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I the middle of the night what do you do?
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My 11 mo old still wakes every 3-4hours a night. She will eat just 3 or so oz and back to sleep but I feel she's just doing it for comfort. Books tell you how to get them to sleep but I don't know what to do if she wakes. I've let her cry ten min bit then she's so worked up it takes longer to get her down. Tell me what you did that worked please!
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Re: I the middle of the night what do you do?
If DS wakes upset in the middle of the night I will rock back to sleep. He doesn't get a bottle till after 6am.
My advice would be to cut out the night feedings. It won't be easy and there will be crying, but I think most momma have to go through a few rough nights to teach their LOs how night time is going to go.
My DS still wakes up once on most nights. Often times I have to find his pacifier and rock him back to sleep. I have never had one of those magic sleeping babies that other moms talk about, and it has taken a little bit of effort to get down to one waking a night. Pick a night where you decide you're done night feeding.... probably a weekend where you can rest the next day. Your LO will adjust quickly. GL!
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Ds was waking every 2-3 hours. I thought it would never end. Id just stick the boob inand wed sleep. We bedshare so it was easier.
He had his first teeth before 5 months and now we have 8 so a lot of teething and sleepless nights.
All of sudden something clicked at 10 months and he started sttn! We are still bedsharing but we all sleep much better. Once that 3rd nap was out it got much better too!
just wanted to say you aren't alone - ds wakes one to three times a night. I give him a boob, it's fastest and easiest when we are all tired.
we don't do CIO. sorry, wish I had a solution for you!
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DS is naturally a terrible sleeper - for the first 4 months of his life he was up ~8x per night and it got to the point that he would basically only sleep if I held him so I would hold him in our bed sitting up. That's obviously not sustainable and it's dangerous so we let him CIO at that point - but continued to feed him when he could reasonably be hungry.
He cried for about 20 min the first night (we did cold turkey), 10 the second and none the third.
When he was 7 1/2 months we stopped the night feeds - we decreased the amount in the bottle by 1 oz. a night and increased the intervals btwn feeds by 1/2 hr. That was messy and it took about 1-2 weeks until he was off the bottle.
Since then he's been STTN almost every night from 7pm-6am. He is NOT a naturally good sleeper - I credit this to our letting him CIO, which really only took a couple days. The amount of crying he did CIO is much less than he was doing when he was waking every couple hours.
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This! I was ready to lose my mind after about 2 months straight of this, on and off, and we tried the combination of the pedi's recommendation of giving decreasing amounts of formula and increasing amounts of water, then finally just water each time LO wakes up hungry. If we had to feed him we would do the above, and give him the smallest amount possible to pacify him, like 3 oz, and then 2 oz, etc. And then alternate that with times where it seemed like he just woke up with "night terrors" or separation anxiety, that is when we'd use the back rubbing and "shhhh" method. The key is to not pick LO up, though. I would lean over the crib and hug him and then gently lay him down in the crib and say "shhhhh", repeatedly, over and over until he finally wore down and would stay laying down and fall back asleep. I would also keep my hand on his back as a comfort until it seemed like he was drifting off and his breaths got deeper and longer. It was a long process and I cant say we're out of the woods just yet but he has been STTN legitimately now for almost 2 weeks and we're crossing our fingers! Hope that helps!
My almost 11 month old has just started waking up once to twice a night after STTN since about 5 months.
Not really sure why...
Thank you for posting this. I was feeling like the worlds worst mother. I'm getting "advice" (opinions, really. Or even better, stories bout how their children have slept through the night since the day they came home. Ugh). We had a major regression while we were vacationing and he started teething at 9-10 months.
It hasn't been any better in the month ive been home. Last night, for example, he was up at 1:00am, 3:30am and 6:00am. I'm exhausted. DH is exhausted. I've tried, literally, everything. Nothing seems to work.
Just knowing that there are other moms out there helps because if I have one more person tell me to add more rice to his bottle I'm going to lose it.
Sorry. I think this was a major vent for me and totally unhelpful for you.
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