How and when children sleep. For questions on how to get them to sleep, see the [bedtime] tag.
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Son is two and won't sleep through night expecting to come to bed with us
I know there are questions similiar to this that have been asked but mine is a little different. Against my will, as a stay/work at home father, my son always slept with my wife and I until he was ...
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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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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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How can I get my 12-month baby to sleep in her bed?
My 12-month baby doesn't want to fall asleep in her own bed. We could do it in her rocking cot, but now it's too small, and currently we get her to sleep outside of bed, but every time she wakes up ...
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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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Why won't my toddler sleep when her mother tries to put her in bed?
my daughter is 21 months old and at present behaves in a curious way. I don't think this question is a duplicate of others with similar titles.
During the day she's a sweetheart, no problems at all. ...
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What's the best way to deal with bedwetting?
Our toddler is bedwetting a lot, and we are unsure how to deal with things. We haven't told her off for it, but we're not sure what we should be doing. Would telling her off just make things worse? ...
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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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How do you establish good sleeping habits after dealing with colic?
My parenting vocabulary is quite limited, and Google Translate can help that much. Hope you understand me anyway.
Our son had colic for four months, he is ten months now. The colic resulted in bad ...
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How do I help my 3 month old sleep better through the night?
My 3mo daughter was sleeping pretty well through the night (from 11 PM to 7 AM) for about a week, and now she wakes up every 30 mins to 1 hour wanting her pacifier. I've been running in at the first ...
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Guided Meditation for Children
My second grader has been having trouble sleeping due to her anxiety.
I have been doing guided meditation/relaxation with her at night but this is not my forte and am looking for suggestions, such ...
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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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What should I do about my 3 month old baby wanting to nurse all night?
I've been too tired to get up every 2-3 hrs to nurse, so I've been sleeping with him attached to my breast... Unfortunately I can't sleep well. What should I do? He doesn't burp well either, and spits ...
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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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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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What is the best strategy for adjusting an toddler's sleep cycle during Daylight Savings?
With Daylight Savings coming up, we are worried about getting our son transitioned to the new time.
How do we get him to sleep an hour later, when we're struggling with keeping him from waking up ...
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How much sleep does my infant really need?
Our 7-month old boy is only sleeping an average of 11-12 hours each day. During the day, he usually takes 3 naps, and each one only last approx. 30 mins. From 3 months onwards, he has always been a ...
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My 3 month old gets up 10-15 times a night?
My 3 month old newborn has been waking up every 15 minutes to every hour during the night for 4 weeks and we have tried everything from Baby Wise to Baby Whisperer to the No cry Sleep Solution with no ...
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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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How do we avoid leaky diapers at night?
My 8 month old son has been sleeping throughout the night for a couple of months now without problem. However, over the past month, we've been having a problem with diaper leakage overnight.
We ...
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2 year old wont sleep
My 2 year old son, wont fall asleep without having someone in his room with him. He doesnt want to be touched or held. He just wants you to sit in the chair. And after he does go to sleep he wakes up ...
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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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How do I deal with my baby pulling herself up in her crib?
My 6 month old daughter has started to pull herself up to a kneeling or standing position. It's like someone flipped a switch-- she went from not climbing on anything to climbing on everything, all ...
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What are the (dis)advantages of parents and children sharing a bedroom?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of parents sleeping in the
same room as their child(ren)? For both parents and child(ren)?
Until what age (months? years?) would you prefer to have your ...
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What are good techniques to reduce separation anxiety?
What are good techniques to reduce/wean separation anxiety?
My child cries when her mother or I leave the room, even to go to the adjacent room, or upstairs to get something. Most disruptively, she ...
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Is my 7-year-old child sleeping too much?
My child gets very tired and sleeps very easily. While parents of babies might find this a nice problem to have, in a 7-year-old it's possibly a concern. She easily sleeps up to 14 hours a night, also ...
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Why will my baby sleep easily at night, but not nap during the day?
I put my 6-month-old down for the night a little while ago. She was awake when I put her down, and less than ten minutes later with no crying, she was dead asleep. I try this during the day, and she ...
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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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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 do I help my 4 month old nap longer?
My daughter is 4 1/2 months old and she only naps for 30-45 minutes at a time. She wakes up happy, but she is tired again after a little over an hour.
I know some babies are naturally short nappers. ...
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How to deal with my son who always wants to have lights on when we go to bed?
I have a 3 year old son.
Whenever we go to sleep, he will start crying when we turn off the lights and insists that lights be turned on when he is trying to sleep. So, we keep it on. When he falls ...
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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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How do you prepare a toddler to sleep in a strange place (a hotel room)?
We're preparing for our first overnight vacation since my son has outgrown a crib.
He's been in a "big boy bed" for several months now, and still is very proud of this fact (and very proud of his bed ...
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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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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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Should we feed the 3MO on demand at night with more frequent wakes?
As is common with 3-4 month olds, we've gone from a very good sleep schedule to more frequent wakes.
Depending on fussiness she will get to sleep between 630 and 730, and she used to sleep for 3-4 ...
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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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What is the recommended age for an infant to start sleeping in his own room?
Our 8½-month infant sleeps in his own crib inside our room. He was born 2 months early, so his adjusted age (equivalent age for a full-term baby) is about 6½ months and his development is ...
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Is it dangerous for a child to sleep with the head hanging?
I have never been worried about our 2yo sleeping half sitting with the head hanging. However today I met a person with really strong beliefs that it may cause neck injuries later in life.
Is there ...
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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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What to do about night owl kids? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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What can be causing night wakings, similar to sleep walking?
My 13 month old baby wakes up once or twice every night...sits up or stands up in her crib and cries out.
What could be causing this?
She can't be having nightmares every night. My wife has not ...
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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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What should I do when my toddler climbs out of her crib at night to play?
So at night time, sometimes my 22-month-old daughter is climbing out of her crib and then playing. I was thinking of these options:
Letting her play until she gets tired and falls asleep on the ...
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How do we stop our daughter rolling over and waking herself up?
Our 5 month old generally gets her head down somewhere in the early evening. We lie the sleeping lump on the bed face up, and she snoozes. Then she rolls over onto her tummy and wakes up. She's at the ...
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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 can we address lapses in potty training during afternoon naps?
Our two and a half year old daughter was potty trained fairly early just before she became two. This went quite smoothly, and after a few weeks she had almost no accidents. During her afternoon naps ...
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What light colors will help calming down before bedtime?
I just bought a color led strip (like similar to this one) and installed it so that the ceiling can be lit with any color.
We're making experiments on which color would have better effects on calming ...
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What should be the ideal sleeping posture in the third trimester of pregnancy?
I have observed that in the seventh month when I lay down on the floor and turn right side (for a while), the baby starts kicking. Then when I turn on my back, the kickings decrease noticeably. Have ...
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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 ...
