Professional answer please about a 14 months old baby?

Question

He keep waking up in the middle of the night , and just wont go back to sleep , i am really concern about that ,any idea why that is happening and what can i do to stop it please ,i really would appreciate some professional help.

I am still breastfeeding .

Answer 1

#1 Frequent night wakings are "normal" for children under the age of two.

#2 Sleep disruptions are common on the brink of a developmental milestone.

#3 Shortly after infants/toddlers become mobile, they tend to sleep less and more restlessly until they adjust to their new found talent for self propulsion

You can call you pediatrician and get a check up just to make sure that there isn't a medical cause for the night wakings...but quite frankly...it sounds normal to me...

My son is also 14 months, and we breastfeed also and my son has "slept through the night" a grand total of 6 nights IN HIS LIFE. Every now and then, usually for a week at a time, he'll wake in the middle of the night and we'll have a three hour slumber party...where all he wants to do is play and talk and not sleep...and then the next week he goes back to his "normal" sleep pattern (which still includes multiple semi-waking nursing sessions)...

I personally don't think you have anything to worry about...but call the ped just to rule out any medical conditions...just to be safe....but as far as "stoping it"...I don't think you'll have much luck with that...Let me know if you do...as we're in the same boat...lol

Good Luck


*** Incidentally, "Keeping them up" in my experience only backfires and you end up with an overtired baby screaming all night....I have found that sleep ....begets sleep...I seem to have better luck, If he naps well and goes to bed at his regular time, but do take any and all stimulation out of the equation during the night wakings...dim the lights, no toys in the crib/bed ...nothing to catch his attention...

Answer 2

ok while a newborn gets a shot there will be a bump, whether it is going to start to pass down after a whilst. Has your son been under pressure clarification for teething or the shot? while you're frightened and have not considered any replace in some hrs i'd call the record whether it is the weekend so it is going to take time for the record to call you back and that they'd additionally can charge you. yet another ingredient you ought to do is call the clinical institution close to you and talk with a record or nurse on the ped. floor and spot what they'd desire to declare. My son is 17 months and he has had bumps around the place he have been given his photographs whether it did no longer sense warm or look any diverse so i spotted it everybody and a whilst and it went away.

Answer 3

If you need a professional answer, you must ask a professional face to face. Help here is all amateur - even if the person giving it tells you they're a pro.

My best amateur suggestions :) He's not tired enough. Put him to bed later, and/or if he still has two naps, start doing something exciting in place of one of them.

Also, make night-time dead boring. If he wakes up, go into him, say "it's time to sleep" in the most flat, dull voice you can manage, lay him down, tuck him in, and walk out. Don't pick him up if you can avoid it, rock him, or talk to him. Don't turn the light on. No music, no games. And he certainly doesn't need a breastfeed in the middle of the night at fourteen months. Once he figures out that nothing exciting is going to happen no matter how many times he stands up and yells for attention, he'll stop bothering.

Note: I'm presuming he's just awake, rather than awake and screaming...if he's fine during the day but wakes up shrieking at night, take him to the doctor's - it's a common symptom of an ear infection.

Answer 4

It's not unusual for a 14 month old to wake during the night. Many babies don't sleep through the night until they are a bit older. Teething, growing, and learning new things can all contribute to night waking.

You can't stop him from waking at night, but you can work on getting him to go back to sleep fairly quickly. Try to get to him before he's fully awake and upset, keep things dark and quiet, and nurse or rock him back to sleep.

Here's some info. that might help:

http://askdrsears.com/html/7/T070100.asp

Answer 5

It sounds like teething to me. When he wakes up you should check to see if he has a temperature, a slight fever can be a sign of teething and it can also make him uncomfortable. If he does, give him childrens motrin. It will bring down the fever and also help with pain.

Answer 6

Not enough real info.. take him in to see his ped and have them check him over to see if there is something wrong.
more than likely hes just getting too much sleep during the day and isnt sleeping at night. try cutting back on a nap time.