Help I'm going crazy!

My2Beauties wrote: Guys, Aubrey is still a little sick with the sniffles and coughing. She is still throwing up on occassion from her coughing. Which makes for a bad night's sleep. She did fine for a couple of days (I did nothing different) and she's back to bad habits guys. I bet I haven't had a solid night's sleep (with the kids there) in close to a month now. It's getting awful. Last night she woke up every hour almost on the half hour for her paci I am so sick of that thing, but can't bring myself to take it from her because I think she is teething. I've given her Hyland's Teething Tablets and they work for a couple of hours and she wakes right up, I've tried Motrin & Tylenol before bed, nothing is working. She has a set routine, bath, put lotion on her, play a while, bottle and then bed. She eats once during the day, maybe I need to tell the sitter I'm going to start feeding her at night instead. I don't know guys it's driving me mad! She is really picking up some bad habits. When she wakes up she wants a bottle (we only give her water in the middle of the night) and then she wants to play for at least an hour at a time. She'll wake up off and on wanting her paci all night long. I'm to the point guys that when she starts to feel better I'm almost going to have to let her CIO, I mean she honestly cannot go back to sleep without a bottle, a paci or something and it's all night LONG! I don't know what to do. Can you guys think of anything else I can do that I'm not already doing before I have to go to that extreme. I put her in bed with me, doesn't work This is something I'm pretty dead set against too when it comes to children (I want my bed to myself and my DH) but for sleep's sake, I've put her in there nearly every night now for a whole month. I can't keep doing this. I'm dragging everyday. The sitter said she doesn't know how she can't sleep at night because she MIGHT take one nap during the day for 30 minutes or so, she said this child doesn't sleep unless she's in the car! Which is so true. On the weekends she doesn't hardly sleep during the day at all. I don't know what to do guys. I'm at my wit's end. It's to the point where every 2-3 nights I am asking my IL's to keep the girls so I can get some type of rest. I'm a walking zombie! HELP!

Edited for spelling and so I can re-iterate, Aubrey isn't coughing at night or sniffling really she doesn't do it until the morning and she has been feeling a lot better, so just to say it's not because she doesn't feel good anymore, she is so happy go lucky during the day and acts as if nothing is wrong at all!

amynicole21 replied: I had (have!) the same problems with both of my girls. I found some help with the No Cry Sleep Solution book. Still, it's a major issue for us as well

My2Beauties replied:
I might have to look into that. The really weird thing is, Aubrey was 6 weeks old when she started sleeping through the night and did it faithfully until she was 4 months old, and ever since then it's been HORRIBLE!!! So I know she can do it. I'm so sleep-deprived.

Kaitlin'smom replied: The only thing that helped Kaitlin when she was young was swaddling her as tight as I could. I think for her the sudden movements of her would wake her up and then she needed to be soothed back to sleep, if I remember right she slept so much better after I started doing this and would only then wake up if she was hungry, needed changed or the blanket got to loose.

oh and why only water in the middle of the night?

My2Beauties replied:
Because if I give her formula I'm afraid it will make her wake up more for a bottle. I do this so that she doesn't expect something yummy, she doesn't really go for water all that much.

Kaitlin'smom replied: okay I totaly get it I was just unsure of the reason. Do you think she might be in a grow spirt? I know Kait would have about a week of bad sleep when she hit them.

wcs40110 replied: Dakota used to be sick only at night. Coughing and sneezing. No idea why.

My2Beauties replied:
Could be, but this has been going on longer than a week

Kaitlin'smom replied:
well Kaitlin on occasion would last what felt lke foreve be woudl be right about 2 weeks. I hope she gets better and you get some sleep.

A&A'smommy replied: did you try giving her a bottle of formula to see if that helped, maybe just about 3 or 4 ounces? hmmm I really don't know.. what about some soothing music? or a night light? (weird one I know)....

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Boo&BugsMom replied: She might be so over tired from not sleeping during the day that it's hard for her to sleep at night.

I don't have any other suggestions, I'm sorry. We are dealing with this with Aiden on somewhat of a more minor level. He does still wake up to eat twice, but a lot of babies this age still wake up to eat, esp. if they are going through a growth spurt. He'll wake up randomly for what seems to be no reason and it's irritating, then he'll play for an hour and wont go back to sleep. Then after he's done playing he wants to be put back to sleep with his paci so it's not like we can just leave him to play and go back to bed. ARG!!!

It's possible that she will get use to having the water and wake up only for water too. Maybe try just giving her the paci instead if you don't want her to eat? Of give her some formula...if she's going through a growth spurt she may be hungry which would explain her waking up often. Aiden does the same thing with his paci, and Tanner use to do that too and we eventually just had to take it away and let him cry. A couple nights later he was fine without it and stopped waking up. And he did the same thing too...10-15 times a night he'd wake up because it fell out and he'd want it. Drove me bonkers!

Hope it gets better soon.

CantWait replied:
I'd say this isn't working for ya...try giving her some formula, she might be going through a growth spurt. She's still little and she's at about the right age.
Other then that I have no idea. Anthony had the same problem though, he never slept during day and certainly didn't sleep through the night for a long time.

momofone replied: Is she on solids? Maybe some solids around 7pm so she has a full belly before bed. If it is more the cold maybe just load up on fruits bananas and apples jar food they have antiviral properties in them .

My2Beauties replied:
Yeah Hanna started doing that with her paci at 10 months, it got really bad!! So I took it away from her. It helped some, but she didn't sleep good until she was nearly 18 months old! I hope that that doesn't happen with this one!

coasterqueen replied: I feel your pain. Kylie was like that as a baby/toddler. It wasn't until about last year (age 4) that she finally started sleeping by herself all night long. I have no advice. She slept with us for a very long time, then transitioned to the floor on a mat by our bed, then finally to her bed and the couch.

My2Beauties replied: Yeah Hanna sleeps on the couch, she still sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night but not very often. She just isn't a good sleeper. ON a positive note, last night Aubrey fell asleep without her paci, she must have just been worn out. She slept from 10:30 (yes she didn't fall asleep until 10:30 she fell asleep earlier, around 8ish, we laid her down, she got into a coughing fit and woke herself up). So she fell asleep and actually slept better when she fell asleep without it. She didn't really start waking up until around 4:30 this mornig, a whole 6 hours, I didn't know what to do with myself. But then after that she wouldn't go back to sleep hardly at all.