sleep issues - help wanted
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Topic: sleep issues - help wanted
Posted By: Bizzy
Subject: sleep issues - help wanted
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 9:06am
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okay my boy is 7 mths old and used to sleep thru the night sometimes till 7am...
now tho he is waking at least twice in the night for a feed and is doing my head in. Do they have growth spurts at this age? could there be another reason i am missing? he has 3 solid feeds a day and generally 4 breast feeds, but lately more what with waking in the night. he sleeps good during the day, generally. he has no teeth but i dont know if he is teething. he hasnt really started drooling and has sucked his hand for ages before this just cause he can i think. is there something i am missing? could the cloth nappies be making him uncomfortable? grrr - feel like i am going mental... and the older one has insisted on waking at 6.30 lately as well. any ideas or thoughts appreciated. thanks. |
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 9:58am
| 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. |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 2:12pm
sorry james still doesnt sleep thur and i going slowly mad and i,ve tried the cio but he will scream longer and louder ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 2:13pm
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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? ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 3:07pm
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Babies are evil I have decided. They do these things just to keep us unsettled.
Maybe you could train Gabriel to attend to Toby between the hours of 7pm and 7am???  Though I'm not sure how he'd go on breastfeeding.
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 6:25pm
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.
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 8:09pm
Good luck  ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 8:38pm
crossed my fingers for you!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 9:55pm
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good luck fingers and toes crossed for u ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: lenabeanz
Date Posted: 17 February 2006 at 10:10pm
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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??
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 18 February 2006 at 11:21am
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Lena, Gabriel is her son....i think he's three!! Nikki was being funny, sometimes its hard to tell!
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Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 18 February 2006 at 1:18pm
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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. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 18 February 2006 at 2:37pm
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I wish i had given Ayja a dummy sometimes - especially right now... cos she still won't take the bottle at daycare, so has a feed when i drop her off, one at lunch and one when i pick her up - they try her with bottles but she never drinks more than 30 or 40 mls!... so of course, she wakes at night to make up for it!... last night she had a feed at 11, woke again at 1, again at 3, again at 4.45, and then woke at 6.15 and stayed awake till about 9am. I am GOING NUTS - but i'm so tired i just feed her, cos otherwise she wouldn't settle - the crying to sleep thing doesn't work with her... she just carries on forever! once i'm finished placement, it should sort itself out cos she'll be getting more feeds during the day so will start sleeping thru.. geez, she is just so stubborn with her bottles - she has water and heaps of food at daycare, but just won't take bottles - expressed, or formula.
anyways, can sympathize with ya Debs.. it drives you batty when baby wakes so much. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 19 February 2006 at 10:07am
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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
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 19 February 2006 at 10:28am
i have hread it can take up to 2 days to breck a habit  hope it works for ya ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: AnnaD
Date Posted: 19 February 2006 at 10:31am
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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! ------------- Anna and Quinn 10 July 2004 www.quinnariki.blogspot.com and one more on the way.... http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 20 February 2006 at 12:12pm
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How did last night go? I hope Toby has got the "night time is sleep time message" for good!
Miss Maya had a tanty at 3am when I refused to get her a glass of milk. I'm happy to do a glass of water, but no milk in the night. Of course that's not what she wanted... -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 20 February 2006 at 12:37pm
| toby slept till about 7am...long may it continue i say. |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 20 February 2006 at 8:30pm
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Yay! Clever man! Must be all those things I was whispering in his ear on Saturday night about sleeping all night for his Mummy... ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: fairsk8
Date Posted: 21 February 2006 at 8:28am
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Yay, that is wicked! I hope it continues for you. ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com/"> 
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Posted By: AnnaD
Date Posted: 21 February 2006 at 11:20am
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Emma! Can you come and do some of that whispering to Quinn? ------------- Anna and Quinn 10 July 2004 www.quinnariki.blogspot.com and one more on the way.... http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 21 February 2006 at 3:48pm
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LOL, I could try at the meet up next week... I just wish it would work on MY little monkey! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 21 February 2006 at 4:00pm
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So, when are you able to come to Ohakune to whisper to Josiah? PLEASE? ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: AnnaD
Date Posted: 21 February 2006 at 5:19pm
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You could do nationwide tours!! You'd make mega bucks!! ------------- Anna and Quinn 10 July 2004 www.quinnariki.blogspot.com and one more on the way.... http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 21 February 2006 at 8:06pm
| You know what? We could do baby swaps and fix each others children!! hahahahahahahaha I'd happily trade Hannah for a while. Though she's sleeping well atm, so maybe I'll wait until she's crap again |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 21 February 2006 at 8:21pm
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LMAO!
Hey Nikki, I'll swap Maya for Hannah. I'm figuring Hannah doesn't have the vocab yet to be so argumentative. And then when Hannah starts getting to be argumentative I'll swap her back by which time Maya will have grown out of it! What do you reckon? ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: AnnaD
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 8:10am
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I'll get in on the swap business!! I would like one that doesn't squeal and holler when he wants to tell me something! ------------- Anna and Quinn 10 July 2004 www.quinnariki.blogspot.com and one more on the way.... http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: fairsk8
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 8:57am
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Don't think I want to swap Xanda just yet as he is doing really well at the moment but when he has another tooth cutting i will be more than happy to. I was nearly tempted to put him out on the footpath the other day with a sign around his neck saying free to a good home. ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com/">
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 9:17am
| LOL Baby swap is on! |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 11:02am
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So who wants a 4yrs 11mths old girl who's going on 15? Like my dad says Kiya is solar powered: she starts talking when it gets light and doesn't stop until night, and "they" forgot to install a mute button! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 12:28pm
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Ha ha - funny you should mention baby swapping, cos I am looking after a friends 4 month old today and he is pretty good, but other peoples kids make you really appreciate your own!! I also have a lot more respect for people with twins or more, two 4 month olds is hard work - esp when one is rolling everywhere but gets stuck on his tum and keeps screaming!!! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |