ChocolateC
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Hi,
I need sleep help! Give me your advice or your technique that worked!
My 1-year-old boy wakes up every single night around 4 a.m. wide awake. Last night, I tried to put him down for TWO HOURS, then he finally slept in my bed from 6-8 a.m. I am at my wit's end.
Background: I am still breastfeeding and he nurses to sleep. I put him down drowsy but not asleep, he self-settles quickly, and falls asleep like an angel. But then he wakes up. Usually it's early morning so sometimes if I can't put him back down, we are UP in the early dawn hours...and then everyone's exhausted.
He is a skinny boy and always has been. I believe he's waking out of hunger. DH tried to pick him up and soothe him several times, and it often didn't work--DS just cried and refused to settle, or settled for 5 minutes then cried again, over and over. I've started an evening snack routine (oatmeal porridge with cream) but he still wakes at night and feeds like crazy. I try to feed him lots at dinner but he's never been a big eater and just won't eat a ton.
I don't rush in at the first whimper, but he always starts crying hard and standing in the crib staring out at the dark room, poor thing.
We can't do a straight-up cry-it-out because DD sleeps next door and it wakes her and upsets her. I'm almost at that stage though! Ready for any and all advice.
Thank you, thank you!!
I need sleep help! Give me your advice or your technique that worked!
My 1-year-old boy wakes up every single night around 4 a.m. wide awake. Last night, I tried to put him down for TWO HOURS, then he finally slept in my bed from 6-8 a.m. I am at my wit's end.
Background: I am still breastfeeding and he nurses to sleep. I put him down drowsy but not asleep, he self-settles quickly, and falls asleep like an angel. But then he wakes up. Usually it's early morning so sometimes if I can't put him back down, we are UP in the early dawn hours...and then everyone's exhausted.
He is a skinny boy and always has been. I believe he's waking out of hunger. DH tried to pick him up and soothe him several times, and it often didn't work--DS just cried and refused to settle, or settled for 5 minutes then cried again, over and over. I've started an evening snack routine (oatmeal porridge with cream) but he still wakes at night and feeds like crazy. I try to feed him lots at dinner but he's never been a big eater and just won't eat a ton.
I don't rush in at the first whimper, but he always starts crying hard and standing in the crib staring out at the dark room, poor thing.
We can't do a straight-up cry-it-out because DD sleeps next door and it wakes her and upsets her. I'm almost at that stage though! Ready for any and all advice.
Thank you, thank you!!
took my kids 2-3 nights and they stopped the night waking.
