How and when children sleep. For questions on how to get them to sleep, see the [bedtime] tag.
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What to do when the pinky is the only way to soothe a newborn?
My question is: Is there any way to soothe a crying baby in the middle of the night other than inserting my pinky?
Summery:
Pinky method = only successful soothing found
Tried the following other ...
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When should I stop swaddling my baby?
I swaddled my baby in a swaddling blanket for a short time after he was born, and then moved on to a Halo combination sleep sack and swaddle blanket. He is now nearly 3 months old, and I'm still using ...
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How will an infant sleep best on vacation?
Our 6 month old is sleeping through the night at home and used to sleep fairly well on overnight trips (with us). However, we have just had two weekends away from home when he hardly slept at all. He ...
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Why has my infant suddenly changed her sleep patterns? Is she teething?
My daughter normally goes down for the night around 7.30pm. After that she sleeps soundly (with a feed at 10pm) until 3-4am, where she'll grizzle a few times but go back to sleep without needing to be ...
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3 Year Old suddenly doesn't want to sleep
My 3 year old son has suddenly started fighting sleep at every opportunity. He is an absolute angel during bath time and getting ready for bed but will not settle. This has come out of the blue. In ...
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When can I cover my baby with a blanket in her crib?
Once our girls figured out how to kick their blanket loose so they were no longer swaddled, while they were sleeping, we were told they shouldn't sleep with a blanket anymore because the blanket can ...
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Is there any scientific evidence in favor of co-sleeping with children?
Many people choose to co-sleep with their children because of supposed psychological and sleep quality reasons. Are there any scientific studies or other concrete evidence to back them up?
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Why not let a toddler share a bedroom with a baby?
We have a 2 year old daughter and now we expect a baby in November. After the initial few months, when the newborn will be sleeping in our bedroom, we could put both children in one room together. ...
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Should we worry about my toddler accidentally banging his head against the sides of the crib?
Our son is 18 months old and sleeps in a crib. He sleeps well, but he moves around a lot and really "explores" the crib's space during the night! This isn't a problem per se, but it often causes him ...
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Is it ok for my baby to sleep in his swing?
I have a Fisher-Price baby swing that my 7-week-old is spending a lot of time in :) I've found that I often put him in wide awake, and a short while later he's soundly sleeping. Is it ok to leave him ...
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How can I prevent my 2 year old from covering her face with a blanket when she sleeps?
For the past couple of months, our two year old has been covering her face (her whole head, actually) with a blanket whenever she sleeps. At night we usually go in after she has fallen asleep and ...
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Sleeping routines and mother-father differences
The tl;dr version:
The father can get a toddler to sleep easily, but the mother struggles. Has anyone else experienced this and if so, what strategies were used to overcome it?
Scenario:
We have ...
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What should be done when your child wakes up from a nap and is extremely irritable?
We have a daughter who takes naps and (usually) wakes up extremely cranky and irritable. She is 1 month away from being 3. Because she is so irritable, she'll usually cry when she wakes up. Depending ...
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My 1yr 3month old daughter crying every night
Don't know what could it be but my daughter keeps on crying every night.
She's sleeping and suddenly she starts crying.
Hungry ? (She drinks her last bottle of milk around 8pm.)
Maybe teething? (every ...
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What are some do's and dont's for an effective bedtime ritual?
I think most parents agree that it's helpful to follow some fixed ritual when putting a child to bed.
What elements in such rituals are particularly useful, and what should be avoided?
There are ...
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Why is my 3 month old waking up 10+ times a night?
My 3 month old went from starting on a good sleep trajectory (a five hour and 3 hour stretch at 8 weeks regularly) to waking between every 15 minutes and every 2 hours. What I'm trying to figure out ...
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how do i stop my two year old from staying awake for 3-4 hours in the night?
Since my daughter has been 10 months old she has not slept through the night. She is now two years old. She used to sleep very well, where she would go to sleep at 8pm and then wake up at 8am. ...
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How can we get our newborn to sleep at night as soundly as he does in the day?
We've just had a new arrival- a little boy, now 7 days old.
During the day he sleeps like a dream. As I write this, he has been asleep for around 4 hours without really stirring at all.
The only ...
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Ideas for infant bedding
We have an active 10 month old, who sleeps soundly, but tends to roll a lot thereby hitting his head against the crib railings. Having a small apartment, we don't have much place for a mattress on ...
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Will a Play Yard provide the same comfort and back support to the baby as a Crib?
We are debating if a Play Yard will be more practical than a crib. We believe that it will be safer than a crib, and also easy to carry around.
What we don't know is if the play yard mattress will ...
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How do I stop my child from grinding his teeth while sleeping?
How do I stop my 4 year old son from grinding his teeth while he is sleeping?
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What are your remedies for baby acid reflux?
My 9-month baby suffers from moderate acid reflux since she was 3-month old.
Our doctor put her on prescription, but we also tried the usual solutions like keeping her propped during sleep (I use a ...
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Is there a quick-nap device for kids too big for a Bjorn (or other) bouncer?
Our 13-month-old regularly takes a short nap in the early evening. It's usually both too short (under an hour) and too close to bedtime (within 2-3 hours) for us to want to put him in his crib in ...
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Do I need to space big changes? How much?
We're moving house (within the neighborhood) in early August. In September, our 2-and-a-bit year old moves to a new daycare. But at the same time, she's also at a stage where she's getting big for her ...
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How do children manage to sleep in noisy environments?
Children seem to be able to sleep in noisy environments, even when carried around. Is this generally true and what are the reasons? How does the ability to sleep with sound around differ with age and ...
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How many hours baby sleep in a day?
Recently, I noticed that my 2-months-old baby sleep almost a day include naps (maybe 3-5 hours awake). Should I do anything about this? Such as just wake him up or it is normal.
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Is my pediatrician missing something about my 3 month old's gas pain?
My 3 month old has cried out at between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m. for hours in gas pain almost every night for the past 6 weeks or so. There have been 2 or 3 nights in this time where she did not have an ...
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Self-soothing and sleep training
I've a 7 months old baby boy. Until he was 4 months old he had no problems getting asleep. Then, he started to cry and protest until he fell asleep, even when he is in our arms and we are rocking him. ...
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How long can a 3-month-old go without eating?
My 3-month-old son has started sleeping through the night, with a vengeance. He sleeps for hours. And when he finally wakes up and I expect him to be starving, he's often still ready to happily play ...
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Nightowl at 5 years old. Any way of dealing with it?
My son is 5 and a typical night-owl he becomes pretty active when sun goes down. This is all well and good but when we put him to bed we can hear him play until at least 11 pm. That wouldn't worry ...
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Getting a 2-year-old back to sleep in the middle of the night
We have always had trouble with our little boy not sleeping through the night. He will do it in spells (every night for a week, then not at all for a fortnight). But he has recently developed a ...
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Why is my toddler having trouble sleeping?
My son is 3 years old and lately he has been having problems sleeping. I've heard kids his age are supposed to sleep around 10-12 hours a day, although I'm no sure. He used to sleep on the afternoons ...
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How do I prevent my child from freeing their hands in a SwaddleMe
My daughter is currently in a SwaddleMe and has recently begun to wake herself up by getting her hand out and playing with her face This was always a slight problem but since she has started to seek ...
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Is it a problem to go to sleep just after a big dinner?
Our kid is nearly 3 years old and really enjoy eating. We have dinner together when I come back from work at around 20:00, and he eats a lot. His belly is really full then. Recently he wakes up during ...
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How to reverse a new born's sleeping schedule? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can we get our newborn to sleep at night as soundly as he does in the day?
My wife and I had our first child three nights ago. The last two days she has been ...
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Advice for carrying out the “Stay in Bed” technique with our 2-year-old
My two-year old has always had trouble settling and sleeping through the night, but recently the problem seems to have become an awful lot worse. It all came to a head one night a few weeks ago after ...
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How do we break nursing associations at naptime?
We've recently tried Ferber's method of progressive waiting to help our 4-month-old sleep better.
At nights, it's worked extremely well... after his bath in the evening he now falls asleep within ...
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What to do about night owl kids? [duplicate]
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Nightowl at 5 years old. Any way of dealing with it?
Our 3 and 5 year-olds won't sleep before 10 pm and won't wake up before about 9 am. They share the same bedroom. ...
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How to help a child not to worry about sleeping
My 7 year old daughter has always been an excellent sleeper, she has never had any trouble dropping off to sleep, even when we have been away and she is sleeping in a different room.
Recently she has ...
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Is it okay for my newborn to sleep in a travel bed instead of his crib?
My "Pack n Play" is easy to move around the house and it contains things I need such as changing pad or diapers.
Is there any disadvantage for letting my newborn sleep in this for a long period of ...
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Why does my infant wake crying the instant we put him in his bed?
This is probably a classic but here goes. Some time between midnight and three my 9 month old will wake crying. Often he is hungry or has gas and can be fairly easily consoled and falls asleep in our ...
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Teaching a (almost) 3 year old she can fall asleep on her own
Our toddler (almost 3) at some point a few months ago stopped falling asleep by herself - now one of us needs to sit with her in her room, hold hands, etc. until she fully falls asleep. What is ...
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Should I stil swaddle my child when preparing her for sleeping even though it doesn't seem comfortable? [duplicate]
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When should I stop swaddling my baby?
My daughter is ~12 weeks old. We were swaddling her all along and was able to calm her and help her fall asleep using the 5 S's. ...
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How can I keep my infant from sleeping while bottle feeding?
We've been trying to get our infant on a schedule, but he tends to fall asleep before he's done eating, which makes it challenging, because he doesn't finish, and wakes up hungry too early. It also ...
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What are the risks of putting a newborn baby to sleep on their front?
For our first baby, we were told by various midwives in no uncertain terms, that babies must always be placed on their backs to sleep (no explanation ever given- just instructions!). This was all very ...
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Should we roll our baby back onto his back so he can sleep?
Our baby's new trick is rolling onto his tummy. Unfortunately, he hasn't quite figured out how to get back to his back. He remains beached until we flip him.
The problem is, he doesn't nap because ...
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How do we get an eight month old back to sleeping in his crib?
Our son's crib is in our bedroom, and he was mostly sleeping the whole night in his crib with no issues. Do to a series of events (power outage, spending the night at relatives with no crib, needing ...
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When is too young to give up the nap?
My 21 month old sometimes refuses to nap. She will play in her crib but won't sleep. She is then miserable come 4pm but by then it is too late for nap. When she doesn't nap she falls right asleep ...
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How can we train a toddler that shares a room with siblings to sleep without disturbing the others?
My four children share one room. My first three children I sleep trained by using the cry it out method (I know this is controversial on this site but it worked for me).
We did sleep train the ...
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Why do my children cry in my wife's arms but are quiet with me?
It's strange that my child often wakes up at night and starts crying uncontrollably and just won't calm down and go to sleep unless I take him in my arms (1.5 years of age).
My second son who is just ...
