My son is 8 months old this Friday and he still not sleeping through the night.
At about the 6 month mark when we switched him to solid food (using the baby leg weaning method) he started showing signs of sleeping through the night. Usually one night a week he would sleep from 7pm to 7am (or thereabouts) but over the past month his sleeping has gone mental.
Whereas before he would wake up occasionally through the night one of us would go in and it would take about 10 minutes at most to get him settled and back to sleep. Now when he wakes up it takes up to 2 hours to get him back to sleep and he cries almost the whole time and over the last two nights he has been hysterical. It's driving us mental. He seems to be getting worse rather than better and we don't know what to do.
We can't really do the "pick up, put down" method as picking him up doesn't settle him and my wife doesn't want to do any kind of controlled crying (I am more open to this, although it will be horrible I want him to sleep).
He has had a really bad cold/chest infection and his first teeth have come through over the past month so these could be (and probably are) affecting him but he has been fine for the past week and as I said he seems to be getting worse at night time rather than better. We could handle him waking twice a night if it only took a little effort to get him back to sleep but at the moment we like Zombies walking his room for hours trying not to cry through the screaming.
So any advice? Is this normal?
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funstuie · 13/12/2007 11:59
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