Waking every 2 hours

[Desertress]

MY 9mth old ds has always been a really good sleeper and started sleeping throught at about 10 wks. That was up until a bout a month ago..... now he wakes up every 2 hours and its driving me insane..... he wakes up has a short BF and then goes back to sleep again.... if i leave him to try and settle in his cot he just starts screaming and then takes hours to go back to sleep.

Anyone have anyidea on this one as i cant handle the broken sleep anymore, it is makeing me very moody and irratiable.

[Goosie22]

Hi,
What about putting bub into bed with you then you dont need to be so awake and it takes less time out of your nights sleep.

[ozzysmum]

ozzy did this for a while but he's either outgrown it or put it on hold until he feels like torturing us again! Goosie's idea is a good one and has worked for us quite a bit but we don't do it too often as we don't want ozzy to unlearn cot sleeping. he has gone down to waking up once or twice a night. also there's a great product by Brauer's called "calm" that can help, especially when it's 3 a.m. and you are totally over it - give the baby the recommended amount, cuddle them for a while then give the same amount again (have a drop yourself if you feel the need to calm down too;)).
good luck - i know exactly how hard it is but do remember that nothing lasts forever! honestly :)

[Kirstlea]

Hi Kristen

Even though my dd never slept through we did have a pattern and around the same age she started doing the same thing, waking up (almost like it was for an extra feed) but we realised she had sore gums so we gave her some bonjella at the times that she didn't normally wake up and it seemed to help.

It only last for about a week and then settled. Sometimes she still wakes up now but we think its either shes cold or having night ponies.

Hope you get some sleep soon.

Kirsten :)

[Desertress]

Thanks for the replies guys.

Goosie - Your idea would be great but DS has never beena co sleeper.. i used to put ds1 into bed with us when this sort of thing happened but ds2 just wont settle with us either.... no even when he was a new born. He has always wanted to be in his own bed i guess so co-sleeping is just no an option for me

Ozzy's mum - I will definatley get some of that calm stuff and see if that makes any difference. Even if its just for me :thumbsup:

Kirstlea - I will try the bonjella as well... anything to hopefully make him start sleeoing through again, I havnt had a decent nights sleep in over a month and its really getting to me. I wish it was only a week he had been doing it for but its been so much longer.

[Kirstlea]

Hi Kristen

I just remembered something else. One of the ladies in my mothers group had the same problem with her son at the same age. He used to sleep through all the time and then changed.

It became a living nightmare for them to the point that they rang the sleep centre and presto he sleeps through again.

No idea why he changed but they were very relieved to find a solution. Maybe it has nothing to do with sore gums, maybe he is doing the same kind of thing my friends little boy did.

They are all a riddle for us to solve:rolleyes:

Hope you find a solution.

Kirsten