My 7 month old baby wakes up every hour!?
I did, but I kind of dug the hole myself. My baby started having trouble sleeping thru the night when he started teething at about 7 months. I work outside the home during the day, so I was desperate to get sleep. I started hauling him into my bed when he woke up rather than trying to get him back into his. I finally decided this would not work for me----He'll never have a sister if he doesn't get out of my bed.:) I have been working on getting him back in his bed for about 2 weeks now and at first, he was up every hour. These are the things I have done. I'm not sure which one works best or if it is the combination. I'm like a baseball player that doesn't want to change his socks when he's on a winning streak, you know! 1. I started putting him in Huggies Overnites for bedtime because he's a super soaker and is sopping by morning otherwise. 2. I follow a pretty strict evening routine. No naps after 5 pm. Just play play play. He has solids around 6 pm, plays til 8pm. Then bath time (more playing), warm bottle and bed. 3. I let him fall asleep or get drowsy in my arms and then put him in his bed. When I've put him down, I don't pick him back up unless he's really crying (not the crocodile tears they do to get attention). I just lay him back down and pat his back. 4. Soothing music, a night light, and a humidifier---especially this time of year. He gets congested. White noise, like a fan (not pointed at the baby) helps too. 5. But...and I think this is the thing that really works...after I put the baby down in the bed, I take off my shirt and tuck it down beside him. Last night, I heard him cry out on the monitor like he was about to wake up. When I went in to check, he had wrapped his arms around my shirt and gone back to sleep and was sleeping like a log. He slept all night long. BTW---the cry it out method doesn't work with all babies. Mine would just keep crying and crying... I prefer the other "CIO" method. "Cuddle it Out" :)
My 6 month old baby wakes at 2.30am every morning and wont resettle...?
Every night my almost 6 month old baby wakes crying and will not resettle - same time every night. I have tried control crying technique,(letting her cry but going in at regular intervals to comfort her) she usually ends up screaming for over 1 1/2 hours unless I go and get her and bring her into bed with us (this has become a habit and I now think this is why she is crying). I have tried feeding her as well this doesn't work either. I have also tried introducing solids (she is not ready for this), and giving her a formula feed at night instead of bf. Help me! I am becoming both physically and mentally exhausted.
Our 4 month old won't take a bottle and wakes up every two hours at night. As a husband, how can I help my wife get some sleep?
Great previous answer, but I would also ask if your wife is back to work already? Most American women have to be, but that makes things harder. I know this by experience, having been where you are. What you may need to do is reevaluate the division of labor at home. If you both are at work all day, but she has the additional task of feeding the baby all night, then more of the tasks needed to run a household may need to fall to you, so she can get more rest.A couple of thoughts. This will end, whether it's a growth spurt, or teething, or just your baby. Its not going to be forever. But also, is the baby right next to your wife at night? Being able to doze while the baby nurses helps alot. Americans are told not to sleep with their babies, but there are devices that extend the bed to keep the baby close, so you don't have to get up or turn on any lights (which can further interrupt sleep cycles). Cosleeping with total breastfeeding, among parents who don't use any chemicals, including alcohol, which increase somnolence, has much lower rates of SIDS than the general population, but that is something parents needs to discuss and decide upon themselves. I had 3 babies that did not sleep tbrough the night until they were 12 months old; I could not have survived without co-sleeping.
5 Month old baby still wakes up at least once a night?
I hear people say how their baby, much younger than my almost 5 month old daughter, is sleeping throughout the night and how they can sleep up to 11 hours per night! My baby, at her best night, still wakes up once around 1-3 am to get a diaper change and eat. When did your babies start to sleep all night?!
How can i stop waking up every 2 hours at night?
Are you drinking a lot water?
Why does my 14 month old son wake up almost every 2 hours?
My little boy did exactly this at this age too, it lasted about a month. Does he seem hungry? It may be a growth spurt, in which case feeding him is probably the best thing to do, and he will settle back to his previous sleep pattern when it's over. The 3/4 month growth spurt is a big one and can last weeks. The other thing I came across when looking up answers for my boy is "4 month sleep regression". Basically some time between 3 and 5 months their sleep patterns change leading to more night waking. Might be worth googling. Either way, I'd take comfort that this is almost certainly a phase and will be over soon.
Why does my 12-month baby wake up many times at night for breastfeeding?
I wonder the same about my baby because he is 14 months old and still wakes up frequently at night. The pattern is usually around midnight or 1 am, then around 4, 5 or 6 then every hour. In the worse nights he might be agitated, nurse a lot more and wake up more frequently.By waking up I mean seeking for nursing or comfort and not really fully waking up, and since I breastfeed and co-sleep it’s usually fast and he’d continue sleeping.Sometimes I wonder if this is just a normal pattern for him because I’m in a Facebook group of babies born in the same month and a few other babies shares almost exact same pattern and timing as if they are synchronized. Sometimes I wonder if there is some hidden issue, respiratory or digestive. Sometimes I wonder if it’s teething. He surely can’t sleep calmly when he is sick.But the reason I don’t breastfeed is, other than not having the heart to and I can manage with co-sleep, is that if he has a hidden issue then Cry-It-Out would simply worse sleep. Once I heard from a colleague that her child only slept through the night at age 5… because they finally discovered that she has allergies. Imagine a child in such condition sleep trained. It would not help at all. The child might learn to stop crying but would still be unable to sleep properly and be stressed.Just another detail, my baby can continue sleeping if he sleeps on my husband. I wouldn’t need to nurse, but my husband wouldn’t be able to do this all night of course. In my case I just have to nurse him back to sleep and by doing co-sleeping it’s much easier and safer (rules apply).
My baby is 6 months old and he can't sleep more than 2 hours straight in the night. Am I doing something wrong?
The mindset that you are doing something wrong if baby cry is typical but really soul destroying because all baby cry for no good apparent reason, some babies much worse than others.I feel a bit guilty to say that my two sons, 5 years apart begun to sleep through soundly after a month. Even that, my partner found crying baby really difficult while I have a mindset that baby is supposed to cry.So if baby is fed and nappy is clean but baby is still crying, I'm like “meh”. So when I'm at home, I was the one with the baby while my missus can have a break upstairs.Another friend of mine didn't have that easy. His baby cried and cries all day all time, despite him and his wife doing everything they could. During daytime, when my colleague is at work, his wife occasionally had to just put the baby in cot upstairs, then put loud music on downstairs, still feeling terrible. His son is all grown up and is a very handsome and articulate boy now but it was very hard for them both.Then, in case of another friend of mine, it turned out that the baby had hernia. So the baby had to have an operation. The brother of the mom apparently had the same condition. So it was probably hereditary.I really don't know if this make you feel better or worse but I have a colleague right now whose 2 years old daughter still occasionally (but often enough) doesn't sleep through at night.If baby is fed and changed, and all important medical check are done, no, you are not doing anything wrong. Hang in there. It will get better, just that it takes time.
My baby wakes up every hour at night. We tried sleep training but didn’t work. What can I do now?
I completely disagree with the concept of ‘sleep training’. Especially for young infants. It almost never works, and it goes against everything that is reasonable.Babies have spent 9 months in a perfectly controlled environment that was meant to keep them totally comfortable while they grow. Once they are born, we have all kinds of strange customs we attempt to inflict on our kids, when they only need the basics in the beginning: full stomach of good nutrition, reasonable temperature, closeness when they sleep or are awake.Therefore, I can tell you what worked for me. I’m sure MANY people will disagree entirely, but that’s ok. It still worked, and I wasn’t stressing about my baby all the time.I firmly agree with co-sleeping. The idea that a normal, non-drunk, non-high, non-obese mother could roll onto her infant and smother it to death is without any merit. Babies make a LOT OF PROTEST when they are uncomfortable, and this is a perfect reason why! That’s why they can scream so loud, so we will hear them regardless of the circumstances.When a baby is breastfed, it is soooo simple to pull them close and let them nurse while you are still in bed. It is so much easier than any other method. I cannot recommend it enough. The baby gets fed and goes right back to sleep.Most infants do not sleep throughout an entire night. They don’t sleep that long because they have tiny stomachs that need to be filled every couple of hours. As they grow, they sleep longer and so do you!We regimented, adult humans have demands on babies that simply are not reasonable or even realistic.It is my experience with three children that breastfeeding is the easiest and the best nutrition you can offer a baby. It takes 1500 calories a DAY to produce breastmilk, so if the mom has any extra pregnancy weight, it will come off very fast if you nurse your baby and not give the baby formula.Your choice is entirely up to you, but my experience convinced me that if more mothers would breastfeed their infants, it would be a more peaceful situation.YES, babies are difficult sometimes, and they cry for nothing sometimes, and you will be tired beyond your wildest dreams sometimes, but it only lasts for a few months, and then it changes dramatically. At about 3–4 months, your baby will be very different than a newborn. It’s an incredible journey..I wish you the very best!