My daughter is one year old and has always been a pretty good sleeper. Just recently she has been waking up in the middle of the night. We are on a good routine at night (bath, reading, rocking, bed at 9pm), but then around 2am she wakes up and I have to rock her back to sleep. Sometimes this takes over an hour. I've tried giving her a pacifier and then walking out of the room, but as soon as she sees me it's all over. She is teething, but is not fussy during the day and has no fever. I have tried giving her infant's motrin just before bed, but that hasn't seemed to help. She also will not drink a nighttime bottle or milk out of a cup. Please send suggestions because I'm exhausted! :)
Kids are different, somethings will not work for everyone. However, try puttin her to sleep with music or try smooth womb sound, that always helped my babies. I have a 13 year, 4 and 2. Sometime just let her that you are there, if she continue to cry pick her up.
Everytime mt daughter did this, this exact pattern even when she was teething she was sick either with a sore throat or an ear ache. I swear she showed no signs of it only that she got up around the same time everynight for almost two weeks and she did the same thing too everytime I would leave the room. Mind you, she never acted like this otherwise towards me leaving her room. I now realize now when she's sick, she just wants her mommy to be right by her side and now I look back and feel bad at times because I sit there and think"I sould've known she was sick" but then again she wasn't showing signs. Even the pediatrician said most of the time she won't. It could very well be she has the starting signs of a certain type of sickness like I mentioned that my daughter had. Call your doc or bring her in
Alot of times when new things are coming on ... new teeth, a new skill... they just wake up. It's tough, I know. My daughter still wakes during the night feed.... so I really do understand the exauhstion.
But, I have found it will pass. There are nights when my daughter will wake, not to feed.....but just needs to check in with mom or dad. Try having dad go in. Wake him up if you need to. Parenting is a joint effort.
Good luck.
My daughter does this also when teething. Some nights we can be up for 2 hours at a time. I have found when she is teething that teething tablets are a life saver. We giver her them before bed and then if she is up in the middle of the night I will give her some more and see is back to sleep in no time.
I like the idea of passing if off on dad, but my daughter refuses dad in the middle of the night. She will just cry harder or climb off dads lap and come in the room to get mommy. Good Luck
Im with Lisa O....it will pass. Try dad. I know you are exhausted. You will look back and cherish the nights you rocked her, though. I am all about routine, schedule, etc...but this is a special time that she needs a little extra TLC. I doubt it will become a habit if she has had good sleep habits up until now. You could also try giving her a time limit...say...rock her for 30 minutes and then put her down...then a little less the next night...she'll get it!
~L.
I would try putting her to bed a bit earlier. Anywhere between 6-8 is a good target. As she's getting older, using more energy, not taking as many naps during the day she's more tuckered than before. You can bump up the time by 15 min. intervals over the days until you get to your desired time. My daughter did this when we dropped her morning nap, and it didn't dawn on me to move her bedtime, when I did the problem was solved. Good luck!
This too shall pass.
My daughter did this several times when she was about 1..
she would wake up a during the night for a couple of nights and then she would just stop and sleep though again.
Maybe daddy could go in and try to comfort her..
I know that my daughter will rock forever with mom.. but dad is only for a quick rocking and then back to bed.
I would try an earlier bedtime. She might be getting overtired and that is making it more difficult for her to stay asleep because of the way are body reacts to too little sleep. My daughter is 14 months old and sleeps from 7pm-7am most nights and then she still takes two naps for about 1 hour a piece. I found Marc Weissbluth's book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child very helpful throughout the different stages so far. I would try moving her bedtime 15 minutes earlier every few nights until you reach a time that works for you. Good luck and hopefully you can get some rest too!
