10 MONTH OLD WONT SLEEP
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My husband and I have co-slept with our 9 month old since she was born and I still breastfeed on demand. We have a floor bed in our baby safe bedroom and I couldn’t imagine doing it any other way. We cuddle to sleep and if she isn’t ready to sleep, she crawls out of bed and plays until she is sleepy and comes back to bed. It makes bedtime pretty stress free. We make sure to get lots of sunlight throughout the day and dim the lights at night to encourage our bodies to prepare for sleep. My baby definitely didn’t sleep through the night until around 7/8 months. But we get a good amount of sleep because when she wakes, she is right next to me for cuddles or to quickly nurse back to sleep. It’s pretty effortless. This is what works for us!
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Tbh WHO don’t recommend night weaning before 18 months as some babies do still need those night feeds. Plenty of babies also don’t sleep through the night at this stage yet. Does your partner help with the night wakings?
First of all… she’s ridiculously adorable. Secondly, my daughter is also 10 months and going through the same thing. Yesterday I tried something I’ve not tried before. I gave her a 4oz pouch for her dinner at 4:30 with a mix of blueberry, banana and oats. Normally I would give it to her for breakfast but it’s one of her favorite things so I said the heck with it and gave it to her with 6 oz of milk. She played until 7, started getting sleepy so we did her bedtime routine and fed her, her last bottle of 8 oz for the night and she was down by 7:30. She usually gets up at 3 for a bottle but woke up at 5 instead for her pacifier, went right back to sleep and woke back up at 6:45. I’m thinking my key to her having a good nights sleep is feeding her a decent amount for dinner and topping it off with a bottle at bedtime. I don’t mind to really wake up and feed her at 3am but its extremely difficult to get her back down. I’m now looking into finding her a dinner idea that’s filling.
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Continued: But not as heavy as oats in order to help her sleep better through the night.
Yeah that’s a really good idea, I’ve been told that giving something that’s slow release is good before bed. I suppose they’re small and so food passes through them fast (I think)
My little girl is 9.5 months and still wakes up every 2 hours to feed at night. It’s pretty normal for babies, they’re still so young and want that comfort from their mums x
One of my kids has slept 7 pm to 7 am from birth, and another one wakes 3 to 5 times a night since birth. All kids are different, there's nothing wrong with her 🎉
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Thank you😅🙏
My 10mth old, from usually 2am has gotten into habit of singing and babbling to himself, kicking his legs etc he can go till morning like that. Its noisy so i try to put his dummy in but he dont care for it. It sounds cute but its actually doing my nut in coa by the time we get up to do our morning routine hes tired, and im tired and grouchy cos ive been awake too. Even on this hot night, hes been awake now since gone midnight, so have i, only now at almost 4 hes got the hump and giving in to sleep. Im sitting here counting the hours to when i can run to work🤔🥱😂
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😂😂😂 at least he’s happy
You are not alone. My situation sounds similar, except mine sometimes wakes every hour. She's 13 months now. I work full time and most days I feel like a zombie. I have sleep trained four times (one month increments each time). I wish mine would sleep through or just wake me once. Hang in there.
My son is the same, he's just turned 11 months and still wakes up through the night to be breastfed. We co slept him and I've been trying to get him to sleep in his own room, but I need to get him sleeping through the night first. The midwife suggested that he wakes up because he's not getting enough calories in the day, but that's impossible because my boy is a right grubber, and he's got the weight to prove it. So now I'm not sure what to do. Just wait till he's older and able to sleep through the night, or try and sleep train him now.
My daughter just turned 8 months and is EBF, still feeds 2-3 (sometimes 4) times a night between 10pm & 7:30am. She’s never slept through either, also a very light sleeper and hyperactive! I take her to the park daily, so sensory and water activities with her in the garden, let her explore books and musical toys. As soon as she rubs her eyes I sit and read a story to her and she more often than not will root for a feed and fall asleep. Is there anything that settles her/calms her down to the point she may fall asleep? Maybe a walk with white noise machine??x
This sounds great but our girl is in her own room and I really don’t want to get her used to being in the room with me and my partner because that’s our space away from her if you get what I mean