Not sleeping well at night anymore

[Sammiejane]

Over the past month Molly Janes sleeping pattern has gone from sleeping from 8.30pm til about 7am to now waking every hour or 2 until 3ish and then sleeping through til 8am.

Sometimes she is waking with teething pain i think and i give her bongela, but most of the time i am sure its almost like sep anxiety, she wakes and needs to know tat someone is there, she will cry until she is picked up - shushing and patting dont work and i am not going to persevere with it as she gets more upset, but as soon as i pick her up she falls back asleep.

the only way i can get her back down is by putting a warm heatpack in her cot when i pick her up so that its warm when she goes down and doesnt notice the change in temp from body warmth to cold cot.

Nothing has changed that could be contributing as far as i can think, she has always een in her room in her cot.... she is not hungry as she falls asleep straight away and doesnt even mouth.

I have wondered whether a couple of nights in with us (in our bed) would help as as soon as she stirs i could settle her without her actually waking and then maybe she would get back into the habit of not waking? dont know if that will make it worse though?

Please any suggestions... im getting very tired with waking so frequently

thanks

[Sammiejane]

So last night as an indicator,
Bed at 8.30pm
crying at 10.30pm - asleep as soon as i picked her up
crying at 1am " "
crying at 3am " "
crying at 5.30am " " Brought her to bed with us
grizly at 7am - patted back to sleep - didnt actually wake

AHHHH my eyes are hanging out of my head!

[Je$$_84]

Sammiejane- sorry your having issues with bubs sleeping... What are the day sleeps like???

Is she too big to be wraped??? I used a cot sheet to wrap the kids as sometimes they needed comfort and the closeness of the wrap helped them feel secure.

Also you could try putting a cd player in her room with some lovely soothing music on repeat (just softly) i found with DS just the radio wouold help... Made him think people were around while he slept... he hated the silence.

[Junglemum]

Hey Sammiejane,

Not sure i have many words of wisdom, except for the fact that 7 months seems to be a common time for sleep to go out the window. For us it was the top two teeth coming through and she started waking hourly. Seperation anxiety is a real issue for some bubs around this age too. The good news is, she went back to sleeping through after not too long.
Hang in there. xox

[Jaycee]

Hi Jess,
It seems there are a few of us around having sleep issues at the moment.
I have no words of wisdom as I can't fix my own problems lol, however I just wanted to let you know you are not alone in this.
I hope things get better for you soon, sleep deprivation is not fun!
Take care
xxx

[queenbee]

Hi Sammie, my DD did this at around the 7 month mark also as she was a good sleeper before this. But it didn't last long and she was back to sleeping well again at night in no time. I give my little one Nurofen if I feel she has teething pain or anything, seems to do the trick. All babies are different though, perhaps try some Panadol?

We have always co-slept with our DD too but just recently have bought a toddler bed for her day sleeps (she is a cot hater!), doesn't seem to stay in at night, loves cuddling up to Mummy too much I think.

In the meantime, sleep if you can when your little one does, just so you don't get sleep deprivation. I had a doctor's visit as I was sleep deprived, not a good thing to have at all.

By the way, it DOES get better. Good luck!