night wakings at 10 almost 11 months!

[Kimmi]

There is also another great book Im reading now called "Nightime Parenting" by Pediatrician Dr William Sears. He has 6 children of his own, one of them 'high need', like my bub. He explains in his book the long term affects on a child of the "crying it out method" and suggests other ways of helping your bub to sleep through the night.
In the end though, you have to do whats right for you and your family. Good luck

 

[noella]

Thanks Kashismum nice to know other people go through what we do!!

 

[ChipMama]

Hi All,

I have an 8th month old who has been waking up for the past 2 months at night. He was such a sweet baby since 2 months sleeping through the night. However, in the last 2 months, he is crying 2 - 3 times at night in a dreamy state. We can't seem to soothe him back to sleep. The only thing that we can do is to wake him up and hold him for awhile. Once he is awake, he stops crying and goes back to bed immediately. But I feel bad that we have to interrupt his sleep like this to get him to stop crying. He looks like he is crying in his dreams since his eyes are always closed. And he looks like he wants to go back to sleep but couldn't.

Can someone please help me in this since I am running out of reasons to know what is going on with my son? (I had checked all of teh usual reasons - too hot, too cold and hungary.)

Thanks!

ChipMama

 

[Kimmi]

A very good article to read on 'controlled crying'
www.naturalchild.org/guest/pinky_mckay.html

 

[funnychamp]

I heard the wives tales that when you are playing with the baby too much in the day time like making the baby laugh all the day, can caused the baby has bad dream and he will have sleepless night... well.. that's what my mom used to tell me..

 

[eplo19]

so, what is the ferber method ?

 

[Kimmi]

I think Ferber uses 'controlled crying' in his sleep method. A much nicer way is: The no-cry sleep solution by Elizabeth Pantley