5 month old sudden sleep problems- teething

[gsm]

My baby will be 5 months in a week. He has been a great sleeper. He would sleep around 9:30pm-8:30am. I nursed/rocked him to sleep and would sleep in his crib without waking up to feed.

He recently got a tooth and the second one broke out yesterday finally. Im not sure what is going on or if the second tooth is really painful for him but the last 4 nights the minute i lay him in his crib he wouldwake crying. He doesnt want to nurse just rocked back to sleep. Ive tried for over20 mi ites holding him till he is in a deep aleep and yet as soon as he hits his crib hes crying. This will go on all night past 2 am or some days all night. No routine has changed.

Its gotten to the point where i need sleep and have to let him cry it out (as much as it hurts) because i have to rest ecentually as im exhausted. He usually cries 20-30 minutes then is fast asleep till around 7am without waking in the night. Sometime he will cry on and off for an hour till he finally falls asleep. Ive tried giving him teething tablets etc n nothing else works. I know hes not hungry his diaper is clean and the temperature is fine so i know his cry is not for something he needs. I hate having to let my baby cry it out. I also check him on the monitor to make sure he is fine and i go to sleep until he is asleep.

Any recomendations or suggestions on what the problem might be? Hes fussy during the day because of the teething but nothing out of the ordinary. The night sleepings is what has suddenly gotten bad. I refuse to sleep with him in my bed as my 3 year old comes over to out bed in the middle of the night and i dont trust my husband as he goes into deep sleep.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as im exhausted. Thanks in advance.

 

[Hieveryone]

My 7 month old is similar at the moment. The best way I have found to cope is to set up a bed made of duvets on the floor of his room and stay in there with him. Not ideal!

 

[coz]

This is exactly what my 6 month old is doing he cut his second tooth a couple of weeks back but im just not sure what it is thats making him so grumpy in the night from 12 pm onwards, he was really hard to settle last night even breastfeeding wouldnt send him into a deep sleep like it usually does He seemed to scream every time i put him down and is waking roughly every couple of hours but its taking me longer to get him to settle , even sleeping on me he seemed to be restless x

 

[MindUtopia]

For us, this had more to do with a developmental jump than teething. In my experience, a teething baby will have disrupted sleep throughout the night. My daughter was waking hourly, crying in obvious pain, having a small feed, then back to sleep, all night long when she was teething. It's usually before the teeth break through the gum. Once they pop through, everything goes back to normal. Struggling to fall asleep initially always happened though when she was going through a big developmental jump. When it happened at 5 months, it was because of learning to roll back to front. It happened again at 8-9 months when she was learning to crawl, stand and cruise. Their brains literally just can't shut off because they want to practice, practice, practice what they are trying to learn. What I found worked best was just riding it out and knowing it would be over soon. I did whatever we had to do to get her comfortably to sleep with as little stress on her as possible. At 5 months, this meant lying down next to her for 45 minutes sometimes while she fell asleep. At 8 months, it meant lots of rocking and cuddling and sitting next to her to soothe her until she fell asleep. My husband and I would take it in turns during the evening, so one of us got a break and could sit down and eat dinner, and then we'd switch. It never lasted forever and usually when it was over, sleep was better even than before.

 

[Loobs]

I came here looking for some of the same advice. DS is 4.5 months and his first tooth popped through before the turn of the year, he's slept through the night since 9 weeks old. I knew he was teething, loads of saliva, chewing everything. But it wasn't too troublesome. Now his sleep is so disturbed. He is very restless and needs milk to settle again. It's like having a newborn again. I wondered at first if it was a developmental jump or a growth spurt but its been going on for too long now. I figure he is annoyed by whatever is going on in his mouth, and it wakes him enough for him to realise he's gone 4+ hours without a feed. We have bedshared/coslept the whole time and it hasn't made any difference. I'm at my wits end!

 

[gsm]

Thanks everyone for the info. His 2 bottom teeth are out. Nothing developmental changed. He nurses to sleep again and stays asleep. If he wakes up he cries wether i rock him back to sleep or not for a minute or two and is out until around 3am which he nurses. Then around 4:30am hes up nirsing again and sleeps till around 8am.

Where is my baby that used to sleep through the night? His crying is way better and falls asleep fastet but the 2 night wakings are exhausting.