[cag4nyg]

Our F/A Son (4/1/2 month old) we almost had sleeping though the night well only one waking a night. this was last week all of a suden it is getting work and worse over this past week. Last night he was waking ever hour on the hour and it was taken us 15 min to 45 min to get him to sleep, so in return he was only sleeping 15-45 min then waking. We got no sleep at all. How can we help him sleep better?

We have tried bring him to bed with us, fan noise, rasio noice, Luliby CD, the heartbeat on the side of the crib machine with vib feture, swaddling, rocking,giving him is paci and a few other things i think i am forgetting.

Help!! is is also not sleeping for more than that durning the day either. And having a 2 year old is making it hard to not have any sleep and keep up with her all day.

What can we do about his sleeping? I know we cant do how we did our daughter as we did partical cry it out and we are not sure of what issues he may have so we do not want to tramitize him any more then he may have been.

Please Help and ideas will be helpful

[momraine]

YOu might try a bottle or sippy cup of water or weak formula. My friend adopted a baby who was six months old in a domestic situation and discovered the baby was used to having the bottle in the bed with her. So she had to let her keep the bottle for a couple of weeks, while she adjusted to everything else in her life changing, and then she started to dilute it until she only had a bottle of water in the bed and then she started putting less in it. She actually went to bed for a couple of weeks with an empty bottle. She never put it in her mouth, it was just the habit and security of having it there. My friend things that there were times the baby did not get fed and so she was only secure when she knew the bottle was availabe whenever she wanted it. Maybe your child was the same way, used to going to sleep with a bottle in the crib. I know it's bad for their teeth, but if that's what they are used to, it might be OK to let them have it for a few weeks, since virtually every thing else in the poor babies world has changed.

[LoveBeingaMom]

We found that when our son had a shift in sleep patterns like you describe that it either foreshadowed or coincided with a growth spurt and the necessary requirement of increase in formula at feedings.

You might try offering the bottle during one of your sons nightime "wakeful periods" and see if this is what he is wanting. If he is hungry, start adding more to his bottles during the day but especially to his last bottle before bed.

Maybe my husband and I are just oblivious, but we only thought to try this because I was pregnant at the time and took a baby feeding class that described this behavior and said that some babies can do this as they grow when they are hungry even though you think they have eaten enough and you have gotten used to a certain schedule. Some don't gradually need more formula, they SUDDENLY need more formula. I came home from the class (around 9:00 p.m.) to find my dejected husband trying to comfort an extremely upset 5mo old who should have been sound asleep (and had been keep us up all night for days). We immediately fed him an additional bottle (out of his schedule) and he went soundly to sleep. We kept a bottle handy at night until we were able to get the daytime bottles adjusted just right.

[blueprints]

My daughter started teething around 4 months, you might be able to feel it if it's not visable. Orajel works wonders if this is the case.

[ocracoke]

Any hints for older children? My daughter was 21 months when she arrived home. She has been home about a year. We co-slept for about 8 months because she absolutely refused to do anything else. I had planned on co-sleeping but found that I just didn't sleep well through her sleep-time gymnastics (she beat me up nightly). She actually transitioned to her own bed at 8 months with relative ease. She loves her room and her bed. But I can not keep her in it. She goes down sometime between 8 and 9 without much of a fuss. Around 10:30 - 11pm she wanders out to come see me and I immediately put her back in bed. I got to bed 11-11:30. She tried to crawl in bed with me at least 4 times a night. I kiss her and send her back to her bed. I will let her crawl in bed with me around 6 if she comes in. And we get up around 7am. She is still taking a nap (1-2 hours) and I tried cutting that out of her routine with disasterous results so she is napping again. She actually goes down for a nap rather easily too. Problem is -- since she is not sleeping through the night, I am not sleeping through the night. Caffiene has become my best friend. Any suggestions?

Samantha

[momraine]

For my son who wakes up a lot at night. I had to close his door and put a hook and eye on the outside. I know it sounds terrible, but I had to, he would also go into other rooms and play, go into the kitchen to get snacks, etc. I was afraid he would get hurt, so when he was about three I had to put the lock on. I put a potty chair in his room and the lock on his door. Then when we moved a month later, I had not had time to do it yet, but we got an alarm system (it came free with something else) and they guy installed it and my son watched him test the motion detector. It convinced my son that he could not come downstairs at night or it would set off the alarm. So after that he would stay in his room if he woke up and he could go to the bathroom, but he was already in the habit of staying in his room when he woke up so he didn't play in there. We had to break the wandering habit. My daughter would try to get out of bed over and over too, but for her once she was asleep she slept through the night, so we did the lock, but unlocked it as soon as she was asleep. Now she has her door open and does well, outside of the usual nighttime stalling attempts. LOL Oh and we did use a baby moniter in thier rooms when the door was locked.