waking up at 12 everynight and crying til get up with him!
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For the past 4 nights now max has been waking up at 12ish doesn't want a bottle , doesn't want holding for comfort, just cries and cries til you take him downstairs and put him tv on! i'm at my wits end, how do i get him back to sleeping at night! i cant go pn like this much longer, got 2 other boys to get to school etc!
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Have you started weaning him yet? Maybe he's teething. When he wakes try putting some teething gel or powders in his mouth. does he have a dummy at night?
Charlotte has been very unsettled recently and I have since discovered that her 1st molars are due to make an appearance. Fortunately the past 2 nights she has slept thru. Hopefully this is just a phase that will pass soon. xx
How does he get to sleep - can he get himself off or does he need a prop like rocking? This will only work if he can get himslef off to sleep - if you creep in there about half an hour to an hour before he would normally wake in the night and wake him up - tickle his feet, rustle the covers enough for him to wake up but not completely wake up, he won't want to and will go back to sleep. It should then knock his sleep cycle (they are 45 mins long) off of the 12am habit.
I have done this a few times and it does work but don't wake them up too much - just enough for him to need to start a new sleep cycle.
how about putting on some calm, soothing music in his room instead of the tv?
I agree ccbmommy that you shouldn't take him down to watch tv as this will only encourage him to keep doing it.