[who_it_is]

Does anyone else have a little one that is not sleeping through the night at this point? How are you handling it?? Does someone please, pretty please with a large scoop of ice cream on top, have any pointers on getting Miss I can sleep in my bed until 11pm then it's tossing and turning all the live long night in Mommy's bed to sleep quietly in her own bed?


***yawn*****

[kimmiejo]

Sam does generally sleep thru, we did go thru a bit of a rough patch lately with going to bed and waking in the night....since I know Sam can sleep thru the night and can put himself to sleep because he has been doing it for so long and he is fine during the day i.e. not sick or anything, I just stuck with our normal routine, when he would cry I would go in, pat his butt tell him it's night night time and leave the room and repeat as needed, I am not one to just do CIO for no other reason aside from that I stink at it but I have been trying to stick to the routine and comfort as needed but not take him out of the crib.... it took 3 nights and now he is back to normal (fingers crossed) so I am not sure what was going on? if it was a separation anxiety issue or teething or just a strange phase or who knows what?

Guess I am not that helpful really since Sam does usually sleep thru I guess my only advice is decide on a plan and stick to it, if you want her to sleep in her crib keep her in there when she wakes and just comfort her while she is in the crib. I know that is easier said than done and is hugely dependent on the kiddo because my dd would have never went for that, she would of cried harder if I tried to keep her in her crib so really you have to figure out what works for all of you with the least frustration! I am lucky that Sam is pretty easily calmed by just me rubbing his back or whatever, he doesn't need me to pick him up like my dd did at this age.

[ChoMomma]

I have 0 advice because Alicia still wakes up most nights at least once, on bad nights she wakes up twice, Alicia is a horrible horrible sleeper. Then I got Rachel waking up only 2 times...you would think the newborn would be worse but is about the same as her sister.

What makes Alicia's night awakening even funner (is that a word? lol) is she REFUSES to have her DH comfort her, she will scream in DH's face until he comes to get me. He tried all sorts of things and nothing works, its very frustrating. I hope she grows out of this asap, I think at this point Rachel might be STTN before Alicia.

[BelloFiglioLA]

Levi sleeps through the night and has for a long time. We are also going through a rough patch though. He doesn't usually full out cry so if he just fusses I ignore it and he falls back to sleep. If he cries, we calm him down and let him fall back to sleep w/us and as soon as he is sleeping again he goes back to his crib. It works pretty well.

[who_it_is]

I wish that I could go in and settle her and that would be that. But it has to be back in bed with us, or she won't settle again. When we have two other kids who need their sleep for school, it's been a path of least resistance kind of thing most nights as well.

I know lately it's been separation anxiety and ear infection and teething but even before those things she still wasn't sleeping. We were lucky to get her in her own bed from 7:30 until 1am, then in our bed from 1am on. This last two week's we are lucky to get her to even fall asleep in her own bed on her own. I am exhausted.

[*Tonya*]

Sorry to say that I fit into this category. Abigail goes to bed like an angel. Most nights she lays in her bed and goes to sleep all on her own even without her paci (which she was very attached to and no longer has). About 4-5 hours into her night time sleep though she wakes and will not go back to sleep unless, of course, she gets in my bed then she's out again like a light. I keep telling myself that if I let her CIO for a while she'll lay back down and go to sleep in her own bed, but I haven't done it yet.

I hope all our LO's start sleeping better real soon

[LOUSEE]

Jax sleeps through the night 4-5 nights a week (on average) the other 2-3 nights he gets up like at 4am-5am and my arse is just too tired to hold him, so I grab him and bring him to bed so we can both sleep for another hour!

I dont really feel so bad since he is in day care 5 days a week. I get a little extra cuddle time in! heeh

[3xCrazy]

Xavier doesnt STTN either. We have just gotten to the stage of not being held to fall asleep. Ive got not advice. Xavier is a fussy sleeper and wont even settle properly in my bed lately. Im so tiiiiiired <yawn>

[Man N Cheese]

Ayla suddenly has taken to the idea that she should sleep in her bed and it really didn't take much work at all.

We were like you in the fact that she would go down for bed (after daddy or I laid with her for at least an hour and snuck her into bed and she would wake up at 10 or 11 to be brought to bed with us. likewise for naps only there was no moving her)

One day for a nap I said to her, "Are you a sleepy girl?" and she said, "Yes" and I said, "do you want to take a nap?" and she said "yes" (Ok, here is where I should explain that she answers yes to every question I ask her because she doesn't know the word "no") but, she did grab her blankie and head towards the stairs so it's not like she wasn't understanding me.

Anyway, instead of turning right at the top of the stairs to my bedroom, I went left to hers. I said night night, kissed her, put her down, and walked away closing the door.....she screamed for 2 mins, felt like 50, and then there was silence. I did the same that night, she cried for less than 30 seconds and fell asleep. When she woke at 11 I heard her wake up give a half hearted yell and went back to sleep until 2am!

Day by day she slept longer because she was able to put herself back to sleep. We are now sleeping until 5:30 every morning!!! By far the best milestone ever!!!

I'm not one to condone CIO, but in my opinion she never really cried it out, I helped her figure it out and she was ready to do it and so was I, but I have to admit for the first few days I woke up scared looking for her in the bed!;-)

[cfm]

No sttn here either. After over a year of sleeping in the living room I finally said enough is enough and moved Holly into her brother's room. This is right around when she weaned as well. So now if/when she wakes at 3 or 4 (when I used to nurse her back to sleep) I usually get her and bring her to bed with me where she promptly passes out and I get zero sleep because she's flopping around in her sleep and kicking me in the face. If she wasn't sharing a room with her brother I would totally let her cio at this point (i'm heartless like that) and even now I've taken to letting her go for a bit until ds stirs and grumbles. I have no real plan or advice. I'm going to just keep on keeping on with what I'm doing. hoping that it will get better eventually. She's an otherwise lovely child, so I guess I'll put up with it.

I am quite relived though to see I'm not alone in this predicament.

[~MamaTutu~]

James has slept through the night *maybe* ten times since he was born. On a good night, he wakes twice and settles back down within 15-20 minutes. On a bad night, either DH or I get no sleep. We tried every trick. We even tried CIO, which I didn't want to do, but we were at our wits end. He cried ALL night and then went about his day like nothing happened. We did this for two nights and then gave up because we were going crazy.

Now, we're just hoping it eventually goes away.

I survive by drinking LOTS of coffee. James doesn't seem to be affected by the lack of sleep and his naps during the day are rarely an issue.

[hiskid1324]

Elias wakes 2-3 times a night still. Rebecca only started consistently sleeping through around August though, so I'm not really expecting him to for a while. From what i've read, age three is the typical age children sttn...

[josie_24]

Originally Posted by Man N Cheese

One day for a nap I said to her, "Are you a sleepy girl?" and she said, "Yes" and I said, "do you want to take a nap?" and she said "yes" (Ok, here is where I should explain that she answers yes to every question I ask her because she doesn't know the word "no") but, she did grab her blankie and head towards the stairs so it's not like she wasn't understanding me.

I have no advice because Calebs a really good sleeper but had needed to be rocked to sleep for a long time and I started this same thing with him. But the funny thing was too, is Caleb always answers yes as well, or just doesn't answer if the answer is no. He definitely knows the word no, but really took to nodding yes LOL. Now the last two days he's been telling the dogs "no no no" constantly--our dogs and the dogs at day care get told no a lot LOL

[LisaB]

It took time and patience with us. I liked the idea of cosleeping until I did it, and none of us were getting a good night's sleep. I had to introduce our kids to the crib by always being consistent about putting them in even if they fussed. I'd pick them up, soothe them, then when they seemed happy again I'd put them back in. If they fussed it was the same story over and over until they got the idea, I.sleep.in.the.crib. They just sleep better and longer on their own in the crib, in a quiet room of their own. After "training" I just put them in the crib at naptime/bedtime and down they go, after rolling around for a little while. But no crying. I can't do crying!

Good luck!!!

ETA I also noticed they sleep longer when eating something just before bedtime, like a dino chicken nugget

I dont have any advice becasue nattie usually does pretty good. I put her in her bed between 8 and 8:30 and shut the door. before I go to bed I open her door. if she does wake up she just comes in to my room i stick her in bed next to me and she generally goes back to sleep.

[Mom.to.PinknBlue]

Harleigh isn't sleeping through the night anymore. For awhile she did and then for awhile she didn't And now because she won't eat and stuff she gets up in the middle of the night hungry. How are we handling it? DH and I argue who is getting up with her this time, and its usually me kicking his *** out of bed because I have to get up early for work. On the weekends I am the one that gets up with her in the middle of the night and in the morning, so DH can get his "beauty sleep".b

[SweetSimpleThings]

Some nights are good, some nights she wakes up four or five times - but, luckily, she settles back to sleep easily if I go in, pat her bum, give her the pacifier and her woobie.... but still, getting up and going in there a few times certainly disrupts my sleep a lot. But both my kids make a lot of noise - a lot of groaning and squawking while they're dreaming. So really, even if they don't "wake up", I am being woken up every 20 minutes, lol...

I have no good advice... as you say, with two older kids, sometimes the path of least resistance is the easiest one.

[sugarloafbaby]

Dallas has been sleeping through MOST nights since I night-weaned her at 9-10 months when I found out I was pregnant. During bad teething episodes, which sometimes last a week or more, she wakes up every 2-4 hrs, but it generally able to go back down in her crib pretty easily.

I don't really have any tips, since we have just been going with it and things just sorta fell into place for us. We have always had a routine though, even from newborn days, and I think that helps. Never put her down past 9pm- she just is now staying up til 730-8, it used to be even earlier. She takes consistent naps now, which I think also helps because she is not overtired. She sleeps 12-13hrs at night and 1-2 during the day. She also always has slept in her crib, she doesn't do well with cosleeping.