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8:59 pm
December 17, 2009
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Summerbellies
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Hi! I am so happy I've stumbled upon this site. My husband and I have a 4 year old son, and a 10 month old daughter. My son was sleeping through the night at 2 months, and with only the occasional moments of being sick or teething, has continued to do so wonderfully even taking a nap still at 4 years. My daughter is another story. She has always been a restless, light sleeper- refusing to go to sleep at all unless breastfed, and then later, with bottle. Of course to get sleep ourselves, my husband and I have caved and submitted to her demands and now we have a baby completely dependent on the bottle to get to sleep. We've tried the Cry it out method and after three days of her crying miserably into her mattress for an hour or more, we once again caved so that she would sleep. She naps horribly, and is always whiney and tired and is the one percent of babies who hates riding in the car so she hardly ever sleeps in the car. She is currently sick, and so congested she can't even fall asleep *with* her bottle, so for the past 2 nights, she's been waking up every 30 minutes or so. I am seriously at my wits end and have no idea how to repair this gigantic hole we've dug for ourselves.
Thank you-
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7:31 pm
January 11, 2010
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Cynthia
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I have a similar problem with my son too. He's 10 months and until now was a great night sleeper. We also had the two naps a day down. Until he got sick for ten days in Mexico. He had a lot of congestion, fever, vomiting, ear infection.. nedless to say it was hard for him to sleep. So for 10 days I would nap him in my arms where he would sleep for two hours. Towards the end of the trip he slept on our bed because it was too cold in the pack and play. So now he wakes up at night and stays awake for hours. Nap times, forget it. He will go down drowsy and as soon as he hits the crib he wakes up and cries for an hour until I go get him. He hasn't taken a nap for two days now! I'm so worried this will affect his development and health (and mine!). For the first time I don't know what to do. We're still doing the cry it out method and hope with time he learns and gets back to his old good ways. But what happens if he doesn't?
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4:10 pm
March 2, 2010
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Kimberly
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I hope both of you have found some remedies to your sleep problems by now. Or that you will post back with an update.
If baby is dependent on a bottle to sleep, then it's probably time to seriously consider weaning from the bottle. It also sounds like that both babies might need some help in learning to fall asleep on their and to soothe themselves.
I'm happy to try and trouble shoot some more with you if you'd like to post back with an update so we can work with what's currently happening.
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1:51 am
December 2, 2010
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Yvette
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Hi, my son is 10 months old and only drinks his milk at night (600-700ml), waking up 2- 4 times a night. He refuses to drink milk during the day. My husband and I have tried to give him water at night but he cries inconsolably until we give him milk. He's cried for 1,5 hours solid until we caved in. How can we switch the milk drinking from night time to day time?
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12:57 am
December 3, 2010
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Kimberly
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Try giving him a little less milk each night. This will help his body to adjust gradually to not having so much to eat at night and then offer more milk during the day to help him start to make up for what he's not getting at night and to also help his body start to not feel like it needs to eat night.
Once you've worked on this for a few weeks, if he's still waking at night after that, then it's more of a habit for him than it is a feeding issue and the night waking would then need to be addressed as part of an overall plan to teach him to how to go back to sleep at night when he wakes.
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