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SLEEP => Night Wakings => Topic started by: Jamers on January 12, 2010, 12:39:58 pm
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I'm sorry if I have posted this in the wrong section.
Please can someone help! I would be really grateful of someones advice. My son is 10 months was a really great sleeper. Slept through the night from 8 weeks (yippee!) until 5 months. It was then he first got a chest infection. He has had 2 more chest infections since then, bad chicken pox at 6 months (not nice) and recently an ear infection. I know it could be a lot worse but the lack of sleep at night is getting worse. He has got no teeth and I know that he is teething as he bites on everything. I have given him meds, teething powders when required. He is a really happy boy in the day and very active (walking round the furniture, trying to climb everything). At 5 - 8 months the only way we could tell he was ill was due to his waking at night (as he was so happy in the day). He did used to wake up for his dummy and go back to sleep. He has a dummy to get him to sleep for his nap and bedtime (that's the only time he has it, never wanted him to have one but that's another story). I've always made sure I haven't rocked him to sleep, carried him around a lot or put him in my bed (made that mistake with my first child who is now 4), but then I have used a dummy which is just as bad. When he was last ill (a few weeks ago) we brought him into our bed (big mistake). Also I forgot to mention that he only has one nap a day and by tea time he is trying to nod off. Last night he took until 10pm to go to sleep (which has never happened). He has always gone to sleep at night in his cot, in the day in his pushchair (sometime in his cot). He used to wake up in the morning happy playing in his cot now he wakes in the night for up to two - three hours or more ( he would scream the house down if I leave him). It has got worse since his last illness. I've always made sure he has time to play in his cot in the day (which I didn't do with my other child). I just feel where he has been ill it has really thrown us off track and I'm not sure what to do. My husband just says leave him to cry (which I would never do). I'm due to go back to work next month and my son is due to go to nursery and I really don't want to be in the same situation I was 4 years ago with my other son. I hope this makes sense as I'm a bit sleep deprived. I know I have a number of things I need to address which are night wakings, overtiredness (which I think he is), separation anxiety (at night) and I want to get rid of his dummy. I would be really really grateful of someones advice as I'm not sure where to start first.
His routine is now like this (all out of sorts)
Wake - 6.30am/7 am
Breakfast - 7/7.30am
Bottle and snack (fruit) - 7oz - 10am
Sleep (have noticed that this anytime from 10.30 - 11.45am for 2 - 2 1/4 hrs, this then throws his lunchtime, but yesterday he didn't sleep until 2pm)
Lunch 11.30am/12pm (depending on whether he has fallen asleep)
Bottle 7oz - 2pm
Tea - 4.30pm/5pm
Bath 5.30pm/6pm
Bottle 6.15/6.30pm
Sleep 6.30pm/6.45pm
Bottle 5oz - 10pm (Which he should no longer be having)
Yesterday he fell asleep for 45 Min's from 9am - 9.45am (school run) and slept again in the afternoon from 2pm - 3.20pm (expected him to sleep a bit longer). I can't remember the last time he had two naps.
Many thanks for your support, feel better just typing this
A very tired mum x
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Hi!
My baby is younger than yours and he is my first baby...so maybe I don't have much experience to share.
But we due have in common our sleep deprive routine and our tiredness.
What I can say is what I tell my self every day things will get better....!
I hope these words will at least confort you... I hope someone with more experience can share their thoughts with you and help you through this problem!
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Thanks for your responses. It's very kind of you to take time out of your day to read this. He only has one nap a day. I can't remember the last time he had two naps. He slept today from 10.45am - 1.15pm and by 5.30pm he was is tired (which is what has been happening). I had him in bed by 6pm. I really don't know how to get him to take two naps (as he doesn't want to miss out on anything). I know he needs to. Luckily he is a happy baby in the day (but not at night).
Many thanks again.
Jamie
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That sounds great.
Many thanks again for your advice.