Sleep regression or something else?

purple4u · August 2012

Ds used to be a great sleeper. Slept 8pm til 5am from 6 weeks til 8 months. Now he is up 1 tO 3x a night and it's exhausting. I am barely coping. I need advice and help. I cannot take it anymore. He is making me crazy. DH thinks I should nurse evey time and it worked in the beginning but it doesn't anymore.

Any advice would be appreciated

purple4u · August 2012

1 to 3x a night not 13

skipperkelly · August 2012

I don't have any advice but all week LO has been waking up for the day at 4:30am when he's usually up at 6:30am. Not sure what is going on but this momma needs some sleep ASAP! Hopefully they will be sleeping again soon.

smilelari · August 2012

If he's not acting uncomfortable, my first guess is overtired especially since 8-5 is only 9 hours of sleep and babies need more like 11-12 at night. I'd probably gradually move bed time earlier. How is he napping? How many hours of sleep does he get per 24 hours?

And for the poster that has an uber early riser, I'd say the cause is likely the same but that's way harder to solve. DS was an early riser. At 10 months we could get him back to sleep in our bed. At 12 months we were getting up with him at 4:30 every day. We did the sleep lady sleep shuffle with him at 14 months which got him to sttn, but we dealt with early rising for a while past that. We would go in, lay him down, tell him it's still night-night time and then leave and he would scream and we would repeat the process every 15 minutes until we had a dramatic wake up at 6 am (turn on lights, throw open shades, sing song). The goal was always to get in and tell him it's still night night before he was too awake, but it never worked very well. It probably took a month or so past the start of the shuffle to work that one out. Now that we've solved that, whenever he regresses we know he's overtired and move his bed time earlier and that's the first thing I would suggest trying, especially since, IMO this is a crappy age for sleep training

purple4u · August 2012

smilelari:
If he's not acting uncomfortable, my first guess is overtired especially since 8-5 is only 9 hours of sleep and babies need more like 11-12 at night. I'd probably gradually move bed time earlier. How is he napping? How many hours of sleep does he get per 24 hours?
And for the poster that has an uber early riser, I'd say the cause is likely the same but that's way harder to solve. DS was an early riser. At 10 months we could get him back to sleep in our bed. At 12 months we were getting up with him at 4:30 every day. We did the sleep lady sleep shuffle with him at 14 months which got him to sttn, but we dealt with early rising for a while past that. We would go in, lay him down, tell him it's still night-night time and then leave and he would scream and we would repeat the process every 15 minutes until we had a dramatic wake up at 6 am (turn on lights, throw open shades, sing song). The goal was always to get in and tell him it's still night night before he was too awake, but it never worked very well. It probably took a month or so past the start of the shuffle to work that one out. Now that we've solved that, whenever he regresses we know he's overtired and move his bed time earlier and that's the first thing I would suggest trying, especially since, IMO this is a crappy age for sleep training

He takes 2 naps 1.5-2 hrs each. I am going to try moving bedtime up and see how that goes. Thanks!

RedCamaro · August 2012

purple4u:
smilelari:

If he's not acting uncomfortable, my first guess is overtired especially since 8-5 is only 9 hours of sleep and babies need more like 11-12 at night. I'd probably gradually move bed time earlier. How is he napping? How many hours of sleep does he get per 24 hours?

And for the poster that has an uber early riser, I'd say the cause is likely the same but that's way harder to solve. DS was an early riser. At 10 months we could get him back to sleep in our bed. At 12 months we were getting up with him at 4:30 every day. We did the sleep lady sleep shuffle with him at 14 months which got him to sttn, but we dealt with early rising for a while past that. We would go in, lay him down, tell him it's still night-night time and then leave and he would scream and we would repeat the process every 15 minutes until we had a dramatic wake up at 6 am (turn on lights, throw open shades, sing song). The goal was always to get in and tell him it's still night night before he was too awake, but it never worked very well. It probably took a month or so past the start of the shuffle to work that one out. Now that we've solved that, whenever he regresses we know he's overtired and move his bed time earlier and that's the first thing I would suggest trying, especially since, IMO this is a crappy age for sleep training

He takes 2 naps 1.5-2 hrs each. I am going to try moving bedtime up and see how that goes. Thanks!

I'll be interested to know if this works for you. Mine is doing something similar. His nap schedule was messed up due to traveling. That's when he slept the best at night, however, he was also teething. At the beginning of his teething periods, he'll sleep 4+ hours at a time (usually sleeps 3 and wakes up). But if putting him to bed earlier will fix this, then I'll try it too. But I also wonder if putting him to bed later would work for the waking up too early. My LO is just done with his day at 7pm though.

smilelari · August 2012

RedCamaro:
purple4u:
smilelari:

If he's not acting uncomfortable, my first guess is overtired especially since 8-5 is only 9 hours of sleep and babies need more like 11-12 at night. I'd probably gradually move bed time earlier. How is he napping? How many hours of sleep does he get per 24 hours?

And for the poster that has an uber early riser, I'd say the cause is likely the same but that's way harder to solve. DS was an early riser. At 10 months we could get him back to sleep in our bed. At 12 months we were getting up with him at 4:30 every day. We did the sleep lady sleep shuffle with him at 14 months which got him to sttn, but we dealt with early rising for a while past that. We would go in, lay him down, tell him it's still night-night time and then leave and he would scream and we would repeat the process every 15 minutes until we had a dramatic wake up at 6 am (turn on lights, throw open shades, sing song). The goal was always to get in and tell him it's still night night before he was too awake, but it never worked very well. It probably took a month or so past the start of the shuffle to work that one out. Now that we've solved that, whenever he regresses we know he's overtired and move his bed time earlier and that's the first thing I would suggest trying, especially since, IMO this is a crappy age for sleep training

He takes 2 naps 1.5-2 hrs each. I am going to try moving bedtime up and see how that goes. Thanks!

I'll be interested to know if this works for you. Mine is doing something similar. His nap schedule was messed up due to traveling. That's when he slept the best at night, however, he was also teething. At the beginning of his teething periods, he'll sleep 4+ hours at a time (usually sleeps 3 and wakes up). But if putting him to bed earlier will fix this, then I'll try it too. But I also wonder if putting him to bed later would work for the waking up too early. My LO is just done with his day at 7pm though.

We experimented a bit with DS and found that putting him to bed later just made it worse, so we finally went with Weisbluth's advice and a super early bedtime

I'm going to guess that some of this varies based on the child, but most babies need a bedtime earlier than 8

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