I have wrote in before on my DS not sleeping through the night. He is 6 months now and is still not sleeping through the night. He goes down around 8 or 8:30 and will normally sleep anywhere between 2 am and 4:30 am, which is very good (for him). He sleeps on his side now with his head wrenched back and sometimes when he wakes up he will roll over to his stomach, which will wake him up. He would sleep longer if this didn't happen. I have tried rolling him back over to his back and then trying to give the paci - but he spits it out and crys :rolleyes: . What can I do to prevent this from happening? Thanks for any advice.

There are molded forms (braces, I don't know exactly what to call them) to prevent this. They are made of foam. I know that they are for younger babies, but I don't know what the age cut off is. You should be able to find them online or at your local baby superstore (if you have one) Good luck!

Could you try possibly keeping him up just a little later? It might give you a night of uninterrupted sleep possibly...
Paula

Let me just say. My son is 13 months old and he still is not sleeping through the night. Some nights he does, others he doesn't. Don't become discouraged. If you believe he'd sleep longer if he didn't roll onto his back then I suggested the foam brace thing another person here mentioned. It keeps the baby from rolling around. However, he might be a little old for this and just make him a little uncomfortable. I suggest getting him used to a radio. To be completely honest, my little guy has gotten used to us given him a bottle while he falls asleep and if he wakes in the middle of the night we give him another batch. This is a horrible habit, I know and this weekend will be "hell weekend." We're going to get him used to not having us wake up and give him "room service." Wish me luck!

Michelle

Good luck Michelle!! I work at a school and we get 2 weeks off for Christmas break and I will be trying the "let him cry" method (if I can handle it). I have made a habit, myself, of getting him when he wakes at night and putting him in the bed with me to nurse and then just leaving him in there so I can go back to sleep and him too. He is a large baby (6 months @ 26lbs) and I feed him cereal for lunch and he has a little more at dinner time on top of nursing him to sleep. When he does wake sometimes, he starts sucking my face, assuming he is hungry and that is when I put him in the bed with me. The last 3 nights though, he has been waking every hour after the initial one to nurse. I have tried the paci but that doesn't work. Could he be going through a growth spurt maybe? We will see what happends. Wish me luck :)

6 months is about time for a growth spurt, that may be it. Hang in there, my 11 months old DD still wakes up during the night. It will end sometime!

my daughter still wakes up at night. Sometimes she wakes up and starts screaming, other times she's rolling around and happy. Sometimes a bottle helps... other times nothing does. It'll get better. Just remind yourself that it's normal :)

My daughter is 3 months and has been sleeping through the night since she was two months.Sometimes she will wake up if she isn't feeling good. She wakes up around 4 or 5 every morning. This is good for her. She goes down around 8 and sleeps until then. Which i think is really good for her. Sometimes she will sleep until 7pm. Some people think that 4-5 is early. See her daddy gets up up around 5 for work. So she is use to getting up at that time. My sisters little boy started sleeping through the night at the same age, but around six months she started waking up at night again. He just now is started sleeping throught the night again and he is 17 months old.

:p My six year old did not sleep through the night until he was two. It sounds a bit unconventional but I began taking him to the chiropractor because he was grabbing his lower back a good bit and he thought he was an acrobat. The Chiropractor said it was not uncommon but I swear after a few adjustments he began sleeping through the night and has ever since. Maybe it was coincidence, or maybe not.

Sounds like he's just a HONGRY one! He is already capable of sleeping around 6 hours straight but sounds like he's just waking for a "topper". I would try making his last feeding around 9:30ish and giving him cereal then too, or try nursing him right before you go to bed whether he's awake or not. :)

I think if you did the cereal thing that might help. My little girl gets 1 tablespoon of rice cereal for every 4 oz of forumla. She has reflux and the doctor recommened it to make the forumla a little heavier for her to keep it down. Anyways she has been on this since she was about 2 weeks old and at 2months she started sleeping through the night. Now she get it in every bottle because she has too. I have had alot of friends say that they give their baby cereal at the feeding before bed and that really helps them sleep through the night. It fills their bellies up and they don't need to wake up. I think that is why my little girl started sleeping through the night so early. Good Luck with this. I know as a mom it's hard to let them lay there a cry. You don't want to let them cry to long. I know with my little girl (b/c of the reflux) they say not long at all. It fills their little bellies with air and then they are upset because they have a belly ache. With her it also makes her reflux act up.Good luck. It's hard but he will get there.

I would try propping her with a blanket. To keep her from rolling over on her tummy. My son, who is almost a year old, sleeps through the night sometimes, and doesn't at others. He is also nursed, and uses me as human binki most nights. Especially if he is upset, gets woke up for some reason, or just has a tummy ache or something. The last few nights, he has had horrid nights thanks to my neighbor, but most generally he does alright. Anyway, he sleeps in awkward positions too, and when he falls alssp deep enough to fall out of them sometimes it wakes him, and startles him, therefore I have to nurse him to get him back to sleep. The position he sleeps in though there is no way to prop. He sleeps with his little butt straight up in the air, his hands under his tummy, with one foot extended as though he is going to stand up. It looks VERY uncomfortable, and cute at the same time, but that is the only way he will sleep. Good luck.

Make sure you let your doctor know the baby isn't sleeping well. My daughter is two and she still doesn't sleep all night but it's better than it was a year ago. She's not hungry or spoiled, she has asthma and it definately effects her sleeping habits.

The doctors didn't diagnose what was going on until she was one and she had a noticable asthma attack. We now know she was having some difficulty breathing and I didn't know it. Now when she start coughing or gets really fussy at night I give her a breathing treatment and she goes back to sleep and sleeps good.

I'm just saying don't forget to tell your pediatrician about the sleepless nights. They are pretty good at recognizing warning signs if there are any. Besides I know they have lots of ideas how to help even when there is nothing medically wrong.