My 7 mth old refuses to go to sleep.?

Question

My 7th mth old refuses to sleep, we have tried various routines that include bath time, massage and quiet time to no avail.

She is currently sleeping around 10 hours at night but not going to bed until 11pm-ish.

We have managed to get her to go off to sleep much better by resorting to a pacifier and laying down next to her. All though this is not a great solution it is better than hours of literally screaming that lasted for months until we were able to manage it this current way.

I can not allow her to cry it out, as she becomes hysterical and makes her self sick. So that is no longer an optional method for us.

She is tossing and turning as she tries to fall a sleep,

could is be teething? some sort of discomfort?

She is still waking every 3-4 hours for breastfeeding in the night.

any thoughts would be apreciated...

should we just let her be?, and accept that maybe this IS her routine.

Answer 1

She shouldn't need nursing during the night at her age.



Why can't you let her cry it out? Our daughter was exactly the same as yours at the exact same age. We let her cry it out, and it took all of a week for her to become comfortable putting herself to sleep, at a normal bed time. AND she screamed hysterically and gagged too.



That's just too much on you, especially your relationship with your husband to be catering to your daughter at 11 at night to avoid her crying. She needs to learn to put herself to sleep at some point.



You be the parent and dictate her bed time. Babies adjust really well, and if you make 8pm her bedtime, she WILL accept it.

Answer 2

well the cry it out method is the best way but since that isnt a option, i would say just accept that this is her routine. if she is sleeping 10 hours at night, thats a long sleep for a baby. my son sleeps 12 hours and hes 7 months as well. also can be teething if she seems to scream and nothing helps id say give her alittle infant motrin and tylenol and see if that eases things. my son when he was born wouldnt go to bed till 11 as well. i just left it at that and eventually it got sooner and sooner now he goes to bed at 7:30. does she act tierd earlier then 11? i cant relate to breastfeeding because i never did it with my son. but try to get her in the routine of bath, eat (bottle, breastfeed) then bed. maybe some babyfood before bath so that her belly is more full. good luck

Answer 3

~ while Is His contemporary Nap in the Day? even have you ever Talked To His well-being practitioner approximately This? that's so easy as Giving Him Tylenol At evening For His soreness From Teething! proceed to furnish Him Bottles... yet purely With Water In Them.... If He gets Thirsty sufficient he will Drink It additionally you are going to be able to desire to upload somewhat flavor To It (make optimistic that's Sugar unfastened) Like A Small Drop Of Lemon or purely some form of flavor. or you additionally can Get Pedialite For His liquids At evening. Do you go away His Door Open and have A Dim evening mild? because of the fact could desire to help. additionally Rocking Him lower back To Sleep with out a Bottle could desire to help Too! additionally enable Him Cry At evening for greater or less 10 minutes. And If He Hasn't Fallen To Sleep In that factor pass In There Soothe Him, go away, And If He starts off Crying lower back, Repeat It. (I Did That With My Son And It purely Took some week) only be certain which you do no longer go away Him Crying for a very long term. the 1st Couple Of Days you additionally can tell Him you will sit down At His Door way until He Falls Asleep... i'm hoping This helps.....

Answer 4

sometimes during breastfeeding you dont produce enough milk and the baby suckles and really doesn't get full.. you should try pumping to make sure shes getting enough milk..another suggestion would be to rock her..sit in a quiet area wrap her up in a nice blanket give her a pacifier and caress her head she'll surely fall asleep quick..good luck!

Answer 5

You have to try this method!! I used it on my son and he just turned 7 months old. In the first 2 months with him he was in my bed and for naps I would have to bounce and rock him to sleep every time (45min). I thought there must be an easier way. Someone recommended the book 'The Baby Whisperer' so I bought it and she has the most amazing technique. It's called 'Pick up put down method'. You don't leave your baby to cry.

Here is what you have to do. I will admit it is difficult and you have to be VERY persistant. It takes 4-5 days and I am telling you, you WILL have a baby that can put herself to sleep. You create your baby's sleep habits so now you have to create new ones for her.

-you really have to watch her sleep ques, rubbing eyes, yawning. As soon as you see that, then she needs to go for a nap or to bed.

-take her up to her crib, make sure the room is dark and put her down. when she starts to cry pick her up and console her, and as soon as she calms down put her back down.

-Pick her up and put her down as long as it takes for her to start to fade. Before she closes her eyes leave the room. This is how she learns to go to sleep by herself.

-It's really hard so It will help if your husband can help, you both need to be on the same page.

-First night you might pick up and put down 200 times

-Second night might be 75 times

-third night will be 10 times

-and there you have it, the 4th night she will go to sleep by herself. IT WORKS, it worked for me and my cousin (she did her daughter when she was 12 months and shortly after she started sleeping through the night) her baby slept in her parents bed for 12 months and was up every 2 hours.

Good Luck!

Answer 6

i guess u should just let her be, as long as she sleeps 10 hours at nite is fine, my son also sleeps arond 11pm at nite and wake up 9 am in the morning. every baby is different, most of them cannot sleep over nite till one years old. not long to go~~dont worries

Answer 7

Are you having caffeine? Even when you are breastfeeding, it can pass through the milk and make the babies alert and not responsive to sleep.