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sleep help puhleez? long

hannah&benhannah&ben
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Ok.. so I posted about my wild child last week and didn't get any responses at all..

Henry has turned crazy at night.. he's up every hour, no exaggeration! (sometimes he wants to nurse other times he doesn't).. and every night around midnight he gets up for 1 to 2 hours...

And even while he's sleeping now he's wild... he'll be zonked out but 'talking' in his sleep, lifting his legs up and slamming them down on the bed, doing baby crunches and straining to sit up, grabbing his feet and rolling from side to side...

If I flip him on his belly (which I don't worry about because he can lift his entire chest and belly up, has fantastic head control, and can roll from belly to back and back to belly)...  Anyway... when I flip him that doesn't help much either because then he just starts trying to get up on all fours, digging his toes into the bed and scooting around like an inch worm... in his sleep!!

So, he's wild in the brief stretches that he actually sleeps and he's awake every hour... what on earth is going on?  When he wakes he's not particularly unhappy.. he fusses but it's the whiney/sleepy fuss... he doesn't care where he is.. his bed, my bed, being held... whatever... nothing makes him any more or any less upset.. so it's not like he just wants to be held or anything... so I've been making sure he's not wet or hungry then putting him down since it doesn't seem to bother him..

We have a bedtime routine (bath, book, boob, bed).  When I put him down for the night about half the time he's awake but super drowsy.. the other half he's passed out while nursing... He's down between 7 and 730pm and gets up for the day between 6 and 7am.. and takes 2 to 4 naps during the day (between 15 and 30 minutes each... usually naps for a total of just over an hour each day).

What am I doing wrong?  What would you do different?  Neither of my older kids ever had sleep issues so I'm so lost here...

Any advice appreciated!!!  Thank you.

Hannah

 

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  • laura1laura1 member
    I am not sure what is going on, but could he be about to do some new milestone?  My little guy doesn't move around that much in his sleep, so I don't have any great advice for you there.  But he was never a great sleeper until we Ferberized him.  He would be up every 2 hours overnight just awake and talking, happy, smiling, but awake.  And he would only nap for 30-45 minutes at a time.  But after Ferber, he learned to fall asleep on his own and now naps for 1-2 hours at a time, and will sleep 12 hours straight.  Sorry, that doesn't really help with your problem, but I am hoping that he is just about to do something big and soon he will stop with these wild sleep interruptions.  Sorry...
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  • schmoodleschmoodle member
    We're in a different situation (Toodle sleeps pretty well at night with usually just one waking that is fixed by giving pacifier, although he does wake for the day at 5 am and usually won't go back to sleep), but he also does the very short nap thing and a lot of what you describe sounds like him too (the baby pilates when I lay him down, very restless, etc. - although awake, not asleep). Maybe some babies just have restless dispositions? He's also not even close to rolling over so I wonder if once he can do that he'll calm a bit?
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  • DavezWifeDavezWife member

      a long shot... but heartburn/reflux? the whole "laying down makes me uncomfortable" thing just made me think that.

    my "rule" is if he was doing something "right" before, and strays,  steer the course for a while and see if he gets back on it. start something new and he'll never go back to the good way he did it before.

    that works for us many a time ;-)

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  • PhillySuePhillySue
    My only suggestion is maybe do bath, boob, book, bed- this is generally what I do.  A friend of mine said that her ped suggested not nursing right before bed and not nursing where the baby sleeps because he will associate nursing with sleeping so whenever he wakes up he will need to nurse to go back to sleep. I took her advice and I nurse dd downstairs and then take her to her room read for a while, put her in her crib, sing a little song and leave.  I usually have to go in a few times and rub her head till she falls asleep (we do not CIO).  Minus the 5 month wakeful period we had that generally works for her and she usually STTN or gets up only once. My dd does the slamming her legs down the bed too and "talks'  in her sleep.  No idea why.  Good luck. 
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