Sara's Boys
02-10-2006, 20:34
Hi,
I am at the end of my teather, my sone who is almost 14 months old started waking one or 2 times a night, ever since he turned 1. He used to sleep10 hours straight and have a bot and then go back for another hour or two, and our days would start at 8-9am.
Now he wakes up at 1ish and some times 3ish and then is up for his bottle at 6.30am. He then some times doesn't even go back to sleep at all.
I just want to know if this is a normal development thing, or if I have just allowed him to create a bad habit/routine. When I go in to tend to him, I usually pick him up hold him for minute and then put him down, and he usually goes back, but lately he seems to be waking more frequently.
I am finding myself short of patience during the day and crying more than normal. As I am petrified that I cannot rectify this problem before my next son arrive in approx 8 WEEKS! I am already fatique with being in my last trimester and my body is sore and tired. I have been told by "sleep school" at my local hospital that he is too old for them to help, as he is now a toddler not a baby. So I am feeling quite helpless and the particular cry he has developed is getting to me so easily now. I used to be able to handle him crying, but now it's agony to let him cry, it sounds like he is fully being tortured. He isn't sick, and the only thing that has changed is that he has become very clingy and tantrumy.
ANY ONE????????? PLEASE help! Any advice or recommendations would be muchly appreciated. Books, classes any thing. Could this be to do with him walking and becoming more independent? Teeth?
I am at the end of my teather, my sone who is almost 14 months old started waking one or 2 times a night, ever since he turned 1. He used to sleep10 hours straight and have a bot and then go back for another hour or two, and our days would start at 8-9am.
Now he wakes up at 1ish and some times 3ish and then is up for his bottle at 6.30am. He then some times doesn't even go back to sleep at all.
I just want to know if this is a normal development thing, or if I have just allowed him to create a bad habit/routine. When I go in to tend to him, I usually pick him up hold him for minute and then put him down, and he usually goes back, but lately he seems to be waking more frequently.
I am finding myself short of patience during the day and crying more than normal. As I am petrified that I cannot rectify this problem before my next son arrive in approx 8 WEEKS! I am already fatique with being in my last trimester and my body is sore and tired. I have been told by "sleep school" at my local hospital that he is too old for them to help, as he is now a toddler not a baby. So I am feeling quite helpless and the particular cry he has developed is getting to me so easily now. I used to be able to handle him crying, but now it's agony to let him cry, it sounds like he is fully being tortured. He isn't sick, and the only thing that has changed is that he has become very clingy and tantrumy.
ANY ONE????????? PLEASE help! Any advice or recommendations would be muchly appreciated. Books, classes any thing. Could this be to do with him walking and becoming more independent? Teeth?