I am at my wits end about what to do with Morgan and her sleeping, or lack of sleeping I should say. Let me start out by saying that with Reagan I worked very hard to get her on a schedule and sleeping through the night. And when people would tell me that their kid did not sleep through the night until they were 2 or something crazy like that, I was very judgemental. I thought they were just lazy and silly. And now I think that God is punishing for being that way. I did everything the same with Morgan. I put her down when she was awake, I got her on a schedule at an early age, even earlier than Reagan. She was even sleeping through the night when she was about 3 months old. And then there was a switch, and she has not slept through the night since. I have tried letting her cry it out, and she will cry for 2 hours sometimes. It is only in the middle of the night. She is a good napper, and when I put her down she very rarely cries. But, she waked up every night without fail. I tried having my husband go in there and rock her and calm her down, and she will for a little while, but then she gets mad again and I end up going in there and nursing her. I KNOW that an almost 1 year old does not need to eat in the middles of the night, but I do not know what else to do. And the truth is I am so tired that when she cries in the middle of the night I know that if I go in there and feed her, she will go back to sleep and I can too.
At this point I am going to do whatever needs to be done to get her to sleep. I am going to let her cry at least an hour when she wakes up, it is going to be awful, but I do not know what else to do. I am open to suggestions!!
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ooooh... that's a tough one. Thankfully after I let Kaiden cry it out when he was like 4-5 months(for two and a half hours) one night and and hour the next night he has been sleeping through the night ever since.
Maybe she is teething and it wakes her up?
I hate the whole "cry it out thing" but I am wondering if you just really let her go what she would do. I know it may be awful the first night (I seriously didn't sleep the whole night I first did it with Kaiden...seriously it took him 2.5 hours to finally calm down) but just stick with it. Or just go in and tell her that it is okay, time to go to sleep...don't pick her up and then walk out. If she still cries after 10 minutes after you leave then go back in and do it again. I have seen that on the internet so maybe you can look up the exact # of times you are supposed to stick with it.
I don't know if that is any help, but good luck!
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