[missmossy]

This is my second baby to EC and things are going ok, except for night time. She's nearly 7 months. She will NOT pee if she is not 100 percent fully awake. During the night or naps, she'll wake up and fuss, squirm, roll, the whole bit but she will not pee. Last night this lasted well over an hour. I KNOW she has to pee, I know that's what the issue is but if I try to let her pee, she screams and cries. Putting a diaper on her doesn't help because she still won't pee, she just does the same thing.

She's so tired during all this that I can't get her to fully wake up either. She just keeps fussing and rolling around. We co sleep so this is REALLY irritating. The times when I put her somewhere else, she just cries.

Any advice? Anyone else have a baby like this?

 

[APMomOfKimmyN-Maya]

i cosleep as well and a lot of nights she will wake up 2-3 times per night (she's 4 months old) and she will squirm and I'll take her to go pee and nurse her back to sleep. on good nights, i know she has to pee, i take her, she pees, and we go back to sleep immediately- on some night though i notice she does what you are talking about....

she will squirm and i'll know she has to pee- she'll demand to be fed first so i'll feed her and try to get her to pee again but she just keeps wiggling and refusing to pee. i was hoping i could read some posts by some other EC'ers to see different holds they do or different preferences their babies have.

what finally happens at the end of the miserable hour? does she end up going pee in the toilet? go back to sleep? or do you have a miss?

 

[eirual]

I remember my guy being the same way- I honestly don't remember what we did about it, I think I just nursed him through it. And would keep a diaper on him 'cause sometimes he'd relax enough after semi-drifting off to just let it go.

One thing I've found lately is that he's starting to go down at a regular time now (by his own accord) so I'll pee him just before he gets sleepy and he's much more likely to have a dry, peaceful night. Before he'd unpredicatbly get sleepy which meant he'd pee whenever in the evening and then get super tired a couple hours later and not want to go again before being ready for bed, he'd nurse down and voila, he's going to bed with a full bladder and askin' for trouble. (if that made any sense- coudln't get the wording right for the life of me!)

 

[accountclosed3]

from a thai-massage/yoga perspective, massage may help.

if the squirming is causing tension in the neck and shoulders, rub the area and help the babe release the tension.

then, rub the upper legs and lower back.

this will often release the tension--and the need to hold--and then the baby will allow him/her self to relax.

this was the technique taught to me by my TYM teacher to help potty-training children with training anxiety. the idea was to help the child relax.

because i had potty-training anxiety, my parents didn't push me until i was 3. i still had anxiety and i still have some anxiety while giong to the bathroom (amazing, isn't it, that i'm 30 and it still crops up?). So, i often massage my legs while on the toilet, if i find that i can't consciously allow my body to relax and let go.

this is also a chakra issue worth exploring.

but this advice might help.