Night waking
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Topic: Night waking
Posted By: Rachael21
Subject: Night waking
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 11:38am
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A week ago Jack was sleeping 12 hours at night and then a 2 hour day sleep or sometimes 2 one hour ones. On monday night we spent from 2am til 5am at the after hours dr cos Jack had a tummy bug. Hes fine now but all through the week he hasn't been sleeping very long during the day and won't go to sleep at night.
I managed to hold him off a second sleep on thursday and he went to sleep fine that night but now for the past 2 nights he been waking at 1 and not going back to sleep til about 2.30. Usually when he wakes at night I got in give him a drink, tuck him in and turn his music on and he goes back to sleep. The past few nights after I go in hes quiet for about 10 mins and then starts crying again so I go in and lie him down and leave again. This continues until he finally goes back to sleep a good hour later. I'm so tired and his day sleeps have gone back to normal so what can I do to help him sleep? |
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 12:44pm
| what time does he go down to sleep at night? and does he have the dreaded molars and canines yet? |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 1:16pm
Sometimes when they get sick it takes a while back to get into their routine.. did for Ella anyway.. and as for what you can do to get them to sleep, if I knew that, I wouldn't have permanent circles under my eyes  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 4:53pm
| He goes down at around 7 and he only has the front 8 teeth. I was wondering can I just leave him to cry or is that too mean? |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 28 May 2007 at 8:38am
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That depends entirely on you if you want to let him leave to cry. I cant tell you what to do in that regard.
I can tell you what I will do and what we do. I have found as soon as McKayla has sniffles or anything unusual happens that her sleep routine will be a bit messed up. I try not to mess around with it as well like changing nap times ect. I give it a week before making changes and she usually sorts it out herself. I also respond to cries really quickly and if too tired hubby will take over ect. I will let her comfort suck and hubby will walk around rocking her. She will be out in 5 minutes again. When it is the terrible teeth rescue remedy is a big pal to us. Seems to calm her down enough to have a great night sleep that night. I also realised dont count on the fact that they sleep through all the time. Stuff is going to happen. I am putting an aim of sleeping through at 5 years old at least for me. That must be realistic. Cant see her still doing this at 5. Right? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 28 May 2007 at 8:53am
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The crying thing would depend on you & your baby & weather you are both comfortable about it. IE: jack isn't too sick & you and your partner can handle the crying, as it is very stressful.
The rescue remedy is a good idea or there are other naturpharm aids like calm-med, colimed-relief & teeth-med etc. Hope he gets better & is sleeping well soon.  ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 01 June 2007 at 11:08pm
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Well turns out he just didn't want his second day sleep anymore so now hes having a 2.5 hour day sleep and sleeping 13 hours and all without crying it out yay so thanx ladies for your help.
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Posted By: kezplanet
Date Posted: 01 June 2007 at 11:21pm
Yay, sanity returnes .... or at least less sleep deprivation  ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |