thanks girls. last nite was a shocker (bed at 7pm, bottle at 9pm, dummy runs at 11pm and 2am, bottle at 4am and up and chirpy at 6am) ... dont think i got more than 3 hours sleep combined as it takes me a good half hour to get back to sleep after each wakeup... her dummy is on a tether but she manages to get it stuck under her somehow...
re co-sleeping it is tempting but i have friends stay over often and dont want to get her into a habit i cant break...plus cause im FF i still have to get up and make a bottle anyway SO....TIRED....
Just a thought Em, if you try co-sleeping, she might be happy just to have you near and not demand the bottle... Could be a compromise. Is she in the same room with you or her own?
She's learnign to crawl, isn't she? Teething? All these sorts of things make them more wakeful. Plus separation anxiety at this age. It is really hard and can last a while unfortunately. Hope you get some better nights soon.
Hi TM - what a rough gig at the moment! My DD was the same, until she was about 9 months old she was sleeping through with just a dreamfeed before I went to sleep myself - but since then she usually wakes 1-3 times a night (mostly once now) and it can sometimes take up to 3 hours to settle her back to sleep.
Two things I've figured out have been going on:
~ She's been getting separation anxiety at night (not necessarily in the day time though) and really just wants to be around me until she feels sleepy again. It's a really common age for it to be happening.
~ At the same time as the separation anxiety she's been going through teething at night. Not many symptoms during the day, but the pain has woken her at night and takes ages for her to be ready to settle back to sleep due to the discomfort (sometimes when it's been an hour or two I offer her nurofen or panadol), and she wants to be comforted and have me there when she's in pain. Don't blame her! Since she was 9 months old she's cut 5 teeth and she's cutting another 3 at the moment (she cut her first two easily when she was around 6 months). The worst of the pain has happened when there's no indication of any teeth imminent - it's only after when I see her cutting the teeth that I realise that's been the main cause of her night waking. She has been having these nights pretty consistently for 6 months now, with the odd break here or there.
Could this be happening to your DD? Some babies show lots of teething symptoms as their teeth are still deep in their jaw and start moving, yet there is nothing visible in their mouth. And it can be a reaaaaaally long drawn out process - so far it's taken my DD almost 2 months with these current teeth that are just cutting to get to this point.
Just some thoughts - sorry I can't offer a solution but I hope you can get some better sleep soon and figure out what is happening for her and that you're DD is feeling better soon.
ETA - I was just thinking - I've not tried it myself but would you consider an amber teething necklace for her and see if that has any affect after a bit of time?
Last edited by Acacia; March 9th, 2010 at 12:40 AM.
acacia, thanks for ur advice! DD already has a teething necklace (since 5 months) and has been displaying 'teething symptoms' since 3 months but no sign of any teeth yet (starting to wonder if she has any in there lol)....last n ight when she woke at about 1030 i went in with the nurofen (which she loooooves, thank goodness) and then popped her dummy back in and shock horror slept til 8am (with a bottle at 4am)...so i guess it was pain....poor bubba
SO....TIRED....
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My DD was the same, until she was about 9 months old she was sleeping through with just a dreamfeed before I went to sleep myself - but since then she usually wakes 1-3 times a night (mostly once now) and it can sometimes take up to 3 hours to settle her back to sleep.
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