10mo old - night waking?

I've been really lucky in that my ID girls have been good sleepers right from the beginning. So perhaps that is contributing to my feeling so bewildered at this new pattern.

Now, one girl will wake up every other night, anywhere between 11pm and 1am, and just be awake. (Which girl it is changes.) Normally, they've been able to put themselves back to sleep when they woke up but now, they'll wake up and either moan and moan until they start to cry or will wake up and start crying. If I had a singleton, I'd probably let them go a little longer to see if they'd go down, but I don't want the twin to wake up, so I go in when I've determined the girl is most definitely awake and isn't going down.

Once I get them, I don't speak to them, I just pick them up and hold them close, rocking or whatever. It will take them 1 1/2 - 2 hours to fall asleep again. Boy, this is so boring! And frustrating!

The HSHHC book says that teething and developmental milestones don't affect night wakings. I don't know if I believe that or not. What is going on here? Is this a phase? Will they grow out of it?

Any advice?
Thanks.

 

I dont have any suggestions but wanted to share that around 10 months, my boys would wake up often. I think it was teething. I always went in and gave them teething tablets. That always seemed to calm them down and then I would put them back in their crib and they would fall asleep. It was tough after they had been sleeping so well for many months.


I just found this in my notes...
Seamus has been getting up at night and he will scream for a long time. I have been going in and when I pick him up he calms down but if I put him back in his crib, he freaks. Nicholas usually sleeps through it but towards the end, often wakes up. I think Seamus misses me at night

I actually forgot about that. For awhile, I think there was some separation anxiety going on. So I think there was teething and anxiety. It is so hard not knowing.

 

My guys do this and started probably about 8 months. I had to CIO with them because there was no other way. If I go in at all, they end up freaking out worse when I leave, and they just want to be up once I get them, so now I just let them CIO. Sometimes it takes about 20 minutes but they do go back to sleep. Usually only one is up because my other two children (my oldest sleeps in the same room with the twins) have learned to sleep through it.

Good luck! :hug99: It is really hard to sleep train them and changing of patterns is even harder.

 

My girls started doing this a few weeks ago at 10 months too!!! I had to just let them fuss it out. Lucky for me there was never any real screaming and after a few nights it was over.

Good Luck!

 

My DS does this and he started around 8 months. He will wake up two nights in a row and then go right back to STTN. Everytime he does this, he gets teeth a few days later. I usually just pick him up and rock him for a few minutes and then put him back in his crib to CIO.

Good luck.

 

Are they doing anything new developmentally. Mine leared to pull up in their cribs at about that time and they would do that all the time before their naps and occasionally during the night. I usually would let them fuss it out just like a pp stated. But if it did get out of hand I went in and rocked him to sleep. He got over it.

 

Well, the kids are taking a few steps here and there. So that could be it. They learned how to clap their hands recently. So there are things happening in their little brains.

Last night was a doozy. One girl would NOT go to sleep. Finally at 9pm we put her down in the PNP in our room, and she cried for 3 minutes and fell asleep. She woke up around 1am. I held her for a few minutes and then put her down again. She cried (but never really hard and off and on) for an hour or so. Then she fell asleep. Woke up again at 4am. That time, I just brought her into bed with me (which I hate to do because I really don't think she likes it.)

You can see why I'd be frustrated when I'm used to 7:30pm - 6:30am without a peep. Oh, and to make things worse, the second girl woke up moaning at 11:30pm. I sent in DH to take care of her in her own room. I think they co-slept the rest of the night without incident.

I'm wondering if for the next couple of nights, we should have them sleep in the separate rooms, DH and I can camp out in the living room and just let them work themselves through the night wakings. See if we can extinguish it...