Wont Sleep Longer then 1 1/2 hours! SOS

[mavericknmommy]

Hi Everyone,

I'm really glad that i found a thread that relates to babies the same age as my little guy.  We seem to be having some serious problems during the night.  His day time is excellent, goes to bed at 10 sleeps till 2 then im totally screwed the rest of the night.  Up every hour, the only way he will go back to sleep is by eating.  He was sick recently and wouldnt even sleep in his crib would totally freak out, so i had to hold him to get him to sleep.  I sooo exhausted im not sure what i'm doing wrong if i am doing anything wrong but this is totally out of character for him. Normally he sleeps 8 hours during the night with no wake ups.. and now its just like i cant seem to keep him asleep longer then an hour at night.  any suggestions! Could it be teething? he is refusing any kind of solid foods, droolin like a mad man and chewing on everything insite, he also recently starting half crawling and trying to pull himself up maybes its  GS?  Also gets mad when hes chewing on this often fusses.  He is a bit of snacker when it comes to eating, he dosent want to wait 4 hours between he wants it, and wants it now.. but im assuming that he just isnt getting enough during the times he does want to eat.

Any advice or anything even that you've been through it would make me at ease! 

Thanks Ladies,

krista n maverick

[mavericknmommy]

Wake 8
E - 8:15 + cereal if he will take it.
A - 8:15 - 10
S-10:15 - 11:30

E - 12 + Solids
A 
S 2-4

E 4:30 + Solids
A
S 5-6

E 7:30
A Bath
S 9:30 with a feeding before bed. Normally hes sleeping by 10.

Then he wakes up at 2 needs to eat, then 3, 345,435, so on.. usually by 530 he will sleep straight through till 8a.  So its like play till at 3am, which doesnt work obviously!

I know people have been telling me to put him to bed earlier... so i tried putting him to bed at 8 and he was up at 1030 and then from 230-630am, so that totally didnt work out. 

Let me know if you see anything i dont.

Thanks!!! xoxoxo

[mavericknmommy]

he is 6.5 months.

Yes, sometimes during the day i have to rock him to get settled.

At night, we just go upstairs and i feed him then put him in his crib.

[mavericknmommy]

I know i need to stop rocking but pu pd makes him super angry, and well letting him cry it out makes him really mad as well. So i guess i have to try some other things.

well we have a bath, massage i read him a small book then he eats, usually falls asleep then i put him to bed.

If io put him to bed at 8 he gets up at 10.... then will be up for the day at 4a. What do i do???

its so confusing b/c most people put their babies to bed early... but maverick just wont go... it was brutal trying to get him to sleep at 8... *sighs*

[mavericknmommy]

okay so... when he wakes up at 3-4 in the morning and wont go back to sleep then what do i do?

And last night i tried to put him to bed at 830 and he wasnt having any of it.. he was crying and screaming and hitting his head off the crib bars.. So i took him out and fed him one last time and he slept till 430 this morning.  So i guess its hit or miss. 

So what is my action plan then to get him to move on , since none of the other methods work.  Like shush pat he hates, and pu.pd makes him more mad?

[~Natalie~]

It could be that he is not reacting to the pu/pd or the shh/pat but the lack of the prop that used to get him to sleep.  When you first start to wean a prop the reaction can be a lot of crying and arching of back.  It takes awhile for the sleep training method to kick in.  Tracy tells a story in one of her books about how she played a tape of a baby crying to a group of parents.  The shortest amount of time that was guessed for the length of the tape was almost twice as long as the tape actually was.  When you start ssh/pat or pu/pd you should give it a good try for 40min, if he is still not settled you can take him out of the room, feed him if he is hungry, and then do your wind down and try again. 

However he falls asleep(rocked or feed) he will want that same thing when he tries to cycle through his sleep stages, he doesn't know any other way.