Teething?

Question

My son is waking up every 1-2 hours throughout the night and I cannot resettle him by tapping or shushing and the only way he will go back to sleep is if he sucks on my breast like I’m his dummy/ pacifier. Could this behaviour be due to teething or is it just a phase?

Answer

Whenever our daughter was teething, she would wake more and would just want milk. It depends on each child

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We have the same thing happening, do you use a pacifier? My girl will wake every hour almost from midnight to 4ish and unless she is screaming I give her a beat. 3 or 4 times out of 5 she'll put the pacifier back in her mouth and off to sleep she goes.

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I've read that teething problems during sleep, if there are any, only last a couple days while the tooth is really close to popping through. If it has been longer than that it might just be a sleep association issue where your baby needs nursing to fall back asleep. Very normal for babies to want/need that!! My baby literally would wake every 45 min and I had to have him in my bed or I wouldn't get any sleep. This lasted for 4 weeks and I decided to sleep train 2 weeks ago. He is able to sleep in his crib from 8-8 now with a dreamfeed at 11. With my first baby I just kept at the frequent night nursing thing until 13 months, but this time I decided to address it earlier because it just got really hard on me emotionally.

Teething?

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