So my baby doesn't want to sleep through the night anymore! Sometimes he just needs his binky, sometimes he's hungry, and sometimes he just wants to be awake... After several weeks of him sleeping from 10:00 to 7:00, this is brutal! So any advice ladies?
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Emily, my pediatrician told me that once Joshua starts waking up repeatedly at night that he could be ready to start baby food because his body wants carbs (aka baby cereal).
Good luck figuring it out! I know how hard it is to get your sleep taken away from you.
we kept waking up to give raegan her binky for a while until her 4 month appointment and the doctor told us to just let her cry it out and allow her to find her own way to soothe herself. he told us that she would keep waking up and crying as long as we kept teaching her that she would get her binky or bottle. Course you might want to check this out with your doctor before you try it, just to make sure he's good to cry it out and go through the night without eating or anything. but it really only took 1or 2 nights before she learned to soothe herself and make it through the night again.
good luck :)
We went through that with Hailey so we upped her rice cereal (some in the morning and some right before bed) and that helped. Good luck!
Emma did the same thing about 3 weeks ago, so we gave her some cereal and she is back to her almost regular schedule. in fact i think it has put her on a more regular schedule. she knows that is cereal, walk, play with daddy, bath, mama feeding and to bed. She thrives on her schedule.
good luck. it is soooooo much fun to start feeding them we just laugh everyday.
AAahh. Welcome to motherhood. Just when you think you have something down they change. He could be starting teething. All my boys had there first set of bottom two teeth appear at four months old. So that means teething and waking up around three months. I have never had luck with cereal as a way of helping them sleep but it sounds like all these other ladies have. That totally makes me jealous because I've always wanted that to work. He is still a little young though. I kind of like waiting for cereal until about five months. But as always, do what works for you. I don't think I really offered much advice but best of luck!
We experienced the same with Erin. She started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks. Then started waking up during the night somewhere around 4-5 months. I never let her cry it out. I couldn't. How much effort is required to get up and stick a binky back in, I thought. It didn't bother me enough to make her cry it out. Then, she just quit doing it- after a week or so. Now that I look back, that time is exactly when I started feeding her baby food. She is 18 months old and still loves baby cereals. I do remember feeding her cereal right before bed and that seemed to be the trick. For a while at least. Until, like Natalie said, they change and you have to figure them out all over again. Bottom line, ask your doc (to rule out any good reasons for the waking/crying) and see if you can at least give Gray some cereal. He'll thank you by letting you sleep. : ) I feel like I should also mention this stage seems like forever but a year from now you'll have trouble remembering it.
After Ryan was 6 weeks old, I never fed him again during the night. I just put the binkie back in their mouth.
If I remember correctly, the rule of thumb was 6 weeks old AND 11 lbs. Meaning, they need to be at least 6 weeks old and weigh at least 11 lbs before you can safely make them go without food through the night.
I'd put a binkie in his mouth if he cried because I couldn't sleep if he was crying and I'd fall right back to sleep if he wasn't ... so I did that until I moved him upstairs at 7 months. After that, he was old enough to 'cry it out' and far enough away from me that I wouldn't hear him crying when I turned off the monitor. lol.
HOWEVER, this next one ... I think it will be different. I doubt I'll have any problem sleeping through her cries. She's gonna get the shaft, big time.
Bethany gave me good advice at the time: either you are one of the moms who can stand to hear your kid cry for an hour, or you're not. If you're not, you get up. If you are ... you'll sleep through it eventually. lol.
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