Hi Jaclyn — Thank you for writing to us and I am sorry to hear that your toddler is still waking 3 times at night! That is SO tough! We definitely understand how overwhelmed you must be, and you are not alone! My baby is 9 months old and he cannot sleep without pacifiers.
Hi Shravani — Thank you for writing to us! Sorry to hear that your little one has a sleep association with the pacifier that is a problem! We understand completely! My 8mo old daughter has been sleeping through the night since 4 weeks 9p-7a with my husband waking her at midnight for a bottle.
She started out sleeping very well in the crib. But about 8 weeks I went back to working nights. I started to put her in the swing regularly at nap time, so I and my 2 toddlers could speed up nap time and we could all get some sleep.
She was napping hours in AM and 3 hours in afternoon. Since that time, she has gradually been more and more dependent on the swing, and now she sleeps in it all night and both naps. I had decided to start the transition back to crib, but before I could start, she began having problems with sleeping even in the swing. And nap time is a mess! She might sleep minutes in the morning, if at all, which is fine.
But afternoon naps when I desperately need to sleep , she is sleeping for an hour or less, and sometimes she refuses completely. We have tried to let her cry it out, but she just screams for up to 2 hours. I have tried rocking her to sleep, which helps at night. Even though she wakes up when we put her down, she is more relaxed.
But at nap time she sometimes goes back to sleep in my arms, then will randomly scream out, eventually waking herself all the way. Laura J. Moving from a swing to a crib can be a big transition for your daughter so developing a gradual plan to lessen her dependency on the swing is a good start.
If you find you need or would like support during this process, please consider our Express Sleep Plan or connecting with one of our sleep consultants who would welcome the opportunity to work you all through this transition step-by-step. Hang in there, Laura! Hi, My son is 8 months old. He falls asleep on me, I transfer him to his crib and he stays asleep -for most nights, anyway. When I put him down, he is tried. I will put him down after 2. He falls asleep on me for naps as well.
No rocking, bouncing or anything. Just laying on me. Is that it?!? Help me!! Hi MP, thank you for writing to us. It is difficult for me to determine exactly what the issue is, as it could be what you described, or there could always be other factors. We really have a ton of resources so it would be impossible for me to post all the options here, but we are available by email at [email protected] at anytime.
I made the mistake of holding Eli for all of his naps not at night, just during the day. Same regret! Baby had a hard go of it with reflux and colic at first so I was ready to do anything to make it easier for him.
Then, he went through this phase where he would hit himself in the face while sleep twitching and wake himself up so we figured only swaddling would help for the record, before I got to the desperation point of using those swaddle straight-jackets, I made fun of them as horrible contraptions.
So tiring! I was worried that I would be buying an adult-sized swaddle to send her in college with. Ultimately, though, I never felt like I was taking it away from her because she eventually though kind of late in her first year she gave it up herself in favor of sucking her fingers. We have struggled with sleep with her for other reasons, ongoing, and while we never did an all-out sleep training we always went in if her crying hit a certain point because without a doubt, if she reached a certain level she would throw up we drew the line early and feel that she has been more self-sufficient as a result.
I think I would transfer our second kid to a crib around the same time 2 months but perhaps not use a swaddle unless we really, really needed it. I hated rocking my baby until she was sleep trained, and now I miss it.
We would spend like 2 hours trying to get her to sleep at night, rocking her and trading off when one of us got tired. It was so frustrating. Now we rock her for about 5 minutes and then put her in the crib and she falls asleep on her own.
Sometimes I am tempted to stay and snuggle her longer. Parenting is all about personal choices and one of my attitudes is about sacrifice. My choice was to rock and hold my baby until she fell asleep. I also knew that it would be the only time in her life and my life that I would be able to do that. At four, she still wants me to be next to her while she falls asleep and at times I still rock her to sleep.
I gave up a lot of sleep in the process but I feel it was worth it. We would occasionally rock our daughter to sleep but we usually put her to sleep drowsy but awake. We did do a little bit of sleep training it took all of one night after I weaned her around 13 months because she wanted to wake up super early.
We were so desperate for ANY sleep when Monkey was a baby, I have no regrets for anything we did to get that sleep we needed. He was a naturally terrible sleeper. In our case, nursing all the way to sleep and nursing him back to sleep right away was the only thing that worked to let me get longer than minute chunks of sleep.
So we co-slept and when he woke I put a breast in his mouth without necessarily waking up all the way myself. Within a few days of giving up, we felt halfway human again. Falls asleep easily and quickly, generally sleeps about 11 hours. We have a water bottle for him within his reach because most nights he wakes up at some point wanting a drink of water. Great post and discussion. Our first, Mbot, was a terrible sleeper; his little bro, Gbot, was a great sleeper.
Into their toddler years, Mbot was still a terrible sleeper but slept when restrained in his car seat; Gbot hated the car seat restraints. I guess the moral here is that two children treated virtually the same from birth still have such different sleep habits.
What we do for our children. We are all trying so hard! A part of me feels like we did what we did based on what we thought he needed. Sigh… We indeed are all trying so hard! She cried it out for 2 nights then slept for 10 hours straight.
In 2 nights!!! So, when we had 2, we thought we had it all worked out. And he is the easy baby. But, we did sleep train at 5 months when I stopped breast feeding and he sleeps through 10 hours. So, one battle won, a war to go…. My second pregnancy was triplets and from the moment they come home they were taught to self settle and schedule feed.
Best thing I ever did. My first baby was brilliant! A little co-sleeping for mama to nurse without getting out of bed, and she began sleeping through the night at 3 months, moving to a crib was no problem then.
My second was a little demon in a cute body. There was nothing we could do. I feel the same way about the pacifier. At first, that thing worked so good at putting my daughter to sleep, I totally ran with it. But then her sleep got worse and worse cause it would always fall out until we were at a point that she was waking up every 60 to 90 minutes all night long.
I was going to crazy. So we had to sleep train too. It was hard at first, but man, did it work wonders. Last night we got our longest stretch ever at Roarke had the strongest sucking reflex the baby yoga techer had ever seen… At five months he drank a full 8oz might have been ten, not sure feed in under 4 minutes, and she was gobsmacked!
Yes, I used a dummy from a young age 3 days but that was also due to him being in hospital and waking every hour or two for something to suck on, mainly for the comfort he rarely actually drunk anything.
He stopped using it himself at about 18 months. I hid them as soon as I got home and he never bothered about them again! Simulate the feeling of the womb, and the best way to do that is by rocking a baby to sleep. Rocking is a natural way to soothe, comfort, and help a child fall asleep and a reason they calm down so quickly in baby bouncers and baby swings. It can be discouraging if you struggle to rock your baby to sleep, especially considering all the benefits.
Some kids prefer to be upright, which could be because they have reflux. Another key is to keep the child connected to the body when rocking, Narvaez says. That goes for rocking, too. At the park. At that work meeting. The first part of the intervention — the Auditory, Tactile, Visual and Vestibular ATVV intervention — taught mothers how to interact socially with their infants and stimulate their senses appropriately. This included talking in soothing tones, using gentle massage, and swaddling and rocking their babies in their arms.
Their feeding abilities also improved immediately after they received the ATVV intervention. Oh la la!
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