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10 month old awake every hour - please help!

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AnythingNotEverything · 09/08/2014 22:10

I really hope someone can spot a solution for us. We're really out of ideas.

DD is wonderful during the day- happy and smily. She either cuddles to sleep or naps in the car/pram mid morning and mid afternoon. She wakes about 7.30am and goes to bed about 7.30/8pm.

She's breastfed first thing, late afternoon, and fed to sleep at bedtime. She's taken well to solids and eats brilliantly. We stopped feeding in the night about 8 weeks ago as she wasn't hungry, just sucking to fall asleep.

At night time however, she wakes every hour and needs resettling until she becomes unsettle-able and she comes into bed with us anytime between 2 and 4am.

We've tried leaving her to settle herself, but her crying escalates quickly and she's genuinely upset when we get to her. She occasionally settles in the night but not very often.

Sometimes she can go a little longer, but not more than three hours on her own since she was sleeping through between 3 and 6 months.

There's been some nights where she's been teething, but generally once she's in with us she sleeps like a dream. Unfortunately we don't really want her there!

My first DC slept like a dream and I wondered if anyone had any ideas before we try CC when we get back from holiday.

We've tried:

Offering water
Waiting 5 mins before we go in
Going in immediately
Ready brek before bed

TOA.

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purplemurple1 · 09/08/2014 22:31

Is she able to self settle at all? Could you start by getting her use to settling herself in the day in her cot so she learns what to do when she wakes in the night.

Then maybe change the night feed so you're bf as part of the night routine but mot to get her to sleep.

AnythingNotEverything · 09/08/2014 22:35

Thanks for your advice.

She never goes from awake to asleep without cuddle/car/pram movement. I'm not sure she ever has done.

We know that she can (on occasion) cry in her sleep and settle herself.

To be honest, getting scheduled daytime naps has been a recent development but maybe revisiting that and putting her down less asleep is a good start.

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