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Thank God for the Baby Bjorn! I've found that when I need to do things around the house, I put the fussy/awake twin in it and go about my business (even working in the yard) if the other is asleep. It's a nice way to be close, keep a baby happy, and get something accomplished. They're both just starting to look at the little animals hanging from their bouncy seats, so I would think they may start occupying themselves a little bit with things like that, or watching the mobiles over their cribs.
I can understand its really hard if u dont get enough sleep .My baby is 5 months now .He takes his feed at 8:30 and then I feed him before I go to bed ..He is sleepy but takes his feed .He then gets up at 6:30 ..He was waking before too but i used pacifier in night and did not feed him...If he refused it twice then I use to feed him ...Try this ...and try to change the sleeping position of baby when he wakes up ...I hope this works
Hopefully I will be able to go back and read all the posts... but for now here are my two cents.
My son is almost 20 months old and has slept through the night once (at 15 mo.). He has almost always slept with me and he still nurses. Unfortunately, he wakes up two-three times a night to nurse. I did the same for my oldest son, except that by one, he was only nursing once during the night and it was easy to fix (I put him down in his crib for the first half of the night. When he woke up, I picked him up and brought him into our bed and he went right to sleep.). My youngest is absolutely demanding of nursing at night. Soooo.... if I did it all over, I probably still wouldn't change anything (besides those nights we tried "crying it out"--he goes for the longterm!). But obviously, the whole co-sleeping, nursing direction has its faults.
But, if the OP is still reading, don't feel guilty or alone if your child is still not sleeping through the night. I have had four doctors over his short life and they all told me it is normal and nothing to worry about (except my sanity). We extreme sleep-deprieved mothers are out there and its not our fault (not that anyone comes out and says it, but that is the general feeling you can get from people).
Oh, and a couple of months ago I saw a news-video out of Florida of a family whose son has a medical condition that has caused him not to sleep more then an hour or two a day since he was born (he was 2 maybe in the video?). I just have to think of them to remind myself that, yes, it could be worse!
So - is it basically "Cry it Out" approach that you are suggesting? Because the total time of the technique is 30 minutes and it's way too long for an 8 months old to cry IMO. It's too long for anyone to cry, imagine crying for 30 minutes while your husband occasionally walks in the room and rubs your back? I 'm not quite convinced that if the baby is still crying 30 minutes later, that means he REALLY is hungry. It can be very well that he is just so confused and upset that his needs are not met, that he can't stop. And if he really IS hungry, wouldn't it be much easier to just feed him right away instead off 30 minutes of suffering for him and the mother?
it is true that you have to wait 30 minutes!.
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