some ideas that might help me and him get some sleep thanks L.
My daughter is almost 8 months old and is nowhere near sleeping through the night. Generally, "normal" sleep habits are not developed until a child is 2 years old.. until that time, anything goes.
I found that if I put my daughter to bed with a full belly & some soothing classical music, she slept very well. She started sleeping through the night at about 8 weeks! It was nothing short of a miracle. I actually had to wake her up to nurse her in the night. But I notice that when she didn't have the music on, she would not sleep through the night. I think it drowns out the rest of the noise going on outside of her room. Try that.
Good luck!
S.
I was blessed that all of my kids were early sleep through the nighters!! However, when my youngest (she's almost 5) had trouble sleeping I always turned on a CD for her, usually a lullaby one. If he stirs during the night, just hit play. I never found a CD player that would play repeatively without me having to push the button, but that would be best! Sorry I can't be more of a help.
It's simple really. . . Wait. He's not old enough to sleep through the night. The few mom's whose babies DO sleep through the night at this age are lucky, or lying. Most children don't sleep through the night until they are much older.
I used a book called Healthy Sleep Habit Happy Child to help me with my son. He is almost 2 and has been going to sleep by himself in his own bed, since he was 8 months old. It gives you a few ideas for how you want do make it happen. It has help for all different ages and sleep problems. just read it from the beginning. The book is by Dr. Marc Weissbluth, and i was told about it from my son's doctor at Children's Hospital in seattle. i have read a few other responses, and hope that you will truely get this book. one person says that sleep habits are not established until the child is 2 and that is not correct. this book give you so much information. the dr did sleep studies with families and has proof that these methods work, plus it worked for me. I made sure that i followed the day time sleep suggestions as well doing the same things everynight to help him realise it is bed time. it took three days of crying and then he was all good and has been since. i can now sleep thru the night and it has been wonderful. please get the book
there's really not much you can do, so people will say to give him cereal but that's not a good ideal cause his digestive system is not ready for it and it can cause digestive problems later. one thing you can try is to not let him nap to much during the day and make sure he is full before bed time at night. but trust me him will start sleeping thru the night soon. and if your breast feeding sometimes that is why they take a little long to sleep thru the night. but no worry soon enought he will be sleeping thru the night and at times you'll miss that time alone with him so enjoy it now cause the grow up fast.
If you have not started solid foods, you might try that. Unfortunately, I've never heard of a 5 month old sleeping through the night. Are you nursing of giving formula? Formula sits on the stomoache a little longer than milk does. I nursed my son, and he NEVER slept through the night until I quit nursing him at 18 months. Sorry I can't be of more help. All I can say is that it won't last forever. Good luck.
My son is 13 months old and doesn't sleep through the night. I am just so used to it now, that I can't even imagine what it would be like if he did! Is he sleeping in a crib? If so have you tried sound machines? I know that help our son sleep for a few extra hours. Also, do you have a consistent getting ready for bed routine in place.
You can also look at it this way. I have friends who are so proud that their child was sleeping by the age of 3 months, and I asked them what there trick was. They said that they just turn off the baby monitor and let them cry it out. It just crushes my heart to hear them say that. That isn't my kind of parenting. When they hear that I still get up with my son to rock him back to sleep at night, then think it is absolutely ridiculous that I am doing that. But it is just my style of parenting.
For me, I know that eventually my son is going to sleep through the night. As my pediatrician puts it, you never hear of a highschooler sleeping in there parents bed do ya! So I like to get up and spend the time holding my son while he sleeps. I look at it like these are such precious moments that I have so why not take advantage of it. I can sleep when my kids go off to college :)
both of my daughters were great about sleeping through the night. alexis started sleeping for 8-9 hours around 5 months, and makenzie did the same around 4 months. now alexis sleeps for 10-12 hours at night.
we always had a sleeptime ritual with alexis. diaper change, put jammies on, read a book and singa song as she had her last bottle. we always did this in her bedroom with just a small lamp on, very quiet. now that shes older its pretty much the same, she gets a sippy of milk about 45 minutes before bedtime. then we brush her teeth and take her upstairs for diaper/jammies/book/singing.
with makenzie the ritual doesnt seem to matter. we feed her downstairs, and sometimes she falls right asleep in our arms, sometimes she doesnt. but we just put her in bed and she talks to her self for a few minutes, sometimes sucks her thumb and shes out.
I had this same problem and a book that was recommended to me has really helped his sleep problem. The book is Good Night, Sleep Tight. She has it broke out by age and give tips and advice. I didn't find out about the book till my son was 14 months and still not sleeping through the night. I wish I had known about the book when he was your sons age, I think it would have saved us both a lot of missery. Good luck.
Um - I hate to be the one to break this to you, but 5-month-old babies do not sleep through the night. You might ask this question in another 7 months or so; for now, you just have to deal with the "normalcies" of having an infant.
Although I will say this - I remember when my own son was born, the most infuriating question that people asked me in the following months, again and again, was "Is he sleeping through the night yet?"
And these were people that had their own children! Fortunately I knew better, but honestly this is such a dopey but oft-repeated question that I really could have strangled them. lol
Sorry, L., but don't worry - you'll be getting some sleep this time next year. ;)
This is a tough one. Each baby really is so different! Our little girl was two months when she just began to "sleeping through the night," but it's important to realize that this meant she fell asleep at 9 p.m. and woke up at 5:30 a.m. We eliminated midnight and wee-hour feedings gradually (like, one week we'd be feeding her every two hours, then the next, every three, and then the next, her 2 a.m. feeding would be eliminated in favor of just comforting her when she woke up), so the last nursing she got was eventually at 9 p.m. That said, if your baby is clearly hungry (meaning NOTHING else will comfort him), I would go ahead and feed. But for us, this really did the trick. By the time she was 6 months old, she was going to sleep by 7:00 p.m. and waking up at 5:30 or 6 a.m. Now that she is 15 months, she goes to bed at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and wakes up between 6 and 7:30 a.m.
I wish you the very best of luck on this one. Please keep us posted.
My son didn't sleep through the night at 5 months old either. But "sleeping throught the night" is really one about 5 hours from all the books that I read.
