Up every 2 hrs at night

TeresaTX · October 2011

My daughter sleeping schedule for the past month or so has been horrible. She used to sleep from 9-2am, i'd nurse her then she would sleep until 6-7 in the morning. Now she sleeps 7-11, then up every couple hours until 6-7 in the morning. I need to re-train her to fall back asleep on her own, but she may be teething (doesn't have any teeth yet) and I want to be there to comfort her. Anyone else experience this?

RouensDream · October 2011

Oh no. That sounds rough. I don't have any advice..hang in there.

kcisthebombdotcom · October 2011

We just passed this stage. I'm guessing it was a combo of teething, then a growth spurt.

mishu917 · October 2011

Yea we went through this for two months when she was teething. Now that she has her first few teeth, she is back to STTN. It was terrible but I always told myself that it's temporary and it must really be painful, so she needs my comfort.

RedZee · October 2011

We've gone through this a few times and still have no teeth.

3 things have helped:

1) DH getting up with her so that she knows she's not getting food. Then I can get up with her too and after a few days of rocking, she seems to go back to fewer wake ups again.

2) A total mess up in schedule for a few days followed by returning to normal (either from going on vacation or spending a few days with family or having late nights).

3) Pre-emptive waking. (don't know the official name for it) The theory is that if you wake a baby a bit before he typically wakes up (for example, 10:30 instead of 11) and do all the same things you would do at the wake up, it kind of "resets" the system. We've done it with just making a bit of noise so that she comes out of deep sleep but doesn't fully wake up. The other night, I was coughing all night and she could hear it. She slept for almost 13 hours straight which she NEVER does. [It sucks that I didn't benefit from that sleep!]