Waking during the nite all of a sudden???

[Kaileysmum]

Hi everyone

Im having a bit of trouble with my dd who is 6.5mths old and wanted some advise/help???

She has pretty much always slept through the night, but all of a sudden she is waking up during the night. I dont mind that she is doing this, but when she wakes, she'll go back to sleep with me rocking her, but as soon as I put her down she wakes within 5 minutes and crys (she never does this). Ive tryed soothing her back to sleep in her cot, but she just wakes up and crys as soon as I leave the room. The thing is if I put her in our bed when she wakes she go's to sleep straight away and sleeps right through til morning and doesnt wake.
(its not because shes hungry, she has 5 bottles a day, and has three meals a day.)

So my Q's are:

Is this normal to start waking again? Is it just because she wants to sleep with us? Why could she waking all of a sudden?? Is there anyway to get her to sleep in her own cot? (Im a bit worried about co-sleeping)

Any help advise would be wonderful....Elice:kiss:

[drewid]

Hi :)

Is she teething? Andrew started waking around 7/8 months after he had been sleeping through regularly....we had a few nights of co-sleeping while the first teeth came through and then it all went back to normal.

It sounds like she just feels the need to be close to you, to be soothed. I'd be likely to stick with the co-sleeping for a few days and go from there. If it becomes a problem for you (or her) then you could try the cot again.

Its hard isn't it, things are constantly changing! One minute you're fine, then next you have no clue!! Joys of motherhood :)

[Kaileysmum]

I'm not sure if she is teething, she hasn't had any signs of teeth, but I suppose not all bubs have all the classical symptoms of teething.

[mysonroger]

my DD did this.......she started sleeping through the night until 7am at 10 weeks, then started waking up at 18 weeks. it wasn't teething, but i just started feeding (BF) her again, then she would go back to sleep straight after. i wasn't convinced it was hunger, but that was the easiest thing for me to do at all those different times of the night. it sorted itself out by about 7 months when i decided to tackle the waking head on. but coincidentally, the day i started controlled crying was the day she stopped waking??????????
normally i say these things are just little phases they go through, and yes, they are always changing, but DD kept this up for a while. but admittedly, i never did try to sort it out. i just went along with it.

[IAdoreYou]

hmmm .. well, Brooke will also only sleep the whole NIGHT in bed with me ( us ) .. she wakes as well and looks for us. We have co-slept since day 1 though and she has all her naps in her cot in the day. She sleeps in her cot at night until she wakes and if its past 12 I then bring her in our bed just to so I can get some sleep then.

I have noticed though when Brooke does wake in our bed she reaches out for ME now .. and once she finds me she just goes straight back to sleep and she is nearly 9 mths.

I do love co-sleeping though .. just wanted to share that my Brooke nearly turning 9 mths is aware that she IS sleeping in our bed .. so if your not into co-sleeping just a warning.

do whatever feels right for your family. In our house with a shiftworker the priority is sleep 1st.

good luck and I hope some other mums can help.

[nkenward]

Hi there,

My son Connor is also 6.5 months. About 3 weeks ago, he started waking at odd times during the night. He was teething. Originally he had no other symptoms, until just recently. I have found that if I give him his dummy to suck - all is well.

[sharvs]

My Ds is doing this too. He is 4 months & has been sleeping though since about 2.5 months. For about a week now he has been waking at 4 - 4.30 and wont sleep in his cot, but as soon as we bring him into our bed, he goes to sleep. I cant sleep when he is my bed, I'm too worried about rolling on him (and he is a really noisy sleeper!) I hope it changes soon, I need some rest!

[giggles]

I have an 8 month old daughter who at 6 months began night waking after being the perfect sleeper. It lasted for a while, and by no means is she like she was before but it does settle down.

There are a few threads in the sleeping section on this and it seems at that age it is a really common thing to start happening.

Sorry not to be of much help, just wanted to say it seems like a very common thing and doesn't last forever.

[SassyMummy]

My DD started doing that also.

She's 9 months old and it seems to have gotten better...

Does she sleep when you put her in, then wake up and cry...or does she get put in there and chuck a tanty because you're no longer in the room? Or both?

My DD, for a while, was getting SO upset whenever I put her to bed. She'd freak out and scream and cry...mostly because she couldn't see me or if she could, she couldn't TOUCH me. For a while I got someone else to put her to bed and that worked fairly well... Then I moved onto not having a light on in her room and putting her to bed in total darkness. That way she was distracted by anything and couldn't see me, and therefore couldn't see when I had left. That's what I still do now - and it works wonders!

As for waking up in the middle of the night...I'd suggest teething above all else. DD is ALSO doing that at the moment, and is waking up sulking. I use bonjela or panadol to soothe her...and then give her the dummy...but then, that's because she's comforted by the dummy, and some babies aren't.