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nighttime sleeping

kvwernekvwerne
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For the past couple of nights, Joshua has been waking up every 3 hours to eat. He had been sleeping from around 10p-4a for a month or two and now all of a sudden, I feel we have regressed back to when he was a newborn..and God knows I do not want to repeat those sleepless nights. It's like after he turned 4 months, he hasn't been sleeping. And he hardly sleeps during the day either. He will take 30min cat naps here and there but not a long one. He is mostly pleasant and happy it seems, but putting him to sleep can be a challenge b/c he just doesn't want to do it. Anyways, just writing to see if any of you mamas have this same issue.  
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Re: nighttime sleeping

  • MelanieJH1016MelanieJH1016
    if he was sleeping 6 hours and now he's not, by you feeding him, you are getting him back in the habbit of eating at night. i would try to feed him more to eat before you put him down and when he wakes up after 3 hours, don;t feed him. this is as long as he is at a healthy weight.  DD was STTN about 11 hours a night by 4 months.
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  • kvwernekvwerne
    Thanx Melanie! Thats great advice. I do feed him before he goes to sleep and usually, he just knocks out right on the breast and I put him down in his crib. Its just so funny and frustrating at the same time when at 3am, I have this wide eyed, smiling baby looking at me like "hello, Im ready to play now."
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  • MelanieJH1016MelanieJH1016

    if he's falling asleep while you nurse him, that could also be a problem. babies need to learn how to put themselves to sleep. try laying him down drowsy but still awake, that way when he wakes in the night he'll know how to soothe himself back to sleep

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  • MariMMariM

    This is a really common 4 month problem it seems... Nadia and I hit a wall a few weeks ago and I had over a week of crappy nights.

    I agree with Mel, do not feed him. My rule is- no bottles before 5am. I figure, If they could go the night without eating before, then why can't she/he do it now?

    I console her in her crib as much as I can and if it's really bad (screaming baby) then I sit with her and rock her until she calms down and then back in the crib she goes.

    I know it's diff because you are breast feeding... But last week I started REALLY packing in her feedings before bed time to make sure her tank was all the way full (and I will not lie, I started adding cereal too). Since then, we are back to sleeping the night. (Although last night she woke up at 4:30- not sure why...)

    GOOD LUCK!

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  • ANJ410ANJ410
    I went through the same thing, just before my DS hit 4 months. He was excessively hungry all the time and began waking up several times a night.  Starting solids helped.
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