Dealing with sleep issues again?

dulcemariamar1

Anybody else going through the same thing? The last 3 weeks havent been so nice. About half the nights LO will wake up crying. I think it is separation anxiety because she just wants to be with me and is happy as can be once I give her some snuggles. The biggest issue is that it happens after 7-8 hours after going to bed so she is tired but not that tired so it takes forever to get her to go back to sleep and by that time I have to end up feeding her because she is hungry even though I dont want to make it a habit. Anybody else going through this? Any advice from people who have been through this? Just wait it out?

Jessie333

Yes! We are going through this too! I was going to write a post today about this sleep regression kicking by butt! The last couple nights DD has woken up very early and taken over 2 hours to get back to sleep. And the one day she only slept for an hour after I got her back down before she was up for the day. I'm exhausted.

Wild_flower25

yes, it's happening here too.  Have you tried not going in there and see if she'll settle herself? This wokrsk 90% of the time for dd.

dulcemariamar1

How long do you wait?

 

She has been crying more in her sleep but she stay asleep for the most part. But half the nights she will wake up screaming. I dont want to CIO at 4:00 or later in the morning because she had already slept by then a lot of time so I know she will be crying for a long time.

spainy17

Us here too. This is the second round of teeth. Both times it goes like this... Baby finally down to one wakeup a night, mom starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel, then teeth and a cold hit... All hell breaks loose for about a week and then it takes weeks to get back to even two wakeups. Sigh...

DCKate

Yep, same here. It's only happened a few times over the last week or so, and DD had a bad cold and stomach bug. I was blaming that.....but she's doing exactly what you all describe. Takes a good hour or two for her to fall back to sleep, and when she wakes up she's already been asleep for several hours. When she does this, I walk in and she's ready to party! All smiles and standing up. Usually if she wakes up at all, I can rub her back or rock her for a minute and she's right back to sleep.

clariknittist

Yep...it's been rough. The other night he ACTUALLY slept 9 hours straight...but was up at 4 for the day I have no advice, I'm one of those people who co-sleeps in such situations, and even then he gets real fitful sometimes...Right now he is battling a cold though, I'll be thankful once that passes...