Not sleeping through the night

Alizbeth - posted on 03/21/2009

Some babies are different. My son doesn't sleep through the night either. I give him cereal and tried milk, anti reflux medicine. I thought it might be teething problems. Some 7 month old babies aren't sitting up yet, mine is not sleeping through the night. I refuse to do the "Cry it out" method, I find it to be abusive. Your child might just be going through a growth spurt and is in need of food. My child is big, about 27 inches and over 21 LBS. So I know he needs to eat more often than smaller babies. He is growing fast and developing fast, his sleep is getting disturbed some how. I know how you feel. Just sleep when you can. 

Venus - posted on 03/20/2009

My son used to only get up 2 times at night but now he has started this thing of getting up every hour wanting a sip of his bottle.  We have tried letting him cry himself back to sleep and it actually ends up waking him fully up. He cried for 30 minutes straight at that point I had to give in because we needed to get some sleep because we had to get up early for work.   I feed him before bed, gets a bath and gets a bottle.  He eats so much and you wouldn't think so since he is only 17lbs.

Angela - posted on 03/19/2009

I recommend feeding her dinner then after her bath or bedtime routine feed her either some rice cereal or baby oatmeal then her bedtime bottle. so stuff he up lol. Or if she wakes up in the middle of the night give her a water bottle instead of milk.. we did that and in about a week he was off night feedings. Dr of course will say just to stop cold turkey. but our was was easier on us and our lil man :)

Pray - posted on 03/14/2009

hi Genevievei

my son is 7mons also and i have found that if i feed him alittle warm rice ceral and baby food and then gave him a warm bath he wakes up maybe once just to see if we are still around!! but like Catheryne said im ok with that i get up anyway hope i helped a little!

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Catheryne - posted on 03/13/2009

Hey Genevieve. Sorry to hear about the lack of sleep. My little boy did the same @ 2 months, sleeping straight through then a few months ago his sleeping changed but i also noticed he had started to drool alot more and he often just seemed unhappy. I put it down to teething. In the beginning i would get him up (trying my hardest not to wake him fully) and give him a bottle just as i was about to go to bed and put him straight back down and that would help. Other things that might help that i do:



* checking his temp (by feeling) his feet/head and hands and making sure he was warm.

* his bed time routine was the same every night (not the very exact timing but close)

* Giving him panadol on the odd occasion (especially helpful if it is teething)



My little man wakes up maybe once or twice a night just looking for his dummy (after which he goes straight back to sleep) and i'm ok with that because i get up during the night anyway. But you sound like you are doing a good job by trying different things and i found it helpful to come to accept that most nights i am not going to sleep uninterrupted. Hope that helps.