kymmie
24-04-2010, 23:03
Vent / advice sought
My 7 month old has always been a fairly regular sleeper - normally goes 3-4 hours between feeds - day or night (although at night would always feed then go straight back to sleep).
Just recently he started waking 2-3 hourly during the night, but this last week hes been waking numerous times an hour (last night woke 2-3 times per hour until about 4am, then slept until 6am, then woke at 7.30).
He has had 2 half days at childcare this week, so that has been a huge change for him, but I wanted to find out whether this sort of change in behaviour is normal. He goes to childcare full time 3 days from next week onwards when I go back to work, and am getting very worried about the lack of sleep we've been getting.
I have been monitoring his temp, and all seems fine, although he has been a little hoarse for a couple of days (no other flu/cold symptoms). Am thinking maybe it's from lots of crying while at childcare, but not certain.
I have tried everything to resettle him during the night. He will usually settle fairly quickly, but wake up 10/15mins after putting him down. Tonight he went to bed at 7 - it's now 10.30 and I have honestly lost track of how many times he's woken (and needed resettling) in that time. I would estimate probably around 10 times!
Does anyone have any ideas?
I'm hoping that once he settles in to childcare it will get better - but so worried about lack of sleep in the mean time.
My 7 month old has always been a fairly regular sleeper - normally goes 3-4 hours between feeds - day or night (although at night would always feed then go straight back to sleep).
Just recently he started waking 2-3 hourly during the night, but this last week hes been waking numerous times an hour (last night woke 2-3 times per hour until about 4am, then slept until 6am, then woke at 7.30).
He has had 2 half days at childcare this week, so that has been a huge change for him, but I wanted to find out whether this sort of change in behaviour is normal. He goes to childcare full time 3 days from next week onwards when I go back to work, and am getting very worried about the lack of sleep we've been getting.
I have been monitoring his temp, and all seems fine, although he has been a little hoarse for a couple of days (no other flu/cold symptoms). Am thinking maybe it's from lots of crying while at childcare, but not certain.
I have tried everything to resettle him during the night. He will usually settle fairly quickly, but wake up 10/15mins after putting him down. Tonight he went to bed at 7 - it's now 10.30 and I have honestly lost track of how many times he's woken (and needed resettling) in that time. I would estimate probably around 10 times!
Does anyone have any ideas?
I'm hoping that once he settles in to childcare it will get better - but so worried about lack of sleep in the mean time.