I am seeking help from all mothers through this blog. I need rescue therapy of any kind, advises from the experienced to help me get my baby to sleep throughout the night. Yes it is shocking right? Natalie is going to turn 1 year old next month and till now she still wakes up frequently to drink milk. Let me narrate Natalie's sleep pattern last night:
7:30pm Drink 180ml of milk
8:30pm Got tired and slept
11:40pm woke up and drank another 180ml of milk
3:30am woke up screaming... drank another 180ml of milk
4:00am went back to sleep
4:45am woke up cranky wants attention............. awake till 6am
6am slept
7:20am woke up again
.................................................................................. -___-'''
I almost fainted... I am beginning to worry this will carry on forever!
This happens very frequently, it has become a bad habit of Natalie. I hope she can sleep for a continuous of 6 to 7 hours in a roll and not gets up every 3 - 4 hours interval... It's draining.... it's affecting my sleep too. I pity my maid as well as she has to put up with the long sleepless nights, accompany Natalie till she gets back to sleep. How mothers? What should I do to change Natalie's time clock back to schedule?
I envy mothers when they told me that their babies are able to sleep throughout the night when they were only 3 months old... Did I start off with the wrong foot that created Natalie's bad habit?
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12 comments:
my boy is 13mth old oso cant slp thru the nite... is ur gal teething?
yes she is teething, I apply teething gel for her before she sleeps, guess it's painful for the babies at this period
Noelle.. I was a mother when I was 20... so my experience is quite good.
DO NOT LET YOUR BABY SLEEP TOO LONG in the day nor at evening time. She will definitely has too much sleep and rest thus not wanting to sleep at night. My son was like this too when he was a baby until I used this method. It doesn't mean deprive the babies from sleep. Sleep is very important to babies.. However, do minimise the hours of their afternoon naps and evening naps... Try it. Trust me and it works
I agree with what Quinn said...
For my nephew who stayed with my mum during week-nights, we will not let him sleep anytime after 6:30pm. Even if he does sleep at 6:30pm (which is quite rare now), we will only let him have 45mins of nap.
After that, it's dinner time follow by play time for him. There are a few times that he will wake at 5pm from his afternoon nap and will feel sleepy around 8pm... but we will distract him by playing with him, letting him watch his fav show...
Now my nephew will sleep between 10pm - 10:30pm and sleep all the way till about 7am the next day.
Try to time in such that Natalie will have a milk feeding just before her sleep at night. She will be well-fed and sleepy by then and will sleep longer through the night.
Hope this will help. : )
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Yup i agree too, try not not let her sleep after 630pm unless she's really very crank, then perhaps a half hour nap will be sufficient.
Also, she might not be eating full during the afternoon, that is why she still wakes up frequently to drink milk. If you feed her sufficiently in the day time, most likely after her last feeding of milk at about 9 - 10pm, she should be able to sleep throughout.
Anyway, my boy does that too (ocassionally) as in waking up in the middle of the night. He usually wake up at 3am and fall back to sleep bot 5 - 6am. Usually its because he wants to play! So i try not to talk or play with when he wakes up. Just let him know that its time to sleep again and now is not the raight time for play.
Gradually he will get the signal that no one is gonna play with him if he wakes in the middle of the night.
Hope it helps! :p
Hi Noelle,
Perhaps, you can try checking with Brenda of http://littlegastronomy.blogspot.com/ for your doubt. She is a very friendly and helpful mommy.
Hi,
this book helped me train my girl to sleep through the night at 6 weeks. But you have to persist because your little girl is almost one and you have to gradually turn her old habits around.
My sister borrowed both her books from the National Library. The Baby Whisperer, by Tracy Hoggs.
My little girl just turned 3 months and she is sleeping 10-12 hour stretch at every night.
Before I started her on the E.A.S.Y method by Tracy Hoggs, my little girl was waking up every 2 hours for milk throughout the night.
It doesn't require any crying out method nor depriving her from food or sleep at all. The key is just persistence.
It was my lifesaver, please try.
Good luck!
Hi Mummy Noelle,
As you mention in your precious timetable,it seems that she may not be getting enough sleep at night due to the frequent waking.
Having good sleep is very important to baby(certainly to everyone)
Reduce the amt of time she sleep in the day, massage her to keep her awake in the day.
Have a warm relaxing bath 2 hrs before bedtime.
All the best! Mummy...greatest!!
Hi,
I think what you can do is to try not to feed her immediately when she wake up and cry. Try to prolong the time before attending to her. For example, if she cries, let her cry for 10-15 mins, if it still persists tend to her first and try to coach her to sleep before feeding her. and prolong after each session. Or can try feeding her water instead of milk. lol
Hi Noelle,
I understand how you feel, having to wake up in the middle of the night to feed Nat. So tiring, right?
I might not be as experienced but I can share with you my baby boy's pattern. He is 6 mths old now. He sleeps throughout the night. You might want to train her when she is still small because i believe it's all about habits. my mil who is babysitter said that too :)
930am >> bath him before giving him porridge
12pm >> nap 1 hr
1pm >> milk 200-220ml
3pm >> nap
4pm >> porridge
530pm >> bath him again
6pm >> nap
7pm >> milk
9pm >> nap
11pm >> last feed milk then sleep
till next day morning
when it's time to nap, he will make noise. when it's time to eat, he will suck his thumb. so the pattern is like porridge -> nap -> milk -> nap. once u know her pattern, it's easier for u to know what she wants.
does nat sleep in her cot or sarong?
I used to have this problem. My daughter started sleeping through the night when she was about 2.5mths old. 10pm milk, 3am milk, 6am milk. But when she was about 4mths it started going haywire. 6-10night wakings in a 12hr period. Carried on until she was about 13months old. Then it just stopped for no rhyme or reason. Now she'll fall asleep at 9pm & wake up at around 4-5am for milk. Maybe in between another milk feed (too groggy to remember) before waking up at 8-9am.
I always subscribe to this belief: This too, shall pass.
I just read your other comments. I had many people telling me the same things too: feed her more for dinner so she'll sleep better, feed her water instead of milk when she wakes up, don't let her sleep so much in the day, play with her more in the day, when she wake up just pat her, this kind must train, blahblah. I even bought books but it still didn't work. Anyway I heard that at around the age of 2yrs they will stop waking up at night (I don't know how true), so I was prepared to just wait until my daughter turns 2. It came as a very pleasant surprise that she finally stopped waking up so often :)
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