Sleeping and CF Kids

moongoddess176 · Feb 13, 2008

My son is 14 months old and has CF. He has always had trouble sleeping for longer that a hour or two at a time. I am totally exhausted and am wondering if this is common in CF kids? Have any of you had experience with this. What helped if anything. I am not willing to let him cry it out so I just have to get up with him everytime and help him get back to sleep. Please any advise would be wonderful!

moongoddess176 · Feb 13, 2008

My son is 14 months old and has CF. He has always had trouble sleeping for longer that a hour or two at a time. I am totally exhausted and am wondering if this is common in CF kids? Have any of you had experience with this. What helped if anything. I am not willing to let him cry it out so I just have to get up with him everytime and help him get back to sleep. Please any advise would be wonderful!

moongoddess176 · Feb 13, 2008

My son is 14 months old and has CF. He has always had trouble sleeping for longer that a hour or two at a time. I am totally exhausted and am wondering if this is common in CF kids? Have any of you had experience with this. What helped if anything. I am not willing to let him cry it out so I just have to get up with him everytime and help him get back to sleep. Please any advise would be wonderful!

moongoddess176 · Feb 13, 2008

My son is 14 months old and has CF. He has always had trouble sleeping for longer that a hour or two at a time. I am totally exhausted and am wondering if this is common in CF kids? Have any of you had experience with this. What helped if anything. I am not willing to let him cry it out so I just have to get up with him everytime and help him get back to sleep. Please any advise would be wonderful!

moongoddess176 · Feb 13, 2008

My son is 14 months old and has CF. He has always had trouble sleeping for longer that a hour or two at a time. I am totally exhausted and am wondering if this is common in CF kids? Have any of you had experience with this. What helped if anything. I am not willing to let him cry it out so I just have to get up with him everytime and help him get back to sleep. Please any advise would be wonderful!

sdavis227 · Feb 13, 2008

You know, DS sleeps through the night, our problem lately is that he always needs us to put him to sleep. It hasn't been a problem until now, because I think it's time for him to start learning to fall asleep by himself.

Is he a light sleeper? Is there a reason he's waking up at night? I don't know that sleeping problems would be related to CF except if he's got a cold that he's been fighting or something.

With my oldest, at about 10 mos. we started rubbing his back at night to go to bed (before that, we co-slept). He would wake up still about once a night (breastfed) until he was weaned at a year.
Also, what I found last night, is that it is harder to let my CFer cry than it was with my non-CFer. I think it's a natural thing to be more nurturing with them ( I know it sounds bad, but true with me). I never worried about much with my first son, but with Parker, I worry about a lot more.

I know there probably isn't much you can take from my post, just wanted to put in my 2cents. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

sdavis227 · Feb 13, 2008

You know, DS sleeps through the night, our problem lately is that he always needs us to put him to sleep. It hasn't been a problem until now, because I think it's time for him to start learning to fall asleep by himself.

Is he a light sleeper? Is there a reason he's waking up at night? I don't know that sleeping problems would be related to CF except if he's got a cold that he's been fighting or something.

With my oldest, at about 10 mos. we started rubbing his back at night to go to bed (before that, we co-slept). He would wake up still about once a night (breastfed) until he was weaned at a year.
Also, what I found last night, is that it is harder to let my CFer cry than it was with my non-CFer. I think it's a natural thing to be more nurturing with them ( I know it sounds bad, but true with me). I never worried about much with my first son, but with Parker, I worry about a lot more.

I know there probably isn't much you can take from my post, just wanted to put in my 2cents. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

sdavis227 · Feb 13, 2008

You know, DS sleeps through the night, our problem lately is that he always needs us to put him to sleep. It hasn't been a problem until now, because I think it's time for him to start learning to fall asleep by himself.

Is he a light sleeper? Is there a reason he's waking up at night? I don't know that sleeping problems would be related to CF except if he's got a cold that he's been fighting or something.

With my oldest, at about 10 mos. we started rubbing his back at night to go to bed (before that, we co-slept). He would wake up still about once a night (breastfed) until he was weaned at a year.
Also, what I found last night, is that it is harder to let my CFer cry than it was with my non-CFer. I think it's a natural thing to be more nurturing with them ( I know it sounds bad, but true with me). I never worried about much with my first son, but with Parker, I worry about a lot more.

I know there probably isn't much you can take from my post, just wanted to put in my 2cents. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

sdavis227 · Feb 13, 2008

You know, DS sleeps through the night, our problem lately is that he always needs us to put him to sleep. It hasn't been a problem until now, because I think it's time for him to start learning to fall asleep by himself.

Is he a light sleeper? Is there a reason he's waking up at night? I don't know that sleeping problems would be related to CF except if he's got a cold that he's been fighting or something.

With my oldest, at about 10 mos. we started rubbing his back at night to go to bed (before that, we co-slept). He would wake up still about once a night (breastfed) until he was weaned at a year.
Also, what I found last night, is that it is harder to let my CFer cry than it was with my non-CFer. I think it's a natural thing to be more nurturing with them ( I know it sounds bad, but true with me). I never worried about much with my first son, but with Parker, I worry about a lot more.

I know there probably isn't much you can take from my post, just wanted to put in my 2cents. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

sdavis227 · Feb 13, 2008

You know, DS sleeps through the night, our problem lately is that he always needs us to put him to sleep. It hasn't been a problem until now, because I think it's time for him to start learning to fall asleep by himself.

Is he a light sleeper? Is there a reason he's waking up at night? I don't know that sleeping problems would be related to CF except if he's got a cold that he's been fighting or something.

With my oldest, at about 10 mos. we started rubbing his back at night to go to bed (before that, we co-slept). He would wake up still about once a night (breastfed) until he was weaned at a year.
Also, what I found last night, is that it is harder to let my CFer cry than it was with my non-CFer. I think it's a natural thing to be more nurturing with them ( I know it sounds bad, but true with me). I never worried about much with my first son, but with Parker, I worry about a lot more.

I know there probably isn't much you can take from my post, just wanted to put in my 2cents. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

Buckeye · Feb 13, 2008