The worst sleeper

Posted: Mon, Dec 06 2010, 11:31 pm Post subject: The worst sleeper

Please tell me what I am doing wrong or why this is happening....
My ds is 10.5 months old B"H.
His schedule is as follows:
Up usually anywhere from 530 AM - 630 AM. Plays in crib for a bit then screams for attention. I go in to him usually around 630 and he takes a bottle. Then I diaper him and he plays. Around 8-830 he has solids for breakfast, plays a little more then 9ish goes down for a morning nap. That nap goes anywhere from 1-2 hours.
11ish - bottle and plays and then 12ish lunch. More playing, maybe an outing, 2ish another nap till 330 and then bottle, play, bath, dinner.
After dinner, more playing then at 630 he gets rocked in a dark room with a bottle. He gets put down in his crib while awake.

Around anywhere from 930-1130 I will hear him crying. Sometimes he settles himself, other times I need to go in to calm him down. I sit with him in the rocker and stroke his cheek and settle him and put him back down still awake. Inevitable he will be crying again throughout the night - around 1, around 4 etc. Same idea - sometimes I just listen and he seems to be okay to settle himself back to sleep after a few minutes but other times he needs someone to go in to him. I do not feed him at night. Why is he not sleeping straight through from 630-530 or 6? Why is he waking so often and crying? Does anyone have any ideas what could be the cause?

Posted: Tue, Dec 07 2010, 2:22 am Post subject: re: The worst sleeper

Could he be teething? Have you talked with your child's dr yet?

Posted: Tue, Dec 07 2010, 6:07 am Post subject: re: The worst sleeper

No I didnt talk to the ped yet - I didnt think to bring it up at the last well check.

Gold Member Joined: Jul 14 2008 Posts: 2107

At ten months, we decided to stop going to my dd in the middle of the night. I was scared to death that she would just scream for hours...and the first night we did this, she kind of did...I think she cried for about 45 minutes (nothing hysterical, just persistent 'hey, where are you? crying". I think the second night she cried twice for 10-15 minutes. And the third night she slept through...

Of course, it wasn't fool proof...she did sometimes still get up in the night after that, but 80% of nights, she was sleeping through. If your baby doesn't need food in the night, he doesn't need you in his room either....that's just my opinion.

Otherwise, though, his schedule seems really normal to me! It's similar to my dd's schedule at that age. Rough, but not abnormal.
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Have you tried putting him in a bit later at night?

Posted: Tue, Dec 07 2010, 12:42 pm Post subject: re: The worst sleeper

Seriously? that is what you consider to be the worst sleeper?

My 9 month old wakes up at 6am. Goes back down for a nap at 11. Sleeps until 11:30. Goes back down for a nap at 5pm. Wakes up again at 5:30. Goes back to sleep at about 8pm. Wakes up at 8:30. Goes to sleep for the night at about 12, and wakes up at least 3 times (if not more) until the next morning at 6. Typically gets between 6 and 7 hours of sleep TOTAL per day.

I don't nurse him, and can't let him cry it out because he will cry for over an hour at a time.

So a baby who actually sleeps 10+ hours a day? Just FYI, babies at that age sleep about 14 hours -- and through the night for a baby that age is 5 hours. ANything over 10 hours per day is considered completely normal, and here you think there's something wrong with your baby because he is not sleeping 16 hours a day?

So please, there is nothing WRONG with your baby. Expecting you baby to sleep 12 hours straight at 10 months, and then 3 hours for naps during the day? Maybe there is something wrong with your expectations here.