Lately she has been waking up at night every 2-3 hours wide awake.
The first feeding, she's hungry, so I BF her. She'll fall asleep, I'll lay her back in her crib and she's awake. We go through this cycle for over an hour. The second, I usually bring her to bed with me. She'll eat but then just play for another hour. I don't engage her other than feed her but that doesn't really help either.
Is it time to CIO? I am not opposed to it as I need my sleep! I'm also wondering about giving her an 8 oz bottle before bed. She nurses, but is obviously still hungry
Post by karinothing on Jul 18, 2012 14:06:58 GMT -5
Is this a recent change? I really think that sometimes babies just have bad nights/weeks. DS was sleeping horrible for the past three weeks. Suddenly this week his sleep is normal. I did nothing different.
When DS is just awake and won't go back down after we tried EVERYTHING to get him to calm down, we usually give up and just let him cry for a bit. Two things happen. 1. he cries for under 10 minutes and passes out or 2. it approaches 10 minutes and I go nurse him again and he passes out.
Post by Ashley&Scott on Jul 18, 2012 15:10:11 GMT -5
I don't have advice but wanted to say you're not alone. DS was up playing last night from 2-3:30am, normally I can nurse him to sleep but it didn't work this time. He was bright eyed after he was done eating. Hopefully it's just a (short) phase.
I also don't think she's necessarily hungry. DS will often comfort nurse even of he's not really hungry.