Mikey keeps crying 2-3 times at night!!!!

Re: Mikey keeps crying 2-3 times at night!!!!

• karukaru

  February 2009

  I have had the ssame issue pretty much since DS was born. I read the book "the baby whisperer solves all your problems" and it has worked tremendously. I started it a couple of days ago and DS slept through the night yesterday (for the first time) from like 7:30 - 6:30am. He just woke up twice around 11:00 pm and we put him back to sleep and he slep until 6:30 am. The first couple of days are trying because yoy are not supposed to breastfeed them and they are used to do but then it gets soooooo much easier. I totally recommend it. I got it from my local library. By the way, she uses a NO-CIO method.

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• MelanieJH1016

  February 2009

  I second the Baby Whisperer. I used it religiously to establish Zoe's routine and it worked awesome!  I know this is not what you want to hear, but he proabably needs an earlier bedtime. 10:30 is really late for a baby his age. Also, taking him back into your bed is exactly what he wants, so if you keep doing that, he'll keep waking up for it. Be persistent with the pacifier, eventually he'll stop waking up if he knows there's nothing good to wake up for at that time!

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• CesEve99 member

  February 2009

  i second the earlier bedtime. i know its hard b/c you dont spend much time with him, but honestly, babies need their routine and dinner at 9pm is pretty late. i also suggest you start weaning him off the night time feeding. i tried it with mady for 2 weeks and it went well. after day 3 i took the bottle away cold turkey and today shes not even waking up at 3am asking for it b/c she knows shes not gonna get.

  two days ago i was up from 1-4am with her but thats due to teething and a stupid ear infection she is building up again (confirmed it yesterday with the pedi)

  i'm not a believer of CIO (the most i ever cio'd was 8 minutes and it was just to give her a chance to calm down before going into a room)....then again other girls have tried it and have succeeded....to each its own

  gl!

  

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• taxbride

  February 2009

  At that age with Cedric, we did CIO for waking at night, only b/c I tried everything else and was flat out exhausted (and was working almost full time, too, so had to be "on" all day).  Worked like a charm.  Took a couple (maybe 3) nights, but it was well worth it.
  

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• Mrs.MGC

  February 2009

   

  Sorry your having a rough time Givette. I know how hard it is to function when you are sleep deprived.  At five months we did 'ferbers" aka CIO and it worked like a charm.  It was the hardest thing I have EVER done but it only took two nights and now Adam sleeps through the night.  He goes to bed at 7:45pm every night  - no exeptions -  and wakes up at 6am or 6:30am.  

   At this age Mikey does not need to feed in the middle of the night - he weighs enough to make it until 7am. He is not waking up from hunger - he's doing it out of habit. Maybe seperation anxiety as you mentioned but as long as you keep going to him every night when he wakes up - he's going to keep doing it. I also recommend the Baby Whisperer - we've been following it since Adam was 8 weeks old and I learned a lot from it.  If you go to the website www.babywhisperer.com there is a chat forum where you can read additional information and ask questions b/c the book doesn't give specific info. 

   

  Good luck!

   

  Monica

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• ANJ410

  February 2009

  Sadly, he will go through MANY stages of sttn and night wakings. When Nicholas was an infant, I would let him cry for 20  minutes before going in there.  Most of the time, he would fall back to sleep on his own.  If he really seemed to be crying a lot, I would go in and silently rub his back and tushy. I didn't talk to him because that would wake him up even more. If that did not work, I picked him up in the dark and rocked him, but I refused to feed him because I didn't want to start that. Now I have be forced to resort to letting him cry for a whole lot longer, but it seems to be working.  He has started STTN again.  Let's see how long it lasts...
  

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• karukaru

  February 2009

  Mrs.MGC:

   

  Sorry your having a rough time Givette. I know how hard it is to function when you are sleep deprived.  At five months we did 'ferbers" aka CIO and it worked like a charm.  It was the hardest thing I have EVER done but it only took two nights and now Adam sleeps through the night.  He goes to bed at 7:45pm every night  - no exeptions -  and wakes up at 6am or 6:30am.  

   At this age Mikey does not need to feed in the middle of the night - he weighs enough to make it until 7am. He is not waking up from hunger - he's doing it out of habit. Maybe seperation anxiety as you mentioned but as long as you keep going to him every night when he wakes up - he's going to keep doing it. I also recommend the Baby Whisperer - we've been following it since Adam was 8 weeks old and I learned a lot from it.  If you go to the website www.babywhisperer.com there is a chat forum where you can read additional information and ask questions b/c the book doesn't give specific info. 

   

  Good luck!

   

  Monica

  The "Baby Whisperer" book does give specifics. The problem is that there are 2 books. One is more general and the specific one "The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems: Sleeping, Feeding, and Behavior--Beyond the Basics from Infancy Through Toddlerhood by Tracy Hogg"

  I do not recommend looking at the website without skimming through the book. I did this and i started doing the wrong thing because i was doing the stuff for younger babies and DS is 8 months old. 

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• MrsGiviRN

  February 2009

  Thanks ladies!!!!!!!!!!! I am definitely going to get the book!!!!! Thanks for all the advice...:o)

  ~~Givette~~

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