5 month old waking at night
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Topic: 5 month old waking at night
Posted By: MummaHuhu
Subject: 5 month old waking at night
Date Posted: 13 February 2010 at 11:26am
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My girl has never slept right though but she was pretty good at just waking twice for a feed and falling straight back asleep.
The last week or so she has been waking up at about 1am and is wide awake for a couple of hours then finally falls asleep. This wouldn't bother me but she constantly needs to be resettled (putting the dummy back in & patting) and she rolls over onto her tummy then gets cranky cos she won't sleep like that but she just gets tired cos she holds herself up on her arms. Does anyone have any ideas on how to break this cycle? Or is it just a stage they go through? I thought I'd thwarted her last night by skipping her dreamfeed she woke at 130am for a feed..but then she thwarted me by waking again at 5am and wouldn't go back to sleep after her feed then... -------------   http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/MummaHuhu" rel="nofollow - Come on Huhu#3 ...~Chem Apr 13~ |
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Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 13 February 2010 at 11:45am
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 14 February 2010 at 9:30am
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do you still wrap her? that might stop the rolling. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: HippyMama
Date Posted: 14 February 2010 at 9:40am
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Just to be a pain in your arse Bizzy ;) I stopped wrapping when DD2 was about the same stage as this wee one *because* she was rolling, and I didn't feel comfortable with her still wrapped (personal thing there though). I thought about a safety sleep, and perhaps that's something you could try too janiceilla? Though I still haven't gotten around to using mine as even though DD2 moves around in the night I don't think it really disturbs her sleep all that much.
I sometimes have difficulty getting DD2 to resettle if she wakes between 5-6am too, and more often than not she comes into bed with us because that way I can stay lying down and kind of doze off... I think if we had a bigger bed I'd be co-sleeping all the time really. ------------- Mama to two earth walkers & two angels. Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. ~ Kittie Franz Next Slingbabies! Meet - Friday 4th May !! |
Posted By: MummaHuhu
Date Posted: 14 February 2010 at 10:26am
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I've looked at the sleep store info, it is helpful but none of it is really relevant.
No, she isn't wrapped anymore. She just decided one night she'd have enough and she's been in a sleeping bag ever since. I've tried taking her into our bed but that isn't always an option because she wakes up DH (he drives over an hour to work on his motorbike so I don't want him tired). She doesn't fall asleep anyway when I do that. I tried re-jigging her naps yesterday by keeping her up for 2hrs inbetween instead 1.5hrs but she ended up waking up 3 times last night. At 11pm for an hour then at 2am for 2.5hrs then at 6am and she didn't go back to sleep... When she wakes up she isn't interested in a feed, so I leave her in her cot and she just grizzles. It's almost like she's awake and she wants to play and that's why she rolls over (cos she mainly plays on her tummy during the day). I might have to see if I can find someone with a safety-sleep I can borrow. So I think I may just have to go with the flow...I'm sooo hoping she grows out of this soon! ------------- http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/MummaHuhu" rel="nofollow - Come on Huhu#3 ...~Chem Apr 13~ |
Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 14 February 2010 at 11:55am
It is probally just a stage sorry. DS used to do that too. He would decide it was play time for a couple of hours at about 2 in the morning  ------------- 
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Posted By: mollycat
Date Posted: 14 February 2010 at 5:30pm
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I ditto the stage thing. Ryan is going through that phase, and they also start moving around and get jammed in the corner of the cot which is a lot of fun (even in a sleeping bag). He's much better about it now though. I would just perservere and hope it goes away. I've been of the mind (remembering that I only have the 1 child here) that I'd rather he gradually figures all this stuff out then keeping him in a safety sleep too long and releasing the beast (so to speak) when he's older and can move around a lot more and get into more mischief just "cause he can"
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Posted By: RoSee
Date Posted: 14 February 2010 at 9:40pm
Can she roll from her tummy to her back yet? I used to have Ty in the safety sleep because he would roll to his tummy and get stuck there and hate it! So when he started crawling (this is when he became able to get back off his tummy) I took him out of the safety sleep and he could just move around and get comfy. He became a tummy sleeper overnight 
I also have a few toys in his cot so he can have a little play if he wants, then he lies back down when he's ready. Do you have a little music box or anything like that that soothes her? You could try going in and putting something like that on to calm her when she wakes? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MummaHuhu
Date Posted: 15 February 2010 at 11:46am
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**Hey Rose!**
She used to roll from tummy to back but has stopped since she she's been rolling from back to tummy - now she just gets stuck on her tummy. Nah I don't have a safety sleep, but last night I tried using a wedge and tucking in the bottom of the gogo bag into the cot and that seemed to have fixed the rolling for now. She's got her cuddly in the cot which she plays with. And we do have some music that we play when she's really unsettled. Last night was quite a bit better - thank god! She still woke up but it was only once for 2 hours and she was mainly just grizzling with the dummy in and most of the time she was quiet. How did you teach Ty to find his own dummy? ------------- http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/MummaHuhu" rel="nofollow - Come on Huhu#3 ...~Chem Apr 13~ |