How is your LO sleeping?

Re: How is your LO sleeping?

• sgoodsel member

  January 2014

  I have a 9mo +2wks. 

  
  

  Sometimes she sleeps well and other times not so much.

  
  

  We did do 'cry it out' but the crying only lasted about 15mins for bedtime and the first couple of nights she cried in the middle of the night wake ups. Now, I usually nurse her to sleep (for a while I was being ridgid and putting her down awake, but then things happened and she seems to be going to bed pretty well and resettling most times ok after nursing to sleep). 

  
  

  On the nights she wakes up when I put her down, or put her down drowsy but awake, she only cries for about 30 seconds as I kiss her and leave the room. Sometimes she goes right to sleep, other times she plays around for a while. When she wakes up in the middle of the night, I try not to respond right away (unless her cries are urgent), and lots of time she fusses and makes noise and resettles herself if I wait 10 minutes or so.

  
  

  Does he cry when he's up for 1-2 hours, or is he happy playing in his crib? Does he have a lovey or two in his crib to snuggle with or rub on his face when he wakes up at night?

  
  

  I wish you good luck, it's really hard to be awake so much when you're working FT. We have went through some bad sleeping phases where I was back to being a zombie. It's hard! 

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• SidraJedi member

  January 2014

  DD is 10 months in a week, her naps are on a loose schedule but she skips naps some days. She's been sleeping like crap since she started walking.

  
  

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• jbatch member

  January 2014

  I have noticed my LO was having issues with sleep and it seems to be because I was letting her fall asleep nursing and putting her down asleep. I just recently started nursing her around 7 or 7:30 and then letting her play for awhile and then putting her down and letting her cry it out. It only took a night or two and she has been sleeping waaaaaayyyyy better.
  

  
  

  I have a Daughter born 2/26/2013. She is pretty much amazing!
  

  
  

  

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• July18Bride member

  January 2014

  I have a 9 mo + 1 week old...we have a similar schedule to you as far as meals/fomula + BM/bed time. I started with the 'going to sleep' before tackling the MOTN issue. We got in the bad habit of rocking him to sleep and placing in crib asleep- I tried a modified version of CIO a few months ago and it didn't work, so I tried it again. I nursed him AND gave him a bottle so I knew he was full, I did all this with lights on in the living room to keep him from falling asleep...and a little earlier too. Then we read books, a few little snuggles and place in crib awake. It took a few rough nights, but I stayed consistant and he caught on! Now he doesn't even fuss, maybe for 30 seconds at most and right to sleep on his own.

  Now I am tackling the MOTN, our pedi says by 8 months they are no longer waking from hunger. Maybe once they are awake they realize they are hungry, but its not whats waking them up. So...last night was our first time letting him CIO - which was tough, but he did it! He woke back up a few hours later- we let him be and it was less than 5 min and he was back asleep.

  My whole point is maybe try to work on one issue (self soothing to sleep) before worrying about the MOTN awakening. Good luck!

  

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• BigPoppa22 member

  January 2014

  Our LO is 9 months + 5 days.  We did sleep training at around 6 months and had it working pretty well where he would only cry it out for 5 minutes, sometimes 10, and fall asleep.  We did not take away the pacifier.  DS will wake up usually twice per night crying, and we just need to put the paci back in and he falls right back asleep.  Recently, however, since he has become more active, getting him to sleep is a lot harder.  Even after crying 5-10 minutes, he will often keep sitting/standing in the crib and not sleeping.  Last night it took about 40 minutes of putting him down, him standing and crying, etc, until he finally fell asleep.  That was long than usual, but in general these days it is taking a longer time.

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• Crequito member

  January 2014

  DD is 9 mo and 1 week.  She just started a pattern of STTN from 8ish-6:30ish on Christmas and with only one hiccup 2 nights ago she's sticked to those hours.  Last night she went down around 8:30 and slept until almost 7am with no wakeups in the middle of the night.  Before Christmas we went through a horrid 2 weeks where she'd go down around 8 and then be up at 3am and would scream if we tried to put her back in her crib.  DH an I took turns sleeping in upright positions holding her so she would sleep.  I'm not sure what it was - she wasn't teething or sick.  Then Christmas night she slept great and it's been fantastic ever since.  I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and for the MOTN screaming to rear its ugly head again.

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• jonesie2010 member

  January 2014

  DD is 9.5 months. We did CIO sleep training a couple of months ago, and since then she is pretty good at putting herself to sleep. She has an off night occasionally, but usually falls asleep on her own within 10 minutes with only minor fussing.
  
  MOTN is a different story though. On a good night, she wakes once to eat and goes back to sleep pretty easily. On a bad night she is awake multiple times throughout the night and we are in there finding the pacifier back, shushing, and patting. She's been having a lot of bad nights lately. I'm hoping it's teething related and she gets better after the top two finally break through. I don't want to leave her to CIO if she's in pain.

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• poppyc8 member

  January 2014

  I've kind of just resigned myself to accept that my LO sleeps in phases.  Like, he will go 2 weeks straight only waking up once (which is amazing for us!) and then he will have days where he wakes up 3 times.  It's really hard but i try to just roll with it.
  
  

  

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• tig594 member

  January 2014

  DD was 9 months just after Christmas and was waking up once a night for a bottle and then conking right back out.  She  was sick with an infection in each ear over Christmas and was running really high fevers.  Since that's cleared up she's been STTN for about the last week.  We also co-sleep as she sleeps so much better that way.  It's been nice to get some real sleep for a change.  She also has her fill of an 8 ounce bottle before bed.  She usually drinks most of it and it asleep within 30 minutes.  She has set her own bedtime which is between 8-9.  Any later and she starts getting crabby.

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• amberdanielle68845 member

  January 2014

  lsleeper22 said:

  Just wondering how other 9mo.+ LO's are sleeping (or how they were sleeping around that time).  Our little man has gone through many phases, but for quite sometime now he continues to have his 1 or sometimes even 2 night time feedings and is up for 1-2 hours nightly.  While working F/T, it's really starting to wear on me.  A while back, he had started STTN, but about a month ago he had a bad cold and we haven't been able to get back on track ever since.  With DH out of town, I reached my breaking point last night and after nursing and changing, I just let him cry himself to sleep.  I am willing to try the 'cry it out', but fear its still a little too early for me to want to try on a regular basis.   

  As far as his details, he's 40 weeks today. (9 months, 1 week).  I had a stomach flu about a month ago and my supply never really bounced back, but he's still nursing morning and night and getting two 6 oz. bottles at daycare, and one formula supplement.  He's also eating solids, breakfast and lunch at daycare and dinner at home around 6:30pm.  He typically is down for the night by 8:30 pm (which I'm starting to wonder if it s/b earlier) and is up just a few hours later between 11:30p-12:30a and lately will not go back down for 1-2 hours and occasionally is up again around 3-4.  To me, he seems to really struggle settling down.  He does seem to be teething (although, still has no pearly whites).

  Details on myself - I'm a creature of habit and haven't changed any eating/drinking habits at all, so I wouldn't think its anything in my diet that would all of a sudden make a difference.   

  I'll admit that I made the mistake of often letting him go down right after nursing (while still asleep).  Lately, I've been trying to nurse and put him down while still awake, but something tells me I started this too late.  Some nights it works, others, we have to put him down already in a slumber.  I have read Happiest baby on the block, but that seems more geared toward newborns and now I'm afraid we need to get past some sort of bad habits or tendencies we've developed along the way...  or maybe its just teething and I need to suck it up.  ;-)  haha! 

  Anyway, any advice is greatly appreciated!! Thanks all!  Happy hump day!

  To the bolded, I could have written this.  DD has slept through the night since 4 months old and about a month ago she started waking up 2-3x.  She had Rotovirus for a week and it now seems impossible to get back to STTN.  Hang in there is the only advice I have!
  

  

   

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• LisaLisa1980 member

  January 2014

  9 months old - wakes every 2-3 hrs, on a good night maybe get a 4 hr stretch. he sleeps 11-12 hrs tho
  

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