My 8mths old baby won't sleep through the night.?

Question

We're just so exhausted cause our young one has never slept through the night. Any ideas? Please help...

Answer 1

They need to learn how put themselves back to sleep. If they wake up, walk into their room and stand or sit next to their crib and talk to them softly. Stand next to the crib and gently rub their back until they fall asleep. Picking them up or rocking them back to sleep won't teach them to put themselves back to sleep so don't pick them up. Eventually, they will learn how to fall back asleep on their own and eventually you won't even have to go into their room at all when they wake up because they'll just lay there for a few minutes until they fall asleep again. And hopefully, they'll stop waking up all together :) Good luck and God bless.

Answer 2

This happens to a lot of parents and is completely normal .Before you put yor baby to bed u should give s/he a bath to relax s/he. But when your baby wakes in the middle of the night make sure not to turn on the light pick s/he up or give s/he this is because you will confuse the child and make him think that it is morning time. What you should do is rub his back so your baby knows that you are there . After a few nights this might improve and soon enough your baby will b sleeping the night so you and your partner will also get a nights sleep .

Answer 3

Try keeping the baby up until 10 or 11, giving a bath, bottle and laying her down with one of the "Mommy Bears". It's a bear that has a recorded sound of the womb and it automatically shuts off after about an hour. OR I also used one of the Fisher Price aquarium things on the side of the crib w/ the swishing sea sound. It put our son to sleep every night-when he was old enough to figure out the buttons he turned it on several times a night if he woke up and then went magically back to sleep watching the fish and listening to the water. Good luck!

Answer 4

Oh, I feel for you! My nine month old wakes several times in the night too.
I think some of it is luck and some is the way we choose to parent. Leaving my son to scream in the night just isn't an option for me, with my husband and other son needing to sleep.

I get up, leaving the lights off, give him a hug and sometimes a breastfeed and then put him down again and he goes back to sleep.
Now, I'm not saying that it's the best way to do it but it's what works for me.

I agree with those who said that you should make sure they get enough to eat, preferably not just before they go to bed.
I haven't noticed that keeping him up makes any difference at all, except that then I have an overtired, grumpy baby on my hands.

It won't last forever, I promise. Just as you think you can't bear it any more, it'll all change.
In the meantime, have you talked with your health visitor/GP/paediatrician? It might be worth a try.
Good luck.

Answer 5

My heart breaks for you my dear cos i went through exactly the same thing with my little one.
She did not sleep a full night until she was 18months. I was seriously on the verge of hurting her or myself and got no help from doctors or health visitors. I was a single parent and worked full time so this didn't help.

I can honestly say i tried everything from turning all the lights down, soothing baths, music you name it i tried it -none worked.

Then all of a sudden it just righted itself, this sounds weired but it did. Now aged six she has normal sleep patterns and is fine.
My only advice would be to bear with it. If you have exhausted every other possibility of why the child is not sleeping it could just be that they don't need much sleep, strange but this is what the doctors told me...

Answer 6

What worked for me was having a strict routine during the day with regular play and sleep patterns. My son slept through the night at 6 weeks and my daughter slept through at 3-4months.

I agree that they need to be able to get them selves back off to sleep. without you getting out of bed in the middle of the night talking to them and rubbing their back.

I found a great book to help with routines it is called. The contented little baby By Gina Ford.

It really helped me getting my second child to sleep through the night. My first just got the gist of when it was bed time.

I would recommend reading it all the way through first so you understand the need for a routine.

Answer 7

get a routine and stick to it everynight. when your baby cries at night check on him put him back on his sleeping position then walk out. Leave him to cry a little longer this time keeping doing this until he falls asleep trust me this does work, i had to do this with my 3 children. Keep doing this every night it will take a lot of paitience but don't pick him up don't talk to him/her don't put the lights on. Your baby will get the message after 3/4 nights of this. It does work and you and your partner will get to sleep together. TRY IT FOR 3/4 NIGHTS.

DON'T
Don'tpick him up
Don't give him a bottle
don't talk to him
don't turn the lights on

DO
do the exact bedtime routine everynight
Make sure he hasn't dirty his nappie
He's not ill first
Make sure he has eaten enough throughout the day
Make sure his last nap is no later than 3pm

TRY IT FOR 3/4 NIGHTS
It does work LOL Good luck

Answer 8

LET HER SCREAM! I mean it. She is smart Right now. She knows if she cries you will come. Do you hold her a lot at bed time? If so you probably spoiled her to much she likes company. You have to get a bed time routine with her now. I suggest bottle in a chair in her room. After that lay her in her crib maybe rub her back or sing a song for about 2 min. Then leave the room. And let her cry. I had the same trouble with my son! it was terrible. Just dont do what I did and put her in your BED!!! That is the worst habit to break. Establish a bed routine same time every night. She will get so sick of crying she will finally go to bed. This may take 3 to 4 days Of screaming. But it is well worth it in the long run I promise!

Answer 9

Some babies just can't handle a late afternoon nap and then sleep thru the night. As exhausting as it can be, try to keep he or she awake until about 7 p.m., give them a warm bath and a drink and put them to bed in a quiet room. This should help calm them down and hopefully they'll sleep through the night.

Answer 10

This is a habit situation and will take a bit of work and you will be really tired for a bit but when you've cracked it, life is a dream. When the baby first wakes do all the necessary things checking nappy etc, if all is well put back in bed and go out. After that you go in, say its bedtime and go out again. Basically you just keep repeating this process, leaving gaps of 5-10 minutes before you go back in until eventually baby is too tired to keep fighting.

Answer 11

None of my five slept through the night either. The only solution me and my husband have come up with for our 5 month old is, I get the baby one night so my husband gets a full nights sleep and vice versa. give it a try if you haven't already. At least we're getting more sleep than we were before.
Good luck