Any advice for a mother who has tried everything to get her 5½ month old to sleep a full nights sleep. Have tried everything "in the books" like a daily routine, no eye contact when you go back into settle baby again but it does not work. Ella will sleep for 4 - 5 hours during the night and then take another 1 to get settled again. I have checked the room temp, bed clothing, putting the tee shirt I had on for the day into the cot with her but it does not seem to work.
Sorry, I really don't have any suggestions as it sounds like you've tried nearly everything How long has she been sleeping 4-5 hours a night? In other words, is it improving all the time or has she been sleeping that long for a while now? Is there any chance she's sleeping too much during the day?
By the way, I moved this from the General forum to the Sleep forum because I thought it was more fitting here. Hope you don't mind!
You think she may be peckish and wakes up because of it? When we started to feed him solids, Hylke used to have the same habit of waking up when he shouldn't. We then went back on feeding him a full bottle before bedtime and put some pulverised biscuit in the milk to give it some more substance.....the first nights he still woke up (I guess he was used to it). Then we let him cry for one night....we did go in to his room to reassure him but never took him out of his cot...I know this may sound harsh because you want to comfort her. For us it was a long long night but worth it because since then he kicked into a rhythm of sleeping all night. It helps to keep the room dark, even nightlights are advised against by some experts. We never had any light in Hylke's room and it has worked well for him. I hope any of this will help you, I guess we have all at one time or another dreamt of an uninterupted nights sleep...........good luck
Thanks for the advice, we are certinally going to try and put some in practice. We are going to try out Rikkies method tonight of letting her cry and going into reassure her. Her daddy wants to go all out and try and get her off her soother at the same time. Mammy thinks one step at at time but hey we will give it a try.
Wish us luck. Will fill you all in when I see you all.
Just wanted to wish you good luck and sincerely hope you don't try to take away her soother because I believe Hylke would have never calmed down without it anyway.......keep us posted
Thanks for the support. Went ok last night took her about 15 mins to calm down. Managed not to give the soother to her and she only woke one at 4 which I think was good as she went back after 5 mins. But we are not counting our chickens before they hatch that was just the first time. We will se how we get on tonight.
Last night went well too. Only cried for about 10 mins and went again without her soother. Went all day yesterday and so far today without it. Very ratty thought but I can cope!!!! ( just about ). Lets hope it keeps us going this well.
Just wanted to let you know that everything is still going great. A week on Sunday and we are only wakening up some nights but only once a night, which is a BIG change from 3 - 4 times a night. Now when Ella wakens we just go in an reassure her for a min or two and she is straight back off to sleep. She now goes down at 8.45 and does not waken up ( FULLY ) until between 7.30 and 8.00am the next morning which is excellent......................... and the soother still has not made an appearance again.
Thanks again for all your support. Maybe see you tomorrow
Conor is not a great sleeper either and seems to be getting worse since we started on solids. He wakes about 4 times a night. He settles quickly most times, but needs a feed to settle around 3-4am. I think he's going to keep waking until I drop this feed. We're going on hols this week, but when we come back I think I'll try your method... not sure I'm brave enough to drop the feed and the soother though!
Yeah so far so good. I did not do it ALL myself though. Daddy has been GREAT. To be honest if he had not been so good I dont think it would have worked so well. I would have given in after the first night but instead Daddy made me persist with it.
As for the soother. I was determined that before Ella went to creche that I would try and get rid of it during the day and only have it at night but when Joe ( Daddy ) suggested that we try it all in one I was willing to try. Dont get me wrong at times I feel like giving it back but I just try and pacify Ella with something else. Lets just say my signing voice is coming along nicely......................
Ruth let me know if you try the method on Conor. If you do good luck cause I wont kid you about it is hard for the first couple of nights. But Good Luck
would be welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How long has she been sleeping 4-5 hours a night? In other words, is it improving all the time or has she been sleeping that long for a while now? Is there any chance she's sleeping too much during the day?
