Hi! First time poster here but long time fan of baby whisperer although I don't think I have the system down yet.
My 8 month dd seems to be getting harder and harder to get to sleep through the night. At one point she slept at 5 hour stretch but now (ever since teething and traveling) she wakes up at least every 4 hours. Every 4 hours wouldn't be so bad (although I am terribly sleep deprived) but she wakes up many times between 8-12 needing to be soothed. We normally do not nurse her back to sleep unless it has been hours of crying and its getting near feeding time anyway. (I know that might be a mistake but she really does seem hungry.) I feel like I'm really messing her up!
Anyway, here's the situation her routine is not 100% consistent, it depends on when she finally falls asleep for the night but it is pretty much a 4 hour schedule.
Daily routine is:
~8:30 A and nurse
9:30-10 solids (baby cereal)
11 - 11:30 Nap (when signals like eye-rubbing show)
12:15-1 UP (she sometimes wakes up tired from her nap at 45 min and I can get her back to sleep but sometimes her 3 y/o brother won't allow me enough time to soothe her, and othertimes she seems inconsolable and is just tired but not wanting to go back to sleep, maybe I'm not trying the right things?
~1:00 nurse
2:30 solids ( baby food, normally squash/sweet potatoes)
3:30 Nap
4:30-5 Awake (same as morning nap, sometimes wakes up but wants to be soothed back to sleep)
5 nurse
~7:00 solids ( baby food again)
~8:00 bed time (swaddle, although she gets an arm out quickly, often must be nursed again before she will fall asleep but does not need to be actually nursed to sleep.)
I breastfeed (she has rejected bottle for months) on both sides when she will take both sides (often she loses interest.)
She wakes up at 12 am and around 4 am (occasionally will go til 5 am) to nurse. When she wakes she is hungry and looking for me, very upset if dh goes to her instead. Lately she has been fussing a lot between 9-12 (after being but to sleep at
. My husband goes in and shushes/tries to make her comfortable and offers the pacifier as much as she needs it. She will fall asleep for a few minutes but be up again 10-20 minutes later and this continues until I nurse her again at the next feeding.
I don't think she is teething but I feel like I can never tell until they pop through (She has 2 now, from abt 6 months). She has a serious prop attachment to her pacifier but is beginning to reject it when she "wants" me instead. We also have a white noise machine in our room.
The hardest part for us is the constant needing to go in and out of the room between 9-12. I feel like we're not doing something right and I have no idea what to try next. Please Help!!!