I know there about a hundred "my kid won't sleep" threads... I am just at my whit’s end! Ds#2 is 7 mos today and he gets up a minimum of once a night. Usually twice. Some times more. Is he really waking up because he is hungry? Ds#1 slept through the night (until 4-5am) at a month old. Has anyone had problems with them being so gassy it wakes them up? I wonder if that wakes him up and then he thinks he needs a bottle to go back to sleep? I bought some “Baby Bliss” yesterday hoping that would help at night. But it wasn’t much different. He was up at 1:30. Then up for good at 5:30. I know “all babies are different” and “eventually he will sleep through the night” But today is one of those days where that just doesn’t work for me… Any advice/opinions?

go outside shut the door behind you scream then come back in - no seriously it may relieve some tension i know it helps me sometimes when i get frustrated lol. yes you are right all babys are different but maybe you could check is your baby warm enough maybe he is waking for other reasons but because you ofer a bottle and he takes it you think it means he is hungry. i have heard others suggest try gradually watering down the middle of the night feed, secondly you could look at how much he is eating in the day. is hwe getting enough food to fill himup in the day to see him through the night? good luck for a good night soon:yawn:

try giving him a pacifier instead of a bottle..for me it always worked with the pacifier...if they cry at night I try not to feed because babies are smart and they get use to it. I give the pacifier and pretend that I am not there ( it worked for me)

He won't take a pacifier any more. He started spitting them out at about 4 months. I tried watering down his formula. Once it gets too watered down he just screams and pushes it away. In desperate times I have let him cry for 5-10 minutes, then checking on him but nothing seems to work. I also have a 5 year old that sleeps pretty heavy but if his baby brother cries for too long it wakes him up and I have two grumps awake in the middle of the night... I will make sure he is staying warm enough. I hadn't thought of that. I'm just always afraid he will get the blanket wrapped around his head. He likes to sleep with blankets over his face and it freaks me out. I wrap him in a fleece blanket then give him a loosely crocheted blanket so he won't pull the fleece over his face.

I so sympathize with what you are going through. My ds which is 14 months was the same way. He still on occasion will wake up but nothing like he used to. I honestly didn't think I'd ever get to sleep again! The doctor told me I needed to start letting him cry a bit to see if he'd stop because I'd always rush in and they also told me to stop the night feedings but I am not sure at what age that was.Of course all those suggestions were easier said than done since they weren't here listening to a screaming infant all night. I have an older child too thats room is right next to my ds's so I always tried to quiet him. The ONLY thing that has worked for us and we still do it nightly, We have a cd player in his room that plays Native American Flutes (ALL NIGHT on repeat). I told the doctor this and they said it was a good idea. I am not sure how long we'll have to do it but for now he still likes it to play. Also my ds doesn't like the dark so I have a nightlight on and a fan for background noise. It raises the electricity bill but also helps my chances of sleeping.

Hope any of these suggestions might help. I went through the exact same thing!

Thanks MissT! I may try the cd player idea. I don't know if dh will go for it since his monitor is on our head board so not only would he be listening to it all night but so would we. But then again if it helped us get some sleep... Thank God I have a great dh as he also gets up with him, but he is just as frustrated as I am. It amazes me how different two children from the same parents can be!!

I know what you mean about the music well I don't have it really loud in his room but to begin with I could swear I'd hear the music even when it wasn't playing. lol Thats why the flutes and music like that is good because it is calming so it might actually help you sleep. I have the monitor at my head too. I just put the monitor away from the cd player in his room so it doesn't pick it up as good.

My ds is 6 months and has just started getting up again through the night. Most of the time it is just social...he babbles away and plays abit, then goes back to sleep. We live in a bungalow and his room is across from ours. So you know what I did...turned off the monitor and opened his door a crack and ours as well and figure that if he really gets loud or is crying I'll hear him but the babbling is quiet enough I can sleep through it.
Good luck!

That's interesting that the CD idea is brought up. My daughter is now 2 1/2. When she was little, I found out that the day care provider was getting her to sleep by playing Enya's A Day Without Rain. I tried it at home from time to time and found it worked well too. It could have also made me sleep as well. (laughs)

EnYa also has
a new Christmas Cd out too~

You might want to try rocking/cuddling your baby to sleep first before
giving the bottle. Sometimes they just have bad dreams or wake up from a normal sleep cycle and couan't get back to sleep.