Things were good for awhile...now 1 yr and still NW's!

[sbchic1999]

Hello,

My 12 month old (coming up on 13 months) has never been a good sleeper.  After finding Baby Whisperer we made some changes and we actually had seen big improvements.  Now I am starting to see a little regression.  We started BW at almost 10 months and got him down to one EW after which he would come to bed with us and sleep till 8/8:30.  Recenlty he started getting up 2 or 3 times per night again.  Not sure why.  I will say that he needs us in the room to fall asleep.  The last 3 nights I have been leaving the room and only coming back to calm him, then leave again.  Maybe that is the cause of the night wakings-he needs us in the room to fall asleep again?

I just need some help-I have not slept more than 3 hours at a time since before he was born.  I am having trouble functionoing and can't concentrate, listen or remember things.  Yikes!  I have never been so tempted to let him CIO as in the last few nights.  ANy suggestions?

Here is our schedule:

8 wake, nurse
8:30-9:00 breakfast
Activity
11:00 nap
12:00 awake
12:30-1:00 lunch
Activity/bottle
3:00 nap
4:00 awake
activity
6:30 dinner
7:30 bath, bottle
8:00 bed

Just a note-he does not rely on bottle to go to sleep.  Barely drinks any at bedtime and only sips throughout the day.

THANKS!

[*Nicola*]

Hiya

I'm going to move this over to Toddler Sleep for you.  You will get more appropriate support and advice there

x

[stheo]

my dd was like this until we sleep trained her at 9 months... I was up with her every couple of hours and it was driving me nuts.. Sounds like you are a prop for you LO to fall asleep and he needs to learn to fall asleep by himself plus you bring him to bed with you which confuses him.. (why sleep by yourself when you can cuddle up to mommy) I would try WIWO.. my husband basically put Ainslee in her crib, let her know he was there and then WIWO until she went to sleep.. It took a couple of hours ( yes hours) but the next night.... I put her to bed after routine and she fussed for a bit then talked to herself for 20 mins and fell asleep... She sleep the whole night thru for the first time and has been doing it since.. She will be 2 next month and she goes in crib, talks to animals, and drifts off to sleep and sleeps 12 hours.... just hang in there.. it can be done.... he just has to learn to do it himself

[sbchic1999]

Hello, yes we started sleep training at 10 months.  He is much better than he used to be-he used to be up every 2 hrs every night.  So we started BW and he got used to us sitting in  his room to help him fall to sleep.  We had a couple LOOOOONG nights of PU/PD and WIWO during naps.  His night wakings got better.  Now all we typically have to do is lay him back down and he goes right back to sleep.  But I would like him to not need us to lay him back down.  We just started leaving the room right after we lay him down for naps & bed and then WIWO if we have to until he is asleep.  That was Monday and he is doing better at fallinga sleep by him self but still getting up every night.  I have thought that maybe it is the 5-6am wake up and come in our bed that confuses him.  Maybe he is just waiting for the time when we welcome him in bed instead of laying him back down?  The problem is=I love those early morning snuggles.  Nothing like your little baby cuddled up to you sleeping.  I don't know what to do.  There were times in the past 2 or 3 months that he slept all they way throught to 6 and then would come in bed, nurse and sleep til 8.  Then that stopped and we are back to waking once (sometimes but not typically twice) before that 5-6 mark. 

Any other suggestions??

[sherip]

I started sleep training my son at 5 1/2 months. It seemed to take a few months before he was able to sleep all night. However, he was still breastfeeding at night. I used the pick up/put down with him to get him falling asleep on his own. Then, at about 7 months, I tried to get him to stop nursing through the night altogether. I used a dream feed around midnight and slowly (every 3 days or so) moved the feed closer (to 11:30, then 11:00, etc) until he finally didn't need to nurse at all in the night. Not sure if this would help you?? If you are nursing at 6:00?? He still would wake up a couple times a night for quite some time (even now does, too!). Sometimes he falls right back asleep on his own, but sometimes he needs me to go in his room for a quick comforting shush and/or kiss. I would try and tough it out with the Walk in/Walk out. It does take time and unfortuneately every day is different, but eventually it will be worth it.