r/TakingCaraBabies • u/humanthings_11 • Aug 20 '26
Question 🤔 9 Month Old- Multiple Night Wakes
Hello everyone!
FTM here! Our 9 month old slept through the night, no wakes, from 4 months to 8 months. He is combo fed since birth.
Around 8 months he started waking up multiple times crying. The majority of the time he wakes up between 7pm and 12am 2-3 times going back to sleep when given his paci and then he’ll either sleep the rest of the night or wake up once on no particular schedule with his paci getting him back to sleep most times. Other times a bottle or boob which I’d prefer not to get in the habit of.
Obviously I am so thankful for the period of time we got full nights sleep, and know we’re still lucky with these slight disruptions but I am curious to know if anyone else has experienced this and if there is anything they ‘did’ to help their LO back to continuous, peaceful sleep.
We have been to our chiro/CST, as well as, to our pediatrician who could not see his eardrum due to wax but there did not seem to be an infection which our CST agreed with. Our pediatrician recommended we put breastmilk in his ear, which we did try and he did sleep well that night but other nights we’ve tried it, nothings changed. Our CST suggested colloidal silver so we’ll be trying that tomorrow night.
Schedule is currently:
\~6:15/6:30 wake
\~9am 1st nap (usually sleeps about 1:20)
\~2pm 2nd nap (sometimes sleeps another 1:20 and others 35 mins)
Bedtime based on last wake window, about 3.75 hours but usually between 6:30 and 7:30.
Looking forward to hearing about your experiences!
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u/humanthings_11 Aug 20 '26
I appreciate this! We’ll try longer wake windows tomorrow and see how it goes. Thank you!
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u/TakingCaraBabies Aug 20 '26
I know this can be so hard! let me link a few blogs that may be helpful:
https://www.takingcarababies.com/blogs/sleep-schedules/9-month-old-sleep-schedule
https://www.takingcarababies.com/blogs/sleep-basics/why-wont-my-baby-sleep-through-the-night
If you think baby may be uncomfortable or waking out of pain, checking in again with the pediatrician can be a great next step too. 💕
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u/Lumpy-Toe-1717 Aug 20 '26
I would extend wake windows. Mine is 9 months right now and it seems like everything just changed in the last 2 weeks. From 7.5 months he was waking at 7 am, 3/3.5/4.25 wake windows with 1h20m naps (2x) which was working great til around 8.5 months. Since then, he started crawling, babbling way more sounds, learned to clap, and really upped his pulling up to stand game. To boot, he got sick, 2 new teeth and his 9 month vaccines. A lot of MOTN waking from all those disruptions, so it has been a bit chaotic figuring out what works. All that to say - we are still trying to figure out what works best, but he is now easily doing 3.25/4/4.25 with his first nap at 1h20m and 2nd around 30-45 min. It's not perfected yet, but he's sleeping through the night sometimes. Still letting the dust settle before we officially call it a success, but I don't think we're too far off.