My 8-month-old has never slept through: will he ever...?

[Mamita]

Apart from still needing a feed around 3.30am, he frequently wakes between 1 and 4 further times screaming and goes on until he's hugged back to sleep. Sometimes he just needs to burp. On rare occasions we resort to Calpol. He's teething now but this has been pretty much been going on since he was born. Medical advice is that he has an immature digestive system and will grow out of it. Meanwhile we are sleepless and often at the end of our tether. Our dd was sleeping through at 3 months, we don't know where we've gone wrong this time. Help!

Cant offer any advice just sympathy! I am currently sitting watching baby tv at half past two in the morning with my wakeful 8 mth old. I am with you sister

Mine didn't sleep through until he was almost 18 months. You have my sympathy

He will sleep through evntually, I promise. My ds1 was still waking several times a night at 8 months. By a year he had gone down by himself to 1 or 2 wakings, and over the first half of his second year he gradually started sleeping through. Now he is 2.6 and an extremely reliable sleeper.

Berol that is good to hear. I work full time and the thought of work having had no sleep is a nightmare. My LO used to sleep through but since 6 mths has stopped.

I worked FT at that point too . IME they find their own way there - just som take a lot longer than others. Now I'm glad we stuck it out and didn't sleep train.

(P.S. I am up with ds2, not ds1!!!)

Ds1 was just like this. It seemed to take forever but he finally did start sleeping through at some point. He's 4 now and it's been relatively good for the last year or so.

DS didn't until 18 months. DD is 9 months and sounds like your ds she's up about every 90 mins screaming sometimes for hours.

My DS is similar, but without the crying. He's been wakeful at night, despite cosleeping, forever!

And here I am, at the computer at 4:30am. What's on the telly at this hour, anyway?

DD1 didnt sleep through until she was 15mnths old.... a nightmare!

Im here now because Im 37+6 pregnant and full of cold so cant sleep - havent even got kids to use as an excuse!

Big thanks everybody for your messages - I'm sorry to hear you're having/have had a version of our sleep trouble and relieved that it will finish sometime. Let's hope it's soon for everyone. (Our waking schedule tonight was 12.30, 2 and 4.30 then up at 6 for the day!)

PS Am really impressed how you can all post in articulate English in the middle of the night - I can't even TALK in human when I'm up at that time.

We had this with ds2, he still woke for a night feed until 11 months, and it wasn't worth the upset to deny it.

he slept 14 hours last night though, at 18 months old. Feel better?

14 hours. Wow. There is hope then. Like you say, you feel you can't deny the night time feed. He is properly hungry then even though I do try to feed him up during the day.

My 14mth DS2 has never slept through the night, I'm hoping he'll get the hang of it soon! I stopped bf in the night nearly 2 mths ago. He still wakes several times

My 10 month DD is still a night waker, and still wants b/f to settle back to sleep.

I just remind myself of two things ; She will get there eventually, not many school age children are still waking frequently in the night

also that she is a BABY... she wont be our baby for ever, this is just a time in her life that she still really needs me, for the 'simplest' of things such as even sleeping.

I really sypmathise with how you are feeling, I am in the same situation but alone mostly as DH is away mon-fri , so I truly know how you feel

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