sleep help please!
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Topic: sleep help please!
Posted By: gypsynita
Subject: sleep help please!
Date Posted: 27 April 2010 at 9:36am
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Cian's still waking through the night (sometimes up to 4 times) and i'm getting seriously desperate!! I know he CAN sleep through cause he does it every now and then and can't for the life of me figure out why he's waking... anyone got any ideas??
This is his routine at the moment: 5.30-6.30am wake up, have breakfast 9-9.30am snack 11-11.30am lunch followed by a nap (usually 1- 1 1/2 hours) 2.30pm snack plus milk 5.30-6pm dinner, followed by bath 7pm into bed for a couple of stories and down for the night he usually goes down without any fuss, but will almost always wake at 12am and 3am for no apparent reason. he's in a single bed (we wanted to get him out of the cot early to get ready for the new baby) so most times he won't even cry out when he wakes, just gets out of bed and comes into our room. Short of locking him in there  I'm really at a loss as to how to deal with this, and so so tired...  ------------- Anita Mum to Cian (Aug 08), Josh (Jun 10) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 28 April 2010 at 3:08pm
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We used a safety sleep with Jake and when he learnt how to undo that we used packing tape over that to keep him in it lol kept him in bed and meant we didn't have to shut the door overnight (gets shut when hes first in bed then opened when we go to bed).
Otherwise you could try just taking him straight back to his bed and tucking him in without interacting with him? HTH  being sleep deprived sucks and believe me you'll want every single precious second of sleep when #2 arrives!!!!!-------------   
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Posted By: gypsynita
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 7:32pm
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thanks babe... we've done the no interaction thing and he settles again fine, just can't stop him getting out of bed!
having said that the last two nights in a row he's slept right through (woohoo!!) with extra boosted nappies and some antiseptic cream for a small infection i just noticed he had after the op... fx that was the problem and i haven't just jinxed myself! ------------- Anita Mum to Cian (Aug 08), Josh (Jun 10) http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: FionaO
Date Posted: 04 May 2010 at 1:10pm
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Do you have to have him out of the cot? I know someone who had similar issues and he was getting up cos he could, put back in cot and he was fine? Having said that 2 nights of sleeping through is great and maybe something was just disturbing him enough to get up - hopefully you've got it sorted.
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Posted By: gypsynita
Date Posted: 04 May 2010 at 7:55pm
thanks fiona - unfortunately those two blissful nights were followed by two of the worst nights ever (up 4-5 times!!!) 
we had thought about maybe putting him back in his cot, but reluctant to do that in case it's just a backwards step - especially when we're going to be needing the cot in a few months... I have some help coming from a sleep consultant so fx she can offer some inspiration! ------------- Anita Mum to Cian (Aug 08), Josh (Jun 10) http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: TysMummy
Date Posted: 09 May 2010 at 6:19pm
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sorry i havent read everyones feedback....but with ty we used safety sleep when he was 11mnths cause he use to move.............sleept ok but then found out it was constint ear infections that i swear he did not show.......and throat infections...he has since had gromets and adnoids and tonsiltles removed...sleeps well but am also going to ostepath as he had such an extreme birth that all his muscles where tence and he had been having heataches that obviously he couldnt express........he sleeps all night now ...but every now and then has bad dream and ends up in ours.............good luck ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Helen1
Date Posted: 13 May 2010 at 8:08pm
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Since you have a few months I would suggest putting him back in the cot. Leave the bed in the room too. With our #1 we asked her if she wanted to be in the cot or be in the "big kids bed". Every time she wanted to be in the big kids bed. The only condition we used was that she had to stay in bed until her nightlight came on. We set this on a timer for 6am in the morning. No nightlight meant no get up, She did understand and it took a few nights but she got the idea. It shouldn't take too long before he chooses to be (and stay) in the bed. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: tarn22
Date Posted: 17 May 2010 at 9:04am
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hey gypsynita, did you sort the sleeping out? or did the consultant help? which one did you use ? could you PM me the phone numbe i have had the same problem as you but my girl is 13months and in her cot still and has been waking 2-3 times a night screaming blue murder for about 4 months?? does teething really do this? im sick of blaming teeth. ------------- IVF#1 BFP :) http://lilypie.com"> 
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