I am having the worse time getting these babies to sleep all night. Just when I get them sleeping, they get sick or someting and it all goes out the window. However, when they DO "sleep all night" they still wake up between 4-5am. I will give them a bottle and the go back to sleep until 7-7:30 (adjusted for the time change..I love daylight savings!). Do you still consider 4am a "night waking?" would you let them CIO or did you do something else to extend that till actual morning? I am going crazy waking up at 4am every morning...I am NOT a morning person
I feed them and put them back to bed. It doesn't bother me though. I'm just grateful to sleep that long uninterrupted!
Chloe, who used to be our all-night sleeper just started doing this. I've been giving her a bottle because it's the only thing that will get her back to sleep. Otherwise, she just wants to either cry and cry, or play if I try and bring her into the bed with us to allow me to get more sleep. The bottle didn't do the trick this morning though so I had to let her cry until she fell back asleep, which took about 5 minutes. I was sooo exhausted and had to be up at 6:30. Carina
I've heard you can slowly replace the bottle of formula with a bottle of water or water the formula down. Some say this will make them stop wanting the wake up for that bottle because it's just not worth it. All that said, mine always woke up at 4am and I finally just let them CIO so we could sleep a while longer. I do often go in and check for a wet diaper and replace paci's when they wake in the night, but I do not feed them. It only took 2 nights of refusing the bottle for them to stop the habit of waking every night at 4am. Unfortunately for me, they wake for the day at 6 or 6:30 am and I am not a morning person either! I had hoped the time change would make it 7am, but no luck here! Anyway, I've heard that waking after 6 months is usually out of habit or wanting interaction and they need to learn how to put themselves back to sleep with little intervention. There are so many theories about sleeping, who knows what is right! Good luck for some better sleep! Kelly
I have not fed mine during night wakings since 6 months. When mine have the early morning wakings I let them fuss or play for a long while. I do want to encourage a habit of them waking early. I don't go in to check diapers because once they see me then they are definitely ready to be awake. I don't replace pacis because they can do that themselves. I say give them some time to put themselves back to sleep.
I consider everything before 6 am a night waking. My twin girl will sleep 6 to 6 (occassionally 5 = night waking). My twin boy still wakes once at 4-5 am. They go to bed at 6.00 - 6.30 pm. At this age, I don't find CIO appropriate at 4-5 am, although I do it when they wake up much earlier than usual. My ped says that night feedings are no longer necessary after 9 months. In your case I would definitely have them CIO ... but that's just me. I don't have any major issues with it.
I would have them CIO. Often one of my boys will wake fussing at 5:00 but I refuse to go in before 6:00. Personally I would not feed at 4/5 because then the feedings would be off for the whole day.
I consider anything before 6am a night waking. If you think they still need a bottle, then give them a bottle and put them back to bed. I have not fed mine in the middle of the night since 7 months. If you don't think they need a bottle you will need to do something else. We have had to do CIO in the middle of the night because Emilie was waking up for 3 hours at a time and was just awake and wanted you to be in there with her and if you left she cried, so we did CIO with her. We have done CIO with all 3 kids. Good luck.
Anything before 6am, I consider a night waking. Most of the time, if I do CIO, they will go back to sleep within 10-15min. If it continues for more than 20min. or so, I will usually get up and feed them. This doesn't happen often. I'm not a morning person either,so I feel your pain. Mine are really good sleepers, so I know if they are waking like that and won't go back to sleep there is usually a reason. Crystal
quote: I feed them and put them back to bed. It doesn't bother me though. I'm just grateful to sleep that long uninterrupted! Ditto... and when mine did that, I did the same... feed them, and let them go back down. I did consider 4 AM still a night awakening.
quote: Originally posted by Her Royal Jennyness: I feed them and put them back to bed. It doesn't bother me though. I'm just grateful to sleep that long uninterrupted! Ditto, I also feed and go back to bed. I can get a good few more hours out of them that way too Mommy needs her beauty rest... can't you tell from my mugshot above???
I also consider anything earlier then 6am a night waking. I let them CIO if they wake up at that time, they usually sleep 6pm-6am. I don't want them to get in a habit of waking up at that time. But if they scream like somethings wronge I'm up and in there to make sure they are fine, but this doesn't happen to often. Good luck, I hope you figure it all out.
