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How do I get my baby to sleep through the night?


My 4 month old started sleeping through the night at 1month. She got sick with RSV and hospitalized around 3 months. Since her illness she has not slept through the night at all. She is often up 2-4 times a night to get a little bit of food and go back to sleep. I am worried that I'm helping her make this a routine. I know she is capable of doing it and I fill her tummy and wear her out playing before bed but still no luck! Help?

Posted: 05/28/2011 by Lbraden0839

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You actually had a very unusual baby to have her sleeping through the night at 1 month! A lot of times an illness and other disruptions to routines will throw things off, sometimes for many weeks. That's probably what's happening now. If your baby was sick, she likely also has to play catch up on weight gain with night feedings. Finally, it's very normal for baby's sleep patterns to change over time - for a lot of kids everything is a phase, especially during the first year, and that goes for the good as well as the bad. Your baby will start sleeping through the night again, I promise.It just might take a little while! Right now she is still too young for you to do much more than you are already doing to help encourage her to sleep through the night. Once she is older than six months, you can work on cutting down on night feedings. The book No Cry Sleep Solution has some good suggestions for encouraging good sleep that can also be used on younger babies. It helped me a lot! Good luck!
posted 05/28/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
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