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8 month old Sleep advice please

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dad83 · 02/02/2011 09:55

We have an 8 month old baby who is bottled fed and on 3 solid meals a day. Hes crawls and pulling himself up all day long and is really active which is great but very tiring!

His bedtime routine is bath, story and bottle at 7 he usually falls asleep on the bottle and then is put in his cot. through the evening he will wake from once to 4 times before 10, we feed him the rest of his bottle to soothe him as if we put him down awake he cries and stands up in his cot. He used to go back off to sleep with his music box but now hes mobile hes not interested. He will always wake at 10/11, we've dream fed him since he was 2 months and so feed hime as normal. Through the night sometimes he'll sleep until 4/5 but most of all he will wake 2 to 3 times and will only be settled by the bottle. We've tried water and he just refuses it and screams. Even cuddles and roking just seems to anger him. We can be up for hours each night trying to settle him if we dont feed him.

Will he ever sleep through if we keep feeding him? We've tried to let him cry and this leads to him coughing and choking!plus hes very stubburn and will go for hours.

We are desperate for some advice on what to do.

Father to amazing baby boy and husband to the most amazing wife

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babyrose · 02/02/2011 11:27

we are going through the pretty much the same. night wakings of around 7. he never used to be like this, maybe 2-4 time a night. i want to stop feeding at night as i dont think he needs it. he just wakes and moans, no crying just moaning.

dad83 · 02/02/2011 12:04

Our LO seems to want to sleep on his front in a crouched position but inevertably he gets confused and wakes up and wants to crawl. It the resettling we find the hardest he just doesn't seem to want to be cuddle so for us it leaves only feeding or let him cry to the point of chocking and then he gradually calms.

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babyrose · 02/02/2011 12:12

has ure lo started crawling? we did sss/pat and stayed with him didnt pick him then he slept through the night for a week.he woke early one morning and i fed him thats when all this began, he was 6 months then. now he is waking every couple of hrs.

dad83 · 02/02/2011 12:24

Yes been crawling since christmas!! He started to wake early a couple of months ago and we fed him, although over xmas he was ill with colds and coughs and ironically he slept in later 7 somtimes 8 still with wakings though.

Sorry what is sss/pat? this is all new for me.

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babyrose · 02/02/2011 12:36

its a sleep method from the baby whisperer. you pat baby on the back whilst ssshing. it worked well for us but now he rocks back and forth so its quite hard trying to do that.maybe it may to ure lo to back to a routine after being ill?

dad83 · 02/02/2011 15:28

sometimes when he is sleepy and i think he is going to settle on his own he rubs his eyes so much that it wakes him up!! very frustrating.

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goodlooksandcooks · 02/02/2011 15:40

My dd is only 4 months so no actual experience of this yet BUT my MIL said she had this problem with OH when he was about the same age as yours. He would wake in the night for feeds even when on full solids three meals a day etc. She started giving him either water or weak squash instead. He didn't like that, and soon cottoned on that he wasn't getting anymore milk night feeds, and stopped waking.
I don't know if that's useful, but that's what she did. 30 years ago now though.

babyrose · 02/02/2011 17:24

it sounds like a good idea. ive heard this b4 might try it myself.

AngelDog · 02/02/2011 23:23

Sounds like the 8/9 month regression.

There is a great book explaining it called The Wonder Weeks by two scientists who researched all the developmental spurts up to 13 months.

They say:

"Your baby may start sleeping less well. Most babies do. She may refuse to go to bed, fall asleep less easily, and wake up sooner. Some are especially hard to get to sleep during the day. Others at night. And some stay up longer both during the day and at night."

The developmental spurt causing this happens at about 37 weeks, and there?s another one at around 46 weeks.

There?s more info here, here and here.

HTH - it does pass.

DancingThroughLife · 02/02/2011 23:35

OP, I have an 8mo who does this too, except breastfed. We'd got her sleeping through the night from Christmas (I went back to work at the beginning of Jan), but last week she had her first proper cold and it's completely messed up her sleep. At the moment I'm just feeding her back to sleep.

AngelDog - those links are ace, they might just save my sanity.

Repeat - this too shall pass Wink

AngelDog · 02/02/2011 23:38

They saved mine. :)

Also do anything you can to get them to nap, or they'll be waking due to overtiredness. (Although sleep regressions can mess with naps - DS's second one went from 2 hours to 30 mins for a whole week during one of those regressions).

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