8 month sleep regression

DanceM · June 2014

What does it look like in your house? I can't decide if we're in it or if something else is going on?

sweettooth87 · June 2014

Much harder to get to sleep and put back to sleep. He ends up crawling around or just sitting up and crying. It's lovely.

[Deleted User] · June 2014

Stop itttttt what is this 8 month sleep regression nonsense??!!!!!! We JUST got over the teething sleep deprivation, don't tell me something else is coming

megs1409 · June 2014

I was just going to start a thread in this today!!! We seem to be 1 week into this new theme:

-fights taking bottle at normal bed time.
-finally finishes bottle and tosses and turns for 30 min before finally falling asleep.
-wakes up 3-4 hours later, wants nothing to do with a bottle, wants to be held, will fall asleep being held, but the moment he goes back into his crib, he's screaming and crawling around, sitting up, standing up for 2 hours!!!
-back to sleep until 7am (ish)

Someone warned of the 7-8 month sleep regression a while ago and man, they weren't kidding. Last night I felt like I was such a failure as a mom because I couldn't soothe him to even fall asleep (and stay asleep) on me.

PixiesDust · June 2014

I didnt know this was a thing but it explains how impossible it is getting DD to bed these days. Normally she would start to drift off during her last bottle and could easily be put down in her crib. Now, even if she gets sleepy while eating, she wants to crawl all over be once she's done. We've been putting her in her crib and watching her on the monitor until she a) gets really upset b)starts trying to pull herself up or c)falls asleep. Until she's actually asleep, we usually have to go up and put her back down every 5-10 minutes, otherwise she just sits there and cries.

vargasgurl · June 2014

Oh .... So this is what's going on? DD only wants to be held while she sleeps and has been waking up when I put her down. It's been taking longer than usuall to get her to fall asleep. I was so tired I put her in bed w us.

ksimo6 · June 2014

I think we are just bleeding from one sleep disruptor to the next... Teeth, regression, leg stuck in crib, teeth... She starts in her crib but is in bed with me before morning. I'm too damn tired to get her back down and in the crib in the motn. Of course, my husband sleeps through it all. I have plots to kick him... Hard.

cassey910 · June 2014

We had 5 nights of LO waking up every hour it was not fun. He wakes up 2-3 times now but last night he didn't wake up at all so hopefully it's over.

DanceM · June 2014

Sweet Tooth 87 said:

Much harder to get to sleep and put back to sleep. He ends up crawling around or just sitting up and crying. It's lovely.

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Oh yeah, that is us. He actually starts crying when I lean over the crib to lay him down. I put him down anyway, and he sits up and becomes hysterical.

I heard this one lasts a while?

StefMurph · June 2014

dknight413 said:
We just finished this, but for two weeks it was:

-Taking 2 hours to go to sleep at night
-Waking up two hours later
-Then 2 hours after that
-Then getting up for the day at 5:45am
-And refusing to nap for more than 45 minutes

It really made me question my parenting skills but it was just a phase.

This exactly. We're coming out the other side after about 3 weeks. She woke up at 4 am Sunday morning and instead of me just picking her up, I reassured her and she cried for a few minutes and went back to sleep. Last night it was 2 am and she slept until 7:30 which is unusually late for her (I'm blaming the rain). It was hard to hear her cry for a few minutes, but she went right back to sleep and is a happy girl this morning.

DanceM · June 2014

dknight413 said:

We just finished this, but for two weeks it was:

-Taking 2 hours to go to sleep at night

-Waking up two hours later

-Then 2 hours after that

-Then getting up for the day at 5:45am

-And refusing to nap for more than 45 minutes

It really made me question my parenting skills but it was just a phase.

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I thought it was just me. Sometimes it takes me two hours to get him down (and he's up a half hour later). I can't get anything done, and DH and I have zero time together.

Lee81 · June 2014

Until a few days ago, DD might wake up a few times at night to whine for her pacifier and then go right back to sleep once we (okay, I) get it for her. For the past few nights, though, she has been wiiiiide awake and ready to party when I get to her crib. The binky does nothing. I have to rock her back to sleep and then she's up again an hour or two later. I'm glad to hear that this might be a phase because I was starting to worry.

*blue*flower* · June 2014

We're still stuck with the 4 month sleep regression. She's so distracted during the day so she doesn't nurse as well so she then wakes up at least 4 times a night to eat. She'd generally wake up to eat around 5 or 6 and go back to sleep until 8 or so. The past 2 mornings she's been refusing to go back to sleep at 6:30 but is then so fussy and clingy by 8:30.

lefnc82 · June 2014

So glad it's not just me! LO has become a screaming terror about bedtime for over a week now. It takes over an hour to get him down, he will just scream bloody murder until we go get him, but doesn't really want to be held, he's all squirmy and kicky. I've been just letting him play another 30 min to wear him out bc it's just not worth the scream fest. And MOTN wakings are nowhere near as easy as they used to be.

EmJ&B · June 2014

He has never slept more tahn about 3.5 hrs at once in his whole life so . . .

MissLauraPants · June 2014

This has been going on for now three weeks in our house...harder to get to sleep and he wakes up a little more frequently in the night and keeps crawling around. And the most loveliest thing is he wakes up at 5 or 6 am and that's it...time to get up.

DanceM · June 2014

EmJ&B said:

He has never slept more tahn about 3.5 hrs at once in his whole life so . . .

Us too. We get up 4-5/night, still.

He's just a lot harder to get down initially and during the night.

carawasa · June 2014

I have never heard of this!!! Uh oh..., :-SS

SweetCFly · June 2014

I also didn't know this existed, sounds like what we have been going thru. Last night was the first night I was able to get him to sleep by myself and stay asleep...lately he's been wide awake for me after 1+ hours of our usual bedtime routine and then he's asleep for DH within 3 min of me handing him off. I deft did a nerdy happy dance that he stayed asleep upon transfer. He was still up by 2 AM but I am going to choose my battles at this point.

ballygirl · June 2014

What? Is this a thing? The last week in our house has been AWFUL!. I was just bemoaning to DH last night about it. We finally did some sleep training last month and got the girls sleeping through the night and were starting to get their naps synched up and then all of a sudden starting last week sometime, they have been little nightmares. Won't go to sleep at night, wake up a lot during the night and have been waking at 5 am. ugh! Hopefully this is a phase and will end shortly because I cannot go back to the up 10 times a night thing again. I. just. cant.

vvg28 · June 2014

Well DS is only 7 months and he is not sleeping near as well as he used to. He gets up ever four hours now. He is like a bowling ball in his crib. He rolls so much he wakes himself up. I have let him hang out for a while, but he never goes back to sleep on his own. He gets up on all fours which gets him wide awake. Then he starts talking. Once he gets up he is all like, "oh yeah....I am hungry". So he has to have bottle. I am glad to hear I am not the only one dealing with this. I thought I had done something wrong bc we had transitioned to the crib a couple of weeks ago and it has been going slowly downhill. But the reason why we moved to the crib was all the rolling in his sleep.

sleepy33 · June 2014

All the world's a sleep regression, and all the babies merely players.

edaire · June 2014

I'm noticing that DS is in the process of dropping from 3 naps a day down to 2, which is making him a nightmare. He's much harder to put down for naps and at bedtime. He's doesn't let me rock him and give him a bottle anymore. When I try he fusses and rock climbs all over me. I literally have to lay him on the floor and distract him with a toy to get him to eat. MOTN wake ups aren't an issue YET. Hes still only waking once for a bottle.

alimama33 · June 2014

YES, to all of this. Fighting sleep like it's his job over here. Party time at 3am. Immediately pulls up in his crib and yells anytime we try to lay him down...oh and apparently hates his dad once nighttime hits, only mommy will do. also I think his top teeth are coming in, making him a real joy.

yesthisiskim0401 · June 2014

Fights sleep for 2 hours on a good night. Then is up every 20-30 minutes for 2 hours. Finally down by midnight, up every 2-3hrs (again, on a good night) but fights being put down for at least a half hour at every wake up. This is way worse than the NB stage.

kelle017 · June 2014

She's actually gotten better at naps but nighttime sleep is awful. She will
Wake up as soon as i lay her down (nurse to sleep) and cry. In the middle of the night I will nurse her, lay her down and she screams that high pitched gag herself kind of scream. I get her and bring he in bed with me and she wants to crawl all over and play.

SHAWNACPA · June 2014

DD takes two hours to get to sleep, and then wakes up every two hours. At this point she is so tired that last night she would wake up crying but be passed out before I could get to her... Then do it all again an hour later... She is also refusing naps.

LetsGoToDisney · June 2014

She wakes up in tears and is difficult to go back down 2-3 times each night. Usually we get a 5 hour strech before the first wake up.

BlessUrHeart29 · June 2014

Is this why my child refuses to nap? Nighttime isn't too bad once we get him down. He's always woken up once or twice during the night, so I haven't really noticed anything different there. But the child wants nothing to do with naps! Holy cow!

MrsKocal · June 2014

i didn't know this was a thing either, but she's back to getting up every 2 hours and I end up just bringing her into bed with us around 2am because I give up. She was sleeping from 8-5 in her crib for a few glorious weeks but it's all over now. :-(

LittleBabyG2013 · June 2014

EmJ&B said:
He has never slept more tahn about 3.5 hrs at once in his whole life so . . .

Us too..

Baby doesn't want mommy to get a good night sleep

Inn2 · June 2014

I'm so glad to hear this. He is back to fighting going to sleep like it is his job. He's only been STTN for about 2 weeks but already that is fading. He isn't pulling up, just rolls and screams.

Also, on another note, don't tempt the poop gods either. Mentioned one time that he has not had a blowout, in public, and 2 days later he is having them left and right!

caseyp10 · June 2014

Lee81 said:
Until a few days ago, DD might wake up a few times at night to whine for her pacifier and then go right back to sleep once we (okay, I) get it for her. For the past few nights, though, she has been wiiiiide awake and ready to party when I get to her crib. The binky does nothing. I have to rock her back to sleep and then she's up again an hour or two later. I'm glad to hear that this might be a phase because I was starting to worry.

This exactly. Where's the coffee?

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