14 months and waking alot during the night

[workin'mumof2]

:fingerscrossed: please help.

My little boy has hardly ever slept through. Its getting worse and worse though. We troed chaning his routine for a set amount of days but it doesnt improve. Were at the stage were we are actually getting used to like no sleep. but i would love to sleep again lol. He wakes anywhere from 5-10times a night. the best weve had recently is twice. And the routine was the same as it is now. He is on full cream has been for a while didnt change his sleeping pattern still as irratic as ever. If hes teething we give him bonjella but that still doesnt affect his sleep coz he'll wake up the same.

Is there anything we can do to help him sleep more or sleep through?

[Myztik]

You just described my 17mnth old.. Well he used to sleep better than he does now but was still waking at least twice. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.

[jennababe]

ok i might get the finger pointed at me for this one...

but have u thought about giving him a bottle while hes sleeping?? my son goes through phases of waking up.. he will go down to sleep at about 8pm and i dont go to bed til about 12.

sometimes ill go and check on him and if he seems a bit squirmy.. ill just go and get him another milk bottle and give it to him.. he just grabs it and i think it settles him more. and he then sleeps the whole night.

if people dont think this is good dont yell at me for it lol. im not in the mood.

but i cant see how it would hurt cos if he wakes up he gets a bottle anyway.

other then that i dont have any ideas. but i hope he starts sleeping better for u soon, cos it would be so hard to deal with.:hugs:

[workin'mumof2]

I dont want any arguments either coz im just asking everyones different oppinions. if we gave him more milk which we have tried he wakes up more as it causes a tummy ache weve tried leaving a bottle of water in there with him but he cant find it and we get up anyway.

I do have another baby on the way so not sure if this might make his sleep worse but i hope not as i will get less sleep. If anyone else has suggestions there very much welcome thank you :goodvibes:

[krystal14]

I had a very similar problem with my son who is 14mths old. He would wake up every 1.5hrs and would not go back to sleep until i breastfed him. This would happen 5-6times a night. About 6wks ago we went to Tweedle which is a sleep school in melbourne, they taught us how to put him to bed and if he woke up what to do. We stayed for 3 nights, by the second night he slept thru and he is still sleeping thru with no night feeds. There is a book called Sleep Right Sleep Tight, this is by Tweedle. It may help.

[workin'mumof2]

Wow thank you so much lol if only i could get to a book store right now :laughing: hubbys got the car. Do u know how much the book is or where to get it?

well done on the sleep through the 2nd night as well. it must be a nice change. hope my boy improves for me

[workin'mumof2]

:crying: im seriously in tears and will try anything. Hes waking more then a newborn its not NORMAL. how can he function, i cant even fuction.:crying:

[jennababe]

have u taken him to a doctor? maybe theres a reason hes not sleeping? like somethings bothering him, or doesnt feel well??

a check up couldnt hurt:)

try and have a nap when he does today. sounds like u need it hun

[workin'mumof2]

appointment booked for tomorrow. :fingerscrossed: my doc can help me.
thank you

[krystal14]

Check this website out: www.tweedle.org.au (http://www.tweedle.org.au) it has info about what they do and the book. I borrowed it from the local library. Good Luck.

[jennababe]

hi hun hows it all going? any updates? good night, bad night? did ur doctor have any advice?

[workin'mumof2]

grr ds pressed the keyboard and wiped my post. :mad:

she checked his temp and ears which are fine and our nights are not getting better. she reckons just teething. but if we give him relief should he still wake up this often? :confused:

[SEA]

My DD started waking up a couple of times during the night when she was about 19 months and we couldn't figure out why, she would cry and call out for me, but would resettle after a bottle of milk (she still has her milk now before she goes to bed, I don't care what people say about this it helps her relax and settle for the night). We took her to the Doc, there was nothing wrong, she was healthy, she wasn't teething, nothing has changed except I was 7 months pregnant and my stomach was getting really big. Our maternal health nurse suggested to give her more attention during the day and before she went to sleep, she probably sensed something was happening as we were preparing for the arrival of the baby (buying a new cot, washing all the baby clothes and linen etc etc). She improved, then I had the baby and it went down hill again for maybe 3 weeks she would wake up and be distracted by the baby. But now that we are all back in a routine and she has got used to her little sister, she's been sleeping through.
Sorry for the long post but to sum it up, maybe it's the upcoming arrival of the baby that's waking him up :confused: Once you have the baby get back into your daily routine as soon as possible, hope this helps. :wave:
Oh and also not a fan of the control crying method that tweddle uses, we've never used this for our daughter. :no:

[reAllytee]

I feel your pain :hugs:

I still have an almost 3yr old who doesnt sleep through :hair:

[krystal14]

My husband and i were not a fan of controlled crying either, we hated the thought of leaving him to cry but it got to a point where we needed to do something, we were both operating on no sleep and it wasnt fair on our son as he needed sleep desperately and he needed energetic parents to look after him properly. Our son needed to learn not to associate sleep with falling to sleep on the breast, he needed to learn how to go to sleep on his own and how to resettle without the breast during the night. He was using my boob as a dummy. We found that he was old enough to understand that we were still there, we just weren't in the room with him and we would go in every so often to reassure him and tell him it was sleep time. He took to it really well and after about a week he would go to sleep in his cot without a murmur. We wouldnt have tried this approach if he was younger because i dont think he would have understood the concept. Everyone has different views on sleep and settling and i guess we just have to find the right one for our own families, it just might take a bit of trial and error until we get it right. Sorry for the long reply but i thought i needed to explain our reason for using tweedle and by the results we have recieved it has worked for us.

[jpm3]

my 16 month old has only just started to sleep through the night about 2 weeks ago, we tried alot of things to try to get her to sleep through but nothing worked so i just decided to accept i had a child that didn't sleep well and she fixed up on her own.. but i totally know how you feel and completley sympathize with you it's very exhausting when you have broken sleep every night.. hope you get some good rest soon.

[workin'mumof2]

oh wow thank you for the replys. since he has cut more teeth he has been a bit easier through the night but still wakes. like someone said i am actually getting used to the not sleeping through. i will have a newborn to remind me again anyway.

i am trying to remain positive because ive got some great advice from bubhubians hehe. and believing in myself that i can get both to sleep and have some quiet time to myself weather it be for 40mins or 4 hours. and i'll sleep when they sleep. heres hopeing they sleep at the same time :laughing:

[ikis84]

We will have the same gap between babies, so I will totally be here commiserating and celebrating with you in cyberland :)