How and when children sleep. For questions on how to get them to sleep, see the [bedtime] tag.
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Our baby crys in the middle of the night
After reading some websites, we're concerned that our 17 month old daughter might have night terrors. She wakes up 2-3 times in the night.
What could be going on? What can we do?
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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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Why does my baby moan every 3-5min during sleeping?
My baby girl is 2 weeks old. She starts making squeaks, moans, yawns during sleeping every 3-5min. She did that as well before, but not as often as these two days. She also gets more difficult to ...
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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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Please help: my 3 year old won't stay in her bed!
Well this started about 3 months ago and it's been on going no matter where my daughter stays! She's an absolute diamond going to sleep but staying asleep is a different matter.
I'm pregnant with ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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3 year old will not take a nap some days
We have a 3 year old who is wonderful (most of the time ;). Somedays, however, she will not settle down and take a nap. We wakeup, go to sleep and nap on the same schedule everyday. If she doesn't ...
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Should an infant, awake and happy in the middle of the night, be helped back to sleep?
We've had a pretty good sleep routine with my three month old recently. She wakes to eat and, occasionally needs gentle rocking back to sleep.
This week she started something new. After having slept ...
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How can I wean my toddler off the pacifier at night?
Our 14 month old is sleeping pretty well these days (last night down at 8pm, woke at 7 for a drink, still in bed with mum when I left the house at 8am!)
However we do have a problem with him losing ...
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Is it okay for an infant to sleep 10-12 hours at night?
Our 4-month-old baby regularly sleeps for 10+ hours at night. I know this isn't normal (and we feel pretty blessed for it), but is it okay? Are there any health problems or downsides to this?
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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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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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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 to soothe a 4 1/2 month old during our night time sleep routine?
We typically start our nighttime bed routine at around 6:30. We bathe her, breast feed her and then try to put her to bed. We know that she is tired because she will rub her eyes.
However, she fusses ...
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Convincing 18-month baby to sleep in the morning - using a training clock?
Our 18 month old son goes through phases of waking up early (between 4:30 am and 6 am) and sleeping to a decent time e.g. 6:30-6:45. So his early waking doesn't seem to be due to hunger, and he is not ...
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Son has stopped his normal bedtime
My son will be 2 in a few weeks. For about 90% of what goes on in his life, he's had a really good schedule that Mama has laid down and enforced quite well.
His normal bedtime has always started at ...
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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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Are there techniques for sleep training that actually teach a child how to sleep?
I finally found some time to read the books my mother borrowed for me about sleep training. I was sorely disappointed: neither book mentioned anything about actually teaching the child how to fall ...
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At what age get a child to stop using pullups at night? [merged]
At what age get a child to stop using pullups at night? And how do you encourage a child and give them the confidence to try sleeping without one? I know one OK way is telling them it's Ok to wet the ...
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22 month old goes to bed and wakes up an hour later
Has anyone dealt with this before? Our 22 month old daughter is put to bed at 10:30 pm everynight. She sleeps for about an hour and wakes up, crying. Our best efforts to ignore her have not ...
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15 month baby never sleeps through the night
I have a 15 month old daughter who slept great when she was 3 and 4 months old, but never again after that. She's never had a pacifier and she has her own crib, but it's in our room. Our current ...
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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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Should I stil swaddle my child when preparing her for sleeping even though it doesn't seem comfortable? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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My 1 year old wont sleep through the night [duplicate]
The day my daughter got her 4 mo shots was the last day she ever slept through the night... And had been from 6 weeks till 4 mo old.. Now she is 1 yr and wakes up starving at least twice a night and ...
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my 2 year old wont sleep at night [duplicate]
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Getting a 2-year-old back to sleep in the middle of the night
my 2 year old just started 2 week ago not sleeping at night like he use to ive tried keeping him up later ...
