evening wakings

[Hieveryone]

Anyone got any advice to cut down on evening wakings? My LO wakes pretty much every hour from the time he goes to bed around 8 until 12ish. He is breastfed.

 

[stormcloud96]

How old? & I'll be watching this thread!

 

[Teri7489]

Is he waking for a feed? If he is then its just cluster feeding which lots of babies do at growth spurt times. X

 

[BunnyN]

What time do you go to bed? Oue two have never slept as well until everyone else is in bed and settled as well.

 

[Hieveryone]

Bub is 7.5 months. We normally go to bed around 9:30. He does want feeding when he wakes. He has started doing this since he had colds from Nov onwards. Once he is settled he generally sleeps well from around 12 till 3 Ish when he feeds and will then sleep till 8 Ish. It's not too bad whilst I'm off work but when I am back at work in a month I will have to be up at 6. The evening waking also mean it is v difficult for me to get out for a night. He is arching his back alot and grunts when feeding too so not sure if that's related?

 

[BunnyN]

Mine never sleep well when they have a cold or for at least 2 or 3 weeks after so if he has had a cold it could be related.

 

[Hieveryone]

Tonight we put him to bed earlier (around 7) then he woke 30 mins later so I tried to ignore him for 10 mins but that didn't work as he'd rolled onto his tummy.I then tried to comfort him without feeding which again just drove him mad so it took an hour to settle him. When he finally did settle at 8:30 he slept till 11:15 which is a big improvement. Tomorrow I will try again but prob just go straight to him at the first waking as i think maybe the key is just the earlier bedtime and feeding him to sleep is not so bad if it means he does 3 hrs

 

[coz]

My 6 month old seems to of got worse the last few months he goes to bed about 8.30 and from midnight hes up every 2 hours sometimes sooner but he seems to be getting worse, im still breastfeeding in the night but i formula feed him in the day now but i think he mostly breastfeeds for comfort in the night which i really dont want to do as im starting work soon and wanted to stop breast feeding this month. Now i think hes getting a cold Il keep my eye on this thread too for advice . Ive been trying a dummy but he wont take it x

 

[MindUtopia]

I found that time around when they are getting ready to crawl and stand was really difficult for evening wakings. For us, it was around 8/9/maybe 10 months, but it was just as she had learned to crawl and was learning to stand and cruise (it was also when she was smack in the middle of the separation anxiety phase which tends to happen sometime between 6-12 months). She was waking every 30 minutes in the evenings, sometimes taking as long as 2 hours to go to bed. Our bedtime had always been around 6:30pm, which had worked fine up til then. But she just struggled to shut off and fall asleep and when she did, she was awake 30 minutes later. During the night, she slept well (we bedshared during the night, but during the evenings she was upstairs on her own in her cot). Once she mastered standing and cruising and that developmental jump was over and the separation anxiety eased, she actually started to sleep better than she ever had. She started to go to bed awake but sleepy and self settled on her own (we never sleep trained) and she started to STTN some nights. We just found ways to cope until it passed. We went to bed early if we could. We took turned settling her so the other could eat dinner, etc.

 

[Hieveryone]

He is Bac to waking every 3 hours which is much better. Watch this space!

 

[HoneyBee144]

I found that time around when they are getting ready to crawl and stand was really difficult for evening wakings. For us, it was around 8/9/maybe 10 months, but it was just as she had learned to crawl and was learning to stand and cruise (it was also when she was smack in the middle of the separation anxiety phase which tends to happen sometime between 6-12 months). She was waking every 30 minutes in the evenings, sometimes taking as long as 2 hours to go to bed. Our bedtime had always been around 6:30pm, which had worked fine up til then. But she just struggled to shut off and fall asleep and when she did, she was awake 30 minutes later. During the night, she slept well (we bedshared during the night, but during the evenings she was upstairs on her own in her cot). Once she mastered standing and cruising and that developmental jump was over and the separation anxiety eased, she actually started to sleep better than she ever had. She started to go to bed awake but sleepy and self settled on her own (we never sleep trained) and she started to STTN some nights. We just found ways to cope until it passed. We went to bed early if we could. We took turned settling her so the other could eat dinner, etc.

Thank you so much for this! DS2 has taken to waking every 2 hours in the evening, he goes to sleep around 7pm and then wakes around 9pm & 11pm. I keep telling myself its because he has just started to cruise and taken a few steps on his own but I've been really struggling with it recently so its so reassuring to see your post!

 

[Hieveryone]

Update:we have had a good couple if nights with him going to bed around 7:30 - 8 then waking around 10 and then 12/1ish. He then slept till 8 am so has improved massively with no real reason other than poss eating a bit earlier. Thought this may give others Hope. Am back at work in just over 2 weeks so really hope this continues.