new behavior in co-sleeping baby

SarahBBowers

Hello Mommas! My girl is 11 months. She spends the first part of the night in her crib. We put her to bed around 8. She usually gets up once around 9:30 and myself or hubby calms her back to sleep. Then she usually wakes up around 11 at which point I go to bed and we co-sleep the rest of the night. She usually nurses 2-3 times overnight, which is fine with me. The past week and a half she wants to be on the boob ALL NIGHT LONG. If I try to pull away she starts crying and gets very upset! She is also waking up every hour crying. She is very restless as well, changing positions, fussing, etc. I can't even pee in the middle of the night without her getting upset. I don't see any new teeth coming in. She is starting to get a bit more solids. She is still 95% breast. She maybe gets some fruit during the day and then a little bit of what we eat for dinner (meat and veggie). She eats a few bites. The only other recent change is that she went from pooping huge soft blow out poops once a week to pooping more formed small amounts of poop every day or every other day. I notice that she grunts and sometimes gets red in the face when she is pooping. I don't know if she is constipated.......... So I guess I'm wondering if any other mammas went through this. I'm wondering if this is the new normal or a phase or is there something wrong? Thanks! This momma is exhausted

PhieryBFly

Mine has been doing that too and I follow pretty much the same routine you do. My DD is doing it because of teething though. This is her 4th and worst tooth so far and some nights, she's nursed 3 out of every 4 hours. I pray it's over soon... I'm so stink'n sore!

TiffanyBerry

right around a year, there is a major growth spurt and sleep goes to pot.  I think it was worse than the four month wakeful, myself.  but it's a similar idea in that it's a major shift - it might be just a simple week or two long disruption, it might be a disruption that leads to a different normal.

jesuisfatiguee

A mom on my BMB is having the same issue with her DD who just started walking. Maybe she's reaching a new milestone soon?

ReeceFamily

PhieryBFly said:

Mine has been doing that too and I follow pretty much the same routine you do. My DD is doing it because of teething though. This is her 4th and worst tooth so far and some nights, she's nursed 3 out of every 4 hours. I pray it's over soon... I'm so stink'n sore!

I laughed (through my tears) when I read the OP and this post because it's like I wrote them.  DD is 11.5 months and both her eating (solids) and sleeping have gone to the dogs.  She is latched to me all night long!  I'm guessing it's a combo of about to walk, possibly teething, probably growing, and about to enter the next Wonder Week.  Ai yai yai yai!

musicalmama5

Honestly, there's so much going on in the first couple years that I feel like these phases could be ANYTHING. Teething, wonder week, fighting off an illness, learning a new skill, stranger anxiety... take your pick. And the frustrating thing is that you might never know what it was that was causing it. That's part of the reason I feel safe just nursing/comforting him when he needs it instead of leaving him to CIO. You never know what's going on with these LOs. 

Myaflowers

11.5 months here and sharing in the same misery!

SarahBBowers

Thanks ladies!!  Its just nice to know I'm not alone!!!  I wold NEVER let her CIO.  Some nights I do go downstairs and sleep on the couch to get a couple hours of sleep before work, but my husband calms her down pretty quickly, even with no boobie.

mb314

We have a similar sleeping pattern.  DS goes down at 7 in his crib, and sometimes wakes before we go to bed and I try to get him back in his crib.  once he wakes past 11 pm, he comes to bed with us.

Over the last several months, DS has gone through phases where he is up all night, wanting to nurse.  The phase usually lasts for a few days.  It usually corresponds with a new tooth, a new development (the week before he started to walk was a bitch), etc.  But there have been times when I haven't figured out the cause.  These phases suck, but thankfully ours never lasted more than three night, and usually just two.