Help 9 month baby sleep?

Question

My 9 month old is so hard to get to sleep and has always been. I'm exhausted and want him to sleep. He wakes up very easily to sounds and it is so hard to get him back to sleep. Sometimes when I think he is sleeping, I start to walk away and he wakes up crying and then sits down. I tried to let him cry it out but he gets hystarical. Sometimes when I go back in and lay him down he falls asleep but then wakes up again. He usually goes to bed between 9 pm and then wakes up at about 1-3 am, takes a bottle and then sleeps (sometimes that takes another 45 min) until 7 am. Should I continue feeding him at night? I tried not to and getting him back to sleep is horrible... worse then with the bottle. Any ideas?

Answer 1

i would put a little sugar in milk ,warm milk and cuddle baby in ur arms or rock them will drinking they will get sleepy!yes give him all the milk they want they wont drink it anyways if they worent hungry!! right??

Answer 2

your son is use to waking up and drinking and that you should stop when you are 6 months you are capable to sleep through the night. I would take the bottle away because it is not good for his teeth it could cause decay so that I would stop and you have to get him in a routine taking his bath by 8 or 8:30 read a story say your good nights and let him cry it is much harder on us then them I went through this with my daughter the first week is rough but if you want sleep you have to do it and the longer you wait the harder so be prepared for him to cry all night he will for maybe a week but no more check on him to make sure nothing is wrong but he will tire hisself out and eventually he will get use to the routine but you have to stick to it you want him to stop waking up I took some vacation time from work the week I decided to break my daughter because you will not be able to sleep but just try it will be hard but in the end its worth it no more bottles though just give him one during story time and no more

Answer 3

I would start to ween him off the late night bottle. You are setting a schedule now with him, so he knows he can wake up and you will feed him. Start feeding him a bottle RIGHT before you put him down to sleep. Then, if he wakes up, try feeding him less and less until you don't feed him at all in the middle of the night. It may take some time, but starting him on this schedule now and keeping him on it will cause him to be more troublesome when he gets older. You can also try feeding him some cereal later at night after dinner. This will help fill his belly up, and he may not wake up in the middle of the night because of hunger.

Also, try keeping him up as long as possible after 5pm. If he normally takes a nap late in the evening, don't let him. Keep him up and active. You may also want to push his bedtime back a little. If you are going to bed at 9pm, then it's fine to keep him on that bedtime, but if you are going to bed long after him, just keep him up an extra hour with you. This way, after you feed him the last bottle of the night, he will be exhausted, and you will have a better chance of him sleeping through the night.

Talk about this with his doctor. They will find other ways to help your child sleep through the night.

Answer 4

I've got one of those! Try a "white noise" generator or a small fan to help block out the other sounds and soothe him.

As for the AM feeding, how long does it take for you to get to him and feed him in the middle of the night? My son used to get really awake at his 2 AM feeding because it took me a couple of minutes to wake up, get a bottle ready, and get it to him. Because he was so awake, it took more time to get back to sleep.

Now, I keep a bottle of water and a container of pre-measured formula by my bed, so I can wake up, dump the powder into the water, shake on the way to his crib, and get him eating before he's really awake.

If your son doesn't mind (mine didn't) you can also put a bottle of already mixed formula in an insulated lunch bag with an icepack to keep it cool, then you're ready to go when he wakes.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Try "white noise". You can buy a CD and let it play continuously through the night. OUrs sounds like a vacuum sweeper which is soothing to babies. I bought it on line. It is wonderful and I couldnt live without it. My baby is 3 months old and already sleeps through the night because if it. I put him to bed at 8 or 9 pm and he will sleep until 8 am!!

Answer 6

My daughter is a lot like that. I could sneeze and she'd wake up. We had to just let her cry it out. No feedings at night. When he wakes up and cries he'll be really upset. My daughter cried for about 2 hours. The second night it was about an hour and a half. The third it was about an hour.........it slowly went down until she started sleeping all night. It took about a week for her.

Answer 7

my daughter had this problem around the same age as ur kid. I asked the dr what to do, it seems like ur child has a separation issue as did mine. my dr told me the only and best thing is to let her cry it out at bedtime, make sure ur bedtime routine is the same and the same time everynight. yes ween from the bottle at night because at 9 months old they dont need it, it just has become routine. The longer u wait to cry it out the worse it will be. When we started letting her cry it out, it wa hard for three days straight she cryed for three hours straight, it was a heartbreaker. BUt after a coupole weeks she only cryed for about a half hr. my dr said her son cryed himself to sleep every night for months. Alivia is now 14 months old and i lay her in her bed and say night night and leave and shes fine, falls asleep on her own. Also my dr said that while letting her cyr it out do hosue work to keep ur mind off it and if ur baby falls asleep to noise then there less likely to wake up easily. I foudn that when i let her cry it out, she slept better nad longer. my daughters sleeps from 7 at night till 730 in the morning, without waking up . well waking up and crying, i dunno if she wakes up and goes back to sleep. seriously this is the best thing for ur child in the long run. and i know tis hard because i was one that was totally against letting ur baby cry it out, ohh nad sugar in a damn bottle is insane, that person i hope has no children.i hope this helps

Answer 8

do not give him a bottle with sugery milk,he will get bottle rot on his teeth and that is a major nightmare,when my daughter was born someone as a gift gave us a teddy bear with the sound of and actual heart beating,like the sound of an ultrasound,and she also slept all through the night (quite frankly i found it rather comforting as well,lol) i think the white noise suggestions are the way to go,he needs to learn to sleep through ambient noise and to be soothed by himself,also i know how difficult it is to have a screaming hysterical baby and i know that parents debate constantly on whether to let them cry it out or to rush to comfort them,if your gonna let them cry out though you absolutely need to stick to your guns and not go to there rescue no matter what,its awful but true,if youre going this route eventually they will exhaust themselves and sleep. you might even try classical music turned down low,after my daughter was born the hospital gave us a little gift pack with a classical cd (it helps there intellectual growth,apparently) that also would knock her right out. on the other hand i have 2 older boys as well and they were a handful,so...hang in there,try your best to nap when he naps,dirty dishes can wait but a cranky mother is never fun right? kids totally feel that energy if your upset they will feel it and that puts them on edge,if your content and happy then for the most part so will they be. hang in there.

Answer 9

Try playing a radio with white noise settings like rain or the ocean. It might soothe him and will also help block out sounds from you moving around.

Some kids just take a long time to learn how to soothe themselves and go back to sleep. Hang in there!

Answer 10

My son is 9 month old and is amazingly lively in his sleep, on that actuality on my own i might want to assert no to slightly one mattress or mattress with mattress rails, i might want to signify searching at cotbeds, they initiate as a cot then as they grow old you'll get rid of the perimeters and also then you have slightly one mattress so imagine that's going to journey a newborn till about 4 then flow to a widely used mattress (with rails)

Answer 11

When solid food is introduced to him he would not wake up in the middle of the night. How about doing a ritual? Give him a warm bath before bedtime. Do it everyday.