Just. Won't. Sleep
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My son is going on 8 months and has not slept a full night at all.
I can remember one blurry night where the max was 6 glorious hours in a row!
He wakes every morning about 6-7am - breakfast and a bottle, nap around 11 (sometimes for 30 minute, sometimes up to 2 hours - very rare though) snack / lunch when he wakes up. Dinner around 5, tea at 7 followed by bath soon after, bottle and bed.
He will wake up about 10pm crying and I will rub his back & he will fall asleep, about 1am for a bottle and 4am for a bottle.
I have tried replacing bottles with water (as nurse suggested) but he gets hysterical / will drink the water but then will wake a while later looking for milk.... I have tried letting him cry. That doesn't go down well. (Plus I live with the inlaws (8 of us in total in the house!) and I really don't want to disturb other people so I can't let him cry it out.
It is just so strange as he is soooo active, crawling on everything, always moving, eats TONS of food, drinks plenty of water / milk during the day and is fit for bed by 7pm - no problem getting him asleep but it is just after that ! Sometimes he wakes every hour for absolutely no reason.
It is getting exhausting as myself & fiance are both in full time work.
I really worry that I am spoiling him / doing something wrong but my mother (6 kids) and mother in law (4 kids) keep telling me that he is just "one of those babys" ...
Any advise!?
I can remember one blurry night where the max was 6 glorious hours in a row!
He wakes every morning about 6-7am - breakfast and a bottle, nap around 11 (sometimes for 30 minute, sometimes up to 2 hours - very rare though) snack / lunch when he wakes up. Dinner around 5, tea at 7 followed by bath soon after, bottle and bed.
He will wake up about 10pm crying and I will rub his back & he will fall asleep, about 1am for a bottle and 4am for a bottle.
I have tried replacing bottles with water (as nurse suggested) but he gets hysterical / will drink the water but then will wake a while later looking for milk.... I have tried letting him cry. That doesn't go down well. (Plus I live with the inlaws (8 of us in total in the house!) and I really don't want to disturb other people so I can't let him cry it out.
It is just so strange as he is soooo active, crawling on everything, always moving, eats TONS of food, drinks plenty of water / milk during the day and is fit for bed by 7pm - no problem getting him asleep but it is just after that ! Sometimes he wakes every hour for absolutely no reason.
It is getting exhausting as myself & fiance are both in full time work.
I really worry that I am spoiling him / doing something wrong but my mother (6 kids) and mother in law (4 kids) keep telling me that he is just "one of those babys" ...
Any advise!?
