One year old night waking/ VERY early morning HELP !!!

Beginner Joined: Feb 04 2009 Posts: 10

I have a sweet gorgeous B"H 1 year old - and I am wiped out. She was waking up 3 -4 times a night and I thought it was because her pacifier kept falling out. So at about 8 months it away but unfortunatley the bottle became the substitute. Then she would wake up still one or so at night for a bottle. I think that by one years old ( and she is a good weight) she doesn't need formula at night, so I decided to "sleep train" her. 2 weeks later and she still wakes up some nights, last night was from 3-4 screaming ( I kept going in and calming her - she screamed louder then!) and wakes up every morning at either 5 or 5.30. Some nights when she wakes up, I feel I need to giver her water, because maybe she is thirsty -is that what is ruining the night training.
It is so hard to hear her cry, but honesty trying to carry on (work, other kids, house etc) waking up every night and being up from five is hard.
I would really appreciate all your advice.
Also how much sleep should a one year old be getting?
Thanks

Platinum Member Joined: May 16 2005 Posts: 6262

she might be tetthing or going through a hard time. there was a time when both my kids did this at around that age. I would go to them and comfort them.

its importnat to make sure they are getting thie right schedule. like thier nap at the right time and going to bed at the right time because if they arent then its harder for them to get into a deepm sleep and they wake uo alot. but if they are still, sometimes kids go thorugh that. sometimes they get scared in middle of the night, sometimes they are teething. I never let my kids cry and bh they are sleepimg through the night.

Posted: Mon, Apr 27 2009, 7:34 am Post subject:

My 18 month old is doing this right now and we can't figure out why either. Except that his schedule is all over the place as he still hasn't recovered from Pesach. And we think he's also teething (molars)...
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