how to break my 10 month old from waking up in the middle of the night?

vhails2011

OK Mommy has a part in this too. It actually started at 8 months, and continued on up to 9 months. Now his pediatrician told me not give him a bottle or try to rock him. Just let him know someone is there. My problem is I've tried that, and it doesn't work with him. I've tried laying him back down, and letting him cry but it's hard cause my hubby has to get up for work in the morning,and he can't sleep with a screaming baby in the next room so I've been bringing him back to bed with me. I was wondering if any of you ladies have any ideas on how I can break him from coming back to bed with us? There for a couple of weeks he has been sleeping threw the night in his crib, and sleeping till morning up until last night when he decided to wake at at 3:45 am. We want to break this habit so we don't have any trouble with him when he gets older about sleeping in his own bed.  

mben1119

One night isn't a habit. You say in your post that for a few weeks he was STTN, but woke up last night? One night is a fluke, and will happen for a long, long time. DS woke up the other night, and he's 18 months old. It happens.

danieliza1127

I would suggest reading Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Ferber and using his method.  If you've been giving the baby a bottle when he wakes up at night, it's not right to just stop that cold turkey.  There are methods to cut that back or wean the baby from the middle of the night bottle.  Also if you do the basic sleep training of putting the baby to bed awake at the beginning of the night, he'll sleep better throughout the entire night.  We started it at 5 months, and my LO started sleeping through the night at 8 months.  Now that he's doing that on his own, if he does wake up at 4:30am or something, I can just leave him to fuss in his crib for 10 minutes or so and he goes back to sleep without me needing to even go in there.

Your husband is just going to have to deal with a crying baby for maybe a couple of nights but in the long run, it will be well worth it.  If he can't deal, he should go sleep in another part of the house where he can't hear it as much, or wear earplugs. 

danieliza1127

mabenner1:

One night isn't a habit. You say in your post that for a few weeks he was STTN, but woke up last night? One night is a fluke, and will happen for a long, long time. DS woke up the other night, and he's 18 months old. It happens.

Oh yeah, if it was just one night, who knows what it could be but that happens.  My LO has been sleeping through the night for a month and then all of a sudden last week for 3 nights in a row he woke up and the only way to settle him was to give him a bottle.  Then last night, he went right back to sleeping through the night.