I can count on one hand the number of times DS has slept through the night. He goes to bed around 7pm and is up for the day at 7am, but how many times he wakes up during the night is anyone's guess. For awhile he was only waking up once (usually around 3am), but because of teething, a cold and visitors, lately it's been about 4 times a night. We've tried CIO in the past and it didn't take, so I go in and nurse him. Based on what I read, though, it seems like he should go from 7-7 without any wake-ups.
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@Katrocap: mine! We weaned at 17 months and immediately after that, she started sttn. I don't know if it was related but the two happened within a day or two of each other so it's hard not to guess that's why!
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My LO is almost 18 mo. She has had maybe two 3-4 week periods where she STTN, but then she's gone back to waking up. Last week she woke up and would not go back down for a loooong time every night. I was going to work on only 3-4 hrs of sleep for days in a row and I was DYING! I am blaming her teeth (she has a few just starting to poke through) and the two nights I gave her Tylenol this week, she STTN. I gave her Tylenol again tonight, so fingers crossed.
I feel like some kids are just better sleepers than others...four awakenings seems like too much though. He can't be hungry that often at 16 mo unless he isn't eating during the day.
LO weaned at 11.5 months and I don't think it really affected her sleep either way.
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LO didn't sleep through the night until he was 2 and fully weaned.
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LO is 15 months and we are still struggling with an on/off 4am wakeup. He goes to bed at 7ish and sleeps until 6ish if we can get him back to sleep after he wakes up. I think he is waking because his meds wear off. The nights where the teething isn't bad he sleeps through (most of the time). Are you giving motrin? We stopped all middle of the night feedings after he turned 1, and he hasn't needed one since. I can usually give him the medicine, snuggle with him for a minute in the rocking chair, and then put him down to go back to sleep. Sometimes though he is too awake at that point (especially if he wakes closer to 5) and just decides he is starting his day.
I don't know about CIO necessarily, but that does seem like a lot of wake ups. Maybe try weaning back off the feedings if you can?
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My girl never has and I am not counting on it. More like 9-5 with 3-5 wakeups
she'll be a year on Tuesday. Everyone says they got no sleep the first year and I'm all like, "what about the rest of them?" (As in, I don't think I'll be sleeping for many years 
I am not going to plan on it.)
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@brownie: that's going to be us, I just know it, so it is kind of nice to hear...
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I hate to tell you this but my girl is almost 3, goes to be by herself and still wakes up about once a night. Usually we just go in now and lay her back down, cover her up and turn her music back on.
We night weaned around 14 months and totally weaned at 18.
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LO is 18 months and usually always wakes up at least once and nine times out of ten won't settle until bring her in with me. I feel like some babies are just like that.
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Almost 21 months and he wakes up to come into our bed. We need to do something about it but it's just so much easier to put him in our bed and sleep the rest of the night.
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@mediagirl: +1
We weaned because the doctor didn't recommend I breast feed while pregnant, right afterwards she started STTN. I want to say it took her 3/4 days of one wake up and finally around day 5 she has been STTN since. It's only been two weeks but her sleep is so much better I feel like I should have weaned sooner
Eta: if anyone ever knows who I am in real life do not tell my mom or in-laws. I will never hear the end of "I told you so..."
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@travelgirl1: @skipra: I'm jealous! J won't sleep in bed with me! She will sleep on my chest, but not next to me in bed. I was so desperate one night last week that I sleep on the floor next to her crib!
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@78h2o: A is obsessed with sleeping with me but it drives DH nuts. Seriously. But I do it because I NEED sleep and if that's what it takes to get it, bring it on :happy:. I'm sorry J won't co-sleep, I would so have done the floor sleeping too, I can't believe I used to voluntarily stay up all night in my youth. I had nooo idea how amazing a full night's sleep is!
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@travelgirl1: yep, this sounds like us!
@Katrocap: Alexis is almost twenty months and although we've had patches of better sleep, she is yet to consistently STTN. On a good night she'll sleep till around 5 and I get in to bed with her and we nurse, on a bad night I end up in bed with her at midnight and she nurses on and off till morning!
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My LO started sleeping through the night 2 weeks before her secon birthday.
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@Katrocap: Thank you for starting this, it makes me feel less alone.
DS is 14 moths and has randomly STTN twice. He had a better stretch just before 1 for about 3 weeks and he didn't nurse at night, still woke up though. Then daycare and being sick started and it was just easier to nurse for a short amount of time since I had to get some sleep to work. Now he is up 2, sometimes 3 times a night. Some of the time DH can go in and get him back to sleep, but I usually have to nurse at least once. And I know I don't have to it is just easier.
Why do some babies have to be such worse sleepers?
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@alv91711: You're welcome
The few times my DS has STTN were completely random, too. When DH goes in, DS just thrashes about, which is what he does for me if I don't nurse him.@rainbowsprinkles: What a great second birthday present for you!
@travelgirl1: I can't believe I used to voluntarily stay up all night, too! What fools we were!
@hellocupcake: Your secret (from your mom and ILs) is safe with me!
@skipra: I go in and nurse DS because it seems easier at the time, too. I worry that if I don't go to him that he'll just keep crying and be up for the day at 3am.
@T.H.O.U.: I'm hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst, i.e., another 16+ months of this.
@mrs.lion: I wonder if my DS wakes up because his medicine wears off. On occasion we give him motrin, but we do give him zyrtec everynight before bed for his eczema. I should try to cut back on the night feedings, but he won't let me NOT nurse him. If I pick him up and try to rock/hold him he flails his body around.
@mediagirl: Congrats!!!
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@Katrocap: poor thing
I would definitely try the motrin. It is like magic. I am appalled at the amount we have gone through but lo started getting his molars 3 months ago and then his canines and bottom incisors. 10 teeth in the last 3 months. It is awful. He has a teething necklace too and I swear it keeps the pain muted during the day, but at night he needs the meds I wouldnt try to wean if he is hurting. Theres time for that later. He probably doesn't feel good and just needs his momma -
DS is 19 months and will at least a few times a week have at least one wake up in the middle of the night. DH goes in and lays with him or just gives him his paci. We have spurts where he sleeps good and will go all night and then spurts where he's up multiple times... even sometimes for an hour+.
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@mrskc: Up for an hour+, omg, you poor thing!
@mrs.lion: We'll give the motrin a try, thanks!
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@mrskc: we had a long wake up last night too, had to do a nappy change and then A was just too awake for her own good!
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Mine HAD sttn but at 16 months had stopped. That's when her molars were done coming in and I sleep trained using extinction. It wasn't that she needed anything, not even me, to fall asleep. She was waking up earlier and earlier and throwing a little fit when I wouldn't move her out of her crib. (She fell asleep on her own in the beginning of the night.) It was basically 2 "bad" nights and then 2 nights of shorter wakeups and then sttn. She's had ups and downs since then that were clearly due to illness or travel.
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We were sidecarred at that age and still nursing. We detached the crib from the bed and started doing pick up put down at bedtime and for any wakeups (she always has at least one) and it worked! Now she STTN and we also weaned.
she'll be a year on Tuesday. Everyone says they got no sleep the first year and I'm all like, "what about the rest of them?" (As in, I don't think I'll be sleeping for many years 
I am not going to plan on it.)
The few times my DS has STTN were completely random, too. When DH goes in, DS just thrashes about, which is what he does for me if I don't nurse him.Reply
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