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SLEEP => Night Wakings => Topic started by: kim&savannah on June 12, 2007, 12:37:15 pm
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I started doing pat/shh 2.5 weeks ago to get rid of my 7 month olds night wakings (previously we'd been doing pat/shh at the beginning of the night, but then I'd feed him every 3-4 hours and he'd sleep in our bed for part of the night).
I've gotten him down to one feeding between 2-4 most nights, but he's still waking between 10-11 and again at 5. Sometimes he goes back to sleep within a couple min, othertimes it might take an hour of patting off and on, but I just want him to stop waking up at those times! The way things are, I can't go to bed until after his first waking--everytime I try, he wakes just after I've gone to sleep ::) And then the 5 am waking is a pain because then he often wakes again at 5:45 and that one is often the beginning of our day--occasionally I can get him back to sleep after I feed him there, but not most days. And I'd be willing to get up at 5:45 if he'd just sleep through the other times (DD was a really early riser for her first 2 years as well).
So, since they aren't at the exact same times (well, the 5 am is actually pretty exact), what can I do? Can I try some type of W2S? And seriously, any ideas why he's still waking at these times? He slept through until the feeding a couple nights in the first week or so of sleep training, but now its been 1.5 weeks of the wakings again.
Thanks in advance.
~Kim
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Sounds like habit to me. I'd definitely give W2S a go.
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What a cr@p night last night! I stirred DS at 10, he still woke at 10:45 (this is the same problem we had with the DF--he'd wake 45 min. after each night--it was like I'd messed up his sleep so he could only do one more sleep cycle). Only then it took 2 hours :o to get him back to sleep! And he only made it 1 sleep cycle again. by then it was time to feed him, and honestly, I was so tired, I don't even really remember what happened, but next thing I knew, it was 5 a.m. and he was still laying on my arm ::) SO after all that, he ended up in our bed--grrrrr. . . ANd he was up with a poopy diaper by 5:45.
As for the W2S--did I do it too early? Its hard because he doesn't actually wake the same time each night so I'm afraid to wake him too late--he might beat me to it.
I just hope we can have a better night. I don't do well on only 3 hours of straight sleep.
~Kim
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hugs, hope tonight is better
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Hang in there Kim, just remember that it can take at least three days for W2S to show any results.