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| What worked for me and still does - i give my little possie a used t-shirt/jumper that i have worn for say - 2 days so it smells of me. She ALWAYS goes to sleep cuddling it and is comforted by my scent. This method has also worked very well on the ocassions i wasn't around to put her to bed. Try it! except do make sure there are no buttons or cords etc....Your own B/O might just be the key to a good nights sleep! And the stronger the better... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I just reading article about sleeping problem on baby check it on http://bee-cool.com.au/articles/?cat=8 I do co sleeping and work great for me. there is some advice on that site hope it will help good luck |
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| Your child will probably wake around 2:00 am- this is where she should be fed and quietly put straight back to bed. Now this routine is fantastic but you need to stick to it and persevere. Results wont come straight away but when they do it will make your whole families life so much easier. My son is 12 months old and we followed this routine when he was 5 months old, their routinee will change as they get older and you will find this more noticeable if you have established one for your baby. My boy is fast asleep by 6:30 pm (which we never thought possible) this allows for more time with my husband, and organising dinner etc. Good luck! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jmsteve: I wouldnt recommend keeping your child up any longer in the evening- We went to a sleep centre for troubled babies, and it sounds like your little one has her sleep cycle all messed up: below is a routine from Riverton (specialist centre for sleep and routine). This saved my marriage and my mind! Hope you find it as helpful. 6 am: feed (breast or botttle) Baby should stay awake for 2- 2.5 hours between feeds. 8-8:30 am Sleeptime (anywhere from 1 hour to 3 is good) 10:30-am feed ( Breast or bottle) Again baby should play for 2-2.5 hours. ( if baby is grumpy try walking outside with her- it worked for us!) 1:00pm Sleeptime again! (remember anywhere from 1-3 hours is acceptable) all babies are different. 3:30 pm Feed (bottle or breast) 4:00 pm is bathtime! (YAY) 4:30 pm playtime ( most babies are very grumpy by this time of day, this is normal- a walk will help) To effectively get your child to get into a good sleep routine it is important you drag this area out a little. AT 6:oopm-6:30 pm is the time our child SHOULD be going down for the night. Sometimes it is a struggle as they are very tired by now- but they DO get used to it and you will be great ful in the long run. CONTINUED.... |
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| my daughter has always been a cat napper, and we found that she would wake for a fed usually around 11pm and 3am after going to bed around 8pm. we started her on rice cereal at 5 months and found making a bedtime routine of dinner, bath, story, bottle and bed worked for us. occasionaly she would still wake up through the night and just wouldnt resettle without a bottle. our family health nurse suggested only giving water through the night as it may discourage them from waking but it didnt work for us in the end we realised she was getting her first teeth and just neede comforting, i guess you just have to exhaust all avenues to find what works. good luck! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sorry ,i do not know which segment of your days is her most alert time frame ...my sons was the late afternoon /evening ....the key is find which time frame they are most alert and use it ...tire them out with alot of stimulation for their minds ....peek a boo ,little songs which you can 'fake' the actions with their hands are two that worked with my boy .....again goodluck :) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jaymzstevens- have you considered keeping her up just a little longer in the evening ?its just that when my eldest was around 6mths we'd let him nap in the afternoon from about 230pm to 400pm and then stir him ...he'd do his afternoon bottle, play and alert time til his dad [my ex] would come home at 530pm and then he would bath him and play til about 800pm before the evening bottle ,we would put him in his cot around 9 or 930 pm [depending on how well he was holding up]and he would usually sleep from that time til nearly 1am then feed and change then sleep til about 5 am ,making it easier for us to catch up on missed sleep ....a midwife who visited me said to never wake for a night feed ...if they are hungry they will let you know ....if she is a healthy bub [which i am sure she is ] then perhaps she may adjust to such a routine ....just a thought ,try it or not i still wish you the best of luck ...and enjoy her now ,they grow up to soon :) michelle |
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| My wife and I have lots of problems with sleep with our 5 month old. She gets fed a bottle of formula at around 8ish and is put down for the night usually around 8.30pm. Unfortunately she wakes at around 11pm for a quick feed and then again at around 2 or 3. From that time it's very hard to get her back to sleep as she is "up for the day" and ready to play. During the week my wife does the majority of the getting up in the middle of the night (she's still breastfeeding as well as the occasional formula) as I work fulltime, but on the weekends I have to get up as well and it shows me how difficult it is for her during the week. We have a "Sleep Sheep" which was sent by grandparents in the US which plays a bunch of different sounds when you press different buttons (heartbeat, whale noises, oceans, etc) which seems to help a lot but still not enough to stop the sleep issue. We are cool to ride it out but my wife is becoming increasingly tired day-by-day and I'm worried about her Uni studies and sanity. |
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| Just remember that is does end and while it may feel like it right now, it won't last forever and you will survive. I had 2 non sleepers around a sleeper and believe me she could sleep through anything. I tried controlled crying, swaddling, music, routines the lot with the first and had so much advice coming in I had no idea which way was up. He was 4 and still not sleeping when number 3 came along. Now he showed me what not sleeping was all about - he stopped napping at 3 weeks of age. He slept for a total of 2 hours in every 24 and I don't mean consecutively either. At first I tried it all over again but like the first it didn't work so I gave up and went with the flow and life became a lot easier. He slept better with me so that's what I did. He's 8 now and his brother is 12 and they've been known to sleep in on occasion....but only if it's a school day |
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| sounds great! how much should i drink? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hints from 'Baby Whisperer' shown on the Sunrise a few weeks ago. Can anyone supply the information or email address for access. This could help others. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hi there, have you made sure she hasn't got something wrong like silent reflux? Or not getting enough food? My little one started sleeping through the night at nine months after going to an infant sleep specialist and we started controlled crying which was surprisingly easy. I wish we had have seen the specialist earlier & I will with the next baby. Good luck and remember there is light at the end of the tunnel, it won't be forever! |
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| Check at what age phenergan can be used - I'm sure it's 2 years. When I had my eldest in the 80's - 3 days of controlled crying with a dose of phenergan was the recommended cure - and it worked but I now have 2 more little ones and I just took them to bed with us - I breast fed for a long time and just found it easier on everyone in the family if I didn't have to get up and down all night. There is a light at the end of the tunnel - mine now(ages 4 and 7)sleep soundly in their own beds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sing "twinkle twinkle little star " to him over and over again.Apparantly this tune is very soothing for babies -something about the melody I heard. I wish I knew of this when my 2 boys were babies. I tried this on my 2 1/2 year old the other week when he wouldnt have his day time nap and it worked like a charm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hi well i had 3 great babies to my ex that slept through from birth, now i have a baby who will be one next week, and still does not sleep he is so different to my other 3 kids. i didnt know what hit me, i have had him on Phenergan and that is to help baby sleep well it didnt help mine and he still wakes at least twice a night for a bottle. my body is so use to it and when he has slept through i still wake up, if you find anything to help baby sleep all night please let me know ill try anything... GOOD LUCK..xxx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My son, now 3yrs old had a sleeping problem due to sickness from the age of 2mths, I tried everything in the book but nothing worked I had him in sleeping clinics, back and forwards to the Dr's, but had no luck as everytime I started a routine he got sick( 4 bout 5mths)and now he is 3yrs old I'am suffering still, like as I write this, here in Australia it is 7:35am and he has just gone back to sleep, for the 3rd time in 1 night (he woke up at 12:30am)which means that I have had no sleep since yesterday at lunch time, I have to to all the normal things a stay home mum does(lucky he is my only, do u blame me?)He will wake at anytime, cranky, moody, violent and many more things due to not sleeping and I have to suffer in silent just to make this day run as smoothly as possible, feeling like crap, not wanting to even move but he is a very demanding child who takes all of me. When he does sleep it is in my bed on my arm pinching my neck(even when he is asleep)and the only reason I allow this is to sleep myself, or I already would have went crazy....It take all of my strenght to do this all the time but I feel like I dont have a choice and my son is my air that I breathe, for his sake then my own I wish he would just sleep.................... ....................... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I KNOW THEY SAY NOT TO PUT THE BABY ON THERE TUMMY BUT HEY IF IT WORKS DONT WORRY ABOUT IT I DONT THINK IT MATTERS IF THEY ARE ON THEIR TUMMY OR BACK I KNOW OF A 6WEEK OLD BABY WHO DIED OF COT DEATH AND SHE WAS PUT ON HER BACK FOR ASLEEP SO YOU TELL ME | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Try a bottle of formula @ about 10:30pm. It's heavier than breast milk so it may keep asleep. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| i think the reason they all sleep so well on our tummy is the sounds. the sounds they were used to for the 9 months before birth. Dr. Zehnwirth's Sounds for Silence CD Saved my life because i think it reminds my baby of how it sounded when she was still inside my tummy. comforting, gurgling sounds. we all sleep like a dream ever since i bought the CD - i can't rave about it enough. A definite must have for mums! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| for my little girl i actually found putting her on her tummy was the answer!!...i know its a big NO NO to the so called professionals but it was the answer for me..she now sleeps from 8.30pm to 7.30am! and has done from 7 weeks when i started doing this...yes i still have the usual whenevr nights but 8 out of 10 is good enough for me.. good luck!! |
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| You will get some rest eventually. Mine is 18 months old now, and 6-10 weeks was about the worst time for both adults in the house being chronically exhausted. There was no 'sudden' change of dropping a nightime feed, but she gradually started to synch with day and night. At the stage that you are at, she was not quite equally hungry at nighttime, leaving it alone for four hours instead of two-three in the day. The trend of longer gaps at night-time continued very slowly up to six months, by which time she would often sleep peacefully from midnight until 6. In our household, division of labour was the tactic used to overcome constant tiredness. As a Dad, I booked every Friday off work for six months, and started and finished work early, leaving at 3-4 to arrive home in time to give the early evening bottle. That kind of thing may help, if it is possible for your partner. I planned to avoid promotions, overtime, career progression, or anything beyond the minimum at work during that year, having done well enough in previous ones. At home I declared that I would be more responsible from 4am until leaving for work time at ~ 7, leaving Mum to sleep more than if she had to do everything. My work included jumping out of bed to give a bottle in the next room (Mum's cannot sleep through guzzle&burp sounds) preparing the set of bottles for the day, chopping and boiling fruit and vegetables, checking the store of zipseal bags of frozen cubes of vegetables, shopping on the way home for anything that was in short supply, and if I was lucky giving my daughter a helping of milk on my way out. The idea was that I'd wake to do jobs at 5.30, having been asleep around 10pm. My ex was not so keen on this last part of the arrangement, as she got stuck with a hungry baby past midnight, but I think that it could work. Lastly, I cooked 5/7 hot meals for the whole year. It can all be done by a guy who chooses to. |
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| Hi there, just to let you know that I am a mum to a 4 mth old baby boy, I found that if you bath them late in the afternoon, early evening and give them a massage for a few minutes it helps, also she may be still full of wind and if this is the case she will not sleep. My son has started to sleep for around 7 hours a night, most nights now he will miss the midnight feed, this has been a godsend for me. there is light at the end of the tunnel but you need to stay as positive as possible as she will sense this negative and unhappiness and it will make her more unsettled. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hi, just read this today and empathise with you. My son is now 4yrs old and has been sleeping 10-12 hours through the night for the last 2years. The first two years were not so great. During the day I would try lavender oil in an oil burner, weak peppermint or cammomile tea (very relaxing), warm baths, massage etc. I could never put him in a pram as he would cry but when a put him in the baby sling he loved it and fell asleep most of the time. Also, the milk he was having did not seem to be enough so at about 9 weeks I added a little bit of farex into his bottle of milk just before bed. This helped. Gave him a feeling of fullness. Children are all different and some need a feeling of security more than others so, if all else fails, at night put her in bed with you (if you are comfortable with this). My son comes into our bed maybe twice per week in the middle of the night and occasionally wont go to bed unless he is with us. For him its a lonliness issue. He tells me he feels left out because his bedroom is at one end of the house and ours at the other. Good Luck! |
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| brandy in the milk, works everytime! (just kidding!) |
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| I found putting some lavender oil on a hanky or tissue and tucking near bubby's head but not close enough for them to get a hold of.Lavender helps to have a nice calm sleep | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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