Posted: 8/26/2024 11:23:28 AM EDT
| I've got a 13 month old toddler who's been having trouble sleeping through the night. She'll go down in her crib at bedtime, but she always wakes up around midnight crying and won't seem to stop until we let her into our bed. It's tough because her crib is in our master bedroom (have a small house). Her mother and I have resolved to begin sleep training her, and we've read that you can do it by leaving the baby in the crib and sitting with her until she falls back asleep. I'm an insomniac and very light sleeper so I take that to mean I won't get more than a couple hours of sleep each night until she can sleep through the night. Any tips from the other parents here? |
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Ugh, took our kid until 2 years old to sleep through the night. Just Google all the different methods and try em out. All kids respond differently. In our case what worked best was figuring out an exact schedule to stick to, which was - 6:15am - Wake up 12:15pm - Start nap ritual 2:15pm - Wake from nap 7:15pm - Start bedtime ritual (Bath, book, etc) 8:15pm SLEEP The key for us was that 6 hours between sleeps and a full belly. Good luck, and as someone else said - enjoy this time, although sleep depravation is absolute torture! |
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Unfortunately, you've created an "addiction," and it's going to be painful to break. Hint: It involves crying. After my wife stopped nursing, our bedroom was off limits to the kids. Exceptions were made for things like severe lightning and thunder. Baby monitors were both the best and worst thing that could happen to parents. I believe it helped create helicopter parents. |
Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.---John Adams
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Originally Posted By kier74: They will stop crying if you stop going in and encouraging the behavior. It's hard, but this. When we started sleep training our oldest, I sent the wife to bed, cranked a fan and stayed up until he stopped crying (about 2-3 hours). It took 4 nights but he quit and just started going to sleep. |
I dont think this is a brains type of operation.