9 Mo Wont Sleep Through the Night Anmore.

I'm glad he slept so well while you were alone for 3 months. At least you have some help now. I would stay away from the rice cereals as they aren't a very healthy food and are constipating and also not more filling than breastmilk or formula. As a previous poster said, you can try to offer more table foods during the day, as well as milk. Then if he is waking because of hunger, you may be able to reduce that.

But, there are many more reasons he could be waking: teething, separation anxiety, working on a developmental milestone, etc. Sleep isn't linear meaning that they may sleep very well for a while and then may wake more often. This is very normal and I would say your baby "isn't" sleeping through the night anymore rather than that he "won't".

Good luck and this too shall pass!

I think your boy is getting ready for a growth spurt and needs to eat more. He also may be teething, which will also wake him.

Hi, D.. He could be growth spurting, so you could try bulking up on his food during the day to make sure he doesn't get hungry at night. Does he eat solids yet? How many times a day and consisting of what? I wouldn't fill him up on rice cereal because it will just constipate him (and it's really just filler). Just add additional healthy fats to his diet, like yogurt, avocado, etc. These will fill him up on healthy foods.
Also, is he teething? That can wake up an otherwise good sleeper. How many naps does he take? My little one switched from 3 a day to 2 a day around 7 months old (but all babies ar different). If he's getting too many naps he might not be tired for night sleep. At 9 months, usually babies take 2 naps a day.
Has there been any temperature changes lately? Could he be too hot or too cold?
Well, hope this helps and good luck! Babies can be such a guessing game can't they?

When my son was about that age, we started putting baby cereal in is bottle at night. it really helped keep him from getting hungry during the night. You need to buy special nipples for the bottles. instead of having a small whole, it has a Y cut out since it will be thicker. Talk you your doctor and let Doc know what your doing. I know some doctors don't want anything but formula or breast milk for the first year. but it sounds as though he's ready for more.

Well, it was thought before that cereal in the bottle was a good idea. Not anymore for many reasons. Even if you want to keep giving him the cereal, it shouldn't be in the bottle. Just feed it to him with a spoon. If he is on table foods, he shouldn't need the cereal anymore. Even is he does fine with it, it isn't a healthy food. He needs to get grains from other real whole wheat foods.

It does sound like a growth spurt and/or teething since they seem to come all at the same time a lot. It very well couldv'e thrown him off when your DH came back. Did that change the routine at all? Odviously when DH was gone, it was just you and your son and now your attention is divided again. It's possible that he just needs to get used to the new routine again. Babies/toddlers/kids in generally really and very very sensative to routine changes!
There is also a lot of growing and developing and changes going on between now and a year old, so expect him to change his habits a lot. It'll pass and you will be on to the new struggles and joys of toddlerhood! Trust me..enjoy the 1s and 2s because 3s and 4s are MUCH worse!