So I think my baby is an insomniac. Last night he went to bed around 8:30 in his car seat. Then when we got home around 10 he woke up, I nursed him a little and we went back to sleep. He woke up at 12:30 I fed him he went back to sleep, he woke up at 3:30 I fed him and he went back to sleep. Then he woke up at 5:45 I fed him and he was ready for the day. I couldn't get him back to sleep. Now today, he didn't get a nap all morning, finally at noon while we were at church he went to sleep while Robert walked around with him in his car seat. He woke up from that nap at 1:30 and now that it is 5 p.m. I am fighting him trying to get him to sleep. He just sits and screams!! I don't know if anyone has experience this but it wears you out completely. I have felt so out of it lately and feel like my brain just isn't working. I think it is due to not getting a good nights rest for about 9 months. (The last 3 months of the pregnancy, and the 6 months he has been here) Please help a desperate mom with any advice you have about insomniac babies. Something needs to be done before I go totally crazy!!
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Drug him? J/k. My girls both slept through the night at 6 months. They were both on bottles though and I think that helped to get them completely full. I would give them a rice cereal bottle and they would zonk out for the night. Is he eating any baby food yet? That always kept my girls asleep.
He is on 2nd foods and I feed him 3 baby food 3 times a day. I also already give him those little puffs that dissolve quickly. I think I need to start getting him on a bottle. That's a whole other problem.
I am so sorry. I too believe in the bottle at night with rice cereal. Ryker just went off of a 8 oz Step 2 Formula nighttime bottle because she just too hungry at night and couldn't sleep.
But I also believe in not letting them get too tired. You have to watch for signs like rubbing eyes, talking ALOT, and yawning. They say most babies have a 3 hour window and then they are ready to go to sleep again. That is what we do with our kids.
We read a book and followed it to the tee with Jo. It did have the crying it out method in it and as terrible hard as it was to do the first night, it worked till we moved. Then it took till she was almost 3.5 yrs to go to bed without me lying right beside her, which meant I always woke up in her bed at 2AM.
Ryker goes to bed on his own, asks for his blanket and he is up and then down. From day one he has been going to bed on his own with no rocking to sleep I just fed, burped and bed. I really think this was the big change between he and JO b/c I coddled all the time with her especially at bedtime.
But she was my first and you just wanna cuddle all night long with them but I learned my lesson.
I wish you lots of luck and sleep!
He is refusing to drink from bottles. I just need to keep trying, I'm sure he'll get it eventually. But the wait and fight are not fun.
get the book Babywise. It helped me immensely. I just had to stick to the plan and had them sleeping through the night.
get a nap, mama!
I personally am the biggest fan of a book called "The baby whisper". Saved my life. Lincoln went through the same phase around six months, wouldn't sleep and was up every two to three hours, part of it was his teeth moving, and the other was he just developed that habit. My doctor told me, when he woke up to go in, give him a kiss, maybe some Tylenol if his teeth hurt, and let him get himself back to sleep, not to feed him to sleep. He said a big part of that was not to let him fall asleep when he feeds during the day, break him of that habit, so he knows how to fall asleep on his own. He would cry for 20 minutes, and sometimes 2 hours...It took a week of not getting sleep, but it really helped, he hardly wakes up at all now. I will go in and do a dream feed right when I go to bed to make sure he is full, and then he sleeps generally until 7:30-8, which is fine with me. Good luck, I feel the pain, now I'm trying to train myself to sleep, I'm to used to waking up all night.
What's a dream feed? I never had this problem with Paige. She was sleeping through the night at 6 weeks.
A dream feed is you just go in when they are sleeping, and feed them. I know with Linc he is asleep through most of it, but, he eats, and is full, and goes right back to bed, you don't change the diaper, and keep the lights off, it's just a little feed to help them be more full.
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