9 month baby waking 4-5 times a night after sleeping through for several months?

Question

At 11wks my little girl was sleeping around 12hsr from 7-7. She is now 9 mnths and about 4 weeks ago started waking up every 1-2 hours. When she wakes in the morning she is happy in her crib alone playing for 15-20 mins but when she wakes through the night, she immediately sits up and starts to scream. We have tried leaving her but she continues to scream for 20mins or so and the other night made her self sick from sreaming. She has been teething for several months (drooling) but is rarely cranky during the day, so I don't think it's the teeth bothering her. I am at my wits end and would love some advise!

Answer 1

Try ora-gel for babies OR motrin for babies, the motrin worked for my son. Experts claim that teething is one of the most painful things to have to go through. It's probably worse at night and just driving her crazy! A cold wash cloth on her gums might help as well.

Good luck, my son is 3, but I remember those days!!

Answer 2

Has her routine, people around her, changed? The one thing, though, it that they get 'separation anxiety' around that age, but it happens when you are out of sight during the waking hours, as a rule...but it could be something to consider....If not, check to see if she is comfortable in temperature, clothing, and blankets, etc......and also teething may be a consideration as well....Good Luck with figuring it out(and usually by the time you do, they aren't bothered by that anymore!!)

Answer 3

My son have been given up each couple hours for extraordinarily much 8 months. It steadily became in basic terms as quickly as a night around 6 months nonetheless. via the time he became right into a 365 days previous he slept by each night till he became into ill. For the main section i think of all toddlers are unique of their dozing behavior. stable success!

Answer 4

I read about sleep regressions at 4 months, 9 months and 18 months on this website:

http://moxie.blogs.com/askmoxie/2006/02/qa_9montholds_s.html

maybe it will help? Good luck.

Answer 5

More than likely baby is taking a growth spurt Hopefully it won't last to long. Try making sure she is feed well before bed and letting her sleep witha shirt of yours and see if this helps. I know how hard this is for mom but it won't last forever.

Answer 6

hello! I do not know if anything I can add here will help? but maybe? hopefully! I know what it is like to lack the sleep and I am at my wits end most nights with my horde.... ;)

there could be one reason she is waking and staying up... there could be a combination of things... from what you describe, I would say that you have more than one thing happening there...

a) wet, hungry, stinky... that will wake her.. she is growing fast remember... so she had been getting enough before? now maybe she just needs a little more... first thing I would try is to increase the meals (whether bottle, nursing or if you have or are going to introduce solids) it could be that simple... we always think of the difficult things first...? but in the end.... most often it is the simplest little thing that we over look....

b) waking screaming would be fear... she does not see you right away, and is very much at the age when a baby begins to realize (but not quite) that things come and go... but that some of them do not come back... sounds like she has made part of that connection... but not the "whole " picture of mommy/daddy will always "re-appear" that is something she will come to realize...especially if mommy/daddy always shows up... and always as quickly as possible picks her up when she screams.... you know..... from my personal experience, I found it helps if I have a some sort of book, toy, blanket (keeping in mind I am a paranoid wreak and do not allow pillows or stuffed toys till much older...lol... I put cardboard books in.. go figure) I read the book or play with the toy as much as I can with baby daily to get her used to it and then at night I have noticed that the crying/screaming lessens... oh that does not stop the waking time... but it stops the jarring waking with panic in the heart? and crankiness in my mind part of it.... personally, regadless of what the drs/experts say? I won't do that the "let them cry" ever again... my eldest I follwed the "rules" laid down... and I found that the night I had enough and made up my own rules to this game? it got so much easier.... this is YOUR family.... I can't imagine any parent who has not had their heart ripped out from hearing even two seconds of the crying let alone screaming... so if you are listening to the "experts" and not guided by what you feel? throw it out the window! you are the expert on your child!

c) social time... lol.. I have one... she is four... somewhere along the way she decided that waking at two for tea-time was cool.... it started when her brother was a newborn, she would wake up when he did... so I can't fault her...lol.. it is now internal clock... my fault! she doesn't always do it now.. but at one point I had to be a meanie and take light bulbs from rooms and dim lights... and tuck her in over and over to help remind her that day is social time... night is for sleeping.... in our household there are many children, so that one is a little more difficult to curtail.. in a smaller household? easier.... it all goes to the same age range as the fear of no one coming... day/night mix up happens along with it.... because she is waking up, needs to eat.. gets changed... and like some of us? does not want to (or can not) fall right back asleep... so she gets into the "play with me", or "I am bored" way of thinking..... I had an easier time with my first and second.... first one had no one to wake and feed off of...lol.. so it was change her in a dim room... put the lullabyes back on, a shortened version of five minutes one side five to ten the other of nursing her while talking soothingly about all the things we'll do when the sun comes up... I know.. she did not understand it... it was probably for me that I would say that... but... every night I would say, do the same things.... routine, security... call it anything? it gives a set pattern that says "you are up for this, and now we'll do this and then it is into your bed" a few times she would smack me, or try and babble at me... and it took a few weeks... but? she got settled back to the routine and soon? the night times were her sleeping thru it again...

d) teething/drooling... it could still have something to do with.... if she is in even the slightest pain it could trigger all the things above.... or vice versa..... she might first be feeling those teeth...? then be hungry... turn around and feel damp so it annoys her... she realizes no on is there and it is dark....so she screams... sees mommy/daddy and wants to hang out and talk?
I do not know if you ever heard what kind of pain teething is.. I know... we all know it hurts... but I had a teacher who liked to point out how people, and babies, are built different... so I was told that as a child, teen or adult if we were to "teeth" it would kill us... the pain would... literally.. our bodies our minds are not set up for or geared to with stand the amount of trauma, of sharp high end pain or the longer throbbing ongoing pain.... everytime I see another teething baby of mine... I gotta give tons of praise.. :) what troopers they are!

alright.. I really hope I have not just wasted your time with repeating things you have heard, tried and just found do not work?!? hope some of it helps, and I have not bored you.... your question just has so many possibilities? and some simple, some not so... but one or more added? and you have many nights of no sleep...... hope you get rest soon! :) have fun! good luck!