he isnt sleeping very well...

How old is he? My son has been having some issues like that too.  I got some crib toys for him. He has some stuffed animals and a music player he can mess with when he wakes up. He sometimes wakes up after having a bad dream or if he's in pain (he's teething). That's another thing, could he be teething? They usually teeth really hard at night. Maybe he just needs some comfort and some tylenol. Maybe he just wants to play a little and then fall asleep by himself.

he is 8 1/2 months... im not sure if he is teething or not... he has a slight fever now... soo idk maybe he is.. i called the doctor and the nurse told me to let him sooth himself back to sleep and not to go in there as often... but i cant take him crying for more than an hour.. it hurts me...  idk i am workin nights this week mostly soo i told my rents to just let him cry himself to sleep so hopefully they will... and he can get through waking up sooo much..

Quoting vampwannabe83:

How old is he? My son has been having some issues like that too.  I got some crib toys for him. He has some stuffed animals and a music player he can mess with when he wakes up. He sometimes wakes up after having a bad dream or if he's in pain (he's teething). That's another thing, could he be teething? They usually teeth really hard at night. Maybe he just needs some comfort and some tylenol. Maybe he just wants to play a little and then fall asleep by himself.

my boy started doing that recently too, he's 8 1/2mo also. he goes to bed just fine but every couple of nights he wakes up around 11pm just screaming. I really do think it's his teeth, I usually give himsome tylenol. I know I'm making things harder for myself later on, but if he wont go back to sleep on his own I give him a small 4oz bottle and that's usually enough to soothe him back to sleep.

Quoting LoriAnn5674:

my boy started doing that recently too, he's 8 1/2mo also. he goes to bed just fine but every couple of nights he wakes up around 11pm just screaming. I really do think it's his teeth, I usually give himsome tylenol. I know I'm making things harder for myself later on, but if he wont go back to sleep on his own I give him a small 4oz bottle and that's usually enough to soothe him back to sleep.

That's how my sin is! He'll go to bed around 9 and he's usually waking up every couple nights around 11 or 11:30 and screaming like his heart is breaking. I've been giving mine teething tablets, a 4oz bottle and I turn on my computer on the windows media player and have it set the now showing part and have it on the swirls and put in a calming cd and he's usually back out in a matter of minutes.

Try a music box at bedtime. Keep with a routine. Usually what we do:

1. Eat Dinner.

2. Warm bath.

3. Turn music box on.

4. Get jammies.

5. Bottle.

6. Night-night!

For some reason, the music box seems to be our trick, both of our children love them, the soft, quiet tinkering of the music box, and it also clues them in that this is nap time or bed time, since we only play it at those times, and keeping with the same routine helps us. We don't have issues with them getting up at night too often, but when they do, I just comfort them, turn the music box on, give a bottle if I think the baby's hungry, and back to bed. We have been blessed with good sleepers, so I don't know if this is a help or not. Anything is worth a shot. I hope you get some sleep soon.   ;-(

I'm Pretty Sure he is teething I have an almost 9 month old and he did the samething ran alittle fever crys when you put him down and wakes up at all hours of the night...

I give him Some teething drops and motrin every 8 hours the doc said it was fine and he started to sleep alot better and helps with his pain he already has 2 teeth already on the bottom and his 2 tops are coming in now.. But i'm sure that it  before bed time give him a bath that really helps them to sleep play some music  or give him his fav toy... Right now it's a very crazy age it will get better just don't get too upset because they feel that to and it makes them even more upset...

I would definitley go with the idea that he's teething. Give him a few things to play with when he wakes up and try some soothing music. (If you use Limewire to download music, they have a TON of meditation type music that's uber-soothing, that's what we used for my oldest son). With Damien (my oldest) I'd give him some Tylenol and something cool to chew on, make sure he didn't need a diaper, etc... and give him a small bottle (a sippy cup after he was one however... Not all babies are off the bottle at one, but mine was on his own free will, lol). After making sure there was nothing else I could do, I'd let him scream. It's not an easy thing to do, but there were nights he was just too tired to go to sleep, and the crying wore him out. That sounds bad, but I'm sure you know what I mean. I haven't had this issue with my youngest yet (I'm soo dreading it, lol). Babies (and this may sound odd, too, lol) are creatures of habit. If they learn that screaming and crying will get your attention when they want it, they'll keep doing it, even at 8 and a half months old, so what the nurse told you about not going in as often was true. By you not going in as often, he'll learn that he wont get attention every single time he wakes up screaming, and that could do wonders with this problem (I learned that the hard way). Also, is he in a separate room? If so, if you don't have one already, you could try a small night light.. That helped soothe my oldest, too. Best of luck to you and your little one!!