Hi Everyone... I need help.. i'm tired and don' t know what to do. My almost 5 month old (in a couple of days- on the 29th to be exact) won't sleep thru the night. Before putting her on cereal, she used to wake up once at 3 then for the morning at 7 or 6:45 with a DF at 11. Now that I've started her on cereal (twice a day) she's doesn't want the dream feed, she's waking up at 1, 3, 5.
She sleeps in a cosleeper next to our bed. She also has a paci, which I am in the process of weaning her off. Here's her routine yesterday:
5:30 wake, 5 oz milk
7:30 2 oz oatmeal with milk
9:00 – 11:00 sleep (I kept her up until 9am, without paci, shh and pat)
11 – 5 oz milk
1 – 2:30 sleep (shh and patt)
2:30 woke up I shh and pat back to sleep
3:00 I woke her up, 7 oz milk
5 – 5:30 bath
5:50 - 6:30 sleep ( I woke her up)
6:30 2 oz cereal with milk and applesauce
8:00 5 oz milk (I usually put her to sleep, but yesterday she wanted milk)
9:00 put her crib, in her room, without paci, put musical on (She played for 15 mins, which I thought she was asleep, but then the crying started. I didn’t go in, she cried for an hr, feel asleep and half hr later she woke up crying.
11:00 Until my DH picked her up, fed her and went into the other room, on the futon and she slept next to him)
3:30 am 4 oz milk
5:30 am 5 oz milk (went back to sleep)
7:00 am I work her up
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. She is just getting over an ear infection, dr put her on ear drops. How do I get her to sleep thru the night?
