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No sleep. HELP!

kirstinmbkirstinmb
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Hello darling bumpies. :)

We're having a terrible time around here lately, I'm afraid. My daughter will be nine months on saturday, and in the past odd week/10-days her sleep habits have completely changed...in a bizarre and instantaneous fashion.

Before, she would sleep through the night, pretty much every night. Yes, since birth.

I would nurse her down for naps and she would rest for at least 90minutes every day, and then easily go to sleep when we tucked her in at night.

I miss that!

I really really hope it's just a temporary teething issue, because she's also suddenly cutting three teeth all at once at the moment. (Both top front teeth and an incisor. She's already got her two bottom teeth in, and we didn't have issues with her then, aside from a one-night fever when the first one cut through.) 

 Now she refuses to nap at her usual time and just drops from exhaustion right before dinner and crashes for an odd hour...that makes it so that around her normal bedtime she won't go down either.

I HATE letting her cry, and swore I never would, but that's what we're down to now...not even that will work at naptime, it's a total bust. At night after laying with her for an odd hour, when I leave her tucked in our room she'll cry for an odd ten minutes then fall asleep for the night...

It's not the system that I'd prefer for us to have.

I'm just praying and praying it's her teeth coming in that have brought us to this place...the change was literally overnight, and it's monstrous! 

Ideas? Commiserating? Anyone?

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Re: No sleep. HELP!

  • kirstinmbkirstinmb
    Wow. Those tickers needed updating. I'm definitely not 80-weeks pregnant. ;)
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  • danieliza1127danieliza1127 member

    If she's teething, good sleep is out the window.  Usually for us, it takes about a week and a half for the teeth to come in and sleep to go back to normal.  Once the teeth come in, my LO's sleep always goes right back to normal like nothing happened. 

    I wouldn't try sleep training or CIO while she's teething.  Nurse her to sleep, rock her, do whatever you need to do.  She doesn't feel good and just wants to be comforted.  If you aren't giving Tylenol or Motrin, definitely try that.  I have found that Motrin works best.

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  • SocialworkgirlSocialworkgirl member
    imagedanieliza1127:

    I wouldn't try sleep training or CIO while she's teething.  Nurse her to sleep, rock her, do whatever you need to do.  She doesn't feel good and just wants to be comforted.  If you aren't giving Tylenol or Motrin, definitely try that.  I have found that Motrin works best.

    I agree with this.  I would also really try to get her to nap earlier in the day so hopefully she doesn't get overtired and bedtime isn't as hard. 

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