Since I don't have time to read a sleep method book I am having to rely on your help. I have never had this problem before. Current schedule is: wake up 7, nap at 10, nap about 2, (sometimes) nap at 5 and then bed at 8:30. LO usually wakes up about 3 times a night and needs a bottle to go back to sleep. Currently falls asleep while eating before bedtime too!
So how do I get my LO to fall asleep w/o the bottle for bedtime? How do I teach my LO to self sooth and get back to sleep without Mommy or Daddy rocking him? Putting his paci in helps the first 2 times, but the third time it has to be a bottle.
Please help. Like I said I would read books, but since I work 60+ hours a week I would rather spend my free time with my kids and not reading. I also tried the CIO and it is not for me either. HELP!!!!!!
Sorry 9 months old.
Before bed we eat some cereal and a 4 oz bottle. Sometimes we just do a 6 oz bottle if we can't do cereal.
Sue, Thankfully I have an awesome Hubby and he does a great job helping me out. We right now are doing shifts at night time so we can both get as much sleep as possible.
Yikes, I wish I could help but I think God knew I would be a child abuser if I didn't get enough sleep so all four slept through the night since the day they were born.
I can't remember how old your baby is but I have been told solid foods help to keep them full all night so they wake up less.
Um...in my experience at 9 months old this is perfectly normal. Two to three feedings a night. My daughter woke up for nursing at 1:00 am and 5:00 am until she was 12 months old when she dropped the 5:00 feeding and then at 13 months she slept through the 1:00 feeding. I felt lucky as some babies this age wake up every 2-3 hours.
I nursed her and rocked her to sleep at night and nursed her when she woke up during the night. So, I don't know any other way to take care of a baby. It sounds like you are bottle-feeding so SO and you can take turns feeding.
I was very lucky that I was able to negotiate a 34 hour work week during this time, so I could enjoy being a mom.
You could try cutting out one of the naps to see if that would help. Otherwise it sounds like you have tried everything. I noticed with my first born that if he went to sleep at 8 he slept through the night and if we put him down at 8:30 he woke up earlier. So there may be a logic to when they go to sleep.
I know you don't want to read a book, but the mayo clinic has a 2 page website of suggestions you could scan through.
Our Ped would say it's becoming a habit/self soother for your baby to have the bottle. Although i don't think a 9 mo should be expected to sleep 8+ hours straight w/no bottle, I do think that three bottles during the night is more then he prob needs.
Our daughter is 15 mo and still takes one bottle-sometimes 2 during the night and I KNOW it's a soother for her. If I hear her I turn down the monitor and she'll cry for about 20 minutes and fall back asleep, but if Daddy hears her and I don't he jumps out of bed and gives her a bottle. Gee...wonder why she still thinks she needs it...:)
You said the CIO hasn't worked-maybe try water in the bottle....or when you go in, instead of a bottle just try rocking him -maybe after a few nights he'll adjust to just that and you can phase that out too.
My daughter is very different then my son in this respect so in some ways I just think each child is unique and maybe he just needs more time to let go of it. Which is hard on the non sleeping momma!
I will admit-no emails please!-now that our daughter is older we give her the bottle in bed and she goes back to sleep.
