Posted by
superfine
19 yrs ago
Everything has changed now my LO is 8 months old.At bed time he is now standing up in the cot and holding onto the bars and screaming non stop and will not go to bed.He has also started getting up at 3am crying so I have started giving him a bottle so he will go back to sleep.
Has anyone else experienced this change at 8 mths?I have had an angel up until now sleeping 7pm to 7am, what has happened?
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it's called independence.
yours seems early - mine just started doing it after she was 9.5 months. Sometimes i'll hear the baby monitor and she's up and walking around the inside of her cot knocking this around.
I try and send the message that it is sleep time, so if she does wake up and standup, I quietly go in and lay her back down. sometimes she'll cry a bit but then if she's motivated she'll stand back up and then I go back in and lie her down. I don't pick her up and I try to make it clear it's night time. (sleep time.)
most of the time she'll go back to sleep. TOday it took her an hour of back and forth - about 10-15 minute intervals - but she did go back to sleep, and since she knows that's what i'll do, she doesn't cry. Good luck. Adventures from here on out!
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mine has started doing the standing up thing at bedtime, especially when he sees us leaving the room. but i just wave goodbye and ignore him - i know he has had enough food for the day and he is tired after playing all day.
but on the odd nights when he won't settle or if he suddenly wakes up at about 10ish for no reason, i do what hkcc does, just lay him down again, no talking, until he eventually gets the message that this is not playtime.
think perithites another forum user wrote about this a few months back and hers sounded pretty seriousif she reads this and if her problem has been resolved, maybe she can share what she did!
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MayC
19 yrs ago
We've had no problems with my little girl's sleep pattern but we had to be very strict from the beginning. Last night, she got up twice, at 11.30pm and at 2.30am (no thanks to MIL, she let her sleep from 7pm-10.30pm) but I kept insisting, "It's night time now, go back to bed". I wouldn't entertain her so she left me alone and went to bed. She slept from 7pm till 8am which is quite long for a 2 year old. Fingers crossed, I hope it stays this way ;-)
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C
19 yrs ago
We solved it relatively quickly by keeping our son in his grobag which made it more difficult to stand up (and possibly climb over the side too, I think this is a Gina Ford thing though, I can't claim to have come upon this solution myself)
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We used a saftey sleep......for this very problem just got rid of it once I was sure he could lie back down again by himself and he was ten half months old. It is a sheet attachment that wraps around the mattress, and then the other part wraps around the tummy of baby and has strong velcro to do it up. It's pretty comfortable cause it allows them to roll to their side just not all the way round and they can't get up to standing.
First child didn't use it but didn't have problems with him sleeping, he slept like an angel through till two......then started getting up at 5am for a while! Now he is back to 6.30.
Now if baby does stand up, I ignore him, problem is he shares with big brother so sometimes I worry he'll wake him up so go in lie him down and walk out.
As many times as it takes.
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My guy started this at 8 months and it lasted the longest 3 months of my life. I am not exaggerating when I say it was 3 months of sheer hell, working full time, coping with no sleep.
Mainly, beacuse I kept trying out different ways of dealing with whatever it could be - teeth? anxiety? hunger? etc. I read books I hadn;t touched for months, I went to the Docs, I was basically a mess. One day- it stopped.
He slept all through ( we didn't !) and since then, its been great, back to 10 hours a night. I know this may not last, but has been 2 months now, no waking, fussing, nothing, just back to being settled. It really coincided with him standing and really crawling, since he learned to stand and move alone, it stopped. (I also had him go to a paygroup or free playroom every afternoon, so it wore him out.)
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We had this at around 10 months. We used the Baby whisperer pick up/put down method.
Basically each time LO stands up uyou pick them up - whisper "it's sleepy time" or something like that and lie them down again. Stay with them and every time they stand up do the exact same thing. She recommends waiting till they're standing rather than doing it just when they get up onto all fours or something.
The first night I did it more than 20 times over the course of an hour till she drifted off. Second night was about 18 times, 3rd, 15 times but after 10 days or so we had it pretty sorted. We still occasionally have to do this if she's sleeping in a strange bed.
Hope the problem is sorted by now anyway!
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