Sleeping through the night....

Leighann - posted on 11/02/2009

my son slept through from 2months old until we moved when he was 6months old now he wakes once or twice a nite sometimes if im lucky i mite get two nite where he will slept through other times he will wake. this is my 4th child and my others were sleepin through at this age. i dnt know wat to do as i get him down fine. if i put him to bed at 9 he will usally sleep til 6.30 but i dnt really wannna put him down that late can anyone help!!!!!!!!!

Shelley - posted on 10/29/2009

My little girl has not slept through the night not even once since she has been born, she is nine months old now and she wakes up every hour on the hour like clock work......i will have to try the pick up and put down method, hopefully that works.

Stephanie - posted on 10/24/2009

Hi Kayla,



I had a similar problmen with Lily, she would sleep through when she was very little. Read this book Dream Baby Guide by Sheyne Rowley, its a long book and very full on but ever since i have started a routine with my Lily, she sleeps 3 hours during the day and 12 solid hours at night, 7pm till 7 am!!



i hope this helps it helped me heeps GOOD LUCK!!!!

Mercedes - posted on 10/24/2009

Another suggestion that you could try is getting him on Whole Milk take him off of formula my son did the same thing and every since I changed him from formula to whole milk he sleeps really good. Until his body gets used to the change give him some caro syrup in the bottle with the milk.

Kayla - posted on 10/21/2009

I understand Leah, I am from Kansas and we moved down here for my fiance to go to school. Since my parents live next to the school we just moved in with them so, we share a room with our son. So like you the cry it out method is not do able. We just bought a 3 in 1 crib soother/vibrator from Target for $30. It has done wonderful with a mixture of katy's method. The batteries did die last night so it wasn't a good night, but the other night have been great. Tyler was waking up almost 7 times a night. Let me know what you decide to do so we can compare!! Good luck!!

NILSA - posted on 10/21/2009

i have the ocean thing in his crib since he waz born but that doesnt seem 2 work neither ill try the other thing's that she said then go from there thank u all tho

Holly - posted on 10/20/2009

ugh, my 9 month old gets up at least twice a night too. I end up nursing her back to sleep and she seems really hungry not just nursing to fall asleep. The problem with having her cry it out is that my 7 year old son shares a room with her and I don't want him to lose his sleep. I feel like I'm caught in a web of who will get more sleep, the baby and me, or my son depending on how I handle her waking up. I tried to let her cry it out one night but she woke up the whole house including my daughter in middle school who needs her sleep. I am a stay at home mom but don't have the time to get naps during the day so I'm living on four-five hours of sleep a night and it's wearing me down! Not sure what to do.

Kayla - posted on 10/20/2009

Nilsa, Katy's method is working good for us and her!! Give it a try she explains it on her first post. And Katy I do have a light moblie he doesn't care to much about it. He has this seahorse lullaby thing that he cant sleep with out. :) How is Caden doing with his new sleep routine??

NILSA - posted on 10/20/2009

SAME WITH MY SON HE DOES THE SAMETHING I DUNNO Y NEITHER MAYBE U CAN HELP ME OUT

Kimberly - posted on 10/20/2009

My daughter is 9 months old and is doing the same thing now. She always slept well and this just started about a month ago. I too do the rocking thing to sleep and then put her in the crib to wake up crying. My husband and I are having a difficult time letting her cry it out. I don't have the answer but I have heard from several people to let them cry it out. Good Luck!!!!!!

Katy - posted on 10/20/2009

Congrats! Great job! Another thing that our son really loves is the crib aquarium things by Fisher Price. check your local Craigslist... we got one for 15$ and he cant live without it:) they have light and sound and motion... very cute. Good luck!

Kayla - posted on 10/20/2009

Hey Katy, I got this crib soother thing and I have been trying your method and with the both of them he is doing much better only waking up 2 or 4 times. Sometimes it's less!!! The soother vibrates him and puts him back to sleep and sometimes it doesn't so I just go in and pat his back and he is good but I dont have to pick him up and hold him anymore!!!!

Kayla - posted on 10/17/2009

Congrats to YOU!!!! I will Deffinetly stick to it!!! I will let you know my progress and we both will be getting sleep!!! Way to go Caden!!

Katy - posted on 10/17/2009

Hey... good news! It's working! He only woke up once last night and went right back to sleep and slept till 7 AM!!!!! We havent had that happen since 5 months old! Yay! You DO have to be rigid with it, though. We messed it up several times before and it doesnt work. It really and truly does require 3 straight nights. Get someone to help you if you cant take it. One of my friends had to let her hubby and mom-in-law do it and she went to stay at another friend's house b/c she knew she would go in if the baby cried. Stick with it and you'll make it! Yay 7.5 hours of sleep! :)

Kayla - posted on 10/17/2009

I agree!! My fiance thinks cause I am an at home mom that the no sleep does not effect me. Ugh, it does though. I can understand the no one touching you while you sleep, If there is any lights I can't sleep. My aunt let my cousin sleep with her when she wouldn't sleep and as she got older she would only sleep with my aunt in her bed. It was like that till she was 2 or 3. I would not be able to do that. Sometimes it's so hard to understand why he wont sleep. He takes his naps great, sleeps wonderfully. Then bed time comes and like last night he woke up every 30 mins till 11:30. ::sigh:: It's so stressful, right when I am about to fall asleep again he wakes up. I tried your method, but didnt stick with it really, by 11 I just wanted him to sleep. I will keep trying this though, I WON'T GIVE UP!!!! :) We have hope!!! Yes, we will make it.

Katy - posted on 10/16/2009

Good luck on healing from the surgery! Lots of Vitamin C and Zinc will help with quick wound healing :) I understand the waking! Caden wakes anywhere from 3-7 x's/night usually in the form of hourly wakings from 1 AM to 7 when we get him up. I understand the co-sleeping, and we were even considering this, but so many of my friends and coworkers totally recommended against cause their kids never leave! :) I know every kid is diffferent though, so it may work really well for some people. I just cant sleep with anyone touching me, so that was out for me. :) All the other babies in our moms group slept through by 5 months give or take a few weeks. Its hard to hang onto hope. But we'll make it!!!! :)

Mandy - posted on 10/16/2009

yeah my suggestion would have been to have him sleep with you. thats what i do with my 9mo to get him to sleep better. i dont know any 9mo who is sleeping through.

he wont be sleeping with you forever.

Kayla - posted on 10/16/2009

Thanks so much!!! I will try this. Monday I went to my son's doctors and he had lost weight. I had talked to the doc. about my son not sleeping all night and he just kinda said that most babies are sleeping through the night by now. He also said that I could try him sleeping with me, cause like you said at this age there is speration anxitey. I just had stomache surgery 3 weeks ago and he wants to lay on me, so I said there is no way I can do that. I also dont want to get him in the habit of sleeping with me. He does fall asleep just fine, it's just the waking up in the middle of the night. He wake anywhere from 2 to 8 times a night. I will surely try this method!! I will let you know how it goes as well. Good luck to you too!

Katy - posted on 10/16/2009

We have gone through the exact same thing... down to the trip to visit family and overseas. Caden is very social and doesnt want to miss a thing. We tried everything including cry it out as described above and nothing worked... cry it out lasted about 2 weeks and I finally said "enough of this! this cant be healthy for any of us!". However Caden's Dr. said that at this point (9 months) cry it out is more difficult because of separation anxiety and often the only thing that will work at this point is strengthening the "cry-it-out method" with visual cues for baby. Simply put? He told us to use the light to our advantage. Baby goes to bed with the sun and gets up with the sun. He learns to associate waketime with light and sleeptime with darkness. So far we are 2 nights in and I am hopeful. I'll try to remember to come back and let you know how it goes. But the basic tenants are 1. follow the baby's inate "light rhythms". 2. When baby wakes the first night go in and pat him, check for a poopy diaper, and say he's ok and then leave. 3. 10 mins later if he's still crying, go in, no pat, verbally reassure him. 4. 10 mins later repeat #3 but stand at the door instead of next to his crib. After this reassurance, dont go in and let them cry until they fall asleep (even if its 2 hours!) 5. Subsequent wakings the first night, repeat steps 2-4. 6. nights 2 and 3, do step 2-4 for first waking, and #4 only for subsequent wakings.

I know it sounds awful and mean and horrible on the part of the parent, but so does walking around like a zombie and getting resentful of our precious children because of severe sleep deprivation. The poor sleeping habits have also started interfering with his growth, so we've got to do something. We'll see how it goes, but it's worth a shot! Good luck!

Erica - posted on 10/11/2009

we're dealing with waking up every night too. usually twice. its like clock work. Right around 1:30 and then around 4. I can't take it anymore. She recently started standing in the crib and can't get herself down so when we go in to help... she is wide awake and we have gone back to rocking her............. its terrible.

Chloe - posted on 10/11/2009

my son is the same i stop feeding him at night at 7 months and was doing ok only up a few time but i taking him to a baby center to get him to sleep on he only and now he dont sleep that much now but the lastnight and only got up 2 time and i had a ok sleep

Kayla - posted on 10/10/2009

Thank you for the advice ladies. I will try them I am in need of something to work. I am trying to do on-line school, but I am so exhausted that I have not been doing it. I will try anything at this point!!!!

Selena - posted on 10/10/2009

I just experienced the same thing. My daughter was sleeping through the night and it ended when we came for overseas to visit family. I was at my wits end and decided I had to do something. I pretty much did what Sarah did and she's been sleeping through the night for the past week. I did the "pick up - put down" when she freaked out (she was totally waking up screaming like your son) I picked her up and when she calmed down, then I put her back down in her bed. It totally worked. The first night was tough but after that the next night she only woke up once and then after that she slept all night (8pm - 6:30am) It may take a few nights of serious crying but stay strong and let your little one know that you're there for him BUT that the kitchen is closed (haha!)!

Good luck and hopefully you'll be having sweet dreams soon!

Sarah - posted on 10/10/2009

I just went through the same thing with my son due also to a trip out of state. I finally decided that this week I would stop feeding him in the night. It took three nights of screaming, checking on him-laying him back down and more screaming before he finally got the picture that he was not going to get a midnight snack:) Thankfully, we have had 4 great nights of sleep since then. I tried to be really consistent when I went into his room, I would just lay him down, turn on his music and walk out of the room. This really seemed to do the trick for us. I hope that you have some luck soon! The no sleep business is not a great business to be in! GOOD LUCK!