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Not sleeping through the night anymore

post #1 of 7
3/5/07 at 8:17am
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Brenna is waking an average 3 times per night. She'll wake and then stand at the edge of her crib whining some string of the few words she knows. If that doesn't get her some attention within a few minutes the whining turns to wailing. Right now, because I don't know what else to do and desperately need sleep, I'm just making her a bottle which usually does the trick... I don't think she is hungry but has given up her binkie and doesn't know how to soothe herself anymore.
To make matters worse she has decided that roughly 5:30 is morning for the past two weeks.
Is she too young to try and manipulate her sleep sched. by changing her nap times, keeping her up a little later, etc.?
Right now her sched. is
5:30 - wake up
9:00 - 2 hr nap.
2:30/3:00 - half hour nap
7:00 - bed time
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post #2 of 7
3/5/07 at 9:11am
I would try keeping her up a little later. When Logan was that small he would do 2 1 hour naps during the day and then bed around 7:-8 and he slept threw the night. But Brenna has been sick and the move back home so that may have her a little messed up right now I hope you get some decent sleep soon!
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post #3 of 7
3/5/07 at 10:41am
I'd say she's old enough to manipulate her naps/bedtime some. I agree with Becky too, moving back home and being sick probably isn't helping her. I hope she gets back to sleeping soon.
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post #4 of 7
3/5/07 at 10:50am
Ryan's going through a growth spurt (heaven help me!) and teething, so he's been a little bear and hasn't been sleeping well either! The last 3 nights he's had 4 bottles overnight but we dropped one last night. Besides the bottle and binky, he really likes to be rocked and cuddled in the crook of my right arm. He snuggles right in and nods off. He likes being warm and cuddled. I don't know if that will work for Gracie, but it works for my little pork chop.

Good luck!
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post #5 of 7
3/5/07 at 4:39pm
Nick is 3 and is still getting up in the middle of the night As a trade off he ends up sleeping in our bed or I would never sleep Good luck hon. HOpefully its just a phase that she is going through....but my one word of advice is don't substitute the milk for the soother....i think that was part of our problem
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post #6 of 7
3/5/07 at 5:10pm
I think you could probably try manipulating her sleep a little. She should be old enough that she'd be OK with that.

Did this just start happening after you got back home?

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post #7 of 7
3/6/07 at 12:22pm
Ryan has started waking up again at night also. I do the same with giving him a bottle. Problem with that is, then their body is used to that bottle in the night, and I think they continue to wake up thinking they are hungry. The last time we got into this routine, I had to play bad mommy. I would check that he was ok, just recover him and then turn off the monitor and try to sleep through it. He eventually fell back to sleep and after a couple of nights, went back to sleeping all night.

Ryans' schedule is this:

5:30-6:00 wake up
11:30 nap
2:30-3:30 wake up
6:30 bed

They need like 14 hours of sleep right now, I think. So he gets that. I find if I mess with his schedule, he wakes up more. So if you are going to adjust, just do the 15 minute increments while you do it.

It is possible she is having a growth spurt, but given the fact that the binkie is now gone, you are probably right about needing something to soothe her back to sleep. You might have to buck it up and just ignore it, even though that kills us!!

Good luck!
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