Right so I got baby duty tonight with the 9 month old we are trying to convince to sleep through the night. (feed him water rather than food so he gets the idea and will start sleeping through, wasn’t a problem with our first child).
Anyway - this is the result - 
never heard of giving them water in place of food to get them to sleep at night. I would think it would have the baby peeing more and need a diaper change, so still up crying.
Good luck, my daughter was ADHD, she didn’t sleep much so was up all night. the only good thing was she seemed to keep her self happy with making sounds. Hubby worked evening then so he would stay up for a bit and play with her. Put her to bed and I would be getting up and taking care of her.
Only problem was, she never took naps in the daytime, even at 6wk she was awake most of the time. Don’t remember what we did, suffered, put up with it, had little sleep, She is 37 now, so bit hard to remember that far back, except that she was a handful when she got to moving.
Good luck with getting the little one to sleep all night.
Heh. Gratz for the baby! 
I got 3 and 4th is coming soon so i know the feeling.
Nice, and congrats on the little one, hope you can get regular sleep again soon! 
Very intrigued by the water solution you have for you baby, elaborate more on what your trying to accomplish? Just trying to take in all the advice. Just had my son 7/14 
I am with you here. My 6 week old is a bit colicky and Boundless is the perfect game for my shift with him. I get in some good gathering while he is calm and just hit the sanctum when he is upset.
Well you are never supposed to feed a baby under 6 months or so water, but after that it can be useful to get them back to sleep while discouraging nighttime wakeing. Just…at some point when the baby wakes up in the middle of the night, provided he’s eaten well during the day, just feed him water.
I have 3 kids and I had the hardest time when my first was about the same age and still not sleeping through the night.
My honest best advice is to let him cry it out. He is well past the age and ready. I got a book called “Happy child healthy sleep habits” and it tells exactly how to do it.
He was 9 mos old and basically, you feed him then lay him in his crib pat him and give him some love and say good night. He will cry, but crying won’t hurt him and he won’t love you any less. Then leave the room. The first night my son cried for about 10 minutes. It was torture for me but I just read the book while he was crying (to reinforce MY behavior. The second night he cried for 5 minutes if that. And literally, that was it. After that my son slept in his crib through the night.
If he wakes up wet, change him but put him right back to bed and don’t really engage him. I would say get the book. It saved my life.
With my other kids I followed what the book said from the day they were born (which is not the same for what you do at 9 mos.)
Good luck!
Cure for colic, is believe it or not. Catnip. Make sure it isn’t anything but catnip.
Son had it BAD, real bad. We tired the drugs, which I wasn’t happy with but he cried non stop with the pain. Doctor said it was a old wives remedy and that it worked.
It did, trying to remember, you could probably get better recipe online, but we put I think a tablespoon of catnip in 4 ounces of water a little bit of sugar as it is bitter an can’t remember if we gave it to him before or after, but think around half a hour after and he would let out the most horrible burps, he burps before but not like he did with the catnip.
Cured him in no time, we were able to quit the catnip after a bit, can’t remember how long. He is 35, so a long time ago LOL.
He is pretty much beyond the colic now but that is an interesting cure. Thank you!
You’re quite efficient! If I give you a few babies to watch, can I expect the same return? lol
Organic Gripe water is a great alternative which is what we are using now for his hiccups and gas
My son had horrible colic, being my first child it was a nightmare, I would put him in carseat and drive around he would go right to sleep, or snuggled him in a swing he loved that. Now I have 5 grown kids. Wow. Good luck with the little one.