Asking Moms With Experience: 8mo Sleep Pattern Disruption

soanxious728

I asked on the 9-12 mo Boards, but I also figured I'd ask some moms with Experience: DD is 8.5m old, and was STTN beautifully until a couple of weeks ago. Pretty much the day she turned 8m, she started teething. Once that was (Thank God) over and the tooth popped through the gum, she STTN for one night before she learned how to crawl/stand/dance. Don't get me wrong, its been a wonderful couple of weeks as DD decided to go though like EVERY milestone at the same time, but now she's so agitated at night that she keeps waking up every hour. Around about 1-2AM, she wakes up wanting to practice crawling, dancing, etc. She's WIDE AWAKE and it's IMPOSSIBLE to get her back down until 4-5AM. She then only sleeps a couple more hours.I read somewhere something like this would happen, but I'm still concerned. She's only getting like 7hrs of sleep at night and she fights her nap during the day, so MAYBE 2hrs there. She's not getting anywhere near the 14hrs she's supposed to.I'm sticking to her Bedtime routine, but we're all losing a LOT of sleep here. It's like she's one month old all over again! Is/has anyone else gone through this? If so, is there anything I can do to fix it? How long does this last? FEEDBACK! 

diana.filipi

First thing that comes to mind is a question.  Do you work or SAH?  If you SAH then how much are you able to get out of the house with her?  Did you sleep train at all (CIO style)?  Sounds like she isn't tired enough in a way to me.

ETask: How may naps does she take?  If your answer is more than 1 I would switch to 1.

 

llc730

DD's sleep schedule go really messed up when she was teething. DD got all 8 front teeth between 5-7 mo. She had been waking up almost every night to comfort nurse. I think it just became a habit and she enjoyed the extra cuddle time with mama. So it kept up even after she stopped teething. Finally I had to sleep train because due to my work schedule I was already only getting about 4-5 hours of sleep so getting up once was pushing me over the edge. If your DD is just bouncing around in her crib just leave her be as long as she is safe. If she is crying to get out in order to play I would suggest CIO.

soanxious728

She takes one nap during the day at about noon, for about an hour or two. I put her to bed at about 9PM.

DD wakes up crying and won't go back to bed w/o a bottle or some sort of comforting: She'll stand up in her crib and cry. At first I tried letting her CIO, but she would go for like 20 min, take a two minute break, then start again. 

Aside from being heartbreaking, I keep getting meddlesome calls from my Bro-in-Law (who lives upstairs), asking over and over if she's alright (despite my explaining over and over what I'm trying to do, he doesn't seem to grasp the concept and insists on coming downstairs to rock her to sleep. UGH! But that's a different rant for a different night).