Night time waking after previously sleeping through
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Our lo is 8 months old, and has slept through for a good while now. Over the past few weeks, she has been waking around 3 times in the night. Initially we thought it may be teething, and have given her paracetamol & ibuprofen. It's now 3 weeks on, and she's still waking & there is absolutely no sign of teeth! Can teething take this long? I did wonder if it was becoming a habit, but there is no real pattern to the waking. Sometimes she'll cry out, then go back off, other times we have to go to her to settle her (only takes a few minutes) & give her pain relief.
I did wonder if it was a developmental thing, as they say when they learn new things it can often lead to night waking. Recently, she's learnt to clap, wave, pull herself up to stand & has started cruising furniture. Could this be the cause? The only other thing that I can think that has changed is that she's not taking as much milk either during the day or at her bed time bottle. We did change milk from C & G Comfort to C & G Follow On as nowhere had stock of the Comfort milk locally, but not sure if this corresponds. She eats well during the day, and we space her food & bottles out so that she's not getting it all at once. She has 2 naps during the day, generally one 40 mins & one 1 hour 30 mins. She self settles for these. It seems to make no difference to her night time waking if she's napped well or not!
Does anyone have any advice/experience/words of wisdom? I did think that it was a passing phase, but at just short of a month it seems to be a bit more. I'm 18 weeks pregnant, exhausted & (murphy's law) am going back to work in a couple of weeks. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks xx
I did wonder if it was a developmental thing, as they say when they learn new things it can often lead to night waking. Recently, she's learnt to clap, wave, pull herself up to stand & has started cruising furniture. Could this be the cause? The only other thing that I can think that has changed is that she's not taking as much milk either during the day or at her bed time bottle. We did change milk from C & G Comfort to C & G Follow On as nowhere had stock of the Comfort milk locally, but not sure if this corresponds. She eats well during the day, and we space her food & bottles out so that she's not getting it all at once. She has 2 naps during the day, generally one 40 mins & one 1 hour 30 mins. She self settles for these. It seems to make no difference to her night time waking if she's napped well or not!
Does anyone have any advice/experience/words of wisdom? I did think that it was a passing phase, but at just short of a month it seems to be a bit more. I'm 18 weeks pregnant, exhausted & (murphy's law) am going back to work in a couple of weeks. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks xx
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The first week he started doing it was heinous, I have to agree! He doesn't sleep in the day, hasn't from very young - 20 mins here or there, an hour on a great day - but he never seems tired. Me on the other hand......
Theres pain, wind, hot, cold, teething, growth spirts, seperation worries, hungar, too smaller gro bag, nightmares and new things learnt - these all seem to bring broken nights and I am not sure when it stops as I am a first time mum lol
Not easy when you are pregnant, I hope the phase ends soon for your LO.
Maybe it's the cuddles & comfort sucking, and mummy's cosy bed ? At 4 months, I wouldn't deny him either. At 8 months and moving around with no fear, I wouldn't trust myself to keep her from crawling/rolling out! No chance of the plug either, as she's ff & doesn't take a dummy :roll:
I feel your pain with the day sleeping too, it's only recently she's increased from 40 minutes a time! She can look exhausted, but still be smiling and carrying on. She has, however, developed my trait of losing co-ordination and spacial awareness when tired ;\) Have you found the 'off' switch yet I keep looking...
Thanks for your input Suziewoo, and sorry you're suffering too. I'm clinging to the hope that it's a phase-or teeth. The length of time it's been going on, I'm half expecting her to wake up with a mouth full of teeth
Maybe we'll get the chance to get our own back when they're older, and wake them at all hours of the night ;\) xx
hope it continues to get better x