sleeping troubles please help

[amymay]

Hi i have a 6 month boy who i think is to advanced ofr his age. He is crawling everywhere and pulling himself up with the help of furnature.

I am having so much trouble setting him to see as he is screaming, kicking and is to strong. He is waking 2-4 times a night crying and on his tummy, as he rolls over and moves about a lot.

If anyone can help me with some ideas that would be wonderful. we have had troubles with different types of milk with him, i have him on a goat milk now. He seems to be constpiated with his tummy and it always grumbles at each feed.

Thanks Guys!

[mariafresnel]

AmyMay

Hi. Your child sounds really normal, and in other words, for us parents it just means 'now you have to get familiar/use to this new stage'......it's everchanging.

What I can offer, is :

Milk
Have you had advice from Docs to change his milk for specific reasons? Does he get the vitamins he needs as a 6 monther from Goats milk (i do know that it's the closest in its formation to mothers milk). My bub had chronic reflux, and we offered her Karicare Sensikare, which is gentle on stomachs as it has partially pre-digested proteins, and in other words, easier on babys stomachs.

Rolling over/on tummy/
Rolling over, and being on his tummy maybe a preference for him to sleep. Of course you may be a little worried give recommendations from SIDS for bubs to sleep on their backs. Apart from wrapping him and using a Tresillian method, which keeps him from rolling over, and getting out of his wrap, you may have to succumb to this, but may think about the 'help to resettle'....?

crying
He is probably crying because at first thought he's upset that you're not there, because you were the last person/feeling he had before he went into that particular sleep cycle.

waking 2/4 times a night
* He may need some gentle help to learn to resettle himself. Why do I say this. Well only in my experience, Sophia woke up to and more than 4 times a night, and that's because I held her before I put her in her cot. So invariably when she'd wake, it wasn't how she originally fell asleep, and then I'd repeat it again to passify her, enter wake up again and so on. So we started to do the 'lay down technqiue' suggested by Tizzie Hall on www.saveoursleep.com.au. It worked, Sophia learnt (after one week, and at 13 months) to resettle herself, and fall asleep herself. That was a long wait for non interrupted sleep.

AmyMay, I hope that I may have offered some thoughts, and please let me know if you would like me to clarify anything I have said.

Thinking of you
Maria

[amymay]

thank you for your advise. i have also been rading other peoples issues and there replys. I wrapped him last night, put him down at 9.15 and he woke at 6.15... and had used his bowels... so it was a huge step forward and i enjoyed my sleep!!

thanks again for your email and ideas.

amy :smiliedance: