Sleep advice?

shannon8632 · January 2014

My daughter has been sleeping through the night since she was about 4 months, and I have never had a problem getting her to go to sleep.. Until this week. She's 7 months and just this week will not go to sleep at night. She will sleep for 20 minutes and then be wide awake smiling. I don't pick her up and keep it quiet but she will play for about 5-10 minutes and then cry. I try to feed her to make sure it's not hunger and she doesn't want so I let her "cry it out". Which I hate having to do. I don't know what else to do though. I try to console her and she just screams. Eventually she gets tired enough I feed her some formula and she will sleep and stay asleep. But this is a 2 hour event. She takes pretty good and regular naps and we do have a bedtime routine that we have done since birth. Any tips? Is it the age? I really never wanted to do the cry method but am not sure what else to do!

bumpuser3155624 · January 2014

No help here. My LO is almost 7 months and hasn't done so well in the going to sleep part the last couple of weeks.

We don't do CIO. I'm too much of a softy to do it.

flyliceandcoffee · January 2014

From my understanding, this is the age where they start going through some separation anxiety. Did her routine change any over the holidays? It's possible that maybe the change in routine affected her sleep some and now that she realizes that you aren't there when she wakes up (since she didn't really wake up before), she starts to freak out. I really have no idea since I've never had a baby who sleeps all night, but maybe?

Schell2013 · January 2014

I agree about seperstion anxiety got sure. I had to do Ferber with mine which helped but my LO is still up 1-2 times a night. She also used to STTN, I don't know what's changed. I've been just staying consistent and hoping that it sorts out one day.

john5111 · January 2014

I think it may be the separation anxiety thing...my Lo has been like this the past couple of weeks and has always gone to bed on his own and sttn for months... he will scream and if you just go in his room and stand there hell stop and hell look up to see if you are a few times and then finally go to sleep. Its so weird! He also freaks if one of us leaves the room too a lot lately.

coffeeandbooks · January 2014

I know it goes against conventional wisdom...but you could just try a later bedtime. My LO had been doing the same thing, just a catnap at 7:00 and then he was up for another hour and a half. At first I just continued the put down process which was grueling but then I just took him out and had him hang with me and DH for awhile. He was happy and playing. After that we started putting him down at 8:30 instead of 7:00 without ill effect as far as I can see.

ZeeSunflowery1 · January 2014

We actually just started sleeping BETTER at our house. We are out of the door at 6am, so E's bedtime is around 7-7:30. We started FF at 6 months after a lack of production, so she gets about 6 oz sometime around 6pm. I rock her to sleep and usually the only time she freaks out is if she can't find her pacifier (2 or 3x/night) or if she's hungry (once/night). I'm expecting this to not last, but am enjoying it while it lasts. It might be developmental especially if she's on the verge of something?

MrsRKJ · January 2014

Is she teething?

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