I have a 9 month old who is a good sleeper, to an extent, she usually goes down about 7pm or 8pm and sleeps REALLY well until about 4AM, then she is up anywhere between 4:00AM to 5:45AM if we are lucky. Usually she wants to drink a bottle, she usually hasn't eaten since 5:30pm or 6pm but my pediatrician said she nutritionally doesn't need that bottle as he puts it 'in the middle of the night'. Unfortunately that is the only thing that soothes her at that time- earlier she will take a Nuk, but after 4:00AM it is a bottle or nothing. This is sort of hurting my husband and I who take turns getting up with her in the AM because we have to get up shortly after she goes back down for work. Many times we don't fall back to sleep, and any of you with a 9 month old know how active they are until they go to sleep the following night. Most evenings we go to bed shortly after she does because we are so exhausted...does anyone have any suggestions on how we can get our little girl to sleep just a bit longer- 6:00AM would even be GREAT? It is like clock work for the past few weeks, 4:00AM on the dot! We have tried putting her down later in the evening, and even feeding her another bottle right before bedtime. Neither seems to work....HELP!
Hi Angie
I want to say you are Very lucky to a 9month old sleep for 10hours straight.I would try moving her bed time to 15 minutes later everyday for a week until you can get her to sleep the ten hours you want her to sleep I would also try and move that last feeding closer to bed time. Good Luck :)T.
HI Angie,
I'm with Tiffany on this. Scoot her bedtime 15 minutes later. I would give it a couple weeks before you see any true changes. It takes them time to adjust to new routine. Good luck. She'll outgorw this!!!
My 9 month old takes a nap in the early evening in my arms, because he is ready for bed but I don't want him to be down for the night yet. I let him sleep for about 45 minutes to an hour. The nap fall somewhere between 6:30 and 8:00. I make sure he is awake by 8:00, then we get active and play. I feed him again between 9:30 and 10:00. Everyone is in bed by 10:30 and he's off to dreamland until 7:00!
We had the same problem with our 9 month old. She goes to sleep at 6:30 or 7pm and sleeps till 6:30 or 7am. Our doctor told us that she could sleep 12 hours without needing to eat, so I would nurse her to sleep, then we let her cry till 6:30 or 7am. It was a rough couple of days, but now she sleeps ALL NIGHT LONG! its great! Even if she wakes up earlier (like 5am or so) we still make her stay in her crib till 6:30 or 7am. She will cry for 15 min or so, but then she will fall back alseep for 45min or more. If we get her up at 5am she is SO crabby all day. If we make her stay in her crib till 6:30 or 7am, she is wonderful! Good luck!
Just a few suggestions: I put my daughter (8 months) down around 8pm(right after she eats), and then I feed her (pick her up from sleeping to do this--in her room in a chair with lights off) around 10:30 or 11 when I go to bed. I'm not sure I like this idea as it is probably forming a pattern that I'll have to deal with later on, but I like it a lot better than getting up EARLY! Not sure how you feel about letting her cry it out...I'm a very sympathetic/caring/nice person, but I had to "train" my daughter just recently to sleep past 5 or 5:30 by letting her cry it out. It didn't take that long (3 or 4 days) of letting her cry off and on for 15-30 minutes until she got to the point of sleeping until 6:30ish and sometimes 7. Might work, might not. GOOD LUCK! One more thing: have you evaluated her nap times during the day????
