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January 2012 Moms
I Miss Sleep!!!
My son's 8 Months and 5 Days old and he used to get up a couple times at night but now he's getting up literally 6-10 times. Not always hungry either. Just fussing and then crying and then REALLY crying and not able to soothe himself back to sleep (my doctor said this is the stage he needs to learn to soothe himself back to sleep) But, I can't stand to hear him cry like that it breaks my heart and after 10 min I'm in there or my husband is doing the rock and bum pat till hes asleep again. But it feels like he doesn't actually sleep for more than an hour or 2 at a time!! He's a healthy boy and happy during the day but has been teething and giving him baby tylenol, or camilia or baby orajel hasn't really helped so I'm not sure that's the problem?!?! It's been 3 weeks of this and I'm exaughsted if anyone has any advice it is MORE than welcomed 
I hope I'm not the only one!!
I hope I'm not the only one!!This discussion has been closed.
Re: I Miss Sleep!!!
This probably isn't the answer you are looking for, but you probably are looking at making a decision as to which one you are more desperate for. Sleep, or soothing your baby all night instead of letting him learn to do it. Because the truth is, every single time you let him cry for 10 minutes and then give up and go in there to soothe him back to sleep is just making it worse and not only that it's sending him mixed messages
The absolute best thing for your baby is to teach him how to sleep, and he will not sleep if he doesn't know how to go back to sleep without your assistance. My baby wakes a few times a night now, i hear her wake and babble a few and then she just goes back to sleep... we sleep trained her using the ferber method when she was 5.5 months old because I was right where you are saying you are now... It is hard, but WORTH IT!!! and it is what your baby NEEDS! Not saying he needs CIO, I'm saying he needs sleep 
and so do you mama!
I hope you don't take my words as being harsh... just trying to encourage you! Here is a blog post I came across a couple months ago that helped me tremendously.
https://noobmommy.com/2008/11/to-ferberize-or-not-to-ferberize.html
Baby 2 EDD 7-18-14
I can feel your pain. I've got a LO who is still waking 3-4 times a night to eat, and I had to put my foot down and insist he go at least 2 hours between feedings (we're working our way up to 3 hours).
I also recommend Ferber. The approach lets you go in to check on LO and provide some reassurance that you're still there. Using a timer really helped me stick with the plan because the timer became the bad guy telling me I wasn't allowed to check on my screaming baby until it went off. We don't have a perfect sleeper (again, working on spacing out those feedings), but he knows it's his job to put himself back to sleep, even if I have to let him scream himself to exhaustion if he wakes an hour after his last feeding.
As for the teething, baby tylenol is probably the best option (although it's probably not a good idea to give it every night). You could also try giving LO a soft teething toy. Perhaps he would be able to fall asleep while chewing that. My DS had some rough nights while teething, and the best I could do was offer him a couple extra feedings to help him be relaxed.
As rough as it sounds, this too will pass. If the sleep routine is important to you, stick with it, even if you have to leave LO crying in the crib for a while. Ferber is better than straight CIO, and it may help you establish sleep expectations while still going in to reassure him you're stil there.