Friday, 04 February 2011
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What Happened to My Great Sleeping Baby?
What happened to my great, wonderful, awesome baby that went right to sleep when I put him down?
B's bed time is 8pm and has been since he was about 6 months old. Our routine is eat dinner at 6:45, bath at 7:15, bottle/cup and book at 7:45 and bed at 8pm. He used to go straight down with out a fuss and go right to sleep.
We go through the same routine, however now at 8pm once I put him in his bed all hell breaks loose. He cries and fusses. He doesn't need a change, doesn't want milk, doesn't want to be rocked or want to be held. Basically nothing makes him happy.
He is so tired he can barely keep his eyes open; it's like he knows that if he is still he will fall asleep. Tonight we fought each other for an hour before I finally was just going let him CIO in his bed. Now I can't stand to listen to him cry for more than 5 minutes or so, but I was on my last nerve. I had even tried to put him in bed with me to sleep with us but he didn't want that either.
Lucky once I put him down and turned on his music he never really cried. He did fuss and let us know he wasn't happy but no crying. How was he after that? He slumped over because he passed out while sitting up.What happened to him? Any suggestions from other mommies on what to do?
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- From: laurenalissa@xanga
- Name: Lauren
- Location: Arlington, Texas, United States
- About Me: i work full time for a major financial company, am married and have a Beautiful baby boy which we have dubbed B and also 2 fur babies. i like to read and have a habit of finding the top 100 books of the year before and making a list to see how may i can read in a year... yeah i am a dork but i love it!
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Comments (6)
maybe try an earlier bed time? it sounds like he may be over tired/over stimulated and needing to go to bed earlier.
good luck
ok i remember this stage... you did exactly what I did. We were lucky though, it only lasted 2 nights and then it stopped. I asked our family doc and he said it was either one of two things. 1, he was uncomfortable/grumpy because he is growing. Or 2, what the 1st comentor said. We bumped up his bed time half an hour, and he was fine. We also noticed it happened close to the time changes.
It will pass, keep doing what you did.
I would also suggest an earlier bed time. That has been helping us a lot, we moved from 8:30 to 7 and he sleeps much better and only gets up a few minutes earlier! Also check out the no-cry sleep solution. I just read it and its already been helpful.
i would've said that maybe someone feels he shouldn't have to go to bed if i hadn't read "LadyGwenivere"s opinion......your kid may be uncomfy or in pain. have him checked out just to be sure. *shrug*
My baby started the same thing. I couldn't get her down for a nap without going through hell first, even if she was exhausted. The only way I can get her to sleep is to play music (she has a specific bedtime song) and "dance" with her in my arms.
What it seems like to me is that your baby is either hitting the teething stage, which can be very painful and make it hard for your baby to sleep, or a nosy child, meaning he does not want to go to bed because he feels he is going to miss something.
If you think teething is the case, watch for other symptoms such as ear-tugging, extreme drooling, and wanting to gnaw on anything possible. I give my own 11-month 0.8 mL of baby tylenol and that helps him well enough.
However, if you are sure your child is simply "nosy", I suggest letting him stay up a little longer, just to see that Mommy and Daddy do not do anything different when he is asleep than they do when he is awake. After about a half an hour or so after his bedtime, try laying him down again. If he fusses, simply walk into the bedroom and shut the door. It is likely he is just trying to get your attention and the best thing to do in that situation is just to let him cry. I know from experience how hard it is to hear but it is better than going to him and picking him up right away. Most often they will fall asleep within a half an hour.
Hope this helped!