What do you do when your 10 month old or older wakes up in the middle of the night?

Sasha has been waking up a lot at night. Last night, she was up at 1 30 and didn't go back to sleep until 4. Good times.

She has been pulling this shite a lot lately-- and I think it's because she is teething. I thought it was cause maybe she was sick with the eating/throwing up, etc., but I think that whole business has gone on too long and has been too sporadic to be a stomach bug. I think it's the teething.

What I have been doing because I don't want to nurse, since she should not be getting used to eating in the middle of the night-- is I go in and hold her for a few mins. As soon as I hold her-- she calms down and is totally cool--but wide awake, or she may look like she wants to go back to sleep. Since I don't want to be upright for the evening, I bring her to bed with me-- but she doesn't always go back to sleep. It's hard to get her to go back down-- even though she is pysched she is in our bed. I usually can get her to sleep for a little, and depending on time-- we'll either get up, or I will try to put her back in the crib.

Anyway-- last night I had had enough-- so I just nursed her right away so I could get some sleep. Obviously it didn't work based on the beginning of this post.

Sooo-- what can I do to get her to calm down, relax and go back to sleep? I let her CIO for a little, but I mean-- no one [meaning ME, DH is sound asleep though it all] is sleeping when she is crying anyway, and it's not really a normal occurrence- except for recently.

What should I be doing??

Re: What do you do when your 10 month old or older wakes up in the middle of the night?

The week Sadie turned 10 months was AWFUL. She was waking up in the middle of the night, we would go in and rock her back to sleep in the rocking chair. She was flipping out going down for naps and bed for no reason...or so we thought.

She cut her top two teeth and was back to normal.

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When DD was teething bad and woke up in the middle of the night I would give her two teething tablets.

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Not only do we have the same kid, but I think we have the same DH

Shane doesn't stay up for that long, but he randomly gets up and I just let him cry...whether it's 5 minutes or an hour. And no one is sleeping (like you, that means me since DH sleeps through everything) but if I go to him it's just worse when I try to put him back down or leave him or whatever. So I just let him cry. I don't know what else to do. We came from co-sleeping so I will not revisit that scenario cause I know that's exactly what he wants and it took me just about 10 long months to finally get him to STTN in his crib.

I tell myself the next one has to be easier....do you?

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Chels also went through this around 10-11 months, finally after a few weeks of me not sleeping I let her cry one night The first night she cried for 10 mins before falling asleep, the next 5 and the next didn't cry and STTN...she got very used to me going in and rocking her, and/or bringing her into bed with us, so she was totally working it...thankfully we've been back to 12 hour nights since!!!

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I usually let her cry-- but, it's too intense, or for too long these days. I can't take it! In the middle of the night it's like nails on a chalkboard x 1000!

I hope this passes soon. Between this and the short naps, I need a major vacation.

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DH will go in b/c he won't go back to sleep if I get him. Sometimes putting the pacifier back in works and he falls back asleep right away. Other times DH rocks him back to sleep. It can take 5 minutes or an hour. If he gets u multiple times per night, DH will give up and bring him into bed. DS usually STTN, but he won't if he's sick. Visiting my parents also totally messes up his sleep schedule for several days.

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IMO, the more you go in and pick her up when she cries, the more she is going to cry until you pick her up. Katie did that too, she would cry in the middle of the night and t he first couple of nights I went in and rocked her, just b/c it wasnt normal for her to wake up crying so I just felt bad. But she learned real quick that her crying = me going in there. 10m is aroung the age seperation anxiety starts, she always wants to be with you!

I would let her CIO. It might be a rough couple of nights until she realizes you aren't going in there. I could usually tell it wasn't her teeth bothering her, if she stopped crying and was all playful the second I picked her up. If it was teething, she would usually still be irritable when I held her. Or try giving her motrin one night to see if she stays asleep, then maybe it was her teeth.

HTH

Re: What do you do when your 10 month old or older wakes up in the middle of the night?

My DD randomly was crying and not going back down at 4 in the morning the other day. She is almost 11 months. I didn't know what to do. I was so tired and desperate.

She loooooves to look at books so I threw a few of them in her crib. She immediately stopped crying and started to look through them and I went back to bed. I figured she'd fall asleep eventually, and she did....on top of some books.