Crib Advice - Fontana,CA

When your baby does that, ie: fuss, cry, make little noises, in between her sleeping... don't swoop in right away to interrupt that. Let her be... see if she will go back to sleep by herself.

It could be that she is learning and is on the cusp of going back to sleep by herself and self-soothing, because she is doing this in her sleep.

Babies make all kinds of sounds as they sleep. It's okay. It's normal. Not every noise warrants us to go in and "wake" them to do something to intervene.

Try letting her be, and see if she will just go back to sleep herself. If she self-soothes and goes back to slumber, then great!

Both my children have done this. Even now, at 5 years old my girl makes some sounds during the night, but it is while she is asleep and its fine. My son, who is 20 months, does this too. But they don't actually wake up and cry...it's just transient noises. They are perfectly able to sleep through it. Even we adults make noises when we sleep. LOL.

Just see. Unless she is really distressed or crying full throttle or is hungry, or something is really wrong, I would just let it be and see if she goes back to sleep. No need for a pacifier if she doesn't notice it with or without.

Also, at growth-spurt times ( at typically 3 mos., 6 mos., 9 mos., 12 mos. etc.), they change and go through transitions and sometimes get hungrier. They are growing and developing cognitively too. It's normal. But if she's sleeping fine and it's not bothering her, then let her sleep.

Good luck, hope this helps,
~Susan
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Hi M., This is just my opinion, but get rid of the pacifier
you don't want your baby to be in the habit that she has to have something in her mouth to sleep, Unless you hear her down out cry, she's probably OK, If parents are not carful you set up patterns of habit, such as going in there 4-5times a night just to put a pacifire in her mouth. I have been a mom for 24 years, no pacifires. You can ask her pedicatrician if her fussing in her sleep is a problem, at 3 months she is probably discovering the sound of her own voice. Pacifires were oringinally used for pre mature babies to suck on to strengthen their jaw mussels so they can nurse, not to be used to keep a baby quiet, I read in a magazine that by using pacifires, it can cause eating disorders later because what the child has learned is they always need something in their mouth. They don't. J.

You're right that will will need some time to get used to being in separate room. When my daughter transitioned into a full crib from a mini crib, she did the same thing. I figured it was a different feeling, such as room tempature, white noise, etc... She did eventually slept solid in it. Good luck.

I agree with getting rid of the pacifier as soon as possible! I couldn't get my son to sleep through the night until I got rid of it. She needs to learn how to self soothe herself. There are different opinions on night feeding at her age - if she's growing fine, that's up to your discretion (she may just be going through a growth spurt). I fed my son a couple of times a night until he was 9 months old, but he wasn't gaining weight as quickly as the doctor thought he should be (was always in the 10th-15th percentile) so I thought it was best to keep feeding him when he cried. At nine months old though, I knew he needed to stop and that's when we got rid of the binky and stopped the night feedings. He still woke up the first few nights but I just checked on him, changed his diaper if needed and put him back down. I noticed he began to seem upset that I was picking him up at all so I stopped picking him up for a diaper change and he started not waking up at all, first for about 11 hours, then gradually 12-13. Hope this helps!

M.:
Your daughter is 3 months old.She needs to be given more norishment.She slept through the night for you,previously because the amount of milk she was getting before was sufficent. Now that she is growing, she obviously needs more .The reason she keeps waking, is because the pacifier provides no nourishment.It soothes her back to sleep, then she wakes again, realizing shes still hungry.Your going to have to (pry yourself up and get her a bottle,if you want her to sleep longer.The best to you M.