9 month old and sleep - Page 2

[kismetbaby]

Sugarpop--I could have just written your latests posts! I also had gone back to eating some dairy and it seemed fine, but after this crazy night stuff I have cut it out again and the past two nights ave seemed a bit better--not great but better.

and I get the feeling he is just figuring so much out right now. He started signing something. . .not quite sure what it is, more or milk I think. I kinda expect him to bust out with talking or signing any day now. and of course there is the crawling and teething and possible growth spurt. whew.

I guess I'd have trouble sleeping too if I was learning all that! Ugh, the getting to sleep is the worst right now though. It seriously takes me about 2 hours to get him down for the night too.

[LionessMom]

i find a dose of hylands bofero bed helps. my DD2 is all over right now, arches her back, wont let me lay her down, tries to roll off of me when i am holding her. non stop kid. i think her teeth hurt. always wants to bite me. hylands calms her in 15 mi and she zonks right out for at least 2 hours before i come to bed.

[Path2Felicity]

My DD is 7.5 months but she has started some really crazy sleep habits too. The rolling over and kicking and flailing about? Yup... it starts at about 4 AM for me and lasts until about 7:30 when she wakes up. I try and nurse her but it doesn't help. So, if it gets bad, DH takes her and for whatever reason, she seems to do better snuggled up with him.

The other thing is, if I put her down at night, within 45 minutes, she is up and distressed. She never screams during the day but when she wakes up after I put her down the first night, she wakes up REALLY distressed. I have no idea why.

Now, for the last few nights, she is totally not into bed time. In the past, we put her down at 8:30. I would nurse her to sleep and she would fall asleep. I would rock her a little bit, and she was out. But, for the last few nights, she just has not been into bedtime at all. She is still a little wound up but not an overtired sort of wound up. It's more like she just isn't tired. I don't know if she's trying to condense her naptimes and is taking a nap too late in the afternoon or what (we don't have a nap schedule... I just kind of follow her cues).

Anyway, I have decided not to stress. If, in a few weeks from now, she still wants to sleep at 10:30 and not get a whole bunch of sleep during the day either, I will worry about it then. It's just not worth the stress right now. At this age, they are figuring out crawling, their teething is still going on, they are getting used to solids (we are just starting to introduce some foods here and there), they might be having some separation anxiety issues, etc. She is generally a happy baby so, unless she is showing signs of having some other issues, I will just go by her cues.

I think we stress a lot about sleep and babies in this country (personally, I think it stems from people pressuring new moms to get their babies on a sleep schedule and STTN). At some point, I just realized that the first year is not going to be a time of tremendous sleep for me, and that her body is changing so much and she will let me know what she needs. I just have to be able to read the cues well enough.

Not sure if this helps... but just wanted to let you know... I know how you feel, mama