MOTN Wake Ups

[kartish]

After sleeping through the night for a while V is back to waking up around 2am every morning. At first he just talks to himself, then he starts getting fussy and it ends up with him crying and going momma, Dada over and over. So one of us goes in.

Anyone else dealing with MOTN still? How do you deal when LO wakes up? Do you go in and soothe without picking them up? Or pick them up and rock them back to sleep? Do you just let them cry?

[mishka29]

In this case I would go in every 10 mins to sooth say nighty nighty until they go back. Might take some time at first but eventually they get the hint.

We have the problem with early wakes up but with DD1 right next door this method doesn't work so well bc then they are both awake

[seamonster]

I try to just rub his back or if he wants cuddles, I'll hold him until he goes to sleep. I also dose with pain killers since he does have his 2nd year molars coming in.

[lilyelayne]

G usually wakes once between 330-530. I don't go in for talking/wakefulness but I do go in if he's crying, provided he doesn't settle himself after a few minutes. I can usually tell he won't settle if he starts calling my name.

I nurse him and put him back in his crib. I'm probably in there for 10-15 minutes unless I fall asleep in the chair with him. There's no going in and not picking him up, not for me or DH. He goes ballistic. He'd rather be held for one minute and then left again than have us sit in the room for 10 minutes and not pick him up.

Sometimes he talks to himself for a while after I put him back in his crib, but he'll go back to sleep by himself eventually.

[dreemkin]

I can tell by the cry when she won't go back to sleep on her own. Usually we just have to go in there, cover her back up, give her her stuffys and she's okay. Sometimes we have to stay in there a few minutes to reassure her we're there.

[mmarie]

If I'm at work, I know H brings her in bed with him even though I wish he didn't. If I'm home, I go in and make sure she has a paci and cover her back up. It usually works

[tortor4]

I wish I could just go in and soothe her but I still rock her to sleep. We tried getting her to put herself to sleep a few weeks ago and it did not go well at all. She doesn't wake up MOTN often but when she does I have to rock her. We actually just bought a big girl bed for her so I'm going to try to switch up our routine a bit when we start using it in a couple weeks to hopefully make things a little easier.

[kartish]

V sometimes will be soothed by a Binky and a quick back rub, but most of the time he wants to be held and rocked back to sleep. I've been trying to get DH to deal with these wakeup, but with his schedule it's hard. I just keep thinking that once the baby comes all of this MOTN stuff is going to get worse. V is a pretty light sleeper as it is.

[agm04]

kartish do i remember you saying he's dropping a 2nd nap or has recently done so? my guess is that it's related to that, not that you asked!

DD rarely wakes up MOTN these days, but if she does (usually bc of teething), i go cuddle her and rock with her until she stops crying. then i either say, "i love you" (which she knows is a signal that she's about to get put back in the crib), and she'll say "nigh nigh" and i put her down. or if she doesn't react to the "i love you", i'll say, "do you want to go back in your crib?" she'll either cry or say yes.

since it's rare for us, i kind of follow her lead...sleep issues are seriously the worst.

[kartish]

agm04 you are probably right! I didn't even think of that.

[dreemkin]

agm04 good point!! I'm sure it has to do with the disturbed nap schedule. Hopefully it'll smooth out after a bit kartish. I also forget to mention that if A doesn't want to take nap or go to bed, I ask if she wants to be a super hero and I zoom her around the room a few times. Then her blanket covering her up is her cape! She gets a kick out of it and calms down.

[seamonster]

It sucks to have to set an alarm, but try wake to sleep 15-20 minutes before the wake up occurs. Go in, rub his back to stir him, and then soothe back to sleep (I just keep doing the back rub). You're trying to skip over the last part of the sleep cycle and get into the next one.