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What did you do? Sitting in crib...

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My son just learned how to get himself into a seated position from his back or belly in the last couple of days. Last night he was up for 2.5 hours getting into this seated position in his crib.  At 1AM he started crying and I checked the monitor and he was sitting straight up in bed. So I went in there, rocked him to calm him down, then laid him down like normal (usually he will just go right back to sleep).  Well, he flipped right into the seated position and immediately started crying when I laid him down. I checked his temp, he's not sick (just was at the doc for something else), not teething, etc.  So I tried just letting him cry for a while to see what he did.  He just sat there and cried. So over and over I went in, laid him down, rocked him, patted him, let him cry, tried everything and all he would do was just flip right back into his seated position.  Eventually he finally went to sleep. 

I have read somewhere that when babies learn a new trick like this sometimes their little bodies just can't turn off their brain to keep trying the new skill.  Long story short...do I let him cry?  Keep helping him lay down and try to help him settle to sleep?  What did you do?  (FYI, we did CIO a couple months ago for multiple night wakings and a normal night for us is one waking, nurse, then right back to sleep). 

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  • Danaz1Danaz1 member
    he just has to figure it out on his own that he can go back to sleep.  My little guy does that and eventually goes back to sleep.
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  • iheartkeithiheartkeith
    I could have written this post word for word so I am curious to see the responses. LO just started doing this a few days ago. I have been laying her back down but I know she needs to figure it out on her own eventually! This morning I went in there to pic
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  • Salamander610Salamander610 member

    The same thing happened to us when my daughter first learned that trick...and again for a few nights when she learned to pull up to standing.

    What worked for us was to put her in the Ergo to put her back to sleep...once she was sleeping we put he

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  • CutiesMommy420CutiesMommy420 member
    Just a phrase! It will pass! Exactly what you wrote- when they learn something new that is all they want to do! I went through the same thing (shes almost a year) and for like a week straight she would actually pull herself up and just stand there for lik
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  • megperk72megperk72
    Let them figure it out on their own. That's what we had to do. Same with pulling up. Give them as much "practice" at their new skill during the day and then close the door, turn the monitor off and let them figure it out at night. It takes a couple of LOO
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  • vrj0522vrj0522 member
    I agree, this will probably not last more than a week or so. What we do when our baby cries at night is disturb him as little as possible so when he would get in the sitted position, we'd just put him back down and walk out. Then we'd give him time to set
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