Sleeping and bein awake all night!

[clare1983]

Since my daughter has had her first lot of injections she is waking up every 1 n half hours everynight I'm so tired I don't no what else to try to make her sleep for longer periods during the night. All she does is scream and won't feed so I really don't no what her problem is? I have 2 other children and both of them have always slept through from a young age any ideas would be very grateful.

Hi there, how long has this been going on for? Sounds tough, esp when you have 2 others! Is she feeding plenty in the day? Can she self-settle in the evening to go to sleep alone? Sorry for all the questions, am a child sleep consultant and want to give the right advice!! Also how old is she?

She is nearly 4 months old now I no she's still very little but my other children were never like this, I have breast fed her and still do but she also has a couple of bottles of formula in the day now,she does seem to feed in the day ok and was feeding during night waking only a couple of times until she had her second lot of jabs. I've been advised not to stop breast feeding till she's 6 months old and to wait to wean her until then aswell. In the day she doesn't sleep for long periods thou either so it's not like her days and nights are mixed up. Thankyou for your reply.

Hi again, how does she settle to sleep in the evenings? Does she need rocking or is she able to self-settle? How does she settle in the end during the night? If it is a self-settling issue then you would need to teach her to self-settle and I can let you know some techniques for this.

Hello she used to self settle if I swaddled her in a wrap up style but she kept getting really hot now the only way to settle her is to rock her in her chair which I didn't want to get into that habit as I made that mistake with my middle child. I would love some ideas on how to self settle her again plz. Many thanks clare.

Hi Clare, you need to choose a new method to settle her and stick to it, there may be a few really tough days or nights but it will be worth it, once she can self settle she should sleep much better. I would suggest you go to the library and get a copy of the baby whisperer by Tracy hogg, in there you will find the shush pat method and pick up put down which works really well on babies. If you have trouble with this email me on [email protected] good luck x

Thankyou I will go to the library today and get the book and hopefully those methods will work.