My daughter is 7 months old, wakes up every 2 hours for a bottle, like she was a newborn, My boys didn't keep me awake after they were 5 months........... I make sure she has a bath, and a full tummy............ what gives?
2006-09-07 08:20:22 · 12 answers · asked by crazy2have3kids 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I even have samll radio in her room on classical music.......... as I did with my boys.
2006-09-07 10:02:53 · update #1
Sorry for the typo... small*
2006-09-07 10:03:20 · update #2
Hi Mom! My son is 1 1/2 and he didn't sleep through the night (6 strait hours) until he was about 10 months old. The whole time taking approx. 3 bottles a night. At 7 months I would be trying to feed her more infant foods during the day and start to limit the bottle to certain times during the day. This schedual will alow her to know that food fills the tummy too and maybe even start to give up the bottle, (my son gave up his bottle at about 12 months old on his own...he wanted those bananas) Plus, the jar foods stay in the stomach longer. So, if you try to give her some infant cereal about 1 1/2 hours before bed then a bottle to put her to sleep maybe her belly will stay full a little longer and give you 4 hours to sleep instead of 2. But maybe it has something to do with the silence. I also use a lullibys cd that has no words just the instrumentals, plus a small night-light. Many different things could be wakeing her up. My doctor told me to just go into his room and pat him on the back to put his to sleep...YEAH RIGHT!!! LOL that would always just make it worse. Well if you like my advice just write me an e-mail im always up for baby talk! =)
2006-09-07 08:39:11 · answer #1 · answered by charlie21205 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My daughter was about this same age when I finally decided I wasnt going to put up with it anymore. She was waking just to nurse for like 5 minutes. So what we did was first I stopped nursing her to sleep at anytime during the day. So at naptimes too she had to learn to fall asleep on her own. Then We would rock her for a little bit and lay her down. The first couple of nights were hard on her and we let her cry for about 20-30 minutes. But she eventually figured out the system and about the 3-4 night she would fall asleep on her own and sleep for about 10 hours! She still does this! It is great. She goes to bed between 9-11 (shes a night owl) and sleeps til 7 or 8 sometimes 9!!! I got the idea for our plan from sleepsense.net or something like that, but I would not recommend buying it! I can send you an e-copy of the book if you want to look through it! Good luck!!!!!
2006-09-07 08:39:18 · answer #2 · answered by Barbarianmomma 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
This may not be the problem, but have you tried sleeping in that room for one night to see what's going on in there? I did that with my daughter when she seemed to be waking up in the early morning at the same time, no matter when she fell asleep. It was only after sleeping in there that I found out several things that would help her sleep better.
I found that our neighbor tended to leave for work (I found out later that he has a job with a shift that starts at 4:00 am) around the time that she was getting up and apparently the noise of his car starting up was awakening her. We used white noise in her room to filter out the noise, then gradually reduced the volume of the white noise as she got older until it is barely audible, and she sleeps though the noise of his car now.
I also discovered that the early morning sun was a lot more disruptive to sleep than I thought it was before I spent a night in there myself. Our master bedroom gets pretty bright, but hers gets even brighter and it really seemed to disturb her sleep. We added blackout curtains to the windows and now she sleeps 8-10 hours straight through the night.
While it may not be the complete answer, you could very well learn something about her sleep habits by sleeping there in a sleeping bag or in a chair.
2006-09-07 09:37:01 · answer #3 · answered by Kathy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My son is 13 mos and still not sleeping through the night. This is my first and as you can imagine, I am afraid to have another. He has gotten better w/ sleeping, but still not through the night completely (2-3 times we have to go in). Some kids are not good sleepers and are wired more energetically and or are higher needs than others. try everything you can and that's all you can do, its not your fault!
my son started waking every 40 Min's at 6 mos old and then we had to try something, a modified cry it out. of course we stayed in the room and held, but did not feed him. It takes them a couple nights to realize the foods not coming and they settle in. hes probably not hungry but wakes out of habit and really who would not rather have a warm bottle of milk in the middle of the night.
Also, we are as boring as possible and do not really cuddle, talk, rub, feed, etc. this only seems to encourage my baby to wake and spend time w/ us.
good luck.
2006-09-07 15:48:58 · answer #4 · answered by tara t 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should try controlled crying. When your baby wake go through & pick her up cuddle her for about a minute or until she stops crying but don't talk to her, put her back to bed & leave the room, Next time she wakes up leave her for 2 mins go into her room and stroke her until she is calm don't talk to her & so on extend the time you let her cry by 5 mins & she will learn to go to sleep on her own and you will get a good night sleep. You might have to do this for a few nights but it is worth it.
2006-09-07 08:48:48 · answer #5 · answered by firenze 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried adding cereal to her nightly bottle? I found that this trick helped my daughter, because it kept her full longer. Nowadays there's also the lavender and chamomile bath products, which work really well. My daughter is 9 now and we both use them when we are feeling restless. I hope this works!
2006-09-07 08:29:37 · answer #6 · answered by bjclark76 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Know this may sound silly but it has even worked with our dogs.
Airwick has a lavendar frangrace scent ..... it is very soothing even to puppies who are very entergetic breeds.
They have the lavendar, a scent called soothing and one called calming......place one close enough to fragrance the area but not too strong as to cause allergy reaction.
Time and patience Mom....
Best wishes and enjoy this little blessing!!!
2006-09-07 08:25:37 · answer #7 · answered by Marsha 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Play physically active games with her. Get her hyperness out during the day and she'll be tired by night.
2006-09-07 08:27:19 · answer #8 · answered by PureSerendipity 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The best advice ever given has been that of Dr. Spock. Just put the kid in bed and shut the door. If she screams, let her scream. She'll go back to bed eventually. After a few nights of this it will not be a problem again.
2006-09-07 08:26:19 · answer #9 · answered by cyanne2ak 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
here the same :(
my 1st baby she was sleeping at 4 weeks all night ! this one is not !
2006-09-07 08:39:04 · answer #10 · answered by M 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋