Krissy - posted on 10/08/2009 ( 4 moms have responded )
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When my son was born, he slept through the night instantly and always had until he aquired croup when he was 4 or 5 moths old. He is now almost 14 months old and has not slept through the night since he had croup. He uses a "teddy" (a blanket with a teddy bear head and arms sewn on) and a soother for sleep time but only at bed time or nap time, during waking hours he is not allowed to have them because we wanted them only associated with sleep. We play soothing rainforest lullabies quietly to drown out any road noise or backround noise that might disturb him and we have also tried not playing the music. We have tried a night light and without one. He always has a warmed glass of milk before bed and we have a solid routine which is as follows: we have dinner, dessert, bath, bedtime lotion, pj's, "In The Night Garden" (tv show for bedtime), he drinks his warmed milk as he watches his show and then we brush his teeth, have a drink of water and he gets his soother, his teddy, gets tucked into bed. Half of the time he will fall asleep in my arms watching his show and the other times he nods off by himself in his bed. We've only tried the "cry it out" method a couple of times and didn't let him cry any longer than 15 minutes because the longer he crys the louder he gets, the more worked up he gets and it just ticks him off more, and he'll cry so hard he can barely breathe. We are at our wits end and we need a full 6 or 7 hours of sleep for a change instead of an hour or two then up and repeat. Now usually when he wakes up in the night, he's not fully awake, and we think its usually from losing his teddy, soother or being in a really uncomfortable position. All we do is go in, give him his soother or teddy, reposition him, cover him up again and then leave and he usually goes right back to sleep. Now he has also have a number of ear infections since he was born, i think the count is at 7 and he's 13.5 months. He has surgery scheduled for December 15th to get tubes due to excess fluid build up behind the ear drums. If anyone has any suggestions, that would be appreciated. Also, any suggestions on how to take a soother away and how to deal with coping with it (children and parents)????? Thanks in advance
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