HELP! My 10 month old will not sleep through the night.?

Question

My daughter wakes up 4+ times a night, and wants to be held while she sleeps. She has better nights (wakes once or twice wanting to be fed), but most of the time I am up and down all night with her. Some times I give up and bring her into bed with me, where she still is restless, but sleeps somewhat better. She is nursed (never would take a bottle), but she eats 3 solid meals and nurses 3-4 times a day, so I know she is getting enough to eat. What can I do? I need my sleep! If I could even get her to sleep one 5-6 hour stretch I would be alright getting up a few times a night, but this is crazy. (No, she is not teething, she has 5 teeth already and when she is teething she won't sleep AT ALL without being held or in bed with me). HELP ME!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

It's time to start "sleep training." This will take more time, but it will be worth it when you can lay her down in her bed and she falls a sleep for the night. She's old enough to be sleeping the night, she just doesn't want to. She wants your undivided attention and she wants to sleep with you(I mean, who wouldn't want to sleep next to mom instead of a boring ole crib?LOL!). I did the Ferber method where I got my son very drowsy and put him down. The whole thing took about 3 weeks but he is 20 months now and I can lay him down and he plays for a bit, but goes to sleep. There are a ton of different methods, but it's time to pick one and be consistent with it. You have to gently teach her to self soothe, she isn't just going to do it on her own. There is no quick fix for this, you just gotta find a method and stick to it, she'll catch on. Good luck!

Answer 2

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HELP! My 10 month old will not sleep through the night.?
My daughter wakes up 4+ times a night, and wants to be held while she sleeps. She has better nights (wakes once or twice wanting to be fed), but most of the time I am up and down all night with her. Some times I give up and bring her into bed with me, where she still is restless, but sleeps...

Answer 4

Well i had a similar problem when my bay was the same age, the problem is babies normally can get days and nights mixed up, what you should probably do is keep her entertained in the days, let her play alot, start a bedtime routine, like playing a tickle game that way she would be tired enough to sleep even half the night. try to feed her very close to bedtime.
another option try putimg somethng into her crib to cuddle with, like a blanket or a small pillow or even a stuffed animal (not too big ) that way she will feel that someone or something is beside her at nights,

Answer 5

I feel your pain! I have 3 children myself. My youngest is 5 months and has (thankfully) been sleeping thru the night since she was 2 months old. However, her older brother did not until he was 9 months. He was also breastfeed. My suggestion to you is to feed the baby cereal and nurse her right before bed. Lay her in her crib while she is still awake. Let her cry herself to sleep (up to 30 mins). I know it will be hard, but it is the only way! If she wakes up in the middle of the night, let her cry herself to sleep again. That is what my peditrician told me to do with my son and it worked. Every night she will cry less and less and eventually she will go right to sleep. If you pick her everytime she cries she will learn that crying gets her what she wants. Good luck!!

Answer 6

Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!

1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.

2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.

The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.

After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net

Ohhh..and Good Luck!

Answer 7

You MUST let her cry it out. ANY other response to her night time crying only reinforces the behaviour you wish to stop. Put her to bed at the usual time, close the door, and DON'T GO BACK TILL MORNING. She will learn in 3-7 days. The nights will be harder before they are easier, but then it will be OVER and you will have a baby who sleeps through the night like she should. There is NO REASON for a 10 month old not to sleep through the night except for bad habits.

Answer 8

I know it may sound mean but you should let the baby cry as long as you know that there is nothing wrong with the baby... the baby has you trained instead of the other way around and knows if she crys you will take her in the other room. If she is having apena (breathing problems while sleeping) or reflux problems(vomiting severly) you may want to tell your dr this. At times this can cause a baby to be very cranky.

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Answer 10

she is not a newborn......we hit 6 months and i was about to lose it....so we let him cry.

he cried for 40 minutes.........that was 9 months ago, and not a single problem since.

remember, sleep begets sleep, the more they sleep, the more they will sleep.

keeping them up to make them tired is a sure-fire way to make them wake up earlier