how do I get my daughter to sleep through the night!!!!!?

Question

any advice? she goin 5 months now and she's getting crankier by the week!

Answer 1

I don't think there is much you can do...you have to figure out what is waking her...is she hungry...cold...did she have a bad dream? Once you figure out what she is waking up for, you can figure out how to stop it.

Example, if she is hungry...maybe she needs more to eat before bed...if she is cold, put more blankets or warmer clothes...

My daughter is 3 months old...she sleeps from 10 pm to 5 am straight, than wakes up to eat and goes back to sleep until 9 am. If she wakes inbetween those times, I give her a few minutes to calm herself down and than she goes back to sleep. Sometimes, they just wake up but go back to sleep right away. Mine will make a half hearted wimper, than go back to sleep. It's kinda cute.

Anyway, I hope that helps.

Answer 2

Chances are if she is cranky and she is still not sleeping through the night by 5 months is because she is either hungry, tired or both.
Both my daughters started sleeping on stretches of 6 hours straight since they were 6 weeks old and it kept on increasing. Now they are 2 years old and 8 months old and they both sleep for twelve hours.
I feel that routine is the most important thing. My bedtime routine is always the same. Only when they get a little older, that you can change a little bit. But NEVER the time they go to bed, which is always at 7:30 pm for me.
Also, during the day they usually nap at the same time.
Are you feeding her solids yet? When you start, it also usually helps. I started mine at 4 months old. Cereal is a good start.
The only time my baby wakes up now is when her teeth are growing in, which is very painful. So, that is also another possibility why your baby is cranky. I give my kids Motrin. It usually helps.
Try some of these. Good luck!!

Answer 3

Our daughter will be 5mo in 2 days...
I understand!!!! We were just there.
Here's what we've done...
We set a routine, every night we go into her room with the lighting to just a night-light, we play a CD (instrumental lullaby's, ocean sounds, white noise whatever works, a static station on the radio works just as well) she nurses, we put her to bed while she's still awake, but sleepy. Put her in her crib, cover her up...and 95% of the time she goes to sleep and STAYS THERE (for 4-5hrs at a time). She does have episodes of fussing for 4-5 minutes. Then we just repeat through the night, keeping the sound in the room the same. When she wakes up, give her a few minutes to see if she can comfort herself back to sleep, if not, we nurse & put her back down. It's been a WONDER!!!! She's done GREAT for 2weeks now! GOOOOOD LUCK!

Answer 4

She may be teething, if you have introduced rice cereal try giving her some before bed, my little one is almost 5 months and we give her oatmeal before bed, but we have been sleeping all night since about 2 months old. Shes waking for a reason, if shes hungry then feed her, she may not be ready to sleep all night, some babies don't sleep all night till they are a year old. Good luck and don't rush it, enjoy these moments with her, soon shes going to be growin up and independent, and your going to miss these moments, as cranky as they seem, they are always missed. And plus we, as moms, took an oath that once baby comes we will no longer sleep as much as we want to, the joys of being parents.

Answer 5

you've were given me stumped. "she will be in a position to no longer bypass lower back to sleep until eventually she has a bottle with formulation." And the priority is.....? "Is there some thing i am going to do to assist her sleep better?" appears like you responded your human being question. How about giving her a bottle with formulation? only a tenet..... there is no longer some thing unusual. strange or out of the conventional about a 7 month previous infant no longer drowsing by ability of the nighttime. She sounds completely popular to me. My one 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous hasn't ever slept by ability of the nighttime both, and nonetheless wakes a minimum of two times a nighttime, on a good nighttime. EDIT - "exceeds that reduce". Huh?? you're restricting your daughter's nutrition intake? Feeding each and every 4 hours in the course of the day is only 4 bottles. with the exception of, feeding your infant does no longer reason tooth decay. i'm so at a loss for words - you reported she is going precise lower back to sleep until eventually 5am if she has a bottle. sounds to me like you've a tremendous sleeper who only wakes once to feed. quite good for a 7 month previous! My second infant became waking each and every a million-2 hours at that age. in any case, there is extremely no longer some thing you may do to "make"a infant sleep by ability of the nighttime. she will be in a position to attain that milestone even as SHE is waiting, same to the different milestone. Cereal in her bottle or CIO are both risky and ineffective concepts to emphasise your infant to sleep. and there is not any way you could teach a infant to no longer be hungry.

Answer 6

If you wanted something that slept through the night you should have gotten a fish.

Babies are supposed to wake during the night it is protective against SIDS, overheating, being too cold, and ensures they get enough to eat. Almost 50% of kids do not sleep through the night until 24 months, and it has very little to do with parenting style.

Oh and the medical definition of sleeping through the night is 4-5 hours.

"Sleeping "through the night"
You have probably heard that babies should start "sleeping through the night" at about two to four months of age. What you must understand is that, for a new baby, a five-hour stretch is a full night. Many (but nowhere near all) babies at this age can sleep uninterrupted from midnight to 5 a.m. (Not that they always do.) A far cry from what you may have thought "sleeping through the night" meant!

Here we pause while the shock sinks in for those of you who have a baby who sleeps through the night but didn't know it.

What's more, while the scientific definition of "sleeping through the night" is five hours, most of us wouldn't consider that anywhere near a full night's sleep for ourselves. Also, some of these sleep-through-the-nighters will suddenly begin waking more frequently, and it's often a full year or even two until your little one will settle into a mature, all-night, every night sleep pattern. "
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Answer 7

First make sure she doesn't really need something - Is she messy? Does she actually eat if you feed f=her, or just play with the milk deliverer , and fall asleeep just because you hold her?

Once you realize what her needs are, you can decide how to deal with them. If she really needs food, you should probably continue that feeding for a few more months. If she doesn't need that meal, just go to her room tell her it's nite nite time, lay her back down and leave the room. It'll take a few days, but eventually she;ll realize that she 's not going to get anything and she'll start to sleep more Good luck!

Answer 8

My son's 10 months now, the main thing I can think of is the fact that if my son doesn't eat a lot of food before bed or in some cases if the food he does eat is not of a solid kind (3 foods) he will wake up 'cause of hunger.
Also try to keep your daughter's nap times (two per day works for me) the same every day, like in my case, my son wakes up around 0530 to 0600, takes a nap from 0930 to 1130 the he eats lunch and the he takes his second nap around 1430 and wakes up at 1630 / 1700 for diner and bath time and bed time is never later than 2100. The best thing for most babies is to have the same routine everyday. I also play a lot of games that make him tired.
Best of luck to you!!!

Answer 9

It may be a good time to start introducing some rice cereal, talk to your doctor. You could mix the cereal mix with some formula or breastmilk and feed her within the hour before you put her to bed, as the cereal may help her sleep longer without getting hungry. If she is still eating just bottles, you might want to move her feedings a little bit so there is a longer gap before her last feeding of the night. That way she will be even hungrier and will drink more of the bottle and sleep longer.

A few other ideas might be swaddling her tightly and putting a white noise machine in her room.

Answer 10

sorry, at 5 months she should be waking up in the night. most likely she is hungry.

what can help you though is to draw a bath, and then the two of you take a shallow bath together. make it warm, and then keep the lights low, read her a book, and put her to bed. the noise should be soft, and when she wakes up, rub her belly, if she goes right back to sleep then its just habit if she is wet or hungry she will wake up again.