[Abbyloos Mommy]

I'm sure I'm doing everything right but...

My almost 1yo is teething a molar right now, possibly 2 molars and 2 others. She does usually wake during the night when she's teething. Except, now it's seeming like her pain is slacking a bit during the day, she almost doesn't seem like she is. Yet she is still waking up 2 or 3 times in the night. She used to sleep throught the night w/o needing to be fed, but now it's like, it's the only way she'll go back to sleep is with some milk in her. Do you think maybe she is sleeping too much in the day? She will go to bed at 9pm, wake up for good at around 7-7:30am, around 10 sleeps an hour or two, then in the afternoon sleep an hour or two depending on the first nap. Is it normal for a 1yo to start waking up at night again? Teething or not? It's been going on for almost a month now and I'm going crazy from it! See it used to be that I'd just hop into bed and go to sleep with her, but now she wants to be fed or rocked.

Just looking for some sanity savers here!

 

[Ok]

There is so much going on for a 12mo. Is she also working on any big new skills (walking or talking? eating food on her own or something?) C is 14mo and had been a fine night sleeper but he's waking up at night (cutting eye teeth) too. I'm also never sure if theres a growth spurt involved too. I just figure its a phase and he'll be sleeping through again soon (hopefully!). Meanwhile I'm pretty good at nursing while I'm asleep. (He's my 4th child

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Sorry no answers, but ((yawn)) lots of sympathy...

 

[NatalieS]

Something dd taught me early on is that nothing in parenting is constant- she was always changing. The word routine or schedule still makes me laugh because her needs were changing day to day- hour to hour.

Probably what happened is her sleep habits changed during her teething. Now she is used to being soothed back to sleep with you and milk. Everyone wakes up at night; our 'sleep triggers' are what help us to fall back asleep. Typically, when we are our own sleep triggers, we don't even realize we've woken up. But when our kids' have us as theirs, either breast, bottle, rocking etc, they need us to help them get back to sleep after a normal sleep cycle.

So your choices are to respect what has happened and deal with it or to try to change her sleep trigger back to whatever it used to be- or create a new one, blanket etc. But remember that there are lots more teeth on their way and you'll most likely be back in this same situation soon!

 

[my2girlsmama]

Sounds normal to me! :LOL

My 14 month old wakes every 2-3 hours sometimes hourly through the night to nurse and be comforted. She's learning to walk, teething.....so much happening the brain just doen't slow at night for them.

 

[3 Little Monkeys]

dd went through a more frequent waking stage at around a year, it was frustrating as heck because she had JUST started sleeping through the night. Her's started with teething, then went away, she slept better for awhile, until the molars started coming in - back to no sleep, it's a vicious cycle! Right now she's working on her eye teeth, so I feel your pain!

Jesi also dropped her second nap at around a year - this might be a transitioning thing for her, maybe she's trying to figure out how to drop her second nap. Maybe try only one nap one day to see if it makes a difference. It could be a combination of the two, along with her getting used to being soothed back to sleep by you. My favorite parenting phrase? This too shall pass (and some day I'll sleep through the night!