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need advice on sleeping issues...
Here is the situation:
Allie has been putting her self down for over a month now. For the past two weeks she has been waking up a lot during the night screaming and I mean full blown screaming. Nothing clams her down...not music, not a mobile, not rubbing her, not even crying it out!! The only thing that works is rocking/holding her. But the second you put her back down the screaming starts again. So I called the pedi and this is his answer: she is not eating enough. So he told me the type of schedule she needs to be on for naps and eating. While I had planned on doing this over Feb vacation I do not feel this is what is going on. She eats 3tbs of cereal a day and a total of a jar and half of baby food and has 24oz of bm. At her 6 month checkup I saw a different doc from the one on the phone and I was told cereal 3x during the 1-2 TBS.
I am upset because I am being told two different things. Also I don;t feel like she is hungry. Why would she stop crying? Now I have to rely on daycare to follow the schedule and help us out so her nights are better.
He said try it for a week and get back to him.
I don;t know if I need advice or just need to vent!! LOL Either way I am frustrated and just want to be a good mom and now I feel like I am failing because daughter has been hungry this whole time and I didn't feed her!!
Do you think it is food or something else that is causing her to cry?
Re: need advice on sleeping issues...
Honestly, at that age, that sounds like plenty of food. Maddy is 9 months this week and eats more than that but she should. At 6 months Maddy has just started solids and was barely eating anything besides breastmilk.
And, honestly, at that age it could be anything - teething pain, separation anxiety, a slight cold/virus. Anything. Maddy doesn't handle teething well at all and started right about that age (first 2 teeth showed up just as she turned 7 months old).
Hell last night Maddy woke up at 3am crying.... my guess is she's just starting to work on her top teeth. I let her cry until she went back to sleep, about 30 minutes or so. But we spent 2 months with sleep training methods to get her to sleep for more than 4-5 hours so that's my method, I know not everyone believes in it.
good luck - no real answers for you but maybe try some tylenol/motrin tonight and see if that helps at all? Usually after a few nights or days of something weird going on I try that, realize it was b/c they were in pain, and sure enough after 2 or 3 nights they are better (and either a cold or a tooth emerges as the culprit!). Hugs!
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do you try feeding her at night to get her back down? i wouldn't be surprised if it was teething either... we usually ended up giving our girls motrin, then like 4oz of BM (I pumped)
don't worry though b/c kids randomly wake up throughout the night... last night emerson was up from 11pm to 12:30am
I honestly think it is just a phase or growth spurt for her. I know that A went through that a few times... she would be an amazing sleeper and then all of the sudden do what Allie is doing. It was horrendous and I always thought something was wrong with her because nothing would work to calm her and forget about trying to put her down.... she would wake and scream even if she was in a deep deep sleep when I was holding her. A went through this for a few weeks, so I will tell you, it will get better but may take some time.
If you think you are feeding her enough, I would ignore what the pedi is saying.