How to make an 11-month-old, who wakes up multiple times at bedtime, sleep at night?
We have an 11-month-old infant. H has never been a good sleeper. We have tried everything and nothing has worked.
Right now, we put him in bed around 7:30PM (after bedtime routine) he typically falls asleep right away in his crib, but wakes up some time within the first hour of being asleep. We wait 5-10 minutes before going in, lay him back down after a few minutes and rub his back, sometimes it works, but sometimes he wakes minutes later, or takes over an hour to fall asleep again.
He is now bottle fed, but also eating 3 meals of solids a day and 2 snacks. He gets the last bottle right before bedtime and we don’t feed him during the night.
We are lost with ideas on how to get him to sleep. (He is also still waking up 2-3 times a night most nights).
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I would try music.
Put on some calm music. Make it pretty loud, but not harmful.
A lot of times kids wake up like that because they hear something that triggers "fight or flight". Unfortunately at that age it could be something as benign as someone scooting a chair, or russeling a blanket on the couch. Music will help with that. Of course that is just a guess, but as a Foster parent I can tell you that has worked for a huge number of kids.
It need to be loud-ish. Your trying to drown out normal sounds.
It should not be so loud that you can't hear your child
It should not be so loud as to be harmful.
It should be part of your bedtime routine. If you can't do the routine in the room with the music then it's too loud.
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