Sleep problems

One of my twins is having sleep problems. She has slept through the night plenty of times, but the last two weeks has been disasterous. She does not have any trouble napping or going down at night, it is just that when she wakes up to BF, she does not want to turn loose of me. I can not sleep with her latched on, so I slowly unlatch her and she wakes up and starts screaming. I have been just letting her lay in my bed attached to me and I have just been doing the best I can to sleep, but the lack of sleep is catching up to me. So, last night my plan was to feed her the normal length of feeding, unlatch her, then put her in HER bed. She proceeded to scream for an hour. During that hour there were small moments of quite when I would go in a check on her. When I would go in and put my hand on her chest should would stop crying. The moment I took my hand away she started back screaming as though she was being pinched. I had to turn on everything in the house that made noise so she did not wake up her brother and sister. She ended up being up a total of 2 hours. Could this just be a phase she is going through? I can not keep working with so little sleep, so I have to get this problem straightened out. At this age, could she be crying because she wants me? (hubby is out of town, BTW) Could teething cause this? She does not want the paci as she just wants me.

 

Does she wake up on her own or are you waking her up? You could be right, she could be pre-teething. You can put a couple tablets in some water and give that to her.

 

QUOTE(bday111707 @ May 6 2008, 01:13 PM) [snapback]758563[/snapback]
Does she wake up on her own or are you waking her up? You could be right, she could be pre-teething. You can put a couple tablets in some water and give that to her.


I am NOT waking her up. I would NEVER wake a sleeping baby up.

 

Is she learning or doing anything new developmentally like rolling or sitting? Sometimes with new developments they start waking at night to practice so that could be something. Sorry I am not much help. But if mine woke and I was worried because they got quiet I would not touch them or let them see me as it would start the whole screaming process over again as I left the room. I have been known to crawl out of a room :laughing:

 

Do you all think it is normal at nearly 6 months old for them to wake twice between 8:30pm bedtime and morning wake time? They have both slept for 10 hours straight many times (just not at the same time, of course) So, I know they can sleep through the night, they just don't.

 

If she has been STTN on numerous occasions then I would say probably not twice a night. is she really hungry or just looking for comfort? Are you putting her to bed awake or nursing her to sleep? Maybe something to think about. Although my older DD nursed for a year and I would say up until she was about 9 to 10 months old she nursed herself to sleep at night but I did put her down awake for naps. She might be looking for you to soothe her back to sleep.

 

QUOTE(DATJMom @ May 12 2008, 02:28 PM) [snapback]768860[/snapback]
If she has been STTN on numerous occasions then I would say probably not twice a night. is she really hungry or just looking for comfort? Are you putting her to bed awake or nursing her to sleep? Maybe something to think about. Although my older DD nursed for a year and I would say up until she was about 9 to 10 months old she nursed herself to sleep at night but I did put her down awake for naps. She might be looking for you to soothe her back to sleep.


Sometimes they fall asleep nursing, but once I stand up to put them in bed, they wake up. I then lay them down with eyes open and most of the time, they fall asleep with no problems. I think at least one of mine wakes because she wants to be soothed. She seems to be the needier of the two. I am glad she depends on me to soothe her because that makes me feel good, but I would just rather it not be in the middle of the night. I don't know what to do to stop it. I tried letting her CIO when she wakes (after putting her paci in and making sure she has not pooped), but she starts screaming so loud it wakes everyone else in the house up. I even shut her door and turned the bathroom fan on to try to block it out, but she is just too loud. I know what she wants, she wants me to lay her in my bed and nurse her until she falls back to sleep. I just can not do that any more, so I HAVE to get a new plan.