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January 2012 Moms
Mrs.Frazier
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Sleep help...
Mrs.Frazier
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All the sudden my daughter acts like she can't sleep with out me. I have always laid her in her bed awake and she has always just gone to sleep. Then when she wakes up I nurse her and put her back in her bed either asleep or half asleep.
Just the past couple days she screams blood murder the moment I put her down. She can even be asleep and the moment I put her down she is wide awake screaming. I pick her up she is fine and goes right back to sleep.
She does not seem sick in any way b/c otherwise she is fine.
I am at my wits end. I NEED her to sleep on her own I can not hold her all night and for naps.
June 2006-married Bug...
April 2009-gave birth to Pinky...
January 2012-gave birth to Cakes
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Re: Sleep help...
I'm sorry you're having sleep regression. It can happen when babies reach milestones, but it doesn't sound like she's staying awake to practice skills. Could she be teething? Baby tylenol before bed may help, or you could giver her a cold teething toy. You could also check she's not cold in the crib and throw in a warmer blanket or layer her clothes.
You may have to do sleep training to get her back sleeping alone. Ferber worked for us, but if you've used a method previously, stick with that as she knows how that works. As hard as it is to hear her crying, she is old enough to understand that you expect her to sleep alone. I'd start from the beginning of whichever program you choose and work your way up as it sounds like she's not tolerating being put down at all. Make sure she's not actually sick first though. Sleep training a sick baby usually doesn't work.
Best of luck to you!
My daughter does this once or twice a week for the last few weeks. She doesn't have a fever and seems perfectly fine.
Since she's had 4 teeth come in the last few weeks, my guess is she's in pain from that and it's keeping her up. I usually take her back to bed with me (snuggles seem to help a lot). If that doesn't work, I give her some baby tylenol and continue to snuggle until she's back to sleep.
When her teeth were just breaking the surface we had 3 nights in a row of this. And then she was back to her usual sleep cycle.
I would let her cry it out, but I can't sleep with her screaming and I can get some sleep if I take her back ot bed with me. I guess I'm just a sucker for cuddles.
We've also found that DD is getting colder at night now. The temp around here keeps fluctuating, so some nights I don't put her in a sleep sack and she wakes up earlier than normal/won't just go back to sleep. But if I put a blanket over her, she sleeps longer.
We've also had some of the separation anxiety when going down in the crib. We revisited our friend Ferber and seem to be moving out of that stage.
Of course, just two nights ago, DD woke up standing... so now we have that to deal with!
Well it was short lived. She is back to normal now.
Very strange.