Sleeping all night, need some input?
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Sleeping all night, need some input?
| Fri, 08-17-2007 - 12:09pm |
Just curious, when did your kids begin to sleep all night?
| Fri, 08-17-2007 - 12:09pm |
Just curious, when did your kids begin to sleep all night?
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I don't know how you feel about the paci, but have you tried holding her w/ a paci instead? I don't do this at night w/ Jack yet, but sometimes I try just rocking him and patting his bottom w/ the nuk in his mouth rather than feed him right away if I think he just needs a nap. He still wakes every night at either 2:30 or 3:30 for a feeding, I kind of think he will for a little while. My FB was bottle fed and he slept through quickly (by like 5 or 6 weeks I think). Second born took a little longer to sleep through, and I honestly can't remember when he did but I would guess 4 or 5 months. I think Jack will fall in between those two somewhere (at least I hope so!). Hopefully it won't be much longer for you!
GL!
Jamie
None of my kids STTN until at least 6 months.
That's too bad in some ways, but good in others! My second (looks like he's just a month or so younger than your first) still takes his nuk at bedtime. He lost them a week or two ago and has been trying to sleep w/out them, but he's been so miserable that I finally decided to give them back to him (yes "them", he has to have one in his mouth and one in his hand!). He's still a baby really even if he's not our littlest baby anymore. My children do not just throw their nuks down one day (at least not so far), so it's not as easy to break the habit as some people say.
Anyway, you obviously have your own way of soothing her, so I would probably do like PP said, let her fuss for just a little bit, if that doesn't work just pick her up and try to soothe her for a little while. I would do the bottle as a last resort, it sounds like she doesn't really need it. Then once she's not getting that bottle maybe she'll be less likely to wake for it.
Jamie
Kapitola has been sleeping through the night since she was about 1 week old until recently, she is teething now and waking up alot through the night to nurse
she sleeps with her paci and she uses nuuk,
Avent makes a sippy cup for 3 months + have you tried giving her a sip of water instead of a bottle during the night?
maybe she is just not ready to sleep through the night Ragnar woke up for night time feeding until 9 months old, shortly after he quit nursing and started using a binky instead,
does she gag on the binky or does she just not suck on it? or does she suck on it but drop it as soon as you let go of it? if it's the latest option you should just hold it in while she soothes herself on it and then put her to bed.
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Have you tired offering a Binki? My DS is 3 months old now too and when he wakes in the middle of the night I offer a binki before food. He is starting to take the binki more so to comofrt back to sleep. Hope this helps...
Jenn
Ben didn't sleep through the night until he was 6+ months old. At that point he was waking once a night and he wasn't hungry b/c he wouldn't eat the bottle I offered him. I decided to just let him CIO then since he was waking more out of habit that out of necessity. I wouldn't feel comfortable letting a 2 month old CIO; but I don't see anything wrong with letting her work it out on her own for a few minutes to see if she can soothe herself back to sleep.
Ben never took a binky either; which was good and bad. Good b/c I don't have to figure out how to take it away; but bad b/c it took him
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I would try the paci before the bottle. Also, I always think that if they are not wanting to STTN at a very young age there is a reason, and maybe it's good that she is waking herself up-I would let it go more or less til after 6 months, when the SIDS risk goes way down. It is such a short time, really, that they need you in the middle of the night. Good luck!
BTW Pam that siggy is adorable
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