Waking up in the Night - Sisters.

I don't exactly know how to help her sleep through the night, but my son did the same thing. He then started sleeping the whole night again and now every once and a while he gets up but falls back to sleep in bed with me. I generally try to make sure that he has a bottle before bed to make sure that his tummy is full, and change his diaper so that I know that isn't going to wake him. Babies are so confusing sometimes, but if you stick it out I'm sure things will get better soon.

At five months of age, so much is going on developmentally. Has your daughter cut teeth? Maybe that is starting. Or maybe she is about to learn something new. Is she rolling over? Maybe shes working on that or attempting to sit up. Not sleeping is so hard! I know because my son now 13 months is just now at a point where he will only wake up once over 12 hours. When people fall asleep it is natural to wake up every two or three hours. Have you ever had a night where you wake up a few times and just go back to sleep? A child wakes up all night as well but doesnt have the ability to just roll back over and go to sleep. However you deal with the situation totally depends on your parenting method...but with my son we have tried very hard to have a consistant bed time routine. He has a teddy bear that we put to bed with him that he has grown attached to, and I always go in his room give him a hug and put him back down when he wakes up in the middle of the night. However...we coeslept untill he was 8 months. At five months I think we were still nurseing every three hours for 20 mins.
Try and take naps, and ask for help from friends. I know how hard on a family not sleeping can be. You are so not alone and I hope your little one starts sleeping soon.

i have a 21/2 year old non sleeper and have tried much.. not everything works but often I find that putting a humidifier in her room works pretty well through out the winter. I suspect it is the noise of the humidifier but it might just be the humdity that works.

Hope that helps

Jenna

Have you tried playing a lullaby CD that plays continuously through the night? Or maybe one of those "white noise" or soothing sound machines. When my oldest was a baby, we had a tape of the vacuum cleaner that we played for background noise, but that was 21 years ago and they have so much out there now. Or maybe one of those teddy bears that makes the sound of the mama's heartbeat like they hear in the womb. Best wishes!

EVEYONE always told me NEVER be quite bc then they get use to that all the time so that when the Littlest noise or movement happens that they would wake up... the 2.5 potty tranin??? if so no water or drink about an hour b4 bed and that might help with the gettin up and the dreams cant help there might is 3.5 and still will wake up every now and then with a BAD dream she calls them... But she has to get use to the noise there isnt anythin that u really can do try with the drink maybe that will help and try to make More noise when she is nappin or when ur all together .. hope that helped a little

Good Luck

J.