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new night waking and bad napping

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1:38 pm
November 27, 2010

traceyp

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My 8mo son had finally become a decent sleeper – not great – but he was finally consistently taking 2 1.5 hour naps a day at 9 and 1, then going to bed at 6 or 6:30 and sleeping until about 5:30 with one feeding. Suddenly, he can't get past the 45 minute mark for naps, and he has started waking in the middle of the night screaming at the top of his lungs. He was falling asleep on his own or having a bottle but waking as I put him down and then putting him to sleep, but now he pops up even if he is totally asleep when I put him down. The last 3 nights he has screamed for 2 hours in the night. Developmentally, he has started pulling up, but he isn't doing that at night or naptime – just sitting up and crying. He also has a cold, but he was sick earlier this month too and that didn't seem to affect his sleeping. Any ideas?

12:35 am
December 3, 2010

Kimberly

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The only predictable thing about babies is that they are pretty much unpredictable. It could very well be that his cold his affecting but if it's combined with his new found skill of pulling himself up, that might be a combination that is affecting his sleep.

When babies start to develop new skills even if they only practice them during the day, it can cause some disruption in sleep.

I would recommend that you just continue to put him down as you have in the past, continue to try to get him to nap as he was and see if it doesn't even out in a few days or a week.

Another consideration is that he might be having some kind of anxiety that might be related to his not going to sleep and his wakings. Have there been any other big changes in his life recently?

For his naps, if you can go in just before the 45 min mark when you think he might be starting to wake, you may be able to pat and shush him back to sleep before he's fully awek to help extend his nap and it could very well be after a few days of this he will start to get himself past that 45 minute mark by himself.

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