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Constant waking at night

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redjoker · 11/06/2018 10:55

My 8 month old wakes constantly through the night and I'm struggling to know what to do about it

At the moment he is in a solid routine. He wakes and then plays, eats and naps. He usually has 2 naps (3 max) of anywhere between 30 min and 2 hours.

He is weaning but struggling with lumps. I am trying to keep him fed as well as possible but this hasn't seemed to help!

Our last nap brings us to about 3/4pm. We then have a bath at 6pm on the dot. Pjs, bottle and bed at 7pm. 90% of the the time he goes down well after about 15 min.

I do however have to either rock him to sleep or he drinks his bottle and falls asleep.

He then proceeds to stir anywhere between 4 times a night to every 30 min. He goes off again with a few sucks of his bottle or sometimes needs rocking back off.

I am a lone parent and knackered. I often run in a settle him and don t let him turn moaning into crying. As don t have the energy! I did try and follow advice to let him cry it out but after 20 min he was so worked up he projectile vomited.

Any help appreciated.

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bassackwards · 11/06/2018 11:04

If he's falling asleep with a bottle could it be wind?

Have you tried giving him a dummy to help him self soothe during the night? White noise?

redjoker · 11/06/2018 11:17

White noise didn't work after about the age of three months sadly. Yes does fall asleep drinking so maybe I should wind him if he wakes. Dummy wasn't a bit either sadly he refuses it now

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arbrighton · 11/06/2018 11:59

Could well be 8-10 mo sleep regression- so much going on developmentally at that age and their brains can't switch off sometimes.

Also, he might need to drop a nap- DS only had 2 by that age

redjoker · 12/06/2018 07:12

Last night he slept from 12pm till 6am solid. Nothing different in the day. This stuff baffles me!

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