Fighting Sleep

wellmanb2012 · June 2013

Hi, my son is 4.5 months old and he fights his sleep. He don't just whine when he is tired, he screams to the top of his lungs. I don't know what to do. It's so bad I feel like pulling my hair out half the time.

wellmanb2012 · June 2013

What do I do?

Wild_flower25 · June 2013

DD does this, but it's worse when she's overtired. Try putting him down earlier.

Kara13360 · June 2013

My LO is 4.5 months and he started to fight sleeping too. I try to put him down at first yawn i see and it doesn't seem to help. Wish I knew why..... It sometimes feels like he just wants to stay awake so he doesn't miss anything. He is just so interested in everything

tashadee75 · June 2013

My LO fights sleep when he's really tired. He cries and he arches his back and kicks. When he does that I'm generally in the living room with background noise going. So I now take him to his nursery so he can fall asleep where it's calm and quiet. He doesn't seem to need this for naps but for his initial going down for the night he likes very little stimulation.

I also keep his room the coolest in the house which helps because not only is he a "hot baby" he ends up making himself hot from the fighting.

So when we go to his room, the only noise is a fan, the only light is a night light and it's really cool which seems to be ideal for his nighttime routine. Bedtime is between 9 and 10 for him.

mnj05 · June 2013

Mine is 3.5 months old and just starting to do this. I think it's the infamous 4 month wakeful starting up. Babies tend to wake up to the world somewhat around 2-3 months, and really wake up to the world by 4 months. They become much more aware of sounds, light, movement, and want to see everything going on.

I don't know what to do. The last couple of days I've had to wait until DS is really crying, not just fussing but all out screaming before giving him his paci back. He'll go to sleep at that point but if I try to intervene any earlier, it just prolongs the whole process.

kaidekka · June 2013

We're going through the same thing. Like others have said, its worse when she's overtired, so we try to get her to bed at the first sign of sleepiness. Do you have a consistent bedtime routine?

stephrodgers07 · June 2013

Mine fights sleeps constantly. He will scream and wail so as not to sleep.

What works for us is to hold him like a baby which he hates, give him a paci which he'll only take when tired and bounce him up and down.

this decaf life · June 2013

DD will only nap while she's eating or in the Ergo. The second I try to lay her down she pops wide awake and it's impossible to get her back to sleep. It's really hard because she's getting so big and I just can't spend all day holding her anymore. We're really struggling with naps.

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