Help. Mamas' with babes crawling age or older.

Alexis, since she's been crawling, wakes up at 2 am. I've tried feeding her oatmeal, I've tried bottle in her mouth while she's going to sleep. I've tried paci, I've tried to use nothing at all. She usually conks out around 9:30 or 10 and when I or her father or my step-mother watch her during the day, she's only getting about 2 half-hour naps, so I know she's not rested.
It's only been since she's started crawling, though. I think since she's learned how to do it, she thinks maybe it's what she's supposed to do when she's awake, so if something just wakes her up a little bit, she'll pop herself up on her knees and be fully awake. It's tough dealing with that and having to get up at 5:30 or 6 and go to work the next day. Her daddy is up around that time playing video games (He doesn't work....but that's a different story) but he thinks it's alright to let her sit there and scream and cry so I still end up being the one to get up with her.
Is there something I can do to get her to sleep? Last night she did fine, and I didn't do anything different. That's the first time in about 3 weeks she's slept all night.
Have any of you other mamas had this happen around this stage in life?

 

You're not alone. I had to put my baby (when he was a baby) in the car and drive him around to get him to go to sleep. The car will put the child to sleep. This will
pass, hun. Yeah, just before you start to pull your hair out. lol
I would (if you haven't already) talk to your doctor about what to do about this.
Good luck !

 

I went thru this when my son learned to roll over, crawl, pull up and walk. It should pass soon as the novelty wears off, but then she'll probably learn something new to practice. I would try to keep the room where she sleeps dark and quiet, I keep music playing while my kids sleep too. Could it be that she is being woken up by the video games? Is she hungry? My son woke to eat until he was over a year, but he'd usually fall asleep right after. Try to keep her where it is quiet and dark, even if are giving her a bottle.

I was up with my son every night for like a year and a half as soon as he figured out how to get out of his room. I finally got him to start sleeping again and i'm so happy! Crazy when you're getting woken up several times a night by a 4 year old while your baby sleeps all night. Good luck!

 

Yeah, I also put baby music on to get him to go to sleep.

 

I used the car trick - with both of my kids there was about a 6-7 week period where we could've sworn the ONLY time our kids slept was while buckled into a moving car. The 24-hour coffee shop down the road from our house knew us by name & favorite drink.

Have you/could you try cosleeping? I found that when my kiddies fell asleep in their swing or on the floor, they'd wake up around 2-ish but when they were in bed next to me (or Daddy) they would sleep through the night.

Music helped a little too - we picked one instrumental music cassette for each of our kids when I was about 4 months pregnant with them, and we would play it at bedtime every night. When they were born, that was their "bedtime music" and I would play it for them at bedtimes & naptimes. I dunno if it was the music itself or the pre-birth familiarity, but they would settle down with that music every time... it even helped when we were travelling on the road & sleeping in a different church every night!

(((((((((hugs!!!))))))))) It's a phase hon, and she'll outgrow it soon. Hang in there!
love,
mom

 

She HATES riding in the car. If I put her in her car seat, she literally screams and cries as loud as possible until I take her out. I rode almost 2 hours with her screaming and crying. She just hates it, and I have three different seats I use. She hates them all.
She sleeps through the video games most of the time, I ask him to turn the volume way down, he doesn't like it, but she and I need to sleep.
I keep her little pooh bear thing her papaw bought her on. It plays soft music and, if I choose, it has a scrolling light that's supposed to be soothing.
Cosleeping doesn't work anymore, because the last time I tried it, I woke up and Alexis was on her daddys' speaker (He has his car speakers laying by the bed, it's a big box, and I guess she decided it'd be her new bed.) She rolls too much, and I can't find one of those rails to put up. And, a full size bed isn't big enough for her, me and her daddy. She slept just fine in her crib for a month before this started happening.
I feed her almost until she burst, I don't feed her, I feed her just enough to fill her up, and she wakes up on all of those.
Maybe it's like J said, it's just a novelty right now.
I hope this passes soon. Lol.

 

When Leane was doing that, I had read that it was because she was learning some new skills and her brain and body were working over time. That made sense to me, anyhow...
Hummm....what did I do about it...I can't remember, lol...
We have changed bedtime routines so many times since Lea Lea was born because the one she's had suddenly won't work anymore.

 

my boyfriends sister always feeds her son a bottle of milk before bed.. hes 1 and so hes walking way more than crawling but he seems to associate milk with sleeptime (naps or bed) and thats the only time he gets milk. but, depends on whether or not youre willing to feed your kids milk or not i suppose

 

My kids went through phases like that upon learning a new skill, reaching a big milestone. I think they were so excited, so proud of themsleves that they just had to keep on practicing and perfecting what they learned, even in the wee hours of the night.

Don't worry, it's just a phase, it will pass I'm sure!

 

Yeah, I hear ya. The girl working the night shift was always glad to see me come in. It gave her someone to talk to and flirt with. lol

 

I find that my daughter sleeps a lot less when she goes through a developmental stage, or when she has a growth spurt. It can sometimes take a few weeks to pass, and it's tough, but it'll pass. I sometimes got up and walked around with her on my arm till she got back to sleep. But to be honest, if your husband/boyfriend stays at home I would ask him to do the "night shift", he has just as much responsibility for the baby as you, and if you go to work you shouldn't have to do everything else too.

 

She's finally starting to sleep through the night. I keep her awake through the day and ask everyone that watches her to do the same. I let her take maybe 2 or 3 short naps so she's wore out by the time night comes. She goes to bed about 9:30 or 10 and gets up around 7 or 8.