My daughter wakes up2-3x's a night !! HELP?

Question

I asked I think 2 days ago and some answers were good but just so everyone knows. She eats cereal for breakfast 2 jars of 2 foods for lunch she gets cherrios or something like that for snack and 1 1/2 jar of 3's foods for dinner. I have tried to put cereal in her bottle( i tried it for 5 days) It did not help. I let her cry for 3 nights ( thats my doc.s advice) and she would cry for hours and sleep for 1 then again EVERY single night. ( I would check to make sure she was ok... with out her seeing me) She gets up and downs a bottle acting like she is starving !! HELP

Answer 1

how old its your daugther maybe she needs stronger food during the day so she dosent feel the need of snacking troguth the night

Answer 2

I know how hard and frustrating it is when the baby won't sleep. And in most cases, Mommy is the one who has to be sleep deprived.
Have you tried putting something in her room that emits "White Noise"? Such as an air purifier or a fan. We let our daughter sleep in our room for so long that she got used to that noise. When we finally moved her into her own room, we had to buy her a fan.
Do you have animals that live in the house and have access to her room? It could be possible that she is a light sleeper and when she wakes up...she's wide awake and is used to having a full belly when going to bed. I still think it's habit, but like I said last time, habits are hard to break.
Along with the baby food, does she get bottles throughout the day?
I didn't have my daughter on baby food very long either because I noticed it played havoc with her tummy. She would get constipated and very gassy. It was hard for her to sleep with the gas pains. Once I took her off the jar food, she was soooo much better. Does she have hard, dark poopie? I took my daughter off of formula @ 11.5 months....her poo is no longer green or hard.
One more question...is your daughter teething? If the pain gets too intense (same goes for the gassy belly) maybe that's what's waking her and she draws comfort from the bottle.
Maybe you should try Tylenol or Motrin one night and see how she does. It's possible she's in pain. We all know that if we have a toothache or tummy issues it's magnified when we lay down.
I know how hard it is when a baby won't sleep. Good luck and I hope something here helped.

Answer 3

she IS starving,, when my son was 10 months he ate TWICE OR THREE times the amount ur feeding her.. and she does not have enough at dinner.. no matter what u do, shes still going to wake up until a year old, maybe afterwards too, who knows.. but i asked my doctor about ur daughter and he said to feed her alot more, and if she has teeth give her like, very small cut up chicken tenders and lots of mashed potatoes with no dairy in them. u gotta give her more filling foods.. i also bought a food processor with my son (30 bucks) but that lasts from 6 months until whenever they have enough teeth to chew real food with.. and found that if i made my own food and then put in in the food processor, he got full much more.. give her a bigger snack during the day, and maybe some waffles or pancakes that she can chew on, and banana;s are soft also.. and for lunch, she needs more too.. when i was doing jars, he was eating at LEAST 3 EVERY MEAL. not to mention, snacks, for which i stuck with fruit and cooked veggies..

Answer 4

How old is your daughter. If she's around a year old, or older than a year, this isn't enough food. She, too, should be off of table food at a year and on whole milk.

Has she tried a new food recently? If so, it could be a food allergy. What about congestion/cold, ear infection, etc. The reason that she keeps waking up could be a number of things.

Answer 5

It takes longer than 3 days and if you give in one day it sets you back. It took a little over a week of my first child crying for her to sleep through the night and not wanting me to rock her to sleep. I put water in her bottle at night and just had to tough it out and listen to her cry. Of course I would always check without her seeing me to check if she was fine but it was sooooo hard not to pick her up and hold her and give her a bottle of milk at night...... but she eventually got over it and soothed herself to sleep. Good LUCK, I am now on number 2 to break her out of the same thing, and pregnant with number 3 i have my work cut out for me :) but all worth it!!

Answer 6

I'm not sure the age of your baby but you need to get this book. It was a life saver for me I had the same problem..Be consistent with your plan. and read Healthy Sleep Habits Healthy Child by Dr. Marc Weissbluth he is my friends pediatrician. http://parenting.ivillage.com/baby/bsleep/0,,7fp25djz,00.html
If you need to email me about this you can at [e-mail] I'll be happy to answer any questions...Good Luck

Answer 7

It's normal for a child to wake up at night for the entire first year.
Just respond to her needs, the same way you would want someone to respond to yours.
I'm not sure how old your child is, but I can tell you that the child is crying to communicate, not manipulate.

Answer 8

So let her cry it out a fourth night and a fifth etc etc etc...If she is still taking naps you might want to cut at least one of them out, or if she is napping only once you might want to limit the length of the nap or eliminate it all together.

Answer 9

if it is a newborn its going to cry till it gets used to the schedule its soupposed to be on. maybe during the day dont give it any naps. and maybe during the day give it stronger food to eat. maybe it is still hungry?

Answer 10

my symptoms have been going on for about 8 days. roughly a week