HELP - waking up hourly at night!!!

[Butterflies&Hurricanes]

Someone please help! I dont know what to do anymore! I NEED SLEEP!!
My son is nearly 9 months old and has started waking up every hour during the night and the only thing that can settle him is a BF!
Since he was born he has mostly breastfed to sleep. But since about 5 months he has only woken up once a night - 2 or 3 times on a bad night.
I dont mind breastfeeding him to sleep (although would prefer not to) but I cant stand the hourly waking. Its killing me.
He has 8 teeth already (4 top 4 bottom) so not sure if its any more teeth coming through!
Why else could he be waking so much? I've tried CC and hated it and really dont want to go that route again! Too traumatic.

Anyone with any suggestions?

[dancingchipmunk]

I know exactly what you are going through. My son is nearly 11 months old and doing the same :thumbsdown: . I am currently trying to find answers so if I find anything I will definatly pass the info on to you. just wanted to let you know you are not alone. have you tried having your bub in the bed with you. my partner and I are currently trying this and it seems to allow me to get a bit more sleep during the night.

[spring]

have you tried having your bub in the bed with you. my partner and I are currently trying this and it seems to allow me to get a bit more sleep during the night.

I was going to suggest the same thing:yes:

[Nickster]

Hugs to you! I went through this - who knows what goes on in their little minds sometimes? The only thing that worked for me (and face it, I don't want hard work in the middle of the night when I am supposed to be asleep) was to start co-sleeping and give DD the breastfeeds she obviously needed to get back to sleep. It saved my sanity.

And it's just a phase - it won't last forever, although it feels like it at the time.:hugs:

[Butterflies&Hurricanes]

We tried co-sleeping but neither of us gets a good nights sleep. I wake up aching from laying funny and Luca is just like his dad and wakes with any tiny movement or noise. So all 3 of us end up being cranky as hell in the morning. In fact its worse than how it is now!:thumbsdown:

Any other suggestions?

[SammieJ]

We went through a similar thing. Our 10 month old doesn't co-sleep well either. On hard nights I try, sometimes it works, sometimes not.
What worked for us was trying to stretch out the feeds. I picked 3 times, his newborn routine, and tried to get him to settle in other ways (rocking, Dad, etc) until those times. Then I fed him, rather than trying to get him to sleepall night strainght off, which would have been too hard for all concerned.
After a feed, I lie him up my chest (asleep) to let it settle and hopefully he will burp.
Now he still wakes, especially with teeth (we are on #7), and at those times comfort feeding helps.
Other things are giving lots more feeds during the day, but this never worked for us.
A bedtime routine has helped, and I'm currently going without chocolate to see if it makes a difference. Unfortunately, I think it has!
Hope this helps, good luck:hugs:
Sammie - 27 :sleeping:
Dave - almost 30:wave:
Teddy - 10 months:smiliedance:

[bambino]

Ds has just finished his round of this too.

But it turned out it was because he was sick :crying:

He had a virus and he was uncomfortable because of it. He would only re-settle in mummy or daddy's arms, then once down in the cot....an hour later he was crying again.

Perhaps your bub is not well either. I believe the change in weather has done this to our DS :thumbsdown:

Now the next thing is telling him that day-light savings has finished and he can sleep in longer in the morning :p

[HappyMumsy]

You poor thing, I bet you are tired.

I bet you in a weeks time he will be back to his old waysand you would have realised what was wrong, whether it's his teeth, he was cold, a change in the household vibes or whatever.

It will change before you know it.

Don't be afraid to keep breastfeeding him to sleep - you won't be making a rod for your own back. You'll just attending to his needs right now.

[theycallmemum]

You have my sympathy, my 9 month old (tomorrow) is doing exactly the same thing and will only settle with a small suck from his bottle (about 40ml max). I thought he might just be thirsty so I have him water but that just woke him up completely and he them wouldn't settle till he had a huge feed. I was thinking it might be a growth spurt? He is teething terribly atm too but I gave him panadol and that did nothing at all so I think it must be a growth spurt.

I hope it stops soon, he was sleeping through at 3 months, now I'm up so much.

[allysophia]

We tried co-sleeping but neither of us gets a good nights sleep. I wake up aching from laying funny and Luca is just like his dad and wakes with any tiny movement or noise. So all 3 of us end up being cranky as hell in the morning. In fact its worse than how it is now!:thumbsdown:

Any other suggestions?

Been there, ..when the going gets tough, the DH gets going, I just have DS in bed and DP in nursery :thumbsup:

I MISS DH though, but I just need sleep sooooooo bad, and when I'm trying to settle DS it wakes DP up, and oh, the bed is soooo much bigger without 110kg DP in it :D

[ozzysmum]

oh i have sooooooooo been there :hugs:

repeat after me "it shall pass, it shall pass, it shall pass"
now if at all possible get your dp to do either one night on/one night off with you or he can do all the baby stuff from about 4am until he has to get you up. that way you will at least be getting a couple of solid hours sleep - 3 every 24 hours is necessary (we all know more, much more, is preferable!!)

ozzy still wakes once or twice a night so i'm no sage on this subject, but the hourly waking seems to happen around this age - it does end, i promise:yes: