No sleep

Maya did (and still does) the throw up thing when she gets herself really wound up.

I never rocked her and she was a dream sleeper till about 6 mths when she lost the plot and started waking all the time. I did the whole "crying herself to sleep" thing, and it did work eventually but it took a lot of persistence (the worst night she screamed for over 2 hours) and a lot of washing!

I used to leave her but listen on the baby monitor so I could hear her and when she vomited I would go in and change the sheet in the dark without making eye contact or speaking to her.

After a week or so she settled right down and was sleeping thru again.

I never fed her again after she was sick, I guess I was lucky tho that she wold get up on all fours and rock herself until she was sick so she usually managed to avoid getting it all over her.

It was soooo hard tho, I do feel for you - some nights I would ring PLunketline (I was on my own with her) and they wouldn't let me off the phone until she settled coz they knew I would go in and feed her just to get her to settle if I didn't have someone to talk to to get me thru it.

Thats true. Maya always loved her bath! Could you maybe just change his PJ's and wipe him down so it's not so much fun for him? I always felt guilty when Maya made herself sick, like I was neglecting her, but Plunket assured me that she was just being a manipulative little monkey coz around 6 mths they start to develop recall memory - ie. they recall that if they cry, they get a response, so they cry to elicit that response on purpose.

yea i might be able to do that. thanks i've been at my wits end with him, you've really helped.

just thought i'd update and let you know that mikey is now asleep!!! woohoo, he cried for about 45 minutes which wasn't easy but now he's asleep with no vomiting or anything for the first time ever!! thanks again for your help

thanks, i will see if they have that book at the library because it really is hard to listen to him cry for so long.

yeah i was going to say making sure you put them to bed before they get over tired helps...so keeping an eye on your child and knowing what their tired signs are helps heaps. i think at 8 mths old i was only ever keeping my boy up for about two/three hours before putting him back to bed. he used to be a good self settler but for some reason it just stopped. now i just feed him to sleep...

have you tried a nightlight - we have a lamp in ayja's room - just a cheapie touch lamp and we have it on the lowest setting, it just adds a little bit of light for her. we have alot of trouble with her some nights - we got her a baby tad - which has the 6 minutes of classical music... and if we are having a bad night we now have the routine of putting that on, i rock her for the first 2 songs, then put her into bed. although with her yesterday afternoon - we endured an hour and a half or more of her crying (would go and have a wee peak and she was playing with toys as she was crying and rubbing eyes.. little monkey)we eventually got her up cos i thought that there was no way i wanted her to fall asleep after that time or she wouldn't sleep last night... we made her stay up until 6.30 then stuck her to bed... she woke a few times for a feed and some bonjela on her gums, then woke about 11.30 and wouldn't go back to sleep until 1am!!! what a grommet!