It's 2:25 am and I'm NOT Sleeping...Grrr
So I'm sitting on the floor in Nico's room trying to determine why the heck he keeps waking up and if he really is finally asleep again. For some reason he's in this phase of waking up at night like a newborn. Tonight we made a cd of soothing music to play and see if that helps. I just started it because my ancient tiny cd player didn't like the cd when we put Nico to bed so now when he woke up I decided to drag my laptop into his room and play the cd and see if it could get him back to sleep. My theory as of this err yesterday morning is that he's going through some sort of separation anxiety thing. He's not hungry, but other nights the only thing I can do to get him back to sleep is feed him. Since I put the cd on he's faded in and out a bunch but I haven't had to pick him up yet. I'm just tired (no pun intended) of him waking up every couple hours. Whenever the music gets soft again he wakes up, so here I am, waiting for him to sleep. If this post doesn't make sense it is because I am super tired. :)
ok. What's been going on lately? Well Nico isn't sleeping through the night like he used to (from being 7 weeks old). Another tooth popped through last week. I have concluded that I don't like books and articles about sleeping/parenting because they just made me feel like a horrible parent and that everything I'm doing is wrong. I know my son and what he needs, so I'm not going to really pay attention to them in the future. Besides, for one strategy, you can find 2 or 3 contradicting strategies. Anyways, what little info I've found about my situation says that this normally only lasts for a few weeks. I hope so! Well, that's about all I can think to write for now, so I will sign out for now. If any of you have had similar cases where your child used to sleep through the night and started waking up at 6 mos. feel free to give your advice and encouragement!
posted by Christy @ 02:25
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4 Comments:
Joey did this around 9 months. my advice?? let him learn to fall back asleep on his own. it may mean several more nights of sleeplessness, but trust me, it will pay off. i would go hold joey and calm her down. however, now at 3.5 she still wakes up most nights and wants one of us to hold her back to sleep. so let them cry themselves to sleep. and let the one of you who has more patience keep the other from going in. i know it's hard (trust me, i know), but he needs to learn for the sake of everyone.
Ethan did the same thing, actually I was up with him this morning around that time but Im thinking its just because he bonked his head really really hard last night on the tile so maybe he had a headache?! Anyway, what we did (because he liked noise) we got him a sound machine. I think I got it at kmart and it has all different types of soothing noises on it. We play the thunderstorms LOL because that is just what has worked. Maybe you could try that, all else fails if it doesnt work, return it. Good Luck!
I agree with the comment above. If he wakes up, pat his back if need be, but don't pick him up. Ultimately, the only way to help him learn to go to sleep by himself is to let him try. If this means crying for a while, although it's hard, I think it's the best way. Good luck and call me if you need me to watch him while you take a nap.
Man.. he was sleeping through the night at 7 weeks old! Grace is 7 weeks old and she's still up once or twice a night. Heh.. Jeni says about 1 1/2 times a night. ha.
We got grace a little baby music player that plays music and nature nighttime sounds. We just got it two days ago, so not sure if it's working or not yet.
Lucky for me, I don't even wake up at night when she's crying, so she could cry all night and it wouldn't bother me. :)
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