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Night wakings, it's not playtime, and daddy helping not working...

KingsGirl4KingsGirl4 member
in April 2014 Moms
So for the last three or four nights, my little guy has woke up to eat, but then stayed awake. It has been around 2 or 4 in the morning and usually takes him between 30mins to 1.25hrs to fall back to sleep. He wakes fairly frequently at night to nurse anyways, usually every 2hrs, from the time he goes down, between 7:30 and 8, until about 3. Then it is often every hour to 1.5hrs from 3-7 when he wakes up. First my husband though he was waking because I had eaten ice cream shortly before I went to sleep. Last night he thought it was because of a later afternoon nap. I think it has nothing to so with either. He has started to teeth, one tooth in the end of last month and I can feel another bump under his gums. Could it be the teething or perhaps separation anxiety? He sleeps in his own room and has been since October. Also, if he wakes within 30mins to and hour after I have fed him, sometimes I send my husband in to put him back to sleep, however this rarely works. He usually ends up waking up and wanting to play or crying until I get him and nurse him back to sleep. Any advise or insight?
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  • Talltrees82Talltrees82 member
    It's probably the teething, have you tried Tylenol? My LO was teething last month and had a rough evening where he woke up three times before 11pm. At 11 I gave him a dose of Tylenol and he went back to his regular sleeping habits the rest of the night. Good luck!
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  • KingsGirl4KingsGirl4 member
    We did do some Tylenol last week. I think it was when he woke up crying and wouldn't calm down. He didn't wake up and stay awake that night, but still woke frequently.
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  • Dixon813Dixon813 member
    Sounds like he's waking between his sleep cycles. Have you done any sleep training?
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  • myla14myla14 member
    We are in a similar boat. He's always been a bad sleeper, but it gets noticeably worse at times in terms of frequency and length of wake ups and intensity of crying. I've been attributing it to separation anxiety, which has been very evident for us during daylight hours, and working on new skills (clapping, for example). I took him into bed one night, which helped a bit, but mostly I try to stay the course. For us, that does not involve sleep training, but I try not to feed unless it's been at least 3.5 hours, which was a helpdul change for us.
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  • BADASBKRCKBADASBKRCK member
    Definitely sounds like you may need to do some sleep training. I would be losing my mind if I was dealing with that! Someone just told me about a sleep training survivors board...I plan to check it out, you may want to also.

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  • kmos816kmos816 member
    Just want to say I agree with trying some sort of sleep training, I read two different books and tried both methods- No Cry Sleep Solution and Dr Ferbers book. Find something that will work for you.
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  • zazu13zazu13 member
    edited January 2015
    +1 to the above advice. If you go to your baby and offer food every time he wakes you are not allowing him to learn to connect sleep cycles. I read and implemented Weissbluth.

    And I totally agree that daddies are ineffective in the middle of the night. Lol!

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  • ZachysmommyZachysmommy member
    The sleep easy solution book worked wonders for us. When ds wakes up it would sometimes takes hours to get him back down. It got to the point where he wouldn't even sleep in bed with us. Crying it out may not be for everyone but I truly believe it's the healthiest solution. He is much much more well rested. They need their rest to grow and play! Now he goes down in the crib happy because he loves to go to bed! We still have our nights where he wakes up and is very hard to get to go back down, but usually a tooth pops out shortly after.
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