RP: 9 month old waking 4-5 times per night for the last 1.5 months

Shivani2005 · January 2013

My almost 9 month old breastfed baby has been waking 4-5 times per night. He was a great sleeper until the last 6-7 weeks. He sleeps in his own room in a crib. He goes down fine for naps. (2 naps about 3 hours total). We have a bedtime routine, follow a schedule during the day. I am a work at home mom so he is with me at home. He has started crawling in the last few weeks, has 2 teeth. We have tried medicine for the teeth, feeding him more at his last solids meal, winding him down more before bedtime. He loves baths and they make him very excited so we omitted those from the bedtime routine months ago. We can't figure it out and we are all so very sleep deprived and stressed. Any ideas? I am not too keen on CIO. We tried it but baby kept crying and crying and was very angry and it took a while to calm him down afterwards. I do nurse to sleep, but my husband and my mom have been able to put him to sleep other ways.

When he wakes up, DH goes up to shush him or rock him back to sleep. Baby falls asleep on his shoulder and as soon as he puts him down in his crib, he wakes ack up crying. He has to pick him up and repeat about 2-3 times and when he won't go to sleep, I come up and nurse him to sleep and when I put him down sometimes he sleeps but sometimes he wakes up crying and gets in a crawling position. He does eat when I go in and nurse him. Is he hungry much more these last 2 months? He is very active during the day. Any advice or tips would be appreciated!

AmyJoy728 · January 2013

Maybe try nursing on your side so he doesn't get jostled as much when he gets put down? I heard healthy sleep habits works well. Sorry =(

SteelCity44 · January 2013

Some babies go through a 9 month sleep regression, but if this has been going on for over a month, I'm going to guess that's not the problem. All I can say is that my LO went through the same thing. We went back to the RNP on those nights. It was the only way he would sleep. Every night, we tried to get him back in his crib, but eventually, he ended back up in the RNP and was up every 2 hours to nurse. We didn't really "do" anything, but it has started to go back to his old norm, which is up every 3-4 hours to nurse and goes straight back down in his crib. We still get the occasional 2.5 hours, but it's usually after one of us makes a loud noise.

Sorry that I'm not much help. I hope it goes back to normal soon for you.

chelle7707 · January 2013

I could have writen this post almost WORD.FOR.WORD! Except my LO is 8 months and he is formula fed. We have the exact same problem. DS slept through the night when he was 3 month old for about two months. Then, he got sick and we fed him at night so he wouldnt get dehydrated. Now ever since he has done the same thing you are talking about. We have tried CIO and he just crys and crys and crys and gets himself so worked up he vomits.......ugh......so, im hoping someone has some good insight as well. Just know you anr not alona mama.

jessandandy09 · January 2013

we are having sleep regression here too! It is about the same thing, Ev started sleeping throught the night at 6 weeks old, with a small wakeful period at 4 months and now we are going nuts. her bedtime used to be between 8:30 and 9 and she would sttn until 6:30am when I woke her up to nurse. Now, she isn't going to sleep until 10 and then wakes up about 5 minutes after I lay her down, then it take 3 more times of laying her down before she actually stays asleep. She will be rocked to sleep easily, but the moment I lay her down her eyes pop open and she starts crying. She also has fully woken up 2x's per night and it has taken me roughly 45 minutes to get her back to sleep.

I keep attributing this to teething, because she has her bottom two and I think she is working on the top two teeth, but who knows??! All I know is I am exhausted at work and living of off caffeine and then feeling guilty because I am still bfing some

good luck to you, let me know if you find and answer

ccd122psu · January 2013

chelle7707:
I could have writen this post almost WORD.FOR.WORD! Except my LO is 8 months and he is formula fed. We have the exact same problem. DS slept through the night when he was 3 month old for about two months. Then, he got sick and we fed him at night so he wouldnt get dehydrated. Now ever since he has done the same thing you are talking about. We have tried CIO and he just crys and crys and crys and gets himself so worked up he vomits.......ugh......so, im hoping someone has some good insight as well. Just know you anr not alona mama.

Here too! Matt is 8 months old and formula fed. Lately, he has been so hard to put down. I rock him on my shoulder, he falls asleep, and as soon as I lay him down he screams. He's literally standing up in the crib screaming. And he crys and crys and crys. He gets so worked up he flails himself around and will sometimes hit his head so I panic now leaving him scream like that.

I am attributing it to some separation anxiety and teething. He has his two bottom teeth, a third just popped through on the bottom and his upper gums are so swollen.

C'mon teeth!

CJPowers · January 2013

My 9 month old is currently going through a major growth spurt. She is mostly BF (1 six oz formula bottle at day care). She usually wakes up 1-3 times a night. She has slept through the night maybe 10 times ever. Now she is waking up 3 times every night for the last two weeks. She wants to nurse every time. I think that some babies go through this at 9 months of age. I'm sorry, I know how difficult it can be. All I can say is go to bed when your LO goes to bed.

liz.eckel · January 2013

i'm word for word with you also.

even the work at home mom thing.

BUT we bought a white noise machine, and she sleeps like a cat in the sun now. it was a shot in the dark, but after being desperate to transition her to the crib from co-sleeping with us, we got a sound machine.

it is awesome.

she only wakes up to nurse, then is easily placed into the crib WITHOUT WAKING.

try it, really and truly. best 35 bucks i ever spent.

chelle7707 · January 2013

liz.eckel:
i'm word for word with you also.
even the work at home mom thing.
BUT we bought a white noise machine, and she sleeps like a cat in the sun now. it was a shot in the dark, but after being desperate to transition her to the crib from co-sleeping with us, we got a sound machine.
it is awesome.
she only wakes up to nurse, then is easily placed into the crib WITHOUT WAKING.
try it, really and truly. best 35 bucks i ever spent.

We have a sounds machine. I've had it DS's room since he was 4 months old. It doesnt work for us..

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