Help, my 9 month old is getting up every hour or two sometimes more often at night!!!! Advice needed and welco

Question

My son is 9 1/2 months, and wakes almost hourly or two. He does not eat when I go in until 3:30-4:30. I have to either rock, or sway him (and he is a big boy, 24lb) back to sleep.I took him to urgent care yesterday,everything fine but teething. I give him motrin nothing seems to help him at night.I have tried cry it Ferber stule,about 5 times in 4months. Each time he projectile vomits he is so worked up after 10-15 minutes of crying. I feel horrible & rock him. I have heard to clean him up and put him back down, I did that the other night and he threw up again. I feel terrible. He is happy during the day. How do I teach him to get to sleep on his own when he vomits after crying in his crib. I have even sat on his floor in his room and moving closer to the door. He again projectile vomits 2-3 times in a row from crying.

Please any adivce is welcomed,thanks in advance

Answer 1

My oldest daughter (now 7) did the same thing. She seemed to projectile vomit whenever she was very stressed out (and sleep time alone was one of those stressors). We could not use the cry it out method for the same reason (I would not clean baby, crib, bumper, mattress pad, sheets, etc. more than once in a night! Not to mention that doing that even once took the sleepiness right out of her!) What we ended up doing, right or wrong- I don't know, is buying a mattress to put on the floor in her room where either my husband or I would lie down with her till she fell asleep. Then we would move her to her crib. If she woke at night, we did the same thing. At 18 months, we did away with the crib, and left her on the mattress at night (she was close to the floor, so I felt safe). She started to sleep through the night once the "dreaded" crib was taken away. We did this routine until she was about 3 years old and we could start reasoning with her.

I don't think that any of this "spoiled" her. If anything, it helped her feel safe. At 7, she is mature for her age, and has no sleep issues what so ever.

Also,not all children fit a preconceived sleep mold. Our second never had sleep issues. Crying it out worked for her. Same home, same parenting techniques.

Good luck.

Answer 2

He is still young. If he is vomiting, it's not good. Have you told the Dr that? Try a second opinion! Your baby could have intestinal problems while he's laying down. Acid reflux happens in babies, too. Try elevating the head side of his bed with books between the mattress and bed spring. Make sure it is even so he doesn't roll. How long has he been doing this? Have you introduced a new food recently? Co-sleeping is controversial, but my family has used it and we have no problems getting our older kids to sleep in their own beds. There are co-sleeping cribs that attach to the side of your bed. You just can't use heavy comforters or blankets too close to it. This may help your situation. If your room is big enough you can try putting his crib in your room and every month move it a little further from the bed. Eventually he will be back to his own bed. When he starts walking well on his own, even while sleepy, you can put him in a toddler bed with rails. The rails are just long enough so he wont fall out. But he can get up and come to you when he's scared. Good luck! I hope you find something that works! I would suggest you see his regular Dr. and insist on some answers or help.

Answer 3

My son Nicholas was the very same way and it turned out to be a number of different things actually. I'm not sure if youre breast feeding or not, but I was unable and when I switched his bottles to the playtex ones that are vented on the bottom to reduce gas and upset stomach, it was like a miracle. He wasnt vomiting anymore, hardly even any occassional 'spit up'. The other thing I did was give him baby oragel at night after his bath (nightime formula) and he was always a little shook up by the sensation at first, but within a minute you could see his relief. Another thing we did was use Johnson's nightime bath and lotion; they say it's clinically proven to help baby sleep better and I would have to agree. The final thing that we ended up doing was actually was feeding him more meal food. His breakfast is stage 2 fruit mixed w. cereal and cherrios to finger feed after, lunch is stage 2 vegies w. cereal and carrot wheels to chew (they disintegrate easy and the help the teeth cut through easier by stimulating the gums) and he gets dinner stage 2 dinner and veggie and then a fruit later for desert and he sleeps quite well now. Hope some of this long proud mama babble helps...

Answer 4

omg. 9 months of that! I hope mine doesnt' do that. I let my daughter cry it out, BUT she was getting up strickly to play. She was almost a year old and she understood the words, 'no. it is sleeping time'. She knew WHY I was not responding. 9 months is too young for that and she would feel abandoned. A little trick I did when my daughter was 2 weeks old was that I would comfort her without holding her. She was colicy and would cry, even when she was not hungry. I would start by leaning over her and hugging her so it felt like I was holding her. I would sing and stroke her hair. I gradually got to the point where I was just stroking her hair and singing. Finally I got to the point where I could be across the room and just be singing to her and she would calm down. That was at night time I did that as well and it worked. You may want to try that. She doesn't have to sleep, but just be content there by herself for awhile and feel safe.

Answer 5

Does he have a night light? Sounds like he may be afraid.

If he sleeps when you hold him then you are going to have to teach him that he can sleep all night without you holding him.

Try keeping him up ALL day. get him up early and don't let him nap. Feed him a good dinner, give him a warm bath(try that baby bath stuff by Johnson's) and then rock him until he is sound asleep. Put him in his bed with a cuddle animal snuggled up next to his back. If the animal is big enough he might think it is you, especially if it smells like you.

You stand to loose nothing by trying this for a couple of nights. Hope it helps.

Answer 6

I had the same problem with my second daughter when she was at that age. Her doctor told me to only let her nap until 3pm. Even if she fell asleep at 2:30 she had to be up at 3pm. Since I started that she has been in bed by 8-8:30 and slept though the night. Hope this helps!

Answer 7

yes I would say the same thing. Try keeping him up at least for a good part of the day. That way he is going to be pretty tired at night. Also during the day, if he cries, let him cry alone so at night he knows he is not going to get all the attention from you that he gets during the day....

I hope it helps and you feel better and have a good night sleep!

Answer 8

Limit his naps during the day.

Try to get him more active during the day.

Feed him well at night, close to bedtime.

Give him a warm, relaxing bath before bed.

Run an electric fan throughout the night (or something that will provide a constant [relaxing] noise level in his room).

Make sure he's warm, but not too hot.

Try allowing him to sleep (propped) on his side. Or at least in some new position.


Good luck.

Answer 9

Nine months may be young, but not too young to be taught that he/she won't get what they want as soon as they want it.

Usually spoiled kids start out by getting every whimper or cry attended to as babies. They learn early on that all they have to do to get what they want is cry or pitch a fit about it.

Wean your child from your constant attention at night time. If you have to go in and stay four hours a night rocking him, cut it down gradually. In a month's time you should be down to only having to go in once a night for a short period of time (unless he is sick or something).

It can be hard on new parents not to go to their child every time he/she cries. However, it's completely healthy not to.

Answer 10

no parent wants to do this but try sleeping with him in your bed. Let him fall asleep and feel secure that you are there. That might be how he feels in the day. Like you are there and no harm can come to him. Once he falls asleep put him in his crib. That might help.