You would be shocked at what a bedtime routine will do! Both my hubby and I work (I have a 9-month-old too) and a couple days a week she is with a baby sitter, a couple days at home with dad a couple days home with me and a day with my parents, so a consistant daytime schedule is just way out of the question. So we started a consistant bedtime routine to equal things out and get her to sleep.
Every night I feed her dinner and give her a bottle around 7:00. Then I put her in her jammies and put lotion on her to start to calm her down. Then we play her Mozart CD while we read her a book, then my hubby puts her to bed. It has worked wonders for a baby that is just now sleeping through the night consistently.
You may also want to wean the baby off the pacifier at night if that is why he wakes up. If you create a "wind-down" routine that should be enough to get him ready and prepared to sleep. Eventually he will learn to comfort himself in other ways when he wakes up in the middle of the night. Good luck - I know how frustrating it can be, but if you are consistant then it should help in a week or so. Sometimes we are short on time and only do a portion of the routine after it was established, so don't feel like it is limiting.
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Help my son wont let me sleep!
I had been living with my in-laws from the time my son was 4 months up to now. He will be turning 9 months in a few days, and his sleep routine is all out of wack! His grandparents werent the best at just letting him be when bed time rolled around and now that Im back home he wakes up at least 3 times in the middle of the night! My husband and I are exhausted and irritated. And when we go into his room to check on him it's only that he's lost his pacifier in the middle of his sleep and cries (while still asleep) for it. I dont really stick to a bed time routine and am wondering if that might be the problem. Please help, I need some insight as to why this may be happening!
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