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From: robbin@spp3.UUCP (Robbin Brahms)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: sleeping through the night
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 00:39:52 EST
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> > 
> > I have a six 1/2 month old baby who still wakes up at night wanting
> > to eat.  She's breastfed and getting cereal and fruit or vegetables
> > around 7 in the evening.  
> > 
>
> You might try feeding her just before *your* bedtime, even if that means
> waking her up.
> 
When my son was 7 week old I was instructed by my mother to start waking
him up at 12:00 midnight, then do this for a couple weeks, then move it
gradually towards the earlier evening sometime around 7:00-8:00 pm.  

What I would do is wake him up at midnight and change his diaper to wake
him enough so he would finish off the bottle, he never knew he was awake.
The first night I did this I was given bliss and able to sleep 6 hours
straight (from waking ever 4). Anyway I gradually moved it down to 9:00
and he would sleep till 6:30 - 7:00. (this process took about 2 1/2 months)


He is now 10 months and I give him a bottle after his bath at night around
7:30 - 8:00 and he sleeps till between 6:30 - 7:30 am.

Letting him cry sometimes (as one book I read confirmed) gets both of you
up.  Depending on how long you let him cry by the time you finally go to
him it would have probably been shorter if you just went to him as soon as
he called.  ( I believe this was from the book "Birth to Pre-school" by P.
Leach)

Also they never always sleep through the night even when it seems to
becoming a habit. (the boggy man, shadows in the dark, normal awakeness,
etc.)

Good luck,



		Robbin Brahms
		usenet: {decvax,ucbvax}!trwrb!trwspp!robbin

I couldn't wait till the baby was born so I could go back to sleeping till
noon (ha ha)