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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
What do YOU do if you baby wakes in the middle of the night?
Do you go at the first sound of a whine...do you wait until it turns into a full blown whail? ?Do you offer the breast? ?Put pacifier back in? Pick up and rock? ?Pat/rub and hope he goes back to sleep? ?My son has been waking two to three times a night and I usually offer the breast to make him go back to sleep but I know this could develop into a bad habit...he eats....doesn't just comfort suck most of the time. ?How do you handle night wakings to prevent bad habits from arising? I have read Ferber and happy sleep habits happy child....
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Re: What do YOU do if you baby wakes in the middle of the night?
Once I hear dd awake, I make her bottle then go get her.
If I wait until shes screaming, dh would be awake, and it would take me 5 minutes to get her calmed down enough to eat. I don't see the point of all of that!
I wait til its just starting to go past fussing and give her a bottle. I've never thought to not give her food since she normally wakes up after 12 hours and I would think shes hungry.
This. I don't like whails because it breaks my heart.
Up until 8 wks, we fed him.
Then DH discovered (by accident) that a paci was enough for him to fall back to sleep. Now, we don't wait...when we hear him whine, one of us will check on him and give him a paci. 99% of the time he'll fall back asleep (if he was ever awake in the beginning...sometimes he'll whine in his sleep.)
Middle of the night?
Wait for full out crying, insert paci, return to sleep until morning.
If his fusses get heavy then I go in, give him his paci, and hold my hand on his chest until he falls back asleep (which takes like 30 seconds).
If he's just fussing, I listen but stay in my room. He usually puts himself back to sleep within 5-10 minutes. <---He just started being able to really do this consistently.
DS wakes up several times a night - 99% of the time he is babbling, baby cooing, sometimes he does baby squealing and rarely a sort of whimper or - the latter happens while he is still sleeping though.
We let him be. Sometimes he goes back to sleep within 15 minutes and other times we have heard him go on for 2 hours.
If it escalates to crying in the middle of the night we go in immediately. For our LO there is ALWAYS a reason if he wakes up crying during the night. But we have never had an issue getting him back down after fixing what ever the issue was except when he is sick.
DD has gotten into a habit of waking every 3 hours that started at 3 mo and has contined since. I have been nursing her back to sleep, but pedi put the nix on that at her 4 mo appt today. She said at DDs size, 15 lb 10 oz, there is no way she is hungry and I should just pat her to calm her down and put her back down awake. Repeat, repeat, etc until she calms down. She said that DD should get the message after a few nights. This is going to be rough, but I know she is right. I can't take these frequent wakings much longer anyways and have got to something! ... but, but what if she is hungry?!
I used to run in and feed immediately, however this week I've been trying a few new things. If it has been more than 3 hours since he ate last and it turns from whimpers to an all out cry, I will go in and rock and feed him. If it's been less than that I just go in and rub his tummy and tell him I love him and that he is okay, and then I leave for about 5 min. Sometimes he goes right back to sleep, other times he continues fussing and I have to go back in a few more times. Last night he woke up and cried out/cried for a couple min then went back to sleep on his own. He did this off an on for 3 hours.... I don't know what that was all about. He's in a great mood this morning though.
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