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Sleep cycles & drowsy but awake

laurapaine2003@yahoo.comlaurapaine2003@yahoo.com member
in September 2015 Moms
Im so confused - my LO is almost 6 months and has been going down for naps and bedtime "drowsy but awake" for months and always puts herself to sleep - so I KNOW she can do it. She will sleep long naps through three sleep cycles. She'll sleep for several straight hours at night sometimes before waking to nurse. But lately she wakes several times in between her 2 MOTN feedings and cries out and keeps crying till I come put a paci in her mouth - or rarely I'll have to actually pick her up and bounce for a minute - but I'm so confused - why would she wake crying like this sometimes and need my help to get back to bed if she knows how to put herself back to sleep?? She isn't huge on paci's - she goes to sleep without one every night - I just use it to stop her crying now several times throughout the night when she wakes crying. She uses the Merlin Sleep Suit and although she can bring her hands together in it and put her fingers to mouth maybe the suit prevents her from truly self soothing?? Sucks because she won't sleep w/o the damn suit though.

I have her fairly trained to nurse around midnight and again at about 5am - so I get two halfway decent chunks of time to sleep but now with this waking several other times needing a paci I'm up and down so many times that my sleep is complete crap and it's really affecting me. 

Any input or advice welcome. Anyone else in this boat? Find something that helps/works that doesn't involve a paci? Do I need to introduce a lovey? I thought they weren't supposed to have ANYTHING at all in their crib so that's why I haven't given her a little blanky or lovey yet. 





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  • laurapaine2003@yahoo.comlaurapaine2003@yahoo.com member
    I wanted to add - when she wakes it isn't just fussiness or grunting or anything, each time she goes from sleeping to full blow crying instantly - so I can't just not respond and/or wait it out - I've tried that and she gets so worked up and upset that her face gets beat red and she's then inconsolable - that happens if I don't get to her immediately with a paci to satisfy her. Please someone tell me they have an answer or suggestion!!!
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  • katythelady22katythelady22 member
    My daughter, 6 months old, is doing the exact same thing! Except she doesnt take a paci, she wants to comfort nursed or else i have to rock her for sometimes an hour to get her back down. She also is very good at putting herself to sleep at night and naps, and never ever had to be rocked at night before even when she was a newborn.. So I really don't know what's up! Maybe it's a stage with this age?
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  • ElleMF728ElleMF728 member
    Mine does this too.  He goes down awake, takes great long naps but he still sometimes has had these weird wakes which started around 6 months.  Crawling and teeth are my answers but what the hell do I know at this point.  I'd love it if this kid would give me a few good nights to recover. It seems like every night he has a good stretch my 2 year old decides that is the night that he needs water 80 billion times.  Of course he never wants Daddy to get it, only Mama /rant over. 
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  • xJKxORxJKxOR member
    I dont have any tips unfortunately but do you have information on the a wonder weeks? There is an app and a book. There is a developmental leap from weeks 22.5-26.5 so it could be a result of that. Hopefully someone can offer you more help; lack of sleep sucks! 
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  • missliz53missliz53 member
    Is it possible her last nap is too long? Just a thought. I've found with my lo that if she does too much napping in the afternoon/evening she doesn't sleep as well at night. Also have you tried a sleep sack where she gets to have her arms out, but her legs are contained? 

    Also, I think it is totally normal to have mini sleep regressions. We just went through one at 6 months where she would wake up around 1:30 and need her pacifier and about 10 mn of shushing/patting. My friend who has 5 kids keeps reminding me that sleep is a journey not a destination. Which of course isn't what you want to hear. Another thought would be white noise, or does shushing help her? We redid our white noise to include mommy shushing because I noticed that sometimes she can be shushed back to sleep when she is just starting to wake up. 
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  • aw8611aw8611 member
    My son has been doing this too and I'm thinking it's got to be teething because he was doing so well putting himself to sleep for like 2 months! 
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  • laurapaine2003@yahoo.comlaurapaine2003@yahoo.com member
    I've tried Tylenol at bedtime too just in case it was teething - it seems to make absolutely no difference
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  • ElleMF728ElleMF728 member
    xJKxOR said:
    I dont have any tips unfortunately but do you have information on the a wonder weeks? There is an app and a book. There is a developmental leap from weeks 22.5-26.5 so it could be a result of that. Hopefully someone can offer you more help; lack of sleep sucks! 
    Mine is in the grey area? I'm looking up what that means, I deleted the actual app because I needed the room. Its been going on for at least a week so I'm hoping we are at least half way through. 
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  • yellowbean15yellowbean15 member
    We have this happening here too. Multiple times a night. He has regressed in falling asleep on his own too. He was doing so good at it and we worked so hard to get him to that point so it's really frustrating! He's 5.5 months. Its start did seem to coincide with the 5th wonder week. 
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  • xJKxORxJKxOR member
    The grey area is when they would begin developing the concept of object permanence. @ElleMF728
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