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I wish my child would sleep through the night...
After moving our son to the crib 3 weeks ago, we have not been able to get a good night's sleep. He has been waking up every 2 hours and it will take us another hour to calm him back down and go to sleep. I really have been trying not to have to breastfeed him during the night because I feel like he should be able to go with out a feeding, but I have ended up nursing him back to sleep around 3am because nothing we do soothes him. If anyone has some advice on how to get him to stay asleep through the night and how to get him to stop nursing the one time, we would appreciate it!
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Re: I wish my child would sleep through the night...
No advice, just saying I feel you. I nurse DD back to sleep 99% of the time because it's easier and faster. I need as much sleep as possible. She has been better lately, but there were times were she would wake every hour or two while teething.
DD never slept in her crib for more than 20 minutes so she sleeps with me, which helps/hurts the situation.
It just takes time sometimes.
Does he put himself to sleep at the beginning of the night or does he nurse to sleep? It's very normal for babies (and everyone) to wake up multiple times during the night and if he's used to nursing to sleep, that may be the only way he knows to get back to sleep.
Not that I am a good one to talk. I generally nurse when DD wakes up at night because I just want everyone to get back to sleep as soon as possible. Both of my kids started sleeping through the night after 8 months. DS was terrible and would wake up multiple times a night until he just all of a sudden started sleeping through. DD has been sleeping until at least 4 for a while, but now is sleeping through until later. So I guess my point is don't feel like if you nurse him now, you'll be doing it forever.
Have you tried sending your DH in instead of you? I'm not much help either, bc we pretty much co-sleep (DS2 starts the night in his crib, and then just sleeps with me the rest of the night), but mainly bc I have no patience for coaxing him back into the crib, only to have him wake up 30 minutes later...
Also, it sounds like he still needs to nurse at night. I think the general rule of thumb is that babies are probably still hungry up through 12 months (and frankly, I side-eye the whole "No way are they thirsty or hungry after x months!" anyway...). Sleep has generally sucked when both my sons were past 7-8 months. Hang in there!
DS2 - Oct 2010 (my VBAC baby!)