Survivors of the 9 month sleep regression, how long did it last?

[emyandpotato]

As the title says really! LO is waking every hour until about 1am, at which point he wants to be latched on constantly til morning but won't close his eyes and lays there scratching and kicking me. I'm ready to put him in the bin. I'm not looking for him to sleep through the night, just to go back to 2 hourly wakings and sleeping unattached!

 

[loeylo]

Sorry, got no advice but it sounds rough. My wee one is a bit younger and does the kicking, scratching and nipping thing. Its physically painful as well as emotionally draining!

I don't know if its possible but could you do a bottle of expressed milk for the earlier feeds and ask someone else to do one or two feeds to give you a rest? Or even a small amount of formula?

Most importantly, just remember that "this too, in time will pass." - its rough but it is such a small timeframe in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Rainbow82]

We went through a really rough patch at nine months when DS was desperately trying to walk and stopped crawling except to get to his push along walker to walk. He will be 12 months in a couple weeks and I think we are coming out the end of it now. We were getting up every two hours at its worst but he'd be up for over and hour of it starting at about midnight. Now we are back to him going down about 7:30 up at 10 for a feed, up somewhere between 12 and 1 taking 10-15 mins to settle and then at 5 for the day. We take turns with the early morning so it feels a lot better than it was. Is your LO hungry and having a growth spurt or is he latching for comfort? If he's not hungry and you have a cosleeper could your OH sleep next to him, if he can't see you he might resettle easier for your OH as there won't be an option to be latched on?

 

[emyandpotato]

Sorry, got no advice but it sounds rough. My wee one is a bit younger and does the kicking, scratching and nipping thing. Its physically painful as well as emotionally draining!

I don't know if its possible but could you do a bottle of expressed milk for the earlier feeds and ask someone else to do one or two feeds to give you a rest? Or even a small amount of formula?

Most importantly, just remember that "this too, in time will pass." - its rough but it is such a small timeframe in the grand scheme of things.

It is genuinely really painful isn't it! My boobs and chest are so bruised and scratched I look like I have some weird chest acne

I tried EBM the other night but he won't take a bottle.

Thank you xx

 

[emyandpotato]

We went through a really rough patch at nine months when DS was desperately trying to walk and stopped crawling except to get to his push along walker to walk. He will be 12 months in a couple weeks and I think we are coming out the end of it now. We were getting up every two hours at its worst but he'd be up for over and hour of it starting at about midnight. Now we are back to him going down about 7:30 up at 10 for a feed, up somewhere between 12 and 1 taking 10-15 mins to settle and then at 5 for the day. We take turns with the early morning so it feels a lot better than it was. Is your LO hungry and having a growth spurt or is he latching for comfort? If he's not hungry and you have a cosleeper could your OH sleep next to him, if he can't see you he might resettle easier for your OH as there won't be an option to be latched on?

Sounds exactly the same TBH! I'm not actually sure, he was having a big feed every hour but I think it was comfort really and doing it because he couldn't sleep. He slept a little better last night. OH settled him before midnight and then he slept latched on all night from about 2-6am which was a big improvement, as he actually slept! I think he's about to crawl, but if he does this again when he's about to walk I'm booking myself in to a hotel for a month and OH can do it.