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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
9 month old won't go back to sleep in the middle of the night
Since you ladies are so awesome, I was hoping you could help me out. DS has actually become a pretty good sleeper by now, he takes 2 decent naps a day, and goes down easily for naps and at night with a little rocking (eating his bottle and rocking usually takes about half an hour). The problem is when he wakes up in the middle of the night. He'll eat without any trouble, it takes him about 20-ish minutes. But after that it's so hard to get him to go to sleep. On a good night it takes another 20 minutes with at least 2 attempts at putting him down (although that often is because he needs to burp), last night was a really bad night and he was still awake 2 hours after he first woke up. I don't know why it's like this in the middle of the night but fine every other time he goes to sleep. How do I fix this?
Re: 9 month old won't go back to sleep in the middle of the night
Is it possible that he's too warm or too cold as the weather is totally unpredictable these days? Is it possible he is eating too much and is too uncomfortable to sleep? These seems unlikely, but I just figured I would through that out there, since you mentioned that burping can be the problem. Desperate times call for every possible idea!!
One more idea - teething? S really ever showed teething pain at night. (At least that's what we think it was.) Maybe dose of tylenol would do the trick? (I'm not for over-medicating, and actually S hates taking meds so much it wasn't worth it...but again, any ideas could be helpful!
Mostly, though, I think you just have to wait it out. Keep the lights out; don't talk; maybe white noise?
I remember well the desperate "please just sleep nights." We ended up just holding him on the couch or in the spare room. Then at least we all slept a bit better. Just keep repeating, "He won't go to middle school still wanting rocked over night."
Hang in there!
When he wakes up we don't turn on any lights, and we have a white noise machine. It's on a 45 min timer, and whenever I'm still trying to get him to go to sleep and it shuts off, it's rough. Anyway, thanks for the encouragement! Hopefully someday he will be a decent sleeper, he's definitely better now than he was before, but being awake 2 hours in the night kills me ;-)