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Need sleep help. Trying not to become bedsharers

KateLouiseKateLouise member
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So LO used to wake for a feed between 4.30 and 6am. At that point I'd bring her into our bed and she'd eat and we'd snooze together.

Then she started waking at 2amish, so I'd bring her into our bed (she did't want to eat)

Then she started waking at 11.30pm so I'd just bring her into our bed then.

last night she woke at 8.30 9.40 10.30 and 11.20. At 11.30 I gave up and brought her into bed with us.

She still woke at 1.30am and grizzled on and off through the night.

So I don't know if this is teething or some kind of anxiety.

She's also gone off her solids entirely. Maybe having a bite or two, where before she was eating 1/4 cup 3x a day.

So I don't know if this will pass. I don't want to be a full time bedsharer, but beyond last night she does sleep well with us.

Do I just battle it out and keep resettling her in her cot?

Bring her into our bed because obviously something is going on for her, and battle it out later?

thoughts?

Thanks 

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Re: Need sleep help. Trying not to become bedsharers

  • asiabutterflyasiabutterfly
    My DD is the same right now. Considering I have read a million posts about babies around the same age, I am guessing that its a phase. I personally don't mind cause I like bedsharing, but I prefer going to bed later and I have had to start going to bed with her around 9 or 10 now when she wakes up and needs me. I missed the end of Criminal minds last night :( LOL
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  • webMistress0609webMistress0609 member
    I'm thinking it's either the 9 month sleep regression starting, or teething. Probably the latter. Ari tends to refuse solids when he's teething, usually just for a day or so right before it breaks through.
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  • KateLouiseKateLouise member

    I quite enjoy bedsharing too.

    My reasons for not wanting to really get into it, are a) I don't want it to be a habit we have to break later and b) LO wakes early and spends her time "playing" with dad. ie pulling his hair, ears, face, nomming on his back, shoulder etc etc.

    I think it's a novelty for her to see him, because she spends all night snugged up facing me. Then wakes, rolls over and thinks, "hoorah it's daddy"

    I think this is incredibly endearing. DH would think it was a whole heap cuter if he wasn't trying to sleep.

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  • erbearerbear member
    All that waking and not eating sounds like teeth to me. I think I'd do whatever works for a week or so, then battle it out when she's feeling better.
    "Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies. God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Kurt Vonnegut
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  • MrsErinnElizabethMrsErinnElizabeth

    imageerbear:
    All that waking and not eating sounds like teeth to me. I think I'd do whatever works for a week or so, then battle it out when she's feeling better.

    This.  DD refuses all solids and wakes at least 6-8 times a night when she's teething.  It's hell, but we do whatever we have to to get as much sleep as possible.

    GL and I hope it passes soon!

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