How can i get my 8 month old son to sleep durning the night?

Question

He has a bowl of cereal, has a bath, and has a small bottle before bed time but is always awake around 2am every morning. Me and my wife let him cry maybe 10-15 minutes but the crying gets increasingly worse. We get up with him, rock him back to sleep but as soon as we lie him back down he wakes up crying again. He is teething now and we do give him some baby tylonol before bed. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get him to sleep through the night. Neither me nor my wife are getting much sleep and its really starting to wear on us.

Answer 1

My son is 5 months old and starting waking again, after sleeping thru the night. I got up with him and feed him (I'm still breastfeeding) thinking he was hungry. He got used to this for about 2 weeks. I was working, so this was hard. I finally let him cry it out. I would go over and check on him to make sure he was ok, but did not pick him up. He cried the first night for about an hour. Then by the 3rd night, he was back to sleeping thru the night. try
putting her to sleep on her tummy. I know its not the advice of doctors, etc. but...it worked wonders for us

Answer 2

My daughter was 9 months or more before she slept through the night. Some kids do it easily, but I think she has such a fast metabolism that she burned off her food long before morning and was needing more. Try a small bottle, maybe even just one of water if you are worried about giving him too much. If that doesn't help then you might try leaving his favorite teething toy in the bed with him near where he lays, then at night when he wakes up, guide his hand to it and let him grab it and chew on it. That may be the problem.

Answer 3

I have a five and a half month old with whom we were co-sleping. When he was four and a half months old we moved him to his crib and that was when his waking at nights started. On good days he would wake up atleast 5-6 times each night. On our worse days he would wake up practically each hour. I let him cry it out once for 15 min but it was so disturbing for me that I did not want to do it again. So I followed a book called The Baby Whisperer Solves all your Problems by Tracy Hogg. We have no gone down to waking up 2-3 times each night. It does not tell you to let your baby cry it out. This approach requires a lot of patience and consistency. The progress is slow but it is there. I think she also has a website ..something like...www.babywhisperer.com
I hope this helps. Don't worry, it will get better. GoodLuck!

Answer 4

I also have an 8 month old son. I coslept with him until 5 days ago when i decided to set up a crib. Luckily he slept through the night without any trouble. I think babies sleep through when they're ready. If he's waking up I'm assuming he needs you or mommy. He's a baby, you should tend to his needs.

My 3rd son didn't sleep through the night until he was 3. They're all different with different needs. If you want to let him cry (which i think is very cruel and can make your son not trust you) then hey, good luck. He'll sleep when he's ready. It's all part of being a parent, you shouldn't expect to sleep. You had all your young years to do that.

Answer 5

My little one is 10 months old.. he has a habit of getting up at about 5 in the morn and staying up til about 7...
there seems to be nothing I can do nor my husband to make him sleep through the night.... although he does have a few rare nights where he does sleep 10 hours (about 2 times a week) and if he does wake up its just to get his pacifier back in his mouth..
I wish u luck!

Answer 6

Keep him up later (at least an hour) make sure all lights are out and room temp is comfy. Keep doing the bath, cereal/ bottle thing, it helps. Letting them cry for 10 minutes only stimulates him more(and grates on the parents). When he cries go to him pat his back give him a paci/bottle speak smoothly but don't pick him up, just let him know your there.

Answer 7

"My son is very just about 8 months previous and nevertheless not slumbering by the nighttime yet?". And your question is....??? Many toddlers do now stay conscious by the nighttime till they are 2 years previous, some even older than that. you will possibly desire to locate a sparkling scientific expert. any scientific expert, in my view, that advises a mom of a infant to enable it cry, should not be practising drugs on toddlers. "I enable him cry for terribly just about an hour yet he might jsut not quit so I gave him a bottle and he went lower back to sleep. i comprehend that he's not hungry..." If he went lower back to sleep after ingesting, what's the undertaking? How do you recognize he's not hungry? despite if he's not, i would not whinge approximately waking in elementary terms a million-2 situations a nighttime, that may not something. as quickly as you desperate to get pregnant, you particularly lots gave up the belief of sleep for a 300 and sixty 5 days or longer. It is going with the territory. putting cereal in his bottle won't help, distinctly at his age assuming he's already ingesting solids. till you go with to objective "sleep education", which consists of somewhat some techniques of letting your infant cry via itself in a dismal room for various lengths of time, getting in each and every now and then to "convenience" him, then there isn't something you're able to do. toddlers will sleep by the nighttime whilst they are developmentally waiting. for now, he of course the two needs nutrients or needs his mom. Suck it up and pass with it.

Answer 8

You're not going to like my answer because its not easy to do, but my pediatrician told me this and its true. You have to let him cry. It usually only takes one night and he might cry as long as 45 minutes. If he is fed, changed, did not have a fever when you put him to bed, you are sure everything in his crib is safe, then he just needs to cry. I swear it will work and he will stop waking up at 2 a.m.

The first time I did it at 4 months, I sat outside the door and cried myself, but I stuck to it.

Answer 9

If he cries when you lay him down he may have an ear infection. My son had to have tubes put in his ears because he had so many of them. That was the sure way to know.......he would fall asleep in my arms, but as soon as I layed him down he was crying. Also they do not want to drink as much when they have an ear infection. If it is his teeth, than there are homeopathic little tablets that you can buy from Walmart or your local drug store. They are called teething tablets. They work really well. You just set them in their mouth and they dissolve on contact, and they numb their mouth way better than baby anbesol or Tylenol!

Answer 10

let your baby feed him self with the bottle of milk in bed , then let him cry, if you keep getting up for him he will realize this and keep doing so, if he cries longer just give another bottle not as much and then he should fall asleep and go in and get the bottle and put on some soft nature music or classical music but keep it low.