Full night sleep

**hope8nzc** · April 2nd, 2015, 12:11 AM

Thank you all

I feel much better now.
Will let him be a baby, and try not to stress about it too much.

**tubbles** · April 2nd, 2015, 06:34 AM

Every baby is different, and there is no way to tell when they " should" sleep through. I am of the opinion they still need some feeds overnight and at bed until they are one,mbut that is just my opinion. My two kids had waves of "good" and "bad" nights. When DS was born DD(2) was waking more than my newborn! When my son was a toddler I bought "Nursies When the Sun Shines" to help encourage and introduce the idea of night weaning. It helped a lot.
I also found between 3-9 months my son woke to wee during the night, which could be what is happening with your baby.
I highly recommend Parenting from the Heart or Sleep Like A Baby by pinky McKay to help ease your mind that your baby is perfectly normal waking. For gentle approaches to helping sleep last longer you could look at The No-Cry Solution to Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley, or if your baby is crying lots you could look at the Aware Parenting approach of allowing your child to release their emotions through crying in your arms, but it doesn't sound like this is the case for you bub, just that he is waking age appropriately

I hope you find what works best for you and your family and find peace in following your baby's sleeping patterns

**tubbles** · April 2nd, 2015, 06:34 AM

Every baby is different, and there is no way to tell when they " should" sleep through. I am of the opinion they still need some feeds overnight and at bed until they are one,mbut that is just my opinion. My two kids had waves of "good" and "bad" nights. When DS was born DD(2) was waking more than my newborn! When my son was a toddler I bought "Nursies When the Sun Shines" to help encourage and introduce the idea of night weaning. It helped a lot.
I also found between 3-9 months my son woke to wee during the night, which could be what is happening with your baby.
I highly recommend Parenting from the Heart or Sleep Like A Baby by pinky McKay to help ease your mind that your baby is perfectly normal waking. For gentle approaches to helping sleep last longer you could look at The No-Cry Solution to Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley, or if your baby is crying lots you could look at the Aware Parenting approach of allowing your child to release their emotions through crying in your arms, but it doesn't sound like this is the case for you bub, just that he is waking age appropriately

I hope you find what works best for you and your family and find peace in following your baby's sleeping patterns

**turtledove** · April 2nd, 2015, 09:32 AM

I was also going to recommend "the no cry sleep solution."

**turtledove** · April 2nd, 2015, 11:39 PM

Another thought... There are "professional sleep consultants" just like there are lactation consultants for breastfeeding. If you are really exhausted, and it sounds like you are, you poor thing, then it might be something worth looking into?

**hope8nzc** · April 6th, 2015, 03:54 AM

Another thought... There are "professional sleep consultants" just like there are lactation consultants for breastfeeding. If you are really exhausted, and it sounds like you are, you poor thing, then it might be something worth looking into?

I will search for the book you suggested, thanks

About the sleep consultant, we consulted one three months ago and her method was to let him cry and approach him every few minutes to let him know that he is not alone, and no feeds. it didn't work for us! and was really hard for me to hear him cry so in the end we stopped. we are going to try another consultant with a different approach but i'm highly skeptical.