Still not sleeping the whole night

qtpie61282 · July 2012

My almost 9 month old is still up every 3-4 hours crying. usually around the same time a night lately. I go and check on him, and the first time he awakens I will just nurse him a little because it helps him back to sleep, the second time which is usually around 5-6am I will change his diaper because by then its super full, and Ill nurse him a little again to get him back to sleep.

Its starting to take a toll on my own sleep habit and I am exhausted by the end of the afternoon!

Anyone else experience this or have any tricks they can suggest?

mbf124 · July 2012

I'd suggest letting him CIO, at least for the first wakening. That's the only thing that's working for us right now.

I'm hesitant to let her CIO when she wakes up between 5 and 6 because then she'll wake up for the day. If I feed her, she'll sleep anohter 1-2 hours usually. That will probably the be last feeding we wean her of.

CIO is SOO hard, but for older babies who have a habit of night wakenings, I really feel like this is the only thing that works.

crystaleyes39 · July 2012

He's not waking because he's hungry he's waking out of habit it sounds like. I wouldn't nurse him at all. Try pacifying him instead to sooth him back to sleep. My girls still randomly will fuss at night and I never feed them or pick them up. Just either reposition them or give them a paci. See if that makes any difference.

InlovewithJHK · July 2012

I would first start night weaning. It is so hard and painful but you could try Ferber's method. I would nurse for less and less time until I wouldn't nurse at all for all feedings. Then after she is used to not eating at night, then you could try sleep training. I went through the same thing with my now 3 year old and it was so hard. She didn't STTN until she was 1.

kerischrader · July 2012

crystaleyes39:
He's not waking because he's hungry he's waking out of habit it sounds like. I wouldn't nurse him at all. Try pacifying him instead to sooth him back to sleep. My girls still randomly will fuss at night and I never feed them or pick them up. Just either reposition them or give them a paci. See if that makes any difference.

This! We sleep trained but now that he takes a paci...IF he does wake, I pop paci in... hand him his "lovie" to hold, and he falls right back to sleep. Tome to sleep train, hard at first but he will catch on real fast!

EveryNameIWantIsTaken · July 2012

My son didn't sleep all night regularly until he was over 3. 3 years that is lol. DD was getting up only once a night which was totally doable to me, then we went on vacation and we're back to 2 or 3 times a night. I'm trying to get her down the first time she wakes without feeding then will work on the second again. It's how we did it the first time. Super frustrating because we were working on all this and successful before we left to go out of town.

smilelari · July 2012

Night waking is developmentally normal through around age 2. And 6 am is a perfectly normal wake up time

qtpie61282 · July 2012

thanks everyone! I hate letting him CIO, I haven't been able to do so yet. I'll lay there and listen to him to see if he's actually crying crying or if hes talking and whining. But even if he is just light whining, it usually turns into real crying, standing up in his crib and looking for one of us.

Ill try just giving him his paci instead of nursing him, I usually will rock him in my glider too which helps, but takes longer. If I just let him CIO, Ill be up all night anyway listening to it on the monitor :-(

What time do you put your LO down for bed at night? Its different every night for our son. Sometimes 9, 10pm...so when he wakes at 1 and 5, I suppose that is slightly normal, but I don't want to be getting up for the day at 5am! lol

EveryNameIWantIsTaken · July 2012

My 7mo old goes to bed at 7, my 3year old at 7:30. You could be putting your baby to sleep too late. DD sleeps 7pm-somewhere between 7 and 8am with one or two wakeups. 10pm-6am is not enough nighttime sleep for a baby, or any kid really.

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