What's happened? It's all gone wrong!

[mistressploppy]

DS has SUDDENLY changed, what has happened?

He's slept 7-7 since 4mo (now nearly 6mo), and last night he settled fine but woke at 9.30, and wouldn't go back to sleep. Tried to settle - cried, fed him - cried. He just smiled when I went in so I don't think he was in pain or poorly. Eventually went to sleep at 1.30am. Woke this morning normal time and didn't want to nap either! But he must be knackered....

Could it be;

a cold? He's a tiny bit snotty and coughs a bit. Doesn't bother him when he's awake

growth spurt? He hasn't had a feed after 6pm for months!

Teeth? Gums don't look sore

General development shake-up?

We had such a good routine and it's All Gone Wrong

They do that-babies

Pretty much everything babies do is normal for them... Probably a developmental spurt. My dd goes through short stretches where she wakes up every hour or so!

Ahh - Octavia, does dd improve/go back to 'normal' after the blip?

DS does this every now and again (now 17 mo) - just go with it and try to be consistent with bedtime and how you deal with them and hopefully its just a phase. Good luck!

There Is No Normal Anymore....

seriously, they do this for quite a few more years - tricking you into thinking they have a nice routine, and then BOOM, it all goes to hell in a handbasket...

You really do have to go with the flow, especially in these early months....

mistressP - yes, she does after a few nights!

Ah yes, I remember from 3 to 6 months thinking we had got the whole thing cracked. Then 6 to 8 months and it all went out of the window!

My DD is now 10 months and sleeping 12 hours straight through... you just have to keep repeating "this will pass, this will pass!"

Noooo, don't say that! I can't cope with this for 2 months!

Ahem

oh yes the six months crack up. they do get over it as bumpsa says. but it's a bloody nightmare when you've raised your expectations to full night's sleep forever...

It may not be what you want to hear, but I would be more worried about him sleeping 7-7 from 4 months old.

Babies DO wake up and night and they DO need to eat at night. The fact that he slept through for a couple of months is just a fluke really, doesn't mean he'll always do that.

I would change your expectation and say to yourself that it's v normal for babies to wake at night for much of the first year and beyond.

I used to console myself by trying to remember that if DD did wake up it was not the end of the world. "All it means is that you'll be a bit tired tomorrow. Its not like you've been told you have got cancer or something".

It did actually work - you get so fretful about the worry that they won't sleep that the fretting is actually more tiring than the lack of sleep! If you get my meaning ...

Its hard to remind yourself of it when in the midst of it, though.

Arghhh my DS did that too- I blamed myself (naturally) that he stiopped sleeping through at 6m2w when he started nursery. he had slept through since 12 weeks ish.

Becuase of ME he didnt sleep through again till he was well over 18M- I had this bad habit of 'rescuing' him everytime he whimpered ... . He then slept 12-13 hours a night till he was 3 then had night wakings for 3 or4 weeks till I got sick of it and lost my temper with him- Now at 5 years he is back to 13 hours a night again and has been for 2 years.

I dotn see there is anything wrong/ to worry about with a child that sleeps through, I sure as hell wasnt going to wake him to feed him!! By all accounts I slept 12-14 hours a night from 4 weeks, which my mum was delighted about- mainly cos I was hideous the whole time I was awake until I was a year old