fall sleep then i put her in
her cot but an hour after shes wakes but i put her dummy in then
go bk to bed . just be nice to have one night sleep lol xx
10 hours ago via mobile · Like · 1
CH Bless you. I think thats definitely where your problem is,
she needs to fall asleep in her cot by herself, she just needs
to learn how to do this. Children hey, i wish there was a no
fail manual with them lol xxx
E I'm breast feeding my lo but my husband gives my daughter a
bottle before bed time, as she couldn't self soothe and would
fall asleep feeding. It really helped things and my husband
loves it as he gets to have bedtime cuddles! Xx
I maybe her dummy falls out so she keeps waking up, like carly
said that could be a self soothing issue so worth trying to
avoid dummy too and see what happens
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