I have also used the method that Jendal25 used and it worked well. I went to Half Price Books and found a book on helping your child sleep at night. I'm not sure if it was the same method, but it sounds like it was. You could also try www.sleeplady.com. She has so many resources: a book and workbook, a website, individual consults, phone classes, webinars/podcasts, etc. You can also get on an email list and get her newsletter. I hope this helps.
Both boys wake at 8am each morning. I get them a glass of milk for my oldest and a bottle for my baby. I turn on Playhouse Disney while I make breakfast. Eat breakfast and then its play time. If I have any errands to run or things to, I will pack them up around 10am and do what I need to do at that time. I try to take them out to play at the mall playground, park, or McDonalds type play area at least once a week. If I do, I will go around 10am as well.
Yes, 15 months is a little old to not be sleeping through the night, but she is use to getting a bottle when she cries so that is a learned behavior. I think you and your husband need to have a serious conversation and get on the same page. He has to understand that she is capable of sleeping through the night, but he has to stop jumping when she cries. It will be tough the first few nights because she will test you and cry out, but she will go back to sleep when she doesnt get a respon
Ok my daughter is 15 months old and yes I admit she is spoiled rotten! She has yet to sleep through the night because she knows all she has to do is yelp and Daddy gets up running for a bottle. My parents (our babysitters) and nyself are trying so hard to get her off the bottle and sleeping through the night but Daddy insist on catering to her.
Has anybody else had this problem? It's driving me insane!
We are going through the transition right now as well. We started at 12 months doing half formula (or BM) and half whole milk. The taste is different, so this helped her transition with the taste. After about 2 weeks we did 100% whole milk.With the bottle, it hasn't been as easy! We first took away all day time bottles, and just did an AM and a PM. Then, after about 2 weeks we took away the AM bottle. She never drank too much in the morning anyways, so that was pretty easy. Now, at 14 months we just
I am not much help, but went through the same thing. My son has always stayed up late. I mean midnight to 1 am. But at the time I worked evenings and needed to sleep late anyway. He was 2 when I was pregnant with my second. We could not get him to sleep. We did try the melatonin. It actually worked. We gave it to him for almost a week and after we stopped he still went to bed at the earlier time. It lasted for several months. &nbs
Lights - do you make it completely dark? It takes our bodies 30 minutes to produce melatonin to get sleepy. Some people stay awake even with a tiny night light.
Sound - can she hear things that keep her awake? Maybe some light baby classical music and/or a sound machine?
Food - The other thing someone else mentioned is diet -- does she accidentally get too much sugar or caffeine? I'm always surprised how much sugar packaged food has. For example baby yogurt has t
My daughter is 2 years old just turned 2 on Nov 19th. I have been struggling with her sleeping for the past 4 months now. She is staying up till 2 and 3 am an I have to be up for work at 6am. It has been very hard. I have asked the sitter if she if sleeping alot during the day and she says not at all. Well I know that is true because even on the weekends she has the same problem. I dont feel like she gets enought sleep for a 2 year old. She is full on energy. I will turn all lig
So this baby of mine has been a chronic bronchiolitis guy. I’ve never had a bad breather so it’s all new and exciting. In fact, I’m just home from a few days in the hospital with him. Throw some pneumonia into the bronchiolitis mix and you’ve got yourself a weekend pass to paediatric paradise. Baby and I have had the pleasure of spending quality time together wrestling ventolin masks and guzzling pediapred.
Being such a chesty baby, both his sleep and mine have been pretty dodgy over the last few months. Baby’s breathing antics paired with the shenanigans of some of his finer siblings has seen my usual 5-6 hours of sleep a night dwindle to the 3-4 hour mark. It’s not much, but we all know that mama steps up to the plate when she has to, and we can’t underestimate the power of a bit of adrenaline.
Last Saturday night Daddy-o announced that I was to go to bed, shut the door and have a night of uninterrupted sleep. He was volunteering for night duty – sleeping elsewhere and ready to respond to each and every night-time disturbance.
Imagine my shock (OK, pretend shock) when at 4:00am Daddy-o comes bursting through the bedroom door. He was all disheveled with red eyes and crazy hair. He looked as though he’d been sleeping in the wilderness for days. Out of his mouth came the words we mamas have often felt but rarely said: “I can’t do it anymore! Help me!”
Uh dude, you know I do this every day, right?
Since I had already had more sleep than I’m used to and was feeling as fresh as a spring morning, I let him off the hook. He settled into bed feeling all defeated and in awe of me.
I’ve got some mama friends who are exceptional at making milk. I’ve got other mama friends who are incredibly skilled at tricking their kids into eating veggies. It would seem my specialty is getting by on very little sleep. It is a talent that serves me better than any musical or artistic genius would. So what are you good at? Can you predict and intercept a toddler fall before it happens? Perhaps you breastfeed, dress a toddler and get ready for work all at the same time? Do you have some ridiculous mama talent that in any other circles would not exactly count as “talent”?
Picture of SIL and business partner, Julie Ellis, teaching me the ropes. She has survived parenting two chesty babies.
Moms, I have tried many many humidiers. I have asthma and clean breathing air is extremely important for me. Last year, I discovered Germ Guardian's H3010 Humidier. It is pricey, but worth every penny! There are no added costs, though. No filters to buy...it is self-cleaning, it is almost silent when on, it has a nightlight and clock, etc...I can rave and rave, but you just have to check it out yourself! It's retailed at $229 and sold out at a lot of places, but
We just took our 1-year-old on a flight to Florida. We planned it around nap time so she would sleep on the plane. When we boarded I gave her a pacifier, of which she doesn't normally take, just to get her to suck and get her ears to pop. We had no problem. I did bring a portable DVD player and as one of the other mom's did I just kept the sound down. They really would rather hear wonderpets than screaming. She fell asleep on both flights watching the dvd player.
Well we went cold turkey. My husband came home from work last Tuesday and hid all the paci's. I picked the little one up so when she got home, there were no more paci's. She would look in all the normal places, but never asked for it. I think she knew it was time for it to go. We have gone 9 days and things have been ok. The first couple of nights she didn't sleep as soundly. You could hear her thrash around in the bed half asleep looking for it. Of course
We went cold turkey too at about 22 months. When she'd ask for it I'd just tell her it was for babies and she didn't need it any more. She did cry for a few days and we'd have to help her get to sleep without it, but then it was fine. She still asks for it once every few weeks (now 26 months) but I just tell her we don't have one and she doesn't need it and thats the end of it.
We just went through this with our little guy. We went to his 18 month check up and the pediatrician highly recommended that we not let him use it anymore. He would very minimally use it at day care, but would also want it with us. So after the visit with the pediatrician, my husband & I decided that we would take away the pacifiers.
It was a rough weekend, our son cried himself to sleep for nap time and night time, but after about 3 days he was used to not having it.&nb
1. Oversized Sunglasses-keep eyes protected and tear-free when chopping onions
2. Travel-size personal fan to cool toddler's food quickly
3. Lots of Various Food Coloring - my son went through a phase where he wanted everything a color: Green Milk, Red Pancakes, Blue Eggs, multi-colored pasta...
4. A small bin of pacifiers - we have weaned down to paci use only during sleep, so I keep them in the bin by the sink during the day "to wash them." If tot asks for them I say "mommy still
My son (also 21 months old) has begun recently "crying in his sleep", jerking or yelling, calling for me, and other such things in the middle of the night. He hasn't yet had what either of you are describing (thank goodness, it sounds scary). I always think his health is a contributing factor when it sounds like things are hurting or scaring him in the middle of the night. I found it interesting that our kids were the same age. I know I don't have anything helpful either, just lik
We help our children go to sleep. It takes more time, but it is an easy and happy transition for them. There is no crying, and I feel good about it. Transitions (especially to sleep) are difficult for babies and children, and it is perfectly OK to rock them or lay down next to them for them to fall asleep. They are growing so fast it already seems like the years have flown by. There will be a day they won't want a bedtime story and I know that I'll miss it, so even though it
well I am having a hard time getting my 2yr old to sleep in his toddler bed, we made the mistake of letting him sleep with us when he was sick and now we are stuck with us. We have waited for him to fall asleep then put him in his bed but he fell a couple of times even though it has a small side rail and now he refuses to go there at all. Help I don't want him sleeping with us forever.
Right there with the other replies .. it it SO SO hard, but letting them cry it out really does work. My little girl was going through a bad cold and ear infections. She was waking up every few hours. After several nights, my hubby and I were so exhausted we started bringing her in the room with us. Still not a great sleep, but at least we were in the bed. She got better, but was still was waking up and we'd still bring her into our room.
I realized, we had started a bad habit. I asked her DR .. sh
We transitioned our son at around 16 months since we were expecting his sister. We place our gate in front of his door and sometimes he ends up sleeping on the floor in front of it. That's what works with us because he has been known to wake up in the middle of the night and we have found him asleep on the floor in the kitchen. If he does fall asleep in front of the gate we just move him back to the bed before going to sleep ourselves. That way he does not sleep on the floor all n
