My 7 month old slept through the night since he was 8 weeks (8 pm-7 am). As soon as he began to crawl and stand up he hates going in the crib at night. He naps great in his crib and soothes himself for naps just fine. He has had a solid nighttime routine since he was born and nothing we did changed. If we put him in his crib after his night bottle he screams and screams. If we put him in sleeping he wakes up screaming 30min - 1 hour later. For that reason he has slept with us the past three weeks. We still try the crib but get to a point of exhaustion and tears and end up bringing him to bed. We are to the point where we are losing sleep and would like him back in his crib. I have a hard time with the CIO as I tried and after 35 minutes he was blue in the face and took another hour to put down because he was so mad. I read tons of the sleep books but find most address waking up needing to eat or not knowing how to self soothe. I thought maybe it was separation anxiety so decided to stay in his room last night however watched him cry on and off for an hour standing up reaching his arms out. I have no idea where to go from here. Also if we leave in crib he won't fall back with words or pats as he needs to be picked up and walked around. After we out him back in sleeping he wakes up every 1-2 hours doing the same thing. Does anyone have Any advice? I'm at a loss as he seemed to love his crib until about 3 weeks ago.
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LO had trouble sleeping for about a week when she started standing. It was soooo hard to hear her cry and I saved her for a few nights and brought her to our bed but I started to ignore it and it got better every time...cry for 40 minutes, cry for 30, etc.
Hang in there and welcome to HB!
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My LO Is 7.5 months and doing the exact thing. She wakes 5-10 tines a night screaming. However, she does great for naps.
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What time do you put your LO down? Crawling around really wears a baby out! If she's waking that close to you putting her down for the night, it might indicate that she needs an earlier bedtime.
When DD started crawling, she started becoming really clingy at night and wanted to be held a lot more. I really think it's just a phase that they are going through. I don't like CIO, so I only let her cry for a max of 15 min. I'll go in and soothe her and then put her down again. Sometimes I have to completely rock her to sleep in order for her to stay asleep when I put her in her crib..
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@BabyBoecksMom: interesting about the early bedtime. We put LO to bed at 9 because she wakes at 830. It seems like it would be impossible to get her down earlier. She just cries and cries and fights sleep like mad. How do you do it?
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He goes to bed about 8. He gets a bath at 7:30. I thought maybe he needed An earlier bedtime so tried the bath at 7 last night. He fell asleep eating and them woke up at 8 and was wide awake until 10 ! He takes a short 30 min nap around 430 or 5 usually too. When we try earlier bedtimes he eats and them wakes up30 min or an hour later ready to play like he thinks its a nap.
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: We didn't do it on purpose, it just kind of started happening. Her bedtime used to be 9pm, but over a couple of months, it went down to 6:30 or 7pm. She would be SO cranky when we got home from not napping well at daycare that we would have to feed, bathe and give her a bottle almost right when we got home, or shortly after. She gets overtired really easily, so we had to make sure to act before that happened, otherwise we'd have a full meltdown on our hands.
Funny thing was, the earlier we put her to bed, the easier it was for her to go down. Initially she cried when we left the room, but then she would just sit and sing to herself until she fell asleep. The other thing that helped us is putting a couple stuffed animals, toys or blankets in there to distract her from us leaving the room. She could play with them until she fell asleep on her own.
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@BabyBoecksMom: this is interesting! Thank you for sharing. My W is super active too and is already trying to walk. So she is super busy all day, maybe she could be overtired at night. But she does nap well...two really long naps a day. She sleeps longer stretches during the day than at night! I wonder if that's part of the reason her night sleep is so poor.
Don't mean to thread jack!
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@New mommy: It's so hard because a lot of it is a guessing game.
If you put him down early and then he wakes up a little later, do you keep the room dark and try to put him back down? Or is there no way he would go back down? @Rainbow Sprinkles: If she's sleeping well during the day, then that should help at night. Contrary to popular belief, the better they sleep during the day, the better they *should* sleep at night. An overtired baby will not sleep well at night. So it's great that she's taking long naps during the day! DD's the same way. She just doesn't like to sleep through the night... never has! Hopefully we'll get that under control this week.
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If he wakes up we keep it dark and he screams so we bring him to our bed and he laughs and climbs all over for an hour or two. We keep it dark and usually I "play dead". We are going to try yet again putting in the crib tonight. Our plan is to put him down sleeping and rock him back every time he wakes up screaming and put him back again once sleeping. This is the "sneaky method" in the book the no cry sleep solution. I can't bear to him cry longer then 20 min. Wish me luck!!!!! Bath time is at 7 tonight .
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: I didn't realize your daughter's bedtime was 9pm when I responded to you the other day about night terrors. What time does she wake up from her last nap? Same question to you @New mommy.
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@bree72: she wakes up from her last nap at 5:30, sometimes as late as. 6:30, and her morning wakeup is at 8:30.
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: Hmmm. Well, 5:30 is really late for a nap to end, but I can certainly understand not wanting to mess with an 8:30 wake up. But, if she's not actually sleeping from 9-8:30 with only one or two wake ups at most, I might be inclined to shake up her schedule. I don't let my son sleep past 4 or it ruins his sleep. He'll fight going to bed, so we'll let him stay up, and then he sleeps like poo.
Of course, it's all such a game of chance, Maybe she really is having separation anxiety, but maybe she's telling you that what you're doing currently isn't working for her. Add in some teething and some new milestones and it seems to change every day.
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@BabyBoecksMom: We also came to an earlier bedtime naturally. It literally went from 10pm to. 6:30/7 within weeks. And he does so much better this way. We have night terror issues, so we have to be sure we get him down before he's overtired.
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@bree72: I know her nap ends late, but that's because her late morning wakeup pushes everything back. She also takes really long naps.
We've tried doing early bedtime before and it just seems to explode in our face. She wakes after an hour and is ready to party, refusing to go back down. So then she just ends up going to bed later! But I guess at this point I should be willing to try anything?@New mommy: wow, your issues seem so similar to mine! I hope tonite goes well for you! Keep us posted. Have you tried using a night light?
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@rainbow sprinkles- yes they do and this is no fun. He is crying in bed as we speak but only going on 5 minutes and it feels like an eternity. His last nap ends at 5 as he falls asleep on the way home from day care which is a 30 min drive. He only napped 1.5 hours all day so I pushed bedtime to now and I know he's exhausted but fights it so hard. He has such a driven and stubborn personality that he never gives up. Does your LO have night terrors? My LO has had them in the past that's why I ask. Good luck. I feel so bad like I'm punishing him every time he cries and stands up. He sleeps so peaceful in our bed, but we sure don't. And yes we have a sound machine and 2 night lights and a lovey and my pillow in his bed (with my scent). What am I missing? :0)
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: Next random thought: aren't you starting an office job soon? Will you LO be able to sleep to 8:30 then? Just thinking things might just shift on their own if this is the case.
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