sleep issues - help wanted

Does anyone share a room with your little one? The reason I ask is that our first son didn't sleep through the night til he was quite old. Turns out that we were waking him up during the night. We moved rooms and it solved itself miraculously.

Do you think he actually needs the feeds in the night, or has it become a new habit? Can you get him to settle without a feed?

have decided that it doesnt matter why he is waking but rather how i deal with it. and no he doesnt need a feed - so tonight if/when he wakes i will give him bonjela in case it is teeth, sooth and retuck him in and give him a dummy. i will let him cry for 5-10 mins before i do it all again and hopefully it wont take too long for him to get the message. well thats the theory girls, lets see how it goes in reality.

crossed my fingers for you!

Good Luck!! With Arna we left her for 5 mins the first night and went in and did what you said, 2nd night 7 mins, 3rd night 10 mins and within about a week No more waking up!! Just some ideas for you.. also if you are b/f see if Gabriel can do say the first 3 times toby wakes up... might be getting more upset smelling your milk??

Jayde has been waking at night too lately Deb. Her problem is the change in temp. Hot when she goes to bed so she kicks off all her blankets then wakes about 3 and grizzles for me to come in and put blankets on her. I guess im lucky as as soon as i do that she is quiet.

he he - lena you made me laugh, i wish i could train him, he is two and sometimes more trouble than the other one. thanks for the ideas tho.

well heres my update sorry its late.

on the friday night my little cherub woke at 2.30am and he went to sleep and i went back to bed at 3.50am.
i went in to him and bugger me i couldnt find the bonjela... anyway in the course of the 2 and a bit hours i changed his bum, gave him pamol just in case it was teeth, gave him a dummy and gave him water from his cup. but no titty. i knew he didnt really need it cause he was fine when i cuddled him before i put him back down.
now of course i have been advised (by mum) that i shouldnt have picked him up as well... duh.

so anyway last night we were out so his last feed was late and we had also been to the pools for a swim (well a float and play) so he was pretty tuckered out. i heard him cry about 3.30am and by the time i dragged my fat ass out of bed he had stopped (only a couple of mins). i waited about 5 mins then went to check he was still under covers and he was pretty much where i had left him. anyway i dont know how long he had been crying for before i woke up but no titty last night again.

well thats my novel. do you think two nights will be enough to break the habit? i hope so, i'm exhausted already. i'm a bit of a pain without my sleep.

thanks for your ideas and support guys...and i will work on training gabriel up.. lol   

Three nights to break a habit!! Apparently! According to 'they' (as in 'they say')... So you might be there!!

Quinn was an absolute rotter with sleeping. From about six weeks he slept from 11 til 11am, I thought I was fab and couldn't see what all this baby fuss was about! Then at three months we moved house, he started waking all night every night. about six or seven times a night (by this stage I was ready to put him right back). At six months I put my foot down, decided that he no longer needed to be fed at night so just didn't. He has a dummy so I just popped that in his mouth and let him cry. It only took about two days for him to get the picture and then for a while he was back to being perfect baby!

Then he got sick... and then sneaky... anyway, point is that he still wakes up at night now and for some reason we have stopped leaving him to cry, preferring to stumble in and blindly rummage around for a dummy, stick it in his mouth and then he stops! Don't get into this habit!

Good luck with your wee babes sleeping!! It does get better!! Sounds like you're almost there!

toby slept till about 7am...long may it continue i say.

Yay, that is wicked! I hope it continues for you.