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Night time waking after previously sleeping through
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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Unfortunately I don't think I can offer anything different to what you've already suggested - sorry!
But, reading I initially thought teeth or developmental. Maybe she has all these new things going around in her head and is causing her difficulty sleeping.
We had something similar recently, LO has always gone down excellently in his cot and loves his sleep, but the week before last LO wouldn't go down at all and needed to be cuddled to sleep (usually hates being cuddled!), Tried Calpol, teething powders, bonjela etc, but nothing seemed to help. I put it down to changes at home - DH being back at work after 6 weeks and me going to work for a few hours each week. But after a few days I could see new lumps and bumps with new teeth and (touch wood) he has been fine ever since.
I'm sure it's far more difficult being pregnant (congrats by the way!). Fingers crossed it's just a long passing phase that she will grow out of.
Sorry I couldn't be of much help - I'm sure some of the other Jan Mummies with be more useful!
BB xx
I've been tweaking meal times and how much she eats (less food), which means she's taking more milk and is actually keen for her bottle which she wasn't a week ago! Think this has helped as she's taking more milk before bed, so is fuller for longer. I do think she's teething too, as her fingers are constantly being chomped on, so giving her the benefit of the doubt & giving her pain killers if I think she needs them. This seems to have helped too.
Hope Elysia allows you both a full nights' sleep soon xx
Glad to hear things are improving for you - you will get there!
BB xx